Building materials

In today’s world, especially in the economic crisis, the cost of building a dwelling house plays an important role in choosing a project

Home and the choice of building materials. Great importance in this and the cost of finishing, both internal and external.

The main construction material used today for walls of private houses remain affordable silicate blocks.

But no less important remains and construction of wooden houses. Thus at the very high cost of wood, wooden frame building has a number of

The benefits. In the first place – the environmental aspect, such a house “breathes”. In the winter wooden house keeps heat in the summer keeps a pleasant coolness. Also

No tree in a variety of contaminants, which can possibly silicate blocks. Despite the high cost of wood, when properly

Approach, absent or markedly reduced the cost of warming the house and its interior and exterior trim. Thus, in the end we get the value

Comparable to the value of the house of silicate blocks, and sometimes even lower.

One of the most important moments in the manufacture of a log house is the right choice and proper installation thermal insulating material between the logs, so

Mezhventsovogo called a heater, or mezhventsovogo seal.

Mezhventsovy insulation – is cushioning, thermal insulation material used for insulation seams and openings of wooden walls, windows and doors

Boxes, joints in prefabricated homes. According to builders, it should be called mezhventsovy seal, as this term better reflects

The essence.

Depending on the aesthetic and practical preferences of the customer, the house can be constructed from timber tsilindrovannogo, profiled, chopped beam. It

Affects the choice of thermal insulating material.

On the numerous forums and niche sites do not cease arguing about which is better to use for insulation of the framework. Typed set of arguments

Both for and against each material.

The main difficulty in the construction of a wooden house, and, accordingly, the choice of thermal insulating material, is the change in density and

Physical dimensions of the timber during use. In other words, after the erection of a wooden house is dry logs, their shrinkage, and

Possible subsidence of the foundation. Further, during the year may swell the wood, due to changes in humidity. As a result, between

Beams having slots through which the house gets cold and damp in the tree and on the walls of the mold is formed.

Avoidance of such phenomena is the task of insulation, laid between the logs.

Here are some quotes from one building forum: “The House has set a year ago. 15 cm beam profiling. Between log-fibrous tissue. After the rains it

Absorbs water and gets wet inside the house. And I was not going inside the car. Sanding and varnish it. And outside the house does not want obkladyvat “,” Restaurant

Made of half a meter of logs, such that the gap pendants fail. ”

There are many kinds of materials used for gaskets between logs. This is, first of all, the traditional moss, flax tow,

Wool felt, followed by the so-called strip heaters made from natural fiber jute and flax, as well as a variety of foam and

The rope.

Foam – a fairly new invention. Thus, many regard them with suspicion. Better to use rubber foam, as because eventually the house will

Crack and just plain foam breaks. In addition, the foam is not breathable, but it can cause a fungus and mold in the wood.

To apply tape insulation mezhventsovym jute cloth, jute felt and ribbon lnovatin. Undoubted advantages of tape are

No double konopatki and reduce construction time. However, it is also a major drawback of this type of insulation. Since the at

“Subsidence” of logs to shrinkage or subsidence in the basement, there is no practical possibility of dokonopachivaniya log. Numerous

Negative feedback caused by not studied until the end of the properties of insulators, or their use or improper packing, make

Doubt many customers of the reliability and usefulness of this method of warming the wooden house. Many complain that the linen

Insulation tape under the weight of the logs or timber is compressed in the thickness of the sheet, and after drying of the structure does not accept the original

Volume of house and starts drafty.

Belt mezhventsovye heaters based on jute manufactures only a few firms in CIS, and certain types of tapes – only one firm. This creates a

Unjustified increase in prices of such materials.

Despite the shortcomings in the construction of a wooden house shaped timber, the choice is to stop it on tape mezhventsovyh

Thermal insulating materials, and for desiccation and subsidence cracks log dokonopachivat moss or tow all kinds of ropes.

Traditional types of insulation are mezhventsovogo moss, flax hemp, wool felts. Deny them the benefits would be silly.

When using tow or felt there is a problem stripping of this material by birds, considering it is quite attractive for them

Material for construction and insulation of their own nests. Therefore, the construction of houses should be done in a short time.

Moss remains the most popular and reliable means of warmth. It is under a number of reasons. Summary – this trust ancestors, because many

Centuries in Russia, log-collected “on the moss.” And when you transfer any of the old log house at the new location is always marked excellent preservation of the tree.

Also benefit the moss is that it grows almost anywhere. This is important for people in villages and townships around the forests and swamps.

Accordingly, the cost is much lower than the cost of moss and foam tapes, production of which is in itself quite expensive.

Moss is not a direct relative of bast plants (flax, hemp, jute), which are also used for thermal insulation of the houses, but as

Fiber crops, has the property of hygroscopicity (ability to absorb and release moisture from the environment). Due to water absorption

Creates natural ventilation slots, inside tree log is not destroyed. Usually, wooden construction uses two types of moss: sphagnum moss and

Ragged linen.

Sphagnum moss peat refers to the (white), mosses. Mostly it’s bog mosses that grow thick dense clusters, forming a large

Pillows or a carpet in sphagnum bogs, less than sphagnum. Found in the rainforest. Erect soft stem height of 10-20 cm with

Clustered located branches and leaves contain a single layer of dead aquifer (hyaline) cells with pores easily

Absorbing water, which results in a high moisture content of sphagnum and facilitates the rapid development of raised bogs in places where there are mosses.

In addition, sphagnum moss is used as a folk and in scientific medicine as an antiseptic and a dressing for purulent

Wounds, as has the ability to absorb large amounts of moisture, higher than the properties of the best varieties of cotton wool.

In temperate and cold zones of the Northern Hemisphere are growing green mosses, among which are widely distributed forest moss ragged linen belonging to the class

Leafy mosses. Grows large cushion turf. Stem densely leafy with assimilation platelets on the upper side

Sheet reaches a height of 40 cm

To lay the framework to use your new moss (moist but not wet), since when dry it crumbles and loses its insulating properties.

Moss to spread evenly across the timber, leaving hanging on both sides of the timber locks. After placing the top logs have moss

“Rootstock” that the connection has been tighter.

When laying the moss to make sure that the fibers were of the grooves on both sides of the carcass is not less than 50 mm. Moss spread a uniform layer, the fibers

Across the slot and plug them into the gap through a variety of devices – konopatok.

Since the with the time gap between the logs occur, the seams between the logs to caulk twice: first time – at the end of the device structure,

The second – after the cessation of rainfall walls, that is 1-1.5 years. After the second konopatki walls can bind and finish inside and out.

Double konopachivanie creates additional costs of time, and when hiring people – and the additional financial costs. On the one hand it

Negative moment, but eventually it eliminates the problem of the appearance of cracks between the logs and the air flow through the log.

Thus, it becomes clear that to date, moss remains the most popular material for mezhventsovogo warming. The main

Advantage of the moss are its low cost relative to other mezhventsovyh insulation, versatility, centuries-old experience of positive

The use of moss. An important feature is that the moss is able to “breathe” to allow air and moisture with deducing that, in combination with

Bactericidal properties of moss, gives additional protection to the wood.