Women's Wood House Replacement Technology

A tree as a building material has, undoubtedly, many advantages. However, the peculiarity of the tree is that with time it can rot. As a rule, the lower, mortgage crowns in a wooden house are most often affected. This may be associated with improper operation of the house, deformation, poorly performed by waterproofing. In addition, the lower part of the construction is experiencing the greatest load, therefore it becomes unusable faster. Replacing the rotten crowns is a difficult job. However, if all rules are met, it is quite possible, but provided that you own certain construction skills.

The scheme of raising the house above the foundation and replacement of the crown.

Replacing the Wooden Houses

In the work on replacing the rotten crown, you will need the following materials and tools:

• Wooden boards;
• Sealer (Jute or Pakle);
• antiseptic for wood;
• Waterproofing material - ruberoid;
• 4 hydraulic jacks;
• chisel;
• chainsaw;
• sledgehammer;
• ax;
• electric drill;
• saw;
• plane.

Change the crown of a wooden house in several ways.

It often happens that the crown rotted partially, that is, only his part suffered. In this case, resort to the simplest way - replacing the rotten area.

At the same time, the procedure will look like this:

Tools for replacing the crowns.

1. Accurately determine the rotten area.
2. Using the chisel, find out how deeply drove the tree, detect it from both edges.
3. From each side of the rotten area, retreat 40 cm.
4. Install the screeds with a height of 2-3 crowns. Fall to a cut outside and inside the boards with a thickness of 40 mm. In the first and last tighable crown, make holes. Insert the scrolls of the studs with a diameter of at least 12 mm.
5. The rotten area is cut by chainsaw.
6. Make a width of 20 cm wide for reliable fixation with a new insert.
7. The insert from the tree makes such a diameter and the length as the dismantled area. Do not forget to make feedback on a new insert.
8. Install the insert to the location of the remote segment. So that it firmly stood in place, use a sledgehammer, putting a bar for it.
9. In place with wrinkles of 20 cm, drill through holes of 3 from 2 sides and led them in them to fasten the old tree and insert.
10. Clauses need to carefully cross. To do this, you can use jute or pass.

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This method does not require much strength and time, but the integrity of the log is disturbed.

Repair of the wandes of the house with the use of jack

For high-quality and thorough repair of the lower crowns, the jack will be needed. It is easier to work with a bar base. In this case, there are bases for the jack (for this you can use a concrete block, shield from boards 50x50). Note that the oven or fireplace must be installed on a separate foundation. But before raising the house, it is necessary to prepare very carefully:

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1. Remove the window frames and door boxes, draw all the furniture.
2. The chimney must be separated from the ceiling and roof, otherwise there is a risk that he can damage them with its weight.
3. Paul separated from the walls. If it is embedded in the lower crown and you do not need to change it, then you can leave it. Otherwise, the floor must be disassembled, set the support columns under the lags and separate them from the crown.
4. Those the crowns that you will not change well, make a 40 mm thick boards. He retreating 50 cm from the corner of the structure, pin them in a vertical position to the cut. The bottom edge of the boards lock into the lowest crown of those that will not change. Upper edge fasten in the upper crown. Boards are attached from the inside and outside. The upper and lower edge fasten through the heads.

After completing all the preparatory activities, you can start the rise of the house.

Repair of rotted logs in the house on the foundation

First you need to prepare a place under the jack. He must continue to the top-free crown. To do this, in the lower logs that will change, you need to cut the segment for installing the jack. After that, measure the height of the jack with an elevated rod and lowered and compare it with a height from the ground to the bar, to which the jack will be left. Sometimes it has to pull out the substru. Then under the jack prepare a reliable basis. All you will need 4 jacks. It should be installed by retreating from the angle of the structure of 80-100 cm.

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Repair of the crowns in the house on the belt base

1. In the logs that you are going to replace, you need to cut down the deepening to start the lever there (they can serve a log, channel). Inside the floor you need to disassemble.
2. Jacks put outside as close to the foundation at home.
3. Put the lever in the drank deepening and put the internal end to its inner end - the concrete block.
4. Place the lever from the outdoor side to put on the jack.
5. Thanks to the jack, the lever will rise, and with it and the building. At this point, substitute the wedges between the foundation and the raised home.
6. Perform the repair of the crowns. Note that using the levers, each side you need to lift alternately.
7. After repairing the logs, the deepening through which the lever started, it will be necessary to close.

Make sure that the rise of the house on the jacks occur evenly.

After completing all the work, do not forget to treat the crowns, it will allow to extend the service life and maintain the appearance of the wood. To do this, use an antiseptic for wood and insect agents. In addition, be sure to take care of the high-quality waterproofing of the lower crowns. To do this, lay 3 layers of rubberoid treated with bitumen mastic. And only after that laid the first mortgage crown.

Repair the crowns of a wooden house is a rather time consuming and responsible work.

Therefore, with the slightest doubts it is desirable to enlist the support of professionals. It is desirable to carry out work in dry weather. Competently performed repair of rotten logs will allow the house to simultane even for a long time, raising the strength and reliability of the whole design.