House of Cibit: not an exclusive, but the norm

The construction of a house is a serious business, in the event of its successful outcome, the result will be to please the eye more than one decade, and self-esteem. Therefore, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the future homeowners approach to the choice of source material with all seriousness. Moreover, in our time, building materials can be chosen for both price and physical and aesthetic characteristics.

Reasons for the popularity of Cibit

However, it can be safely asserted that every day more and more people are choosing their choice on the Sibit, that is aerated concrete. When it is made, frozen foam is converted into porous blocks, and building a house from sibit immediately acquires a lot of advantages.

• The first of them: it is easily processed - cut and bored even manually.
• Second: gas-filled pores of this construction material greatly facilitate it, giving in this sense pluses and compared with brick and conventional concrete. What follows from this? Do not need heavy construction equipment!
• And the third: excellent thermal insulation qualities will allow to build a house of Cibit four times warmer than even a brick one.

Pros and cons of aerated concrete

In the heat, the house of the Cibit maintains a comfortable coolness, like a wooden one, because of its porous structure. In addition, houses made of aerated concrete are environmentally friendly, since they do not use toxic materials, only natural substances, which are insoluble in water. It is also important that aerated concrete is not flammable.

There are gasconcrete and minuses, but if you know about them, then the construction and subsequent operation of the house from the Cibit will not cause trouble.

For example, concrete and brick sybite is inferior in strength. But after all the brackets of heavy metal, massive cabinets and household equipment like water heaters can not be primitively hung on the walls, but to build for this, stable structures from the corner.

For a private building, the sibit should also be taken into account that it requires interior and exterior trim. And in damp premises materials for it are better to take waterproof.

Procure blocks yourself

If you started building a house of Cibit on your own, it's logical, in fact, to make blocks yourself. The rules that must be observed are so simple that they are taken for granted.

On the flat earth the roofing material is covered, and the required size of the mold is installed on it, the walls of which are wiped from inside with workings. It is poured into a ready-made form, bought in the store dry mix, well mixed. Without stopping this process, water slowly begins to pour into the mold. The mixture should swell somewhat, and when it slightly hardens, without moving the block from its place, the mold is removed from it and used to "sculpt" the following elements.

In dry and fairly warm weather, gas concrete "kulichiki" after 12 hours will turn into almost ready building material. It is put in one layer under the canopy, and within a day of these blocks you can already lay out the walls.

To your liking, you can choose the size of the sibit blocks, but practice proves: the best option is when one gas-concrete block replaces about 15 bricks.

The foundation is the foundation

However, it is possible to buy a sbit: it is not expensive, and it is not difficult to transport it. Explicit advantages of aerated concrete are winning more and more of its supporters also because the house of the Cibit is erected much faster than from more traditional building materials.

Let's skip the preparation of the territory for construction, we will stop on the main thing - the foundation. There are so fanatical fans of aerated concrete that even the foundation is laid out of the Cibit. In principle, this is permissible, but it requires filigree accuracy of laying, evenness and smooth, without flaws, "sides" of the blocks. But a solid monolithic reinforced concrete foundation will really negate the theoretical possibility of deformation of walls.

Building a house with your own hands

The house of the Cibit with its own hands begins to be built from ... a visit for consultation to local surveyors. Since the sybite perfectly absorbs moisture, specialists should tell you the level of freezing of your site, and to what point groundwater rises on it.

And no matter what foundation you prefer, it must necessarily be accompanied by a drainage system, and on top of the foundation lagging is sure to fit waterproofing. Further, it is not necessary to neglect the thinnest layer of cement, for the ideal leveling of the insulation surface. Let the first, having the most important meaning, the row of the Sibit lie on it. From it will depend on the correctness of the laying of walls. That is why its level is verified by the level.

A house of sibit is built in summer or spring, at a temperature of not less than five and not more than 25 degrees Celsius, in dry weather. If the air warms up above the allowable rate, the ready sibil will have to be constantly moistened with water.

The surface of each stacked row is leveled with a metal grater, eliminating even minor level changes - this prevents the appearance of vertical cracks.