It is difficult to build a house correctly "the first time", even if you hire professionals. And problems can then manifest themselves in the most unexpected places - a cracked foundation, inoperative communications, the appearance of mold on, and so on. Even if visually everything seems to be in order with the building, but it turns out that living in it is cold or uncomfortable. What problems did FORUMHOUSE users face and how did they fix them? We study the experience of other people's mistakes so as not to make our own.

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The problem of heat leaks due to improper insulation or other construction flaws and mistakes is one of the most urgent for homeowners. Portal member Sergant76 is engaged in thermal imaging surveys for amateur purposes and shares his observations.

Even a well-known and well-versed company in all construction issues can cheat - for its own benefit, let alone the workers "from the outside" who may either not know something, or work carelessly. What problems did the portal members encounter during the construction of a house and how to solve them - read the topic.

In one of the popular topics of the portal, our members talk about their sad construction experience and try to find solutions.

What would the homeowners have differently if they rebuilt the house, made repairs in the apartment, bought a plot, etc. - everything that others did not think about in time, but what you can take into account if you are planning the same work is discussed here.

Brick house, irusya8 and my family realized how much they had left out. The topicstarter opened this topic to talk about her mistakes, but other members of the portal also joined the discussion.

Perhaps, The best way avoid mistakes during construction - planning and careful consideration of all stages. It is even better when the "collective mind" helps in this. Portal member Irina7 is going to build a house "not even in this five-year period", but has already started preparations for construction and has asked questions and for advice at FORUMHOUSE.

Torn off roofs, cracked stoves with torn boilers inside, freezing water pipes with sewers, spring rain from insulation, entrance doors which open only in summer ...

“It's so good that we didn't listen to advice and didn't buy finished house... As a result, they built it "for themselves", with all the conveniences, very warm and fast ", - the soul rejoices when you read such messages on FORUMHOUSE.

Purchase finished house justified in rare cases, because you have to overpay at least 30%, and no one will give quality guarantees, and you will have to adjust your desires and needs to the existing structure.

The house that I built myself is the best housing in the world, but sometimes during the construction process such gross mistakes are made that you look and do not understand - what is it, in general? A sophisticated way of committing suicide?

Maybe they are shooting a movie here, and then the house will be effectively blown up? Is a sadistic customer mocking the builders? Or are the builders taking revenge on the owner for something?

For the third year in a row, FORUMHOUSE participants have been building such assumptions around a house that was being built not far from Samara. This bright story has already been described by the journalists of our portal with a detailed analysis of all the mistakes. But it also has a second side - in many ways, this is a story about human qualities that are not very compatible with building your own home.

From the very beginning user FORUMHOUSE Yuraberg, a good and kind person, tried to bring the owners of the house to their senses - “ you stop the child if he crosses the road in the wrong place”, And explain to them that such a house is not a tenant. Moreover, it was evident that the owner is clearly constrained in means, he builds on the latter.

About the results of this event Yuraberg then he said briefly: "He was sent." Later there were proposals to send a delegation from FORUMHOUSE to the owner, to throw him a printout of the discussion of this construction - I wanted to somehow stop this outrage until people moved into the house and no one had time to get hurt ....

But judging by how the construction proceeded further, the owner of the house belongs to the category of people who react painfully to any doubts about his competence in all areas of life. The house has now been built, but it is unlikely to survive the next winter. Discussing this story, the people at FORUMHOUSE wondered - what lessons can be learned from it, except that being stupid is bad?

We agreed on this: your own opinion may not always be correct. And nothing terrible will happen if you listen to someone and then think about it.

This "listen and think", by the way, allows you to save significant amounts of money. We offer you an overview of the construction bloopers that were discussed at FORUMHOUSE.

Torn off roofs, cracked stoves with torn boilers inside, freezing water pipes with sewers, spring rain from insulation, front doors that open only in summer, and in winter the owners squeeze into a 30-centimeter gap ...

To the user of our portal Andrey73Tver it is enough to walk through the streets of his microdistrict of individual developers who have received plots from the state to understand that he is far from the worst builder. Why it happens? According to his observations, because:

• 70% of people build on their own;
• 25% hires inept, drunkards and idlers for a small price;
• and only 3-5% can afford to invite professionals.

As a result, it turns out, for example, like this - a window that opens from the outside.

That is, he wanted to open the window, went out into the street, ran around the house. And from the point of view of safety, this strange technique is acceptable if a pair of Caucasian shepherd dogs is running around the perimeter of the house.

cdfhobrе FORUMHOUSE user

No, well, I understand, if you are drunk, you can confuse one window, but two - this is already a clear plan and clarity of thought.

Most people would like to live in own home on the ground, and you can't argue with that. But the absolute majority of this majority, as they say on our portal, "are not in the subject of construction." The customer is "not in the subject of construction", and when he hires casual workers to implement it is not clear whose ideas, the result can be anything.

Vodopad FORUMHOUSE user

Sometimes your hair stands on end, sometimes you laugh, sometimes you are perplexed, but you want to take pictures.

Every day Vodopad drove past the unfinished neighbor's house and every time he wondered: "how can this be?"

So he did not manage to find a reasonable explanation.

Indeed, some construction solutions leave a feeling of mystery among the users of our portal.

Let's say what the author of car tires under the bay windows wanted to say on this incomprehensible structure?

Or this house that feels like Elenavrn, its owner does not build, but dismantles it, and with the use of explosive devices.

In the village ElenaKul there is a striking house with a power line running right through the roof. Maybe that's why they can't finish building it.

Bair never ceases to be amazed: the neighbor threw it over the fence two-storey house from a bar and covered the whole with EPS-m. Someone taught him. And people wrap log houses in roofing material: “when you start explaining that you can't do this, they get offended”.

3BOHKOB tells that to his friend the second floor of a house from a bar was built on reinforcement instead of dowels.

3BOHKOB FORUMHOUSE user

And he does not sit on the fittings. It would be funny if it weren't so sad ... A gap with a finger between the bars.

This is how the “window wishlist” that arose at the last moment looks like in reality.

And in this user photo Consultant111 shown sad and very short story panel house.

The house was built in the winter, and in the summer it "took shape".

During the construction, the technology was violated: the walls of panel houses can be sewn up by collecting the entire frame and covering the roof. But at the same time, the frame must have permanent jibs (they are installed, even if the house is sheathed with OSB), and be reinforced with temporary jibs, which are removed after the OSB is installed.

Here the walls had not yet been sewn up, but the whole frame was assembled.

But the fence, also from the FORUMHOUSE collection, was built by guest workers, who said that they understood the task, and the customer did not control the process.

Here are some examples of the work of the "masters" that I had to face Mickas.

Here we see a turn brick pipe on the ceiling beams (6 meters), and this is only "one small part of the horrors that were made during the construction of the furnace." The oven itself stands in the middle of the floor slab, and the slab has a deflection of about 4-5 cm.

And here - rafters 100x50 meters apart. The roof has already collapsed.

Jazzway is convinced that all, without exception, "shoals" of this kind are the result of a voluntary delusion of the owner, multiplied by the Russian "maybe". Some buildings are even scary to drive up to. And people are sure that they have built up correctly and economically.

Jazzway FORUMHOUSE user

From examples of what I've seen:

1. A frame made of sleepers is lined with 0.5 bricks, from the inside it is finished with plasterboard with insulation!

2. A strip foundation made of FBS, buried 1.5 meters (with a basement!) Without waterproofing at a GWL of 0.2-0.5 m! In a swamp, in general. Gas block house.

3. "Shallow tape from FBS" in one block high. House from a foam block. Crack from foundation to ridge.

FORUMHOUSE user with the largest construction blunder Valerey met in the early 90s. One thrifty man hired an inexpensive team of bricklayers ... to build a house from a bar.

The masons did not know how to work with wood, so they did this: they quickly cut the timber into meter-long pieces and from them, like from bricks, they brought out the walls.

Instead of mortar, bricks from a bar were attached to nails. When the owner of the house came to take work, he almost had a heart attack.

Of course, now is not the 90s, and the likelihood of colliding with bricks from a bar or a pipeline from propylene pipes cooked with a lighter is reassuringly small. But the need for a competent specialist for technical supervision has become, perhaps, even higher. It’s just not necessary to save on it - moreover, it will save you money on a clear calculation of volumes, works and materials.

sem2005 recently I was looking after finishing the cottage with an area of ​​220m2. The customer chose facial materials at exhibitions, then looked at their prices on the Internet, chose where it was cheaper, and sent a link to buy. sem2005 offered the customer to buy the same material, only in firms where he was released with discounts.

FORUMHOUSE user

I just want to say: why? After all, everything that had to be assessed by the foundation and walls with ceilings is already reliably hidden ...

On our portal you can find out how long the house over which Yuraberg tried to take patronage will last, watch a video that tells about typical mistakes in the construction of a house from a bar and flaws that builders allow during the construction of a frame.

Perhaps our articles will also be useful to you: about the most common mistakes that are made when building a house, and about how to build a house after all without having any experience.

3 years ago I showed this house as an example of “how not to build” even during the period of its “semi-construction”:

Many doubted, they said: "No, well, we can then do it normally, carry out the insulation, seal the jambs ...."

I was sure that if an idiot undertakes to do something, then it will be idiotic. This is the law. That is, if there are signs that the building citizen is an idiot, then he will certainly make all the mistakes, despite the fact that theoretically they can be eliminated at subsequent stages. And even sometimes normal people do them with an aim, "Then I'll take it away, it's temporary." I immediately said that an idiot was building here and, apparently, even a built uzhos was not the apogee, and then it would only get worse, although from a purely technical point of view there was an opportunity even of this ugly and horror of a heating engineer to make something quite decent.

So, now the house is completed and we can say unequivocally: everything turned out as I said - the freak turned out to be just a reference:
As I promised, in the process of vapor barrier, much less insulation, no one did it. You can polyubovatstsa - the siding is straight along the rails, they are scribbled:

Now it looks like this:


Nearby there is a "bathhouse" of a congenial design. And a trumpet on strings. Plakal.

So what do we have? Surprisingly ugly coffin with music house. I remember that Raskolnikov went from living in such a kennel to the murder of old women. The layout is still there, it must be. Dark. Yes, even scary siding finished with a claim to "design". Nightmare. And that's just outside.

It's still sadder inside. Monolithic slabs on foam-gas-kizyaks laid without belts, ligaments and frame. How it all holds up is unclear. Foundation do not understand cho. There is no insulation. The ends of the ceilings are straight out into the cold: hello to the skating rink on the floor in winter, despite the hellish wood-guzzling stove and a sauna under the ceiling ...

Note, okay if it was people from poverty that sculpted something like this, a la "A group of nestlings under the type of one roof named" Voronya Slobodka ":


Or, like "A very lonely birdhouse":

Everything is clear here - from what it was, from that and blinded. For 5 rubles from shit and sticks. Sabzhovy house - on the lam, from all the best, they did right away according to the plan, and not as "Let's do something, and then, as the money appears, we will attach a porch and a kitchenette on the mezzanine to the outhouse!" No, here they immediately built garbage with full awareness of what they were doing. Not "from what it was," but from the very best. And it turned out shit worse than the one here.

No, citizens, the construction idiocy of fellow citizens is incurable. I am writing these analyzes here, I am writing, and the freaks are molding more and more scary and pompous!

Previously, they sinned on poverty, this-and-so, on the wretchedness of life, because, they say, the sheds are so terrible. Now you can't write it off! Chickens don't bite all the money, they've been to Europs, the Louvre has already climbed to the point of yawning boredom, and freaks are growing like mushrooms on an ever-increasing scale. No, sovetska power has nothing to do with it. It looks like something needs to be changed at the conservatory. I mean, only a good surgeon will help a bad dancer. Lobotomy. There is no other way!