The house

Standing before a choice, to live in a dusty or noisy city or in a small country cottage, most will agree, of course, on the second option. That's why every year more and becomes cottage villages, and private houses, built from a huge variety of existing building materials: brick, tuff, monolithic construction, American, etc.

In this list there is no adobe - the most inexpensive and practical building material that can be used for building both large architectural forms and small ones, in case a person wants to build his house with molded forms of walls, windows, bumps and niches.

The history of this type of construction goes back thousands of years. The house was built by the Assyrians and Persians, and today this material has to regain its positions again.

Saman, which is essentially a mixture of clay, water, earth, sand and straw, has not been used for a long time, replaced by more solid materials and perfect technologies. But there are times when some people get an adobe from their ancestors, and heirs should rationally use it as a basis for arranging a suburban comfortable home, in which it will be convenient and not ashamed to live.

Residents of such buildings know perfectly well how warm and dry they are in, while the adobe house does not need to be heated very much in winter, in the summer, on hot days in it people will find the desired coolness.

And since adobe is one of the cheapest and ecologically clean building materials available to everyone, it is quite understandable why today in the villages it gradually begins to wake up to it again.

Let's try to figure out how to build a rural house from adobe by the technology of our ancestors.

This building material has one significant drawback: not everyone will want to manually knead the solution from straw with clay, then form bricks from it, and then wait for their final drying. Only this preparation process can last for several months. Therefore, it is unlikely that anyone will undertake to build their home for a full-fledged stay, but here's a dacha or a small building on their site some will take a chance.

After all, with its appearance, a funny adobe house can decorate any landscape, its coloring and already pretty half-forgotten coziness reminding the environment of the episodes from the old movie.

Its rounded forms, without any strict straight lines and sharp corners help to calm nerves and have a family quiet rest.

They say that in such a house the residents will have a restful sleep, they will have an excellent digestion, and a fireplace, built of the same material, will complement this idyllic picture.

So, having formed bricks of the right sizes from an adobe, it is possible to proceed already to the basic actions. Depending on the desire and functionality of the building, the thickness of the walls is chosen , in order to then develop a design of the house, "tied" to the terrain and taking into account all the specific conditions of the area. In a word, you need to determine the materials and construction of the foundation, walls, socle, and also to develop the protection of the structure from groundwater and atmospheric water.

With issues of sex, ceiling, partitions and roofing all more or less clear, because they are almost the same for all houses, but the thickness of the walls of the samannic house directly depends on the winter temperature changes in the environment. Since, for example, in the European part of our country it is an average temperature of minus 30 ° C, in these places the houses made of adobe are built with external walls of half a meter in thickness, while not forgetting to take all sorts of warming measures, for example, keeping masonry with air gaps or warming Walls from inside the premises.

Having established a good roof, the owner can not doubt that his adobe house will last at least half a century, of course, if he observed all the technologies.