Facing the house with siding in accordance with all the rules
Facing houses with siding is perhaps the most popular today. How to properly clad a house with siding will be discussed today, because the quality of protecting the room from the external environment and saving heat also depend on the correctness of the work.
Facing house siding is not such a difficult task, but it requires the right approach. Let's directly understand how to properly clad a house with siding, consider all stages in more detail.
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What attracts siding
House cladding outside siding attracts consumers for several reasons. First, make a purchase of material, you should understand how much such a finish will suit you.
Nowadays, facing a house with siding of residential and industrial premises is not only beneficial in many respects, but also fashionable. In the market for construction services, their range is quite large.
Siding is incredibly popular among facing structures. The material that has arisen in the conditions of progress and has already proven itself well can be considered an excellent alternative to wooden lining.
The cladding of the house with a do-it-yourself siding is a canvas made of plastic panels (aluminum, metal, vinyl) and has a number of distinctive characteristics.
Among them, the following positions are especially worth noting:
- Facing the house with plastic siding, it is a rather durable and solid construction. Siding service life is within 50 years.
- Also, facing a brick house with siding is quite hygienic. The material is not subject to corrosive processes, ignition.
- Facing with a siding of a brick house and facing with a siding of a frame house will serve as reliable protection to any material from adverse weather conditions: it does not overheat and does not fade in the scorching sun, is resistant to moisture, and significant changes in temperature conditions.
- With proper installation, it keeps good heat indoors in the cold, keeps cool in the hot season and has advantages in sound absorption properties.
- The material is characterized by a rich color scheme. The shade can be selected for every taste, taking into account the color of the roof, window and door frames, piers, giving special aesthetics to the appearance of the structure. As a rule, preference is given to pastel shades than brighter, more saturated colors.
- Facing a residential house with siding does not require the cost of maintaining the appearance. This material is unpretentious in maintenance, it is enough to wipe a siding cloth from dust and adhering dirt with a solution of water with a dishwashing detergent, and pour water from a hose.
- Facing the old house with siding is quite affordable. The price of the material is not high and almost anyone can afford it.
The different price categories are affected by the material and workmanship, color scheme. The main thing is to precisely determine the dimensions of the facade, especially its frontal part and calculate the required number of panels, components (profiles, connecting, starting, wind bars, external and internal corners), take into account possible residues when cutting material of the right size, which can also be used to good use. - Cladding with siding of residential buildings is beautifully done with your own hands. You will need only the help of relatives to support the elements with fasteners. Therefore, the issue price will be much lower.
- Technology house cladding siding allows you to immediately make and warming the room. You can cover the facade of the building with siding with insulation on your own in a relatively short time without resorting to someone else's help. The main thing is to be able to handle the tool.
- It does not require long and labor-intensive preparatory work.
- Separate siding panels can be easily replaced in case of their possible deformation (which is unlikely!) Without having to go through the entire structure.
The main stages of work on the correct installation of siding with insulation
How to clad a house with siding will now be considered directly.
The standard technique for coating the surface of a house, building involves a number of preparatory steps:
- Firstly, you need to select the necessary tools. For work, you may need: a tape measure, a hammer, a chisel, a spray gun or brush, a level, a construction stapler, a screwdriver (or an ordinary screwdriver), a joiner square, metal scissors or a disk with small teeth, dowels and self-tapping screws or nails.
- Secondly, you should take care of the forests - a solid, safe and as easy as possible temporary construction for work at heights. Of course, you can use the stairs, but they are not so practical in terms of movement.
Surface preparation of the building facade
The technology for facing a house with siding begins precisely with the preparation of the base plane. Before doing the work, you must immediately prepare the crate. You should be comfortable moving at height.
So:
- So, the outside of the house must be freed from all the antennas attached to it, satellite TV plates, CCTV cameras, air conditioners, rolling gratings, curling along the walls of plants, lighting fixtures in the form of lamps.
- Drains will have to be dismantled, platbands, protruding external window sills, possibly even door and window shutters. If time permits, the ideal option would be to dismantle the old cladding, if any.
Attention: Small irregularities on the surface of the facade of the object do not play a significant role, the main thing is that there are no cracks and cracks.
- If this is the result of dry planks - they are densely nailed to each other, rotten ones are replaced by new ones, treating the surface area with an antiseptic, the cracks are cleaned and filled with a deep penetration primer.
Installation of the lathing
Options for facing a house with siding include the installation of a frame.
So:
- Siding insulation made using crates or substructures. It can be both horizontal and vertical. It all depends on the location of the paintings of the facing material, which is applied perpendicular to the bars of the crate.
- This substructure may be wooden or metal. The metal is more reliable in strength, it is durable. If the choice is made in favor of wood, then it is advisable in advance that the slats or beams should be dry, treated with a special antiseptic substance to avoid rotting, mold.
- The thickness of the frame structure will depend on the thickness of the selected insulation. Plus, it is important not to forget to make sure that there is a small gap between the insulation and the siding coating in order to avoid the loss of material's thermal insulation properties, moisture and dampness.
- In the installation of siding, the correct measurements are the key to half the success of the entire lining process.
- To create an even plane of the crate using a hydraulic level and fishing line, you need to designate a precisely measured jumping. Put a mark on the wall at the right level.
After that, it is transferred to other planes using a hydraulic level. This will then be done most accurately; - After that, we connect the risks together with the help of a nylon thread, the size is beaten off.
- Along this contour, starting from the bottom edge, we nail the slats.To do this, we cut them to the desired size and mount using dowels.
Caution: Mounted should not be rigid enough. Therefore, dowels from kits should not be used. Buy separately plastic and self-tapping screws, which are worth taking a couple of mm more from the hole section. Then the connection will be reliable.
- Now we pull the fishing line along the diagonals of the harness, this will be our reference point for the height of the transverse rails. Here the adjustment is done using gaskets.
- Then - along the perimeter of the wall and then - vertically or horizontally, the slats are mounted on the dowels at the same distance from each other in the range up to 70 cm. At the same time, the structure must be firmly fixed so that it can withstand its weight.
We lay a heater
Cladding siding at home do it yourself with the installation of insulation. As insulation, both soft and hard materials can be used.
The most common are fiberglass or mineral wool, basalt slabs, foamed and extruded polystyrene, ecowool. Each of them has positive and negative points, they differ in quality, way of laying, cost.
Attention: When warming the facade of a building, it is important to remember the layer of waterproofing material. It spreads either on the crate (someone fastens, on the contrary, under the frame, to whom it is more convenient), or on top of the insulation, if the latter is installed on glue.
So:
- When filling the crate cells with building insulating material, it is necessary to avoid the formation of folds, overlap the material, wrapping the frame over the slats and fastening it with a building stapler. As fasteners, you can use building plastic fungi. As a rule, in terms of fastening they operate with the ratio: 6 connection points per 1 sq.m.
- Particularly worth working with the joints. They are carefully treated with foam, if the material is hard, stacked tight enough, if soft. In general, when laying soft material, the main thing is to observe the golden mean - sufficient density to avoid its deformation.
Direct installation of siding
Facing with siding of brick houses and facing of a frame house with siding are basically the same. All of them are done according to the same rules. Installation of siding can be done butt and lap.
Butt - siding panels are extended in length (they are shorter than the width or length of the house) and are connected by an H-profile or the so-called connecting strip. Lap - the panels are superimposed upper on the lower to prevent rainwater, snow from entering the structure.
So:
- The first siding, the so-called start panel is measured to the desired size, cut (in summer you can use scissors for metal, an electric saw, in the winter season - only a disk with small teeth) and precisely horizontally mounts along the bottom of the crate around the entire perimeter of the house. It is necessary for fastening the lower row of panels to it, after proper installation it remains invisible. This will be done correctly.
- Fastening is done at right angles to self-tapping screws (nails can be used) at a distance of 0.4 m. In order to freely move the plates, they are inserted exactly in the center into the holes specially designed for fastening.
- If part of the plate with the hole is cut off, you can use a puncher and carefully make an oblong oval shape on your own.
Attention: Do not try to screw in a self-tapping screw or drive a nail directly into the plate, as it will crack. Also, do not attach the siding too tightly to the substructure, it is better to leave a small gap of 1-2 mm between the screw head and the siding. When heated, for example, in the sun, the material expands, the plug deviations in size can reach several millimeters.
- Further, an angular profile is freely attached to the upper self-tapping screws, connecting adjacent planes.
- For facing the surface around window and door, arched openings, a J-shaped profile, a profile with a platband can be used. Here the difficulty lies only in the correct joining of the strips around the openings.
- Siding panels are mounted around the perimeter one after another. The lower edge of the panel is wound beyond the edge of the starting strip until it clicks (closing the lock) and is fixed on self-tapping screws.
- Joining panels is done only on the frame. Do not do this on weight.
- And so - row by row, around the perimeter and towards the roof until the installation of the molding is completed. The main thing is accuracy, accuracy, utmost care in size to avoid deviations, further divergence of the joints.
Now you know the types of cladding of a house from siding and how they are performed. There is an instruction and you can purchase material.
Such cladding is done both under a brick and under a cinder block, the most important thing is not to rush and correctly mark up. This seems to be a petty question.
But an offset of a couple of mm can cost 10 cm at a distance of a couple of meters. Therefore, initially do it right.
