How to make the insulation of the loggia with your own hands

Almost all modern apartments are equipped today with magnificent spacious loggias, from which you can make a wonderful additional room. True, this will have to work hard, because it will be necessary to conduct a number of works related to insulation, which, incidentally, will require quite a lot of financial costs. Nevertheless, the achieved goal fully justifies the invested funds, especially since any domestic master is quite able to carry out the insulation of the loggia with his own hands.

Usually the loggia is equipped with the purpose of making an additional room from it or in order to increase the useful area of the room. However, in both cases, it will be necessary to carry out construction work aimed at its insulation. And for this you have to put good double-glazed windows, insulate the floor, walls, ceiling, equip the heating. In carrying out the above types of work, professional assistance will be required only when installing insulating glass, because this operation still needs special skills and appropriate qualifications. The rest of the actions can be done on their own, because the insulation of the loggia with their own hands will help save a very substantial amount of money.

What is a loggia? Only, as a matter of fact, a roof over a head yes the base in the form of a ceiling of a neighbor's loggia. Therefore, the main goal that must be achieved in the process of restructuring is the creation in the room of full-fledged comfortable conditions, which, in fact, is intended to make the loggia warming up by oneself.

So, the professionals already summoned made a high-quality installation of PVC insulating glass, and the room did not feel much warmer. Which, in principle, is quite understandable, since to raise the temperature to the normal state it will be necessary to conduct a heating system, to insulate the walls, floor and ceiling.

Making the insulation of the loggia with our own hands, it is best to equip the so-called "warm floor" as the heating system, the manufacturing technology of which is quite simple and does not require preliminary preparation of the base. It is enough to cover the surface with a special vapor barrier film, and then lay on it an electric warm floor, which (for best effect) it is desirable to cover with heat-insulating slabs. In the quality of flooring, experts recommend the use of a wooden board - environmentally friendly, superbly retains heat and a foot-friendly material.

Next comes the turn of the walls and ceiling. Since the insulation of the loggia with its own hands pursues the goal of conducting economical construction works, it is best to take a foam plastic as a heat insulation material - an inexpensive budgetary material with excellent heat-insulating qualities. Before starting the installation, it is recommended that all existing cracks and inter-panel seams be carefully sealed with sealant, and then the same waterproofing film that was used for the floor is fixed on the entire surface. Warming loggia foam is a very simple process, which involves attaching to the surface of the walls and ceiling of this building material with special dowels, as well as sealing joints. On top of the foam, a layer of foil-insulated heat-insulating material, which is designed to protect the foam from dampness, is also usually laid.

In fact, the insulation of the loggia with your own hands is almost finished. Ahead of the house master waiting for finishing work on the interior lining of walls and ceiling. What for these purposes to choose - lining, siding, drywall - entirely depends on the tastes and priorities of the owners, as well as the intended purpose of the room. It is understandable that if the construction work was carried out to increase the usable area, then the loggia interior should be in harmony with the general concept of the main room. And if the loggia is planned to be used as a separate room, then it is advisable to design it without looking at the room located outside the window.

Warming of the loggia (technology and a detailed step-by-step description of this process is available on many Internet resources) will allow you to get an additional full-fledged room that can be used for rest or work in conditions of peace and comfort.