The boom of frame-panel housing construction in Russia was provided by several factors at once:
- their ubiquity in the West, even in areas where the climate is by no means mild;
- low construction and material costs;
- absolute ease of assembly;
- panel house does not require a massive foundation, which, as you know, is at least a third of the total amount of cash costs, and the construction process of which is very laborious.
The essence of such a building is simple: it is a wooden frame built using boards 4-5 cm thick and 10-15 cm wide. These boards, fastened together in the form of high quadrangles, are sheathed on both sides with materials of different nature and strength.
The production of panel houses has adopted the following standards: the inner lining is made with gypsum fiber boards, and the outer side is made of OSB boards, usually 9 mm thick.
Since the principle of building such housing is quite simple, frame country houses are very popular and widespread.
In our country, the opinion thata solid warm house should have a large wall thickness. However, it is frame construction that proves that this is far from the case. Modern heaters are able to maintain the optimal temperature inside the room as much as possible. Additional covering materials, such as vapor permeable membranes, windproof insulators, moisture resistant coatings, help make such a house quite comfortable for winter living.
The cost of frame-panel construction is almost one and a half times lower than that of wood. The heating costs of such housing differ several times.
The peculiarity of the winter performance of these houses is that if the usual version provides for a wall thickness of 10-15 cm, then with the help of external and internal insulation it is possible to ensure that the panel house will be suitable for living even in harsh northern regions.
For example, the climate of Alaska is not at all mild, but the vast majority of residential buildings there are built using frame technology.
The choice of insulation in the modern construction business is very wide. Both traditional glass wool (and modifications based on it: Izover, Knauf, mineral wool boards, etc.), as well as expanded polystyrene (high-density foam), and filling materials can serve as such.
You can lay any of them in the panel board country houses. Another question is how environmentally friendly all this is, but here the choice is up to the owner.
Another feature of these houses is that it is recommended to build them in winter. The point here is thatin the cold season, the quality of wood is much higher. If you start building a panel house traditionally with the onset of warm weather, then there will be doubts whether the wood that you have chosen is really harvested in winter. For not every manufacturer is ready to store it for six months, despite all the assurances on his part to the contrary.
For interior and exterior decoration, the panel house is exceptionally favorable. Its flat-surfaced walls allow for the vast majority of modern materials.
