Block house for exterior decoration: characteristics and installation features

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Cheerful little house

Not cheating, but the little tricks of applying new technologies will allow you to get a warm, beautiful, wooden structure without any special costs. It is only necessary to choose the original clothes for the walls.
It refers to the decoration of the house outside with an imitation of a beam, in Russia this term refers to panels for exterior decoration or boards of different widths that imitate a beam. Do-it-yourself cladding of the facade and walls with a house block is much more preferable, more convenient and more economical than standard plastering and finishing with the hiring of an expensive finishing team.

Types, types, characteristics

Any choice of materials is subjective and material, based on personal assessments, tastes, addictions, but practical and smart customers still prefer to rely on objective photo data and video information.
So:

• Natural wood of coniferous and deciduous species is used for the production of flat strips with grooved fastenings on the other and convex on the other. The strip on the convex side has an external finish.
• Vinyl with the addition of a plasticizer and at the same time protective and strengthening compositions refers to the artificial materials from which block houses are made.
• The metal block house is a stable and durable cladding that is not susceptible to corrosion.

Material quality

The wooden trim of the house with an imitation of a beam from the outside gives a visual picture of the structure, completely built from a natural beam, expensive and luxurious.
So:

• Materials from pine, larch and spruce have natural water-repellent qualities. The high content of resin, antiseptic components guarantees a strong and durable coating that is not amenable to decay, mold and fungal diseases.
  The most affordable price available to any developer.

Attention: In the technology of external cladding of the house, materials made of spruce are not used due to low strength. From spruce wood is a lining for interior work.

• Deciduous trees, which include birch, alder, oak have a high cost and are rarely used in the manufacture of a blockhouse for exterior home decoration, but if desired, on an individual basis, it is possible to obtain a facing material from these woods. Especially oak finish, which can be attributed to timeless materials, as the most durable and weather-resistant wood.
• Oddly enough and strange, but the vinyl block house does not lose in quality to products made from natural components. It does not interact with moisture and does not rot, does not require time to care and does not grow moldy.
  Independent casing of a block with a house is quite real and does not take much effort. The vinyl block house conveniently joins in grooves with fastening of all necessary accessories.
  Installation does not require carpentry. A variety of textures, colors and shades of vinyl products allow you to create unique and unique facade decors that are not distinguishable at first glance from natural expensive material.
• The metal block house has a polymer, protective coating of galvanized steel, from which it is made. There is a choice of colors that make the facade interesting.
  The cost of finished products is lower than wood or vinyl. However, its name is associated with some kind of industrial premises, and not with a residential building.

Shabby grandfather's house in new clothes

It looks no worse than modern buildings

The old dilapidated house, inherited from the ancestors, can be put in order, and not at all expensive if you take panels with the name imitation of timber.
They will help to kill two birds with one stone, warm the old building and decorate it with a new finish:

• The tree darkens from time to time and becomes covered with mold, so before starting work it is necessary to cover all the boards with fire protection, which will help to protect them not only from insects, but also from fire.
• Start off wooden house decoration necessary with the arrangement of the crate. The distance between the rails should not be more than a meter, otherwise the beam will not fit snugly against the wall.
• Steam-wind insulation is applied, which not only protects the house from drafts, but also reliably retains heat in the room. It is fastened with brackets every 30 cm.
  The preparatory work is over, and you can begin the main action.
• Nails are beaten, panels are laid horizontally so that they really look like a bar.
• Laying boards starts from the top, and they are tightly knocked to each other with a groove down to prevent moisture and quick spoilage of materials.
• To fasten the boards, kleimers are used, which can be called secret agents of fasteners and which are inserted into special grooves in these panels, then they are screwed with cuts themselves.

Attention: Anodized self-cuts are suitable for these works, from which rust spots do not remain, as from ordinary self-cuts.

• A wooden house is ready quickly, beautifully, and most importantly, not expensive.

The old house was lucky, but what about the facade and walls of a large structure towering above the small ones?

Sophisticated facade decoration

Has a blockhouse house facade decoration manual been drafted and can it be used? Interest provides a more complex option, using insulation and windproof materials.
So:

• The delivered stripes of the house block are exempted from packaging and kept for at least a week in a purged room or on the street under a canopy. This procedure is performed to prevent deformation of materials due to moisture fluctuations.
• Installation of a vertical crate with a bar of 50x50 mm and a pitch between them equal to the width of the insulation is carried out (usually hard plates are used).

Attention: If the front insulation is thicker than 50 mm, use a lining for the crate of boards or plywood.

• The basalt wool insulation made in the form of plates is installed between the bars. With a loose arrangement, they are additionally fixed with dowels in the form of an umbrella.
• Facade decoration the house block continues with a stapler patch of a wind-barrier, vapor-proof film on top of the insulation. It prevents the destruction of the insulation by strong winds.
• A counter-lathing is carried out with 20 mm rails through a windproof film and is attached to the main bars of the grate. It is necessary for air gap and full ventilation of the facade.
• The counter-crate is used to finish the facade of the house with a block house. The methods of work remain the same and are used to fasten the kleimers, the cuts themselves in a tenon or a long cut itself, screwed through the entire thickness of the board and masking the cap.
  The spike at the boards looks up and prevents the structure from flowing water.

Better to see once than to read and think about it.

Are there any flaws

The block house decoration of the facade of the house is completed, and you can continue the list of advantages and benefits of this material.
It is clear that it provides effective protection at home at a low cost level and, of course, it has disadvantages:

• The block house must be periodically painted, covered with protective equipment or varnish to ensure a long service life.
• With apparent simplicity, the choice of boards for exterior decoration, the task is not the most ordinary. The difference in appearance and characteristics makes it necessary to inspect the width of the house block.
• The block house used in exterior finishes should not be less than 150 mm wide, and it should be chosen the same.
• It is mandatory to determine the type of wood boards and where it came from for sale. Wood from cold areas has a higher density, visually determined by the smaller distance between the annual rings.

We can state the fact that a house sheathed a block with a house represents a structure whose main purpose is to provide heat and comfort in any building.