How to properly seal strobes: features and recommendations

In order to ensure that the premises of the house look neat and attractive, all lines and lines of communication systems necessary for comfortable living are usually laid inside the walls. For the installation of electrical networks, water pipes and heating pipes in the latter are pre-sold long channels - shtroby. In this case, special tools are used, for example, the Bulgarian. At the final stage, after the laying of the line, stump embedding is performed. Of course, this procedure should be carried out correctly. Otherwise, the walls in the future will look messy.

Why Strokes can be performed

Most channels in the walls are sold during electrical wiring. Water pipes and boiler mains are usually started from the outside. This provides easy access when you need to repair them. However, sometimes such lines are laid inside the walls.

Shtroblenie for communication systems can be made in any building material: concrete, brick, foam blocks. In the cobbled or chopped houses, the wiring is usually started from the outside. After all, the material is highly flammable. Stroblenie in this case is mainly made only for sockets.

Gouging technology

Actually, the procedure itself for making a channel for electrical wiring or pipes is technologically simple. However, this work is usually laborious and dirty. Before shtrobleniem it is recommended to cover all furniture and floors with a cloth, a film or a paper. Dust during channeling usually happens very much. It is recommended that the respirator be worn by the master who performs stinging.

As a tool for laying a channel, the Bulgar is usually used. Also, masters often use a special device - shtroborez. Previously, two parallel grooves are cut in the wall, the distance between which must be equal to the necessary width of the channel. Further, the wall material between the slots is simply knocked out by the perforator.

After laying the wiring or pipes, they begin to seal the strobes. This operation is also performed using special devices.

Cost of shtrobleniya and sealing

Very often owners of houses and apartments mount hidden wiring or pipes themselves. However, sometimes it is more expedient to hire specialists for this purpose. The works on channeling under wires or heating mains are relatively inexpensive. The same applies to the sealing of the strob. The price of similar work in the complex depends on the width of the channel and its length. One running meter of strobis 20x20 mm, for example, costs about 150 r, 60x60 mm - 300 r, 100x100 mm - 700 r.

That's about this cost and should be guided, deciding to instruct the experts such an operation as the execution and sealing strob. The estimate in this case is usually made without taking into account the material of the walls. And in the concrete, and in the foam block, and in the brick, the stitches are cut and closed using the same technology.

What tools and materials will be needed?

Thus, the rates for embedding the strob (and their selling) are relatively small. But to do this work independently, of course, will cost even less. In concrete, foam blocks and brick, stitches are often sealed with cement. But if desired, you can use for this purpose and putty, rotband, etc. Sometimes the channels are closed and using alabaster. However, to use this material, experienced masters are advised only as a last resort. The fact that the alabaster when dried, can significantly increase in volume. As a result, the walls of the canal can be simply destroyed.

Shtroby for sockets in a tree is usually corrected by a special mixture consisting of sawdust and glue PVA or paint.

As tools for the termination of the channel are used:

• putty knife;
• Bucket and scoop;
• Punch.

How to close a channel in concrete or brick

In such walls the embankment is stitched most often with the use of cement mortar. Prepare it on the basis of coarse sand in a proportion of 1: 3. You can also buy a ready-made cement mix, intended for laying walls or pouring foundations. The dry building composition is covered in a bucket and filled with water. The amount of the latter is calculated on the basis that the finished mixture must have a sufficiently thick consistency. Check the correctness of the solution can be a simple trowel. They need to pick up some of the mixture and turn it over. Ready solution should not fall down.

For plasticity, a little lime can be added to the mixture. Actually, the seal itself in the wall is made with a spatula. On this tool, a little mixture is collected, and then it is applied to the strob, trying to fill the last without voids. Each portion of the solution is carefully leveled over the wall surface, moving the spatula along the channel and across it.

After the solution dries (about 24 hours), the surface of the embedded channel is peeled with a large emery. Further the area is further leveled with the help of finishing putty. In the next stage, you can proceed, in fact, to the decoration of the walls.

The procedure for using the putty will be exactly the same. The mixture is first diluted with water, according to the manufacturer's instructions. Next, with its help, carefully closed stroba. The finishing material in this case can not be used.

Socket for a wall outlet in a wooden wall

Here, in such a way, a strobing is performed in concrete or brick walls. The price per meter of work in this case, as already mentioned, is relatively small. Installation of concealed wiring in a wooden house is an operation much more complicated and expensive.

Wires in a chopped or paved house can only be stretched by an open method. That is, they can not be hidden in the walls. So prescribes safety. Hides the wires in this case in special ways (for example, by passing them through the overlapping).

A concealed installation of an outlet in a wooden wall is only possible in one case. Its installation must be carried out using a special technology that ensures safety. First, the nest is stroke in a log or bursa. Then it inserts a thick metal podrozetnik. Further channels under the metal tubes for wiring are drilled.

Stroking with any formulations in this case is not required. A recessed socket usually looks quite aesthetic in itself. However, sometimes it happens that there are ugly cracks around the podzrownette. In this case, the situation can be remedied with the help of a special compound prepared using sawdust.

Recommendations: how to prepare wood shpaklevku

It is not difficult to make such a lubricating material yourself. To do this, you need to prepare small sawdust (you can take the same ones that were left after the stinging) and glue PVA. It is also possible to use an epoxy as a binder. If desired, of course, you can buy in the store and a ready-made mix for the tree.

A putty is prepared for chopped or brushed walls by simply mixing sawdust and glue. The finished product must have a consistency of sour cream. When preparing putty, glue must be poured into sawdust, and not vice versa.