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How to build a house with your own hands? Simple instruction for beginners. Photo review of modern projects of private houses

Many of us want to have our own house, which is located on a separate plot with a garden, an area for games or a gazebo. However, not everyone can afford to build a house from scratch. To reduce the cost of construction, a house can be built independently, with your own hands. Immediately before the start of construction, you need to view a photo of a private house in order to decide on a project for a future home.

We determine the size of the future home

Having decided to take up construction, the first question that arose after your decision was probably “how to build a private house yourself?” Fortunately, there are certain rules and stages of construction that cannot be changed or removed.

Having familiarized yourself with the projects of home-made houses, you can clearly understand what size your future home should be, how much you want the rooms to be and what they should be.

To reduce the cost of building construction, you must correctly choose all sizes and layouts. A few tips to ensure that the house is inexpensive, but it was built with high quality:

  • It is best that the outer contour be in the shape of a square. This means that the perimeter of the house will be minimal. Accordingly, the foundation for the length of the walls outside will also be of a minimum size.
  • Try to choose a layout so that all rooms are located on the minimum allowable area. Instructions on how to build a house can help in choosing the most optimal layout.
  • Give preference to the most simple and useful for placing all the things you need layouts.
  • If you have not decided on the number of storeys of the house, think about it, a one-story house is much easier and cheaper to maintain than a multi-story building. In a two-story house you will have to build an additional staircase, respectively, to allocate a place for it. There are options when instead of the attic they build an attic. Despite saving materials for walls, with this option, the cost of building a roof increases.

Foundation and savings on it

We see only a small part of the foundation of the house. In this regard, many have a desire to save money even at the stage of foundation construction. This can never be done! In the future, this will be fraught with serious problems.

What is the foundation? This is the basis of your entire home, your home. In case of unreliable construction of the foundation (namely, saving on materials or ignoring certain stages of construction), cracks can soon appear in the ceiling of the house, in the walls, shrinkage will be uneven, the house may collapse over time. It will be impossible to fix these problems after the construction is completed.


Walls: configuration, material selection

In order to reduce the cost of construction, many choose the cheapest materials for walling. It is worth noting that you can not choose cheap and low-quality materials. Analyze all the available and affordable options and make the choice in favor of the most optimal.

In a forested area, wood will be the most optimal material in terms of price-quality ratio. In the steppe zone - this is adobe. In places where there is a lot of natural stone, limestone-shell rock is considered the cheapest material.


If all the proposed options do not fit, you can build a house from aerated concrete with your own hands. When choosing building materials for the home, do not forget to consider their cost, delivery and installation in the estimate.Also, be sure to take into account the speed of laying materials, lightness and simplicity.

Frame house

A house of this type is being built from 14 days to several months. The speed of construction directly depends on whether the owner of the home decided to build a house or a team of specialists is engaged in this. Having decided to build a frame house with your own hands, you can be sure that it will last more than 70 years (such is the life of such buildings).

After all the supporting structures are installed, it is the turn of the next stage - wall sheathing with materials for decoration. On the walls you can mount any option for facing the facade: block house, siding, cassette panels. When cladding with additional materials, the design gains greater strength. Weight does not increase much.

Necessary communications

The necessary communications include: water supply, heating, electricity. To heat the house, you can use a gas boiler. Thanks to him, in winter you can significantly reduce the cost of heating your home.

If funds allow, you can immediately make a warm floor during construction (we all know that heat goes from top to bottom) - mount the plastic pipes into the floor, and pour concrete screed on top. This way you can heat the whole house. An alternative to such a warm floor can be solar energy, which will not allow you to freeze even on cold winter nights.


The sewer system must be laid before finishing and pouring the floor. In the same way, it is necessary to lay a water supply system before the completion of these works. It is necessary to indicate in advance where the rooms and household appliances for which drainage is necessary will be located. All pipes must be laid in accordance with the declared schemes.

If the central system is not available to you, you can dig a well or a well. Unfortunately, these are not very cheap options.

Floor and roof arrangement

As soon as all work on installation of the necessary communications is completed, you can begin to fill the floor with a concrete screed. You can cover the floor with any material. Ideal for this: laminate, linoleum, tile and others. Tile is one of the most practical and sustainable materials.


Once the walls are erected, the floor is laid, you can make a roof. If you decide to build a two-story house, use concrete slabs as a ceiling. The first step in erecting a roof will be the installation of a facing grille (beams are used for this).

Next, cover them with one of the following materials - slate, metal, corrugated board or ondulin. Regardless of which material you prefer, the roof must be insulated with glass wool (the cheapest and most affordable material).

We hope you understand how to quickly build a house with your own hands and at the same time not very expensive for money.

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Daria

My spouse and I had such an idea, but after we calculated the financial investments, it somehow disappeared by itself. This in fact is very expensive. Therefore, we decided so far to live in our house, and gradually be built nearby on the site. Let it take more than one year, but at the same time the amount can be divided into several times. If there is money - order, no - wait for a salary.

Ivan

When tired of city noise and bustle, I want to retire and breathe fresh air, it would be useful to have a house somewhere far from the city.
This is a great idea - to build a house with your own hands, undoubtedly the work is very expensive and time-consuming, but I am sure that the result is worth it. I love building, and creating a home for my family, putting my soul into it, I would only be in joy.

Oleg

Thanks for the helpful tip article! My wife and I think about our own home, so I’m looking for any information. Here, by the way, I found several ideas for the future home :)
Has anyone heard of tiny house? How suitable are such houses for living? I think that this option is very suitable for those who do not need a large area or those who are short of money. Perhaps such a house will have to be built.

aleksei

All the time I was thinking about my small but cozy house in the private sector. But to build by hiring a company is very expensive. I saved up money for the material and decided to build it myself, especially since I have a building education and experience in this matter. I found this article on the Internet and learned a lot of useful information. It turns out inexpensively and quickly. The main thing is to decide which house you want. All these tips and ideas were very useful to me.