The cost of restoring a private house is made up of various factors. This is both the season and the remoteness of the building from the city limits. After all, if you hire foremen for work, then they need to somehow get to the workplace. In the cold season, this is more difficult to do.
If the house stood for a long time without tenants and unattended, then the premises inside and the outer facade could come into complete disrepair. The craftsmen will have to make a lot of effort to return the building to a decent look and all the qualities necessary for a home.
The scale of the proposed work also affects the final cost of the restoration.
After all, it is one thing to repair individual elements of a small building, and quite another to overhaul with the reconstruction of a large two-story dwelling. Of course, minor restoration work will cost a lot less.
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Have you bought or inherited an old but sturdy house? Reconstruction, restoration is cheaper than new construction. Let's talk about examples of restoration, design renewal, expansion of the area in the form of extensions and wall relocations.
Any home renovation work begins with an inspection of the condition of the roof. If leaks are detected in at least one place, you need to patch holes or change the roof. Small flaws are not a reason for complete dismantling. In problem areas, patches are put, preferably from the original material.
You can restore the slate coating yourself. In case of minor damage, the sheets do not need to be dismantled.If the problems are large-scale, then worn-out slate will need to be replaced in places of leaks.
The work on filling small holes consists of cleaning the surface (using a hose) and applying a special mixture. Two parts of M300 cement are mixed with three parts of asbestos. The mass is diluted with a liquid: water + PVA 1: 1. You should get a creamy thick mixture. The problem area on the slate is pre-primed (PVA + water 1: 3). Then the prepared mixture is applied. It is required to create several layers.
When replacing the slate, after removing the old sheets, lay a new roofing material (any waterproofing). The sheets are fixed with an overlap. Large areas are covered diagonally from the bottom corner to provide wave geometry when docked. Nails only break into the comb.
The area of the house can be increased, it is not difficult and it is not necessary to invite specialists. The easiest way is to make a veranda (closed type) or an open terrace. For this, in any case, you need a foundation. You can do without it if you want to get an open area in front of the house with a roof installed on concrete or brick columns (under them there is a point foundation). Instead of doors, a stone, brick, concrete arch is made.
Any material is suitable for an extension: foam concrete blocks, logs, beams, street lining, blockhouse. The presence of walls obliges to harmoniously combine the material with the main building.
Large balcony frames or ordinary window frames are used rationally. The old ones that remained after the renovation of a city apartment are quite suitable. In this case, an alternation of window sizes is done. Fixed frames are combined with opening ones, partitions / racks between them are made of different widths. The roof is usually erected with a pitched roof. The roof must be selected in unison with the one installed on the house or maintain the color scheme by creating from light materials, ondulin, soft tiles, and polycarbonate is ideal for open terraces.
An extension always depends on the general appearance of the house, its proportions, therefore it should not cause dissonance, fall out of the general picture, look detached. The functionality can be different: a summer kitchen, a gathering place, an additional room, etc.
It is not difficult to change living conditions according to your canons. The minimum cost will be small when using the available materials, i.e. change the area of rooms by transferring old walls from place to place.
What can be done? Let's consider the possible options. From a spacious former veranda, you can make a small room and an entrance hall by installing two partitions. By isolating a part of the first floor, you can get a place for a bathroom and a heating system - it is enough to reduce the room with a staircase to the second floor. Having redone the walls in the hallway, you can organize a small vestibule with hangers for everyday clothes and a place for placing small inventory. A space of a meter length with a width of 1.2 m will be functional.
It is enough to make rooms for family members 8 m2, it is important that each has a window. If the wall of the house is wide (6-7 meters), then it is reasonable to organize two rooms, and between them there will be a toilet, pantry or dressing room.
The exterior of the house usually needs updating. Repair of the facade of the old building must be carried out in accordance with the source material and previously applied technologies. If there is a financial base, there is an alternative - to radically change the look and create a new cladding. In this case, an additional layer of heat and waterproofing is always made. The budget option is vinyl siding.
In any case, the wooden walls must first be cleaned of old paint and treated with special compounds, impregnations, and then proceed to finishing.
The comfort of staying in the country depends on the condition of the premises inside the house. Not wanting to spend money on lining the walls with clapboard, you can glue the wallpaper. Better to use non-woven or vinyl. Such wallpapers perfectly hide irregularities, internal joints and other wall defects.If you have certain skills, use colored decorative plaster.
On rotten places in the wooden floor, partial replacement of problem areas is carried out. If the surface is flat, they can be painted or covered with fiberboard, or linoleum can be laid on top.
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Often, it is more profitable to repair an old wooden house on your own than to demolish it and build a new one. If you have such a house and would like to bring it into its proper form, we will tell you how to do it. The main thing is to pay attention to the general condition of the building, that is, to assess the prospects of work. If you are sure that the house can still serve, feel free to start making repairs with your own hands.
First of all, you should evaluate the degree of wear and tear of existing components of the house. Take a close look at the foundation, walls, roofing and communications. Do-it-yourself repair of an old wooden house begins with the preparation of the material, and its volume directly depends on the state of the building.
Completely free the house from all unnecessary things, debris and components that are actually not related to the structure. Look closely at the wooden parts for signs of decay - these should be removed immediately. Most often, in old wooden houses, the floor comes into complete disrepair - it must be dismantled.
Pay attention to the foundation. As a rule, solid concrete fill lasts a very long time, but in some places it can break off. This requires a small cosmetic repair - using the prepared solution, simply cover up the visible imperfections, leveling the entire foundation. If the foundation of the house has fallen into disrepair (there are many large cracks around the perimeter, corrosion of the reinforcement, a significant skew of the horizontal level of the foundation), repairs will not be enough. A complete renovation is required here.
Communications should be taken care of in advance, as you may want to sheathe the walls with plasterboard or other covering. So, completely dismantle the existing electrical wiring and plumbing pipes. When laying a new electrical network, be sure to wrap the wires in special tubes with a cross section of 15-20 mm. For plumbing, it is better to use plastic pipes.
Do-it-yourself repair of a wooden house, a photo of the process of which we are attaching, we will start from the walls. The logs of the crown are the most vulnerable place. Here, cracks and other damage are most often formed. The floor beams and the floor itself may also suffer (as already noted, it is better to dismantle it immediately).
Minor damage to the wood can be repaired without dismantling the walls. For this, problem areas should be cleaned, treated with an antiseptic, and then sealed with a suitable sealant. If we talk about the outside of the facade, then for cosmetic purposes, you can sheathe it with special panels of your choice. Siding is most often used, and it is mounted as follows:
Brackets are attached to the facade, on which vertical beams are installed;
The beams are installed in increments of about 30-40 cm.
A layer of mineral wool and an insulating film are attached between the beams with nails;
The lathing is sheathed with siding from the bottom up.
The inner side of the walls can be sheathed with plasterboard. Plasterboard installation is carried out in a similar way.
Pay attention to the beams above window and doorways - they very often suffer from moisture. Places that have rotted must be replaced - this can be done simply by cutting out a piece of the beam and inserting a new part.
It is recommended not to neglect the treatment of the wall, even if you plan to sheathe it. Dirt and microorganisms can accumulate in places of damage, which will lead to the destruction of the wood.
If the house is quite old, you will most likely need to completely remove the roof covering.Inspect the frame, especially the condition of the rafters. The roof is easy to repair - any part can be replaced. To do this, use additional strength clamps - for a while, connect the existing beams (which you will not dismantle), nailing several boards between them. After that, you can remove low-quality rafters without fear of destroying the frame.
Take a close look at the main detail of the roof - the Mauerlat. If signs of decay are found, be sure to saw out the damaged parts and insert new ones with secure fixation with plate pads or tie bolts. Ideally, the Mauerlat can be completely replaced by carefully dismantling its parts around the perimeter and installing new ones.
After repairing the roof frame, re-lay the covering. If desired, the roof can be additionally insulated using, for example, mineral wool.
Doors and windows in older homes will likely need to be completely replaced. But the main problem lies not in this, but in rather frequent cases of imbalance. To get rid of the skew, dismantle the door frame and level the walls using a level.
Reassemble and reinstall the door frame. All existing cracks must be blown out tightly with polyurethane foam. As for the doors, choose their model as you wish, but it is recommended to replace the windows with metal-plastic ones, since they are more durable and reliable than wooden ones, not to mention the thermal insulation properties.
Interior doors also need to be replaced in the same way along with the frames. If you have all the doors of the same format and size, then you can immediately prepare the required number of boards for the frame panels. But do not rush to install them inside the house, as you will still be doing floor repairs and finishing. You can install interior doors at the last stage of renovation work.
For a high-quality floor, it is recommended to make a concrete screed. If you don't have one, get to work. First of all, dismantle the logs on the floor (you do not need to cut them under the walls) and clean the area from debris and dust. The screed is laid in the following order: backfill (sand, fine gravel), insulating film, concrete layer. Be sure to level the screed. The concrete should dry for about one month at a temperature of about 20 degrees.
Then you can start laying the floor. This can be, for example, a laminate. For laying, a special substrate is first used, after which laminate sheets are laid on it, interconnected with "locks". An expansion gap of about 1 cm should be left near the walls, which is hidden by the baseboard.
If you don't want to screed, you can use planks to make the floor. In this case, the boards are simply nailed to the logs and sanded from above with a special machine. It is recommended to provide moisture insulation for such a floor by pouring a layer of expanded clay under the logs (if the logs are located on the ground).
The last stage of repairing wooden houses with your own hands, the video of which you can watch at the end of the article, is finishing work. If you've used drywall for the walls, be sure to putty and flatten it for wallpapering or painting.
A wooden floor made of boards should be treated with a special varnish and allowed to dry well. A similar procedure should be carried out with other wood materials that are in open areas.
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This is how it looked before the renovation. Rotten wooden frames, closed from the outside with a double film, from cold and wind. To the left is an old veranda with a drooping porch canopy.
For those who have to make repairs in their home, it appears.
These were the windows and sills.
They began to put the house in order from the foundation.
One by one, we open the corners of the house, remove the rotten logs of the crowns using a chainsaw, put the formwork, put large stones and rubble, lay the reinforcement so that its ends remain open (for later fastening it to the pouring foundation), we wrap the log of the crown with roofing paper and fill it with concrete. ready-made curbstone.
And so all four corners of the house and its middle, along the perimeter. In total - 8 pedestals. The process is time consuming, difficult, but the result is worth it. When the curbstones were finished, we made a mound around the entire perimeter. The continuation of the outdoor work was postponed until the following summer. And we took up the interior renovation of the house.
This is a large room and let's start with it. Before the renovation, it looked like this:
This is her right corner. and this, in the photo below, is the left corner. As I write a thread, I'll stick to these two angles.
First, all layers of the old wallpaper were completely torn off. The windows were still old, but we were already waiting for the masters to install plastic windows.
The old stove was dismantled. and the stove-maker folded a new one.
Installation of plastic windows. the further, the more terrible, but the result is important.
AND THE RESULT DIDN'T MAKE YOURSELF WAIT LONG. I decided to close one window completely and make one big one - there will be a dining room.
After installing the windows, the men began to dismantle the old floor, level the logs and put brick cabinets under them.
Then the floors were laid with old boards (they will serve for a very long time, since they are thick and dry), and in places where there were rotten ones, they were replaced with new boards.
And then my "female work" has already begun, I insulated the walls with penofol,
Installed a metal frame for walls and ceilings. my mistake was that first you need to do the ceiling, and then the walls, and not vice versa. I found the technique for performing these works on the Internet, I will not dwell on it in detail. If you have any questions, I will be happy to answer ,what do I know.
It is much more difficult to fix the frame on the ceiling, the neck hurts.
When the metal frame is completely ready, you can sew gypsum boards to it, preferably in a checkerboard pattern, starting from the ceiling! Do not forget to scatter the electrical wiring and hide it in the gafrochannel, behind the profile, and install the distributor boxes in a place convenient for you.
In this photo you can see wooden blocks, I screwed them on for the subsequent fixing of bookshelves. Exactly the same, only thinner, I fix them under the ceiling above the windows (for fixing the cornices).
When all the walls and ceiling are sheathed with gypsum board, we putty with a spatula and align all the joints between the sheets and the places where the screws are screwed in with this composition.
At the corners and seams, we lay a reinforced mesh for the strength of the joints, and after everything is dry, we sand it, apply a primer to the walls and ceiling.
And now the most interesting moment is wallpapering. I took vinyl white for the ceiling and with delicate roses on the walls.
When the wallpaper is dry, I by mutual agreement
invited a team of craftsmen to finish their work in this room on the windows (slopes and window sills).
After that, I glued the ceiling plinth, hung the shelves on the wall, put my flowers on the windowsills, which the guys from the company had already installed for us.
The carpenter helped put the interior door, only then I found out that it was standing upside down. (what a difference!) if only it functions normally.
I pasted the doorways with a white corner on a liquid nail. On the right side, the stove is new, heats all the rooms at once.
The firebox itself is in the bathroom.
I put a substrate on the rough floor, then fiberboard and linoleum. Then she screwed the floor plinths with self-tapping screws and voila-beauty.
This is the big room.
Some of you wanted to see more details about concrete pedestals, so I added details. So, a layer of windows was inserted, the house was sheathed with flat slate from the outside, and a mound was made around the house, until next summer.
Now let's continue about outdoor work, after the cold winter and spring. next summer.
When all the pedestals are ready, gradually, opening each side of the house from the blockage, remove the rotten logs of the lower crown, dry them with waterproofing,
we install the formwork, lay the reinforcement, connecting it to the ends of the reinforcement of the corner pedestals and fill it with concrete.
We do this together with a man, under my strict guidance.
We make brickwork on the finished foundation.
And as expected, the blind area has been made. not quite ordinary.
This is all about outdoor work, home renovation. If you have any questions, ask, with pleasure that I know, I will answer. And for everyone who is interested, the continuation of the internal renovation awaits - the dining room!
Thank you for your time. Your LYUDMILA.
The wife's parents live in the village, in an old house, no conditions, they heated the stove with coal, water in a common well, a toilet on the street.
But here they were supplied with gas, which means we will live, but we want to live well, so we are building.
Brick part of a pre-war building, a merchant's house. During the Second World War, it was hit by an aerial bomb, the walls stood one and a half meters wide (between the left two windows, a brick subsidence is visible). The right extension was made after the war by the wife's grandfather.
The slate has already been removed from this side of the house.
It can be seen that there was nothing with the materials at that time, the rafters were round timber, the crate made of twigs, it was covered with chips, then where the leak was plugged with metal, then covered with slate.
The view from the yard, the sloping roof is a barn for cattle and coal.
We will demolish the extensions after installing the roof.
It becomes scary how to live here, and what to do with it.
There is no roof, we live on the street, just not to rain.
We have a lot of assistants here, the six of us have to do it over the weekend.
We fill the upper crown with concrete, the bomb has done things, we need to strengthen it.
It can be seen that the insulation of the ceiling is straw.
We make strapping on the theodolite.
And at night it floods us, there are naturally holes in the film, water in the house, we drain it.
Clouds go around and make us nervous.
We do it in parts so that everything is not flooded.
Now you can take your time.
That's it, the roof is ready, the helpers are given water, they can rest themselves, burn the garbage, they are preparing to build an extension instead of the sheds in the back.
We move chickens, eat eggs.
We are starting to build an extension.
Here sleepers are like dung in Central Asia, everything is built from it.
We get such a long carriage, 16m in length.
We start finishing, partitions for the toilet, shower, pantry, kitchen, hallway.
Finally, the white friend is installed.
The sleepers are covered with liquid glass and covered with foil, we don't need a smell.
Water and sewerage, as they say, is a topic for a separate post. A well was dug in 12 concrete rings, automatic equipment was installed, now as central water.
The sewerage system was dug immediately after the installation of the roof, 3 rings for the sedimentation tank of solid masses and 3 rings for water drainage.
Drywall and pipes. Warm floor.
And after a few months of finishing on weekends, and we worked after the roof without helpers, we get a house better than in an apartment building.
Yes, Ikea again (they drove me to Moscow again behind the sink).
Before you start restoring a house, you need to draw up an estimate, develop a detailed plan for the sequence of work, and determine the amount of repair.
First you need to decide in what state the foundation is. If the old foundation has lost its strength and its condition is alarming, proceed to restore it. A quick foundation repair in low-rise construction can be done using screw pile technology. The bottom line is to replace any kind of foundation with screw piles.
When reconstructing the foundation under a wooden house, the building should be raised to a certain height using jacks. If the structure shows signs of severe destruction, then it is better to completely dismantle it and install a new one. The foundation with minor modifications can be reinforced with brickwork. If it is a strip structure, install the formwork and pour the foundation with concrete mixture.
The most common material in low-rise construction is wood.Wooden log cabins can last 100 years, or even longer, but they also deteriorate and require restoration. The restoration of the old log house takes place in several stages. First, remove the old finish, look at the condition of the logs. Then the rotten crowns are replaced. Seal the seams between the logs. Today there are several options for sealing - this is the traditional old-fashioned way - caulking with tow and the modern method that has become popular in recent years - sealing with acrylic rubber sealant. The blockhouse is treated with an antiseptic.
For strengthening, the frame can be overlaid with bricks or revetted with artificial stone. A good option for renovating facades is siding.
The restoration work is completed with the repair of the roof. A strong reliable roof is a guarantee of a comfortable warm home. Remember, roof restoration is only done in dry weather.
The covering is removed from the roof, the crate is checked, all rotten boards are replaced with new ones. Sometimes it is necessary to change the rafter bars. If the wooden elements of the roof are affected by a bug, they must be treated with an antiseptic, nitro paint or acetone, they effectively fight parasites.
A waterproofing material is laid on top of the updated lathing, a new coating is laid.
Restoring an old home is a laborious process, but with the effort you can achieve remarkable results.
There are three main types of foundations: columnar, strip, monolithic.
The device of the simplest strip foundation is carried out as follows: first, coarse-grained sand, gravel or crushed stone with a layer of 20 cm is poured into a pre-prepared trench, which is carefully tamped, while sprinkling with water, and after that, the entire space is filled with cement mortar on the ground surface levels and a brick base or rubble stone is laid out. A double layer of roofing material or roofing paper is laid on top of the foundation.
Foundation blocks are installed on a leveled layer of sand up to the design level. The maximum deviation of the leveling layer of sand from this mark should be no more than 15 mm. In this case, the foundation glasses, as well as the supporting surfaces, should not be exposed to external contamination.
The most expensive of all types of foundations. The installation of such a foundation is usually carried out under heavy stone houses. It is poured into a single reinforced monolith to a freezing depth of 1.5 to 1.7 meters. Such a foundation is recommended for use in the construction of brick and block houses, which have a sufficiently strong effect on the foundation, and the distortion of the structure is likely to lead to cracks in the wall and the subsequent threat of destruction of the structure.
However, there is one circumstance that cannot be attributed to the merits of this material - this is durability. If we compare wood with brick and concrete, then a wooden house is less durable. It is for this reason that all structures of the house should be updated from time to time, not only from the inside, but also from the outside.
If you decide to repair a village house, then you need to start with a thorough and systematic inspection of it. This will allow you to identify the most problematic areas and draw up a plan of necessary actions. Many people today prefer to independently resolve all issues related to the repair, especially in the interior. And there is a certain logic in this. After all, who else, besides the owner who constantly lives in the house, can know all the strengths and weaknesses of his structure.
Sometimes constituting a single whole with its inhabitants, a wooden house gives signals about its shortcomings. This is a creak of floorboards, a crack in the wall, etc. Failure to ventilate can lead to the formation of mold or rot, the appearance of insects inside the tree, etc. The tree can dry out, which is fraught with cracks in walls, frames or partitions.
That is why, having gathered to make repairs to a village house with your own hands, you need to prepare the most complete list of all the work that will need to be done, calculate the building materials and only after that start work.
It should be noted that by performing repair work on your own, you can significantly save money. But you also need to understand that cheaper does not mean better at all. Objectively evaluate the level of your skill, estimate how much work you have to do and only if you think that it is real, feel free to take up the work.
In the opposite situation, it is better to seek professional help. The most important thing is to take measures during the maintenance of proper order in your house, not to start up and prevent the aggravation of the situation and not to delay the repair. Only in this case, you can enjoy the comfort and coziness in a beautiful wooden house, fully adapted for normal living, for many years. Moreover, almost any house in the village is subject to restoration, the main thing is to correctly carry out all the repair work.
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DIY wooden house repair (48 photos). Wall restoration. Arrangement of kitchen and bathroom. Ceiling decoration
Do-it-yourself wooden house renovation is a fairly simple task, after completing which you will get a small oasis that hides you from the bustle of the city. Sounds tempting? then let's get started.
And to help such enthusiasts, we wrote this article, which reveals some of the nuances and gives advice on how to make a major overhaul of a wooden house.
durability;
beautiful appearance;
good heat saving characteristics;
excellent ventilation;
maintaining constant humidity inside the house.
In addition, the materials used in the construction of such a house are natural and economical.
But we advise you to take into account the fact that wood is susceptible to the influence of fungi and insects, therefore it requires extremely careful attention to the issue of impregnation and processing.
Change of rotten log crowns.
Cracks that went horizontally along the main logs.
Required repairs to the walls that are located under the window openings.
Replacement of clearly damaged rafters.
Repair of the roof of a private house.
Quite often, the replacement of logs is required, which perform the functions of the lower crown, floor beams and floor. When replacing the crown logs, the house does not have to be raised; you can limit yourself to disassembling the upper part of the foundation being repaired.
The procedure without disassembling the foundation will require lifting the house on jacks.
Note! It is not recommended to raise the house too high; this should be done gradually in several steps. In doing so, we advise you to remove the window and door frames. Figure 1 shows how to position the crown logs correctly.
Figure 1. Arrangement of the crowns
The diagram clearly shows that the first log should be located in the masonry adjacent to the foundation in almost half the diameter, the second log should be also or slightly smaller. The ends of the indicated logs should not be in the masonry, otherwise they may start to rot.
The walls that are under the windows can be changed in two ways: the usual or with the setting of racks. The scheme for laying logs under the windows in the usual way is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Scheme of replacing logs under the window in the usual way
Figure 3 shows a diagram of replacing logs under a window using racks. The racks connect the ends of the logs that have already become old. New parts of the logs are inserted, and it is advised to caulk the dilapidated places. After that, you can assemble the box.
Figure 3. Scheme of replacing logs under a window using stanchions
If several crowns need to be replaced, part of the house must be hung. How to do this is shown in Figure 4.
Figure 4.Using struts and clamping when hanging a wall
You can lower the house using levers or wedges.
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The kitchen is an integral part of the house, requiring a special approach to reconstruction.
As a rule, a kitchen has two parts: a dining room and a working one. They can be connected to each other or be in different rooms.
Renovation of a kitchen in a wooden house begins with finishing. For this, materials are selected that are suitable in color and texture to the design conceived in advance.
The ceilings can be painted or stretched, or they can even be decorated in country style by equipping them with decorative beams. It is better to leave the walls wooden and varnished.
Such a house allows you to create a special style, this applies not only to furniture, but also to individual decorative elements.
We advise you to try the country style, which combines coziness, comfort, practicality and beauty.
Nowadays, any home has all the amenities, including a bathroom. .
When starting repairs in a wooden house in a bathroom, remember that it is necessary to fit all the necessary communications into this room. High-quality sewerage is essential.
We advise you to cover the bathroom walls with a special antiseptic. This is necessary in order to avoid fungus from high humidity. Do not ignore the creation of high-quality ventilation in the bathroom.
The bathroom floor must have good waterproofing. Floor tiles are considered the ideal coating. It can be laid out on a concrete screed or drywall.
Let's note the moment of waterproofing in the bathroom. It will not be able to fully function without high-quality waterproofing of the foundation. Bathroom waterproofing is carried out in a comprehensive manner and protects all surfaces of the room.
In the photo, the restoration of the ceiling
Not only the most popular, but also a very beautiful material for finishing the ceiling is wood. This finish is natural, fits into the interior and creates its own special atmosphere in which harmony is felt. .
Repairing the ceiling in a wooden house is not too hard work, but painstaking.
Among the accepted options for modern finishing, plastering is not forgotten. But if you are not in the mood to mess around with solutions, it is quite possible to resort to plasterboard finishing. Price - from 120 rubles. per sheet.
Repairing wooden houses requires strength and patience, but the result will certainly delight you.
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