Window platbands for a wooden house (and not only)

The appearance of the house depends largely on how the windows are decorated. They are emphasized, and sometimes, and form the style of the building. And the main way to give it character - platbands on the windows. That's what they are talking further.

Purpose and classification

Tubes are narrow long planks that frame windows or doors. This principle distinguish window and door. They are usually different in width, but, to maintain a single style, must be made of one material. In addition, they are made in a similar manner using repeating elements and painting in one color.

Window platbands for a wooden house (and not only)

On houses in a modern style carved platbands on the windows look good

Door and window platbands serve not only to give the building / premises of the finished species, although this is also important. They also close the technological slot, which is formed between the door frame or window and the wall. This slit after installing windows and doors is filled with insulation, but the view from this does not get better, and water, dust and sound continue to penetrate the room, albeit in less. So came up with the planets' gap to once, and even decorate them.

Tubes on the windows: one of the classic options with shutters

At the place of installation, the platbands are outdoor and internal. A protective role is played mainly by platbands for outdoor installation. Therefore, they are made from the materials resistant to climatic factors (or cover them with protective compositions) and the thickness of this material is usually greater. Internal platbands are mainly performing decorative function. They are operated in sparing conditions, because the requirements for the properties of the material others are decorative, and not resistance to climatic influences.

Materials from which platbands are made on the windows

Window platbands are selected depending on the overall style of housekeeping. At home build and separate in different ways, respectively, the materials and style of additional decorative elements are selected different. To brick houses, for example, plastic or metal is suitable, but not a tree (this is if the platbands are generally). Windows on houses decorated with siding are also made up with plastic or metal. For the wooden, on the contrary, it is more like wood. But this is not a rule. Choosing platbands is a personal matter of the owner. What you want, such and put. It is only important to understand all the pros and cons of each material.

Wood

Wooden platbands are most often made of wood. But any breed of wood requires constant care - painting and / or varnishing. Once every two or three years have to update the coating. Only in this case, the products from it look normally for many years.

Wooden platbands on the windows make a long time ago.

Plus wooden window platbands in the fact that they can be carved, with curly elements of various shapes. This gives an almost infinite number of options. There are completely simple models - ordinary bar, possibly with some additional elements. The choice depends on the style of the house.

Wooden platbands are used, both from the street and indoors. Just when installing, different protective impregnations and coloring compositions are used.

Plastic

If the PVC windows were installed in the house, then the platbands also put plastic. They are good because the whole care is periodic wiping from dust and dirt. No other operations are needed.

Plastic plastic platbands are made from plastic climatic factors by adding a dye, resistant to burnout. Mass add components that protect the material from elevated and reduced temperatures.

Plastic windows makes sense to put plastic platbands

The plus of plastic platbands is their low price. Minus - a limited selection of models and styles, not too large color gamut. In stock It is usually white, a pair of brown shades. The rest - can only be available under the order, and it is not always. And one more minus is still an artificial material. To put plastic platbands on a wooden house will not everyone wants. Even despite the fact that wooden is completely silent.

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The area of using plastic platbands is indoors or on the street. If you need outdoor plastic platbands, pay attention to the temperature mode of operation. Plastic must withstand the most cruel in your frost region.

MDF

MDF platbands - option for indoor use. It will not put it on the street - quickly will be unusable. It is compressed chopped fibers of wood, of which products are molded. The surface is laminated by a film that can be smooth, colored, mimic the surface of the stone (marble, for example) or wood.

MDF platbands are used only for design windows and doors inside, indoors.

If you do not taste plastic on the windows, the second possible budget option is platbands from MDF. In any case, they are most often put on the doors. There are even special models - telescopic. They are good because the special chalkboard is cut into the desired size, due to which they can change the width and become in any opening. With their help, the doorway is drawn up quickly and efficiently.

Cash care MDF is not harder than plastic - wet womb. With strong contaminants, it is possible to use non-abrasive (liquid) and non-aggressive (without choir, etc.) detergents.

Metal platbands

This type of platbands usually put on the street with plastic or metal-plastic windows. This is a slim galvanized metal sheet covered with paint, resistant to the effects of climatic factors (usually powder paint).

Metal platbands, mostly put on brick houses

Metal platbands on windows belong to the discharge of budget. They are not very much. Suitable for private houses decorated in modern style. Metal platbands with houses decorated with metal and aluminum front panels are perfectly combined. Second scope - for production and office space. They are good because they combine practicality, durability, low price.

Construction device

Classic platbands on the windows consist of four elements: upper and lower strapping, two side planks. They can be connected using a single spike (as in the figure). Online can be connected, since they do not carry any load. In this case, just tightly customize the planks one to another, fixing each element separately.

Classic version of four parts

If the window provides for the presence of a window sill, the need for lower strapping disappears. When installing, the windowsill are fixed, then the side strips and the last - the upper strapping.

If there is a windowsill

The width of the platbands is selected each time individually, but is usually within -100-250 mm. When choosing a width, proceed from two technical parameters:

The platband must enter the frame at least 5-10 mm;
In order not to interfere with opening windows, they must retreat from loops by 10-20 mm (the further, the wider the flaps open).

Finally width is chosen based on the style of the house. Somewhere else will fit narrow strips - 100-130 mm wide, somewhere they will need wide - 200-250 mm. In order not to make a mistake, you can "try on" the planks, jogging them on a couple of nails and look from afar, which of the options like more.

Classic wooden platband device on windows

The thickness of the planks for the manufacture of platbands is 20-35 mm. In most cases, a board of 20-25 mm thick is used, as this is the optimal size for self-performance - is not too hard in processing, but rather volume to obtain a decorative vila.

Platbands in a wooden house

Most questions occur when designing windows in a wooden house. Most inclined to the fact that only wood trims are suitable for a wooden house. This has its own reason - a tree with a tree looks most organically. But choose the material - not everything in this case. There are several important points for which you need to pay attention to:

Wooden house constantly changes the size. Even after the main shrinkage, he has seasonal movements. Font windows on windows and doors need to be tailored to this phenomenon.
Houses from the log - rounded and no - have an uneven surface. With independent mounting of the platbands on the window, this also raises questions.

How to fix the platband on the window correctly so that there are no problems during operation
In a wooden house, when installing platters, it is necessary to think that the water does not register into the gaps to compensate for the shrinkage. For this there are certain solutions and they also need to know about them.

So choosing the appearance of platbands is far from the last, of those who have to decide. You also need to choose a way of wood processing, installation method, and the type of platband too.

Types of wooden platforms

Wood - extremely plastic and very beautiful material, because the number of variations of platbands to strive for infinity ... All of them can be divided into several species: simple and carved. Simple perfectly look at the houses in the modern style, the carving is good for the buildings of the ethnic direction.

Wooden platbands are good at homes of any style.

Simple on the form of a mold

Industry and private traders sell planks of various sections:

smooth (with chamfer and without),
with rounded edges
with a rounded surface (radius),
Figured.

Molding can be used to make plaque

From this handle, you can make simple platforms with your own hands. To do this, it is necessary to calculate the amount of the required material (according to the results of wind measurements). At the same time it is necessary to consider that the length of one plank is 220 cm. Do composite elements you are unlikely to be, therefore it is worth considering that the trimming will be much. The most successful case, if two elements are able to "carve" from one bar - usually the sidewall and the upper / lower part.

Two versions of window platbands

The planks are joined in two ways - at 90 ° and gender 45 °. The view of the platbands is different. When docking, the floor of 45 ° turns out a neat frame, we are docked at 90 ° - more expressive design. The protruding edges can be left straight, you can cut off at any angle, rounding, figurine to cut ... it's already like more like that or something will enough skill, desire, fantasy.

The simplest homemade plates

The option differs from the fact that the primary processing is carried out independently. Suitable and unedged boards. From the edged, a modest finish for the country house or for the house of planed / glued bar is obtained. The board is grinding first with coarse emery paper, then more and more thin. When the surface becomes smooth and smooth, you can start to clarity.

Nothing difficult - only well-processed boards

From the unedged boards, the bark is removed, the surface is also grinding. There are options here. You can achieve smoothness, removing flaws. It is only possible to remove the upper grungy layer, leaving it the imperfection of wood and in the future, just emphasize it during processing.

Carved plants

Openwork wooden platbands on the windows - a beautiful, but expensive option. Dear - if you order their execution, and time-consuming, if you do it yourself. There is, however, simple, but spectacular patterns that, in the presence of an electric bike and desire, can be made independently.

The fundamental difference between the rubber and overbirds

There are two types of openwork platbands - with slit and overhead elements. The slit is when the holes in the platbands are done through and the wall is visible through them. Overhead is when the window is decorated with conventional plackets, and elements of slit thread or decorative speakers (lining in the form of rhombuses, rectangles, etc.) are fixed on top of them.

These are the options for overhead with more complex carved elements.

In the case of overhead elements, contrasting colors often use. For example, the planks are painted in a dark color, and the openwork is in bright. But this trick easily passes only at the installation stage - you can separately paint both parts. Subsequently, it is accurately, a thin brush to apply different colors.

How and what to fix platbands in a wooden house

In the brusade or log house, the windows and doors are put on the cluster - a special framing of the opening of wood, which is not fixed hard with the walls, and keeps the friction force in the type of comb / groove lock. Make a squat from a thick wooden bar. The windows frame or door is attached to the cock. When installing platbands, they are also attached to the bulk. Since there is no load on them, then the planks are usually fixed on both sides, retreating 10-15 cm from the edge.

Fasteners can be used in two types:

Finish nails. They almost do not have hats, there are different colors, so you can find such that they can not be seen.

In order not to spoil such beauty, it is better to use the wanks or finish nails
Sucks. These are small wooden cylinders, which drill the appropriate hole. For the invisible attachment of the platbands on a wooden house, "Deaf Sucks" is used. Under them from the wrong side, the bar drill holes that do not pass through. The hole remains "deaf". For example, with a thickness of the board 20 mm, the depth of the opening is not more than 15 mm. The response hole is thrilled in the library. Its depth is such that the wanking was completely recessed. The wanks are lubricated with glue, insert into the hole in the wall and "put on" part of the platband.

The fastening on the wrenches is more laborious, but it is absolutely not visible. If this process is too complicated, use finish nails.

How to fix platbands to a log wall

When installing platbands on Ohm, there are no problems with a bar: the surface is smooth, it is easy to fix it. If the log house is composed of logs, everything is more complicated. There are two options:

To nail the bars to the bulk, which will make the platbands beyond the walls. The gaps formed from the sides are filled with mounting foam, after the polymerization it is cut, close with putty. Color It is desirable to pick up in the tone of the walls. For more reliable sealing, the foam can be passed with silicone sealant (look at the temperature range so that the sealant takes the frost). If you don't like the idea of using foam on the wood, you can leg it, after which it is again putting out putty.

That's what it is about. This is placked
On the perimeter, the log window is jealous, almost aligning the wall of the wall width of 30-35 cm. The speakes are treated, the dock can be mounted. It is not always possible to align the wall "at all". More often it becomes not such a "wavy". The remaining gaps in this case are close in one of the described methods.

Still the gaps remain to seal

Which method choose is your solution. Both are viable and both are not perfect - it is difficult to ensure tightness.

How to prevent the moisture of moisture under the platbands

Ensuring tightness is the main concern when installing platbands on a wooden house. Most questions arise about how to prevent the depriction of moisture under the top bar. Water, staining along the wall, inevitably falls into the gap between the platband and the wall. There are several options for solving the problem, mostly traditional, but using new materials.

Such beauty should be preserved

Tubes with wooden "visor"

Such platforms are also called "Finnish", since almost all at home in Finland are framed in this way. In addition to the traditional four planks, there are still an additional inclined visor, which support consoles, resting in the side planks. The angle of inclination of the bar is preferably choosing the same as the angle of inclination of the roof or close to it. Although a minor detail, but it looks more organic.

Trump cards in Finnish style

When installing, under the visor in a log or bar, you can do a few millimeters, "drown" there is the edge of the visor, close the remaining gap from below and on top of the sealant (silicone, resistant to frosts, with adhesion to the wood).

All are good Finnish platbands, but with carvings they combine weakly. Style is not the one. They are remarkably suitable for simpler, laconic design. Although there are similar options and in Russian style, just to make them very difficult.

Metal visor

In the same principle - to take water from the platbands - solves the task this method. Only the metal bar is used in the form of the letter Z - part of the standard lowbow. Color is selected into the tone with walls or with color of cash.

You can use a metal visor

The method of installation is the same: they do it in the wall, only the size of it is much smaller - the thickness of the plank is several millimeters. The installation is the same as described earlier: one part we get into the groove, close the slit silicone sealant. The only difference is that the free edge can be consolidated to the top plank of the platbands (with the help of self-sufficiency).

Installing the bottom strapping at an angle

The bottom layer of the platband washes at the same time serve protection against precipitation. It is installed at an angle for this. The choice of angle of inclination is no different - close to the corner of the roof.

Having installed the lower bar at an angle. solve the problem of precipitation

With the installation of this plank, everything is simple. It supports triangles embroidered on a logberry cut from wood. Water will not flush along the wall, but at some distance from it. It is already important to correctly make the wastewater from home correctly - so that the water does not wash the foundation.