Warming house allows it to make life much more comfortable and save significant amounts on heating.Today released a huge amount of a variety of modern materials, perfectly suitable for the insulation of walls, floor and ceiling.However, the majority of them is quite expensive.Therefore, many owners of country houses prefer private insulate your home the old fashioned way - with mineral wool or foam.At low cost, these materials are characterized by excellent performance and ease of installation.This article will deal with in detail at how warm the house with foam.
advantages of foamed plastic mass
The advantages of foam include the following:
- Lightweight.Plates 98% air.
- cheapness.This material is much cheaper than all the other heaters.
- long enough lifetime.
- Ability to use for warming the house both outside and inside.
- Easy installation.
- versatility.To warm their hands house foam can be in any case, no matter which of its walls lined - of wood, concrete or brick.
Disadvantages The disadvantages of foam can be attributed to the fragility and shorter service life than today's materials.In addition, its use for insulation of walls in homes if they live mice, is not recommended.The fact that rodents in doing a foam material moves and arrange holes.At the same time, of course, loses some of its heat insulator teplosohranyayuschih properties.
Training materials
Before you learn how to warm the house with foam, will understand what materials should be pre-prepared.To perform the insulation will need to buy:
- well-sharpened knife.
- Hammer.
- Hammer.
- spatula.
- reinforcing mesh.
- Plugs "fungi".
- bottom strip.You can take a wide profile (thickness foam) or bars.
course, need to know and how the foam to insulate the house.For residential buildings usually take materal thickness of not less than 40 mm.The best option would be the same desyatisantimetrovyh foam.With respect to the length and width of the plates, no restrictions exist.They can be cut out using a conventional blade.
Warming house outside.Preparatory work
Most often insulated houses just outside.In this case, the procedure will be much more effective.It's all about the location of the dew point.When insulation from the outside it will be outside the walls.If you insulate the house from the inside - inside of them.So first let us consider it a way to wall insulation from the street.
Want quality foam to insulate the house with his own hands?Then, without any pre-treatment will not do!The last should be thoroughly cleaned of dirt and grease.In that case, if the walls are made of wood, they should be treated with antiseptic and fire compositions.On concrete walls should knock down all protruding bumps and repaired with cement mortar cracks, pits and chips.Next, the surface treated with primer deep penetration.
If the wall of the house a new, smooth and even, they need not be primed.Very old, loose surfaces, and made of porous concrete, treated twice.In very advanced cases, an additional wall plaster, adding grout PVA glue.
Winterizing windows
answer to the question of how warm the house foam reduces also to how to hold the insulation of windows and doors.Starting work on the skin of the building is necessary from them.Pre-be sure to arrange a drip caps.He must speak for the surface of the wall insulation is not less than 4 cm. The slopes of windows and doors - in order to fire safety - not insulated foams and mineral wool strips.
The socket profile
learn how to insulate the facade foam, or rather, how to install the sheets, let's talk a little lower.At the first step is to secure the ground profile.In the future it will serve as a support under the first row of insulation boards.Mount it using a spirit level horizontally.Pre-wall bore holes (three for each meter length of the cap).Straps attach to anchors or dowels, nails.
Mixing glue
begin to warm the building is possible only in dry weather at +5 ... + 30 ° C.Clay is kneaded according to the instructions (indicated on the package).At its manufacture is to use a drill with a special nozzle.Manual mixing of high-quality, uniform composition will not.After the first kneading tool is typically held for five minutes and mixed again.
Bonding sheets
So, how warm the house with foam?The glue may be applied both on the walls and in the plates themselves.The second method is preferable.In this case, first, spread the mixture along the perimeter of the plate at a distance of about 2 cm from the edges.You can not make solid band.They must be broken.It is necessary for the air outlet.By area of the sheet adhesive throws slaps in steps of 10 cm. In the event that the adhesive composition treated with the wall while it should be applied only on one sheet.After greasing foam tightly pressed against the surface and held in that position for a few seconds.Then start the installation of the second sheet.Mount foam should be rows and Extension.This means that each sheet of the upper row should be set to be offset from the lower pieces.Plates spread lengthwise along the building.Adhered need to avoid getting glue into the seams of joints.This will reduce the quality of the insulation.Clay seams are separately - at the final stage.
Additional fixation
After pasting all the walls waiting for about five days, after which an additional fixing plate plastic "fungi".The move - one of the main answers to the question of how to properly insulate wooden house, brick, block or concrete.And not warm somehow, and quality.In the latter three cases, the holes "fungi" must be made in advance.When mounting the sheets on the wall or chopped cobbled possible to drill them later directly through the foam.The length of the plastic anchors shall be such that the wall was part of at least 5-6 cm of the rod.Clog them with a hammer, so as to closely contact the cap plate, and thus it is not pressed through.On each sheet shall be at least two dowels.And plus fasteners one at each T-joint.
reinforcement foam
How to insulate a house outside of the foam, we have found out.However, in order to plate being moved, and the plaster was not showered, pasted wall is required zaarmirovat.To this end, the surface of the foam coat with a special adhesive layer in half a centimeter.Apply a top-down structure of a wide spatula, carefully lining.Grid (the cell 2.5h2.5 mm), cut into strips and glued to the walls and top to bottom (like wallpaper).Since this material thin enough, during installation it can jam.Spreads grid in the same spatula.Smoothes it needs, ensuring complete drowning in the glue.Laps must be at least 5 cm horizontally and vertically.At the corners of the net plant on the adjacent wall so that the overlap is at least 15 cm. After setting the surface reinforcement are the second layer of solution.
Fine finishing
In that case, if you intend painting the facade of the house, in the next stage of its process putty in two layers.If the registration will be used for decorative plaster, you can skip this step.
Thermal insulation foam inside the house.Mounting plates on the wall
sometimes possible to insulate the house from the outside is not available.For example, it has already lined with finishing material or adjoin any unheated outbuildings.Therefore further look at how warm the house with foam inside.The material in this case is mounted using a wooden frame.
on the wall just attach the bars corresponds to the thickness of foam the size.Between them and the plates are mounted.Securing them to the walls at the same dyubelya- "fungi".You can also further fluff plate glue.On top of the foam on the frame pull the vapor barrier film (foil inside the room).Fix it into cubes.Further resulting kontrobreshetku mount finishing material.
insulate floors and ceilings
Thermal insulation foam floor is also easy to perform.At first it stuffed bars.Further, between the waterproofing membrane is laid.Then, insert the foam plate.Above them directly on the bars mounted board.Covering well insulated top.At the same time, and on top, and bottom panels of foam attached vapor barrier film.If the house is not the attic, insulation is necessary to carry out below.In this case, the plate inserted into the frame.
What you need to know
There are a few rules of the foam insulation of walls:
- on a flat surface is better to use a rigid reinforcing mesh at the corners - the soft.
- During wet weather can not insulate the house from the inside or the outside.In the latter case it is also desirable that there is no wind.
- If the material is mounted in the frame, between him and the finishing trim necessarily have to be air gap.That is why paroizolyator and mounted on wedges.The thickness of the air layer entirely depends on their thickness.For residential premises, it must be at least 3 cm. The temperature and humidity inside the house is always higher than the outside.Therefore, condensation on the walls.When using paroizolyatora moisture will settle on it.Passing through the air gap, the air is simply dries it, which is an additional guarantee for dryness, and hence the effectiveness of the insulation.
So, you now know how to warm the house with foam.As you can see, it's quite simple.If you do everything right, the technology thoroughly and carefully, you can get a very high quality thermal insulation and significantly improve the performance of the building.
