If you have been living in a house for many years, and the outer shell of the facade is dilapidated, then you first have to choose the material for its sheathing, and then complete the installation work. There are many materials for cladding buildings: lining, brick, clinker thermal panels, natural stone, siding and others. In this article we will talk about how to sheathe a house with siding with your own hands, but first let's talk about why you should choose this particular cladding material.
Benefits
- Vinyl siding is cheap and comes in many colors.
- Its installation is quite simple, it can be mounted on the old skin.
- Weather resistant material.
- Service life up to 50 years, during this time does not require painting and repair.
- Withstands temperatures from -60°C to +60°C.
- After installation, it does not require special care, just rinse with a jet of water.
Calculation
To finish the sidingwith my own hands passed without loss of material, it is necessary to make a calculation by calculating the area of \u200b\u200bone panel. To do this, multiply its length by its width. And in order to find out the required amount of siding for the entire cladding, we first find out the area of \u200b\u200bthe walls of the house, and then divide the resulting value by the quadrature of one panel. From the result we subtract the area of windows and doors.
Preparatory work
Before sheathing a house with siding with your own hands, you need to take a number of actions: remove trim, shutters, external window sills, drainpipes, decorative elements that decorate the house, as well as carefully examine the old cladding and, if there are rotten places or curly plants, remove them. Cracks are filled with mounting foam.
Crate and insulation
For the frame we use a profile (galvanized), which we fix vertically with suspensions at a distance of 0.3-0.4 m from each other. And on the top and bottom of the wall it should be fixed horizontally. Using a plumb line and level, we set the profile, strengthen several cords and install the entire crate along them. If the house is wooden, and you want to insulate the walls, then waterproofing should be done, which must be fixed under the frame. To do this, we use vapor-tight moisture-proof membranes. The insulation is attached to the crate, and the film is on top (on the profile). To do this, you need to make a counter-lattice from the bars, which we fix with self-tapping screws on the profile.
Installation
Let's move on to the answer to the question "how to sheathe a housedo-it-yourself siding". To do this, we will install the fittings, but before that we will consider the nuances of installing the facing material:
- when heated, the siding expands, so a gap of 5-6 mm must be left between the panels;
- so that a gap does not appear in winter, installation is carried out with an overlap (up to 2 cm);
- if the cladding of the house is carried out in the cold season, then the gaps should be left up to 12 mm;
- in order for the fittings to move, the screws cannot be tightened to the limit (a gap of up to 2 mm), they are also installed in the middle of the fasteners (otherwise waves will appear on the facade in the heat, and cracks in winter).
How to decorate a house with siding with your own hands?
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how to sheathe a house with siding Install vertical elements, corners and profiles. To do this, we fix the upper point with a self-tapping screw, then fasten the rest. Fittings are mounted at a distance of 0.25 m from each other. When joining the corners at the lower element, we cut off the cheek (2.5 cm) and make a 2 cm overlap on the upper part, while leaving a gap of 5-6 mm behind.
- We fasten the starting bars, and check the correctness of their installation with a level and a rope. We also install with gaps.
- Fix the near-window strips with a finishing rail.
- We proceed to install the panels from the bottom from the starting strip, after that we mount the second strip, while not forgetting to make gaps, and also do not tighten the self-tapping screws (by 1-2 mm), since all panels must be installed freely.
- If the width of the panels is slightly less than the width of the wall, thenit is necessary to increase them in length, for this we fasten the docking profile on the wall parallel to one of the corners of the house.
- You can build up and overlap, then each subsequent panel overlaps the previous one by 2-3 cm, and place the joints in a checkerboard pattern.
- In the narrow openings of the panel we do not nail (from above) in order not to complicate the installation of the next strip (in this case, the previous siding is bent), and then we fix it.
- When overlapping, insert the locking part of the installed panel (it has holes) into the longitudinal edge (it is bent) of the lower (attached) strip and only after that screw the upper one with self-tapping screws.
Conclusion
In this publication, we tried to answer the question: "How to sheathe a house with siding with your own hands?" If you follow the above tips and understand all the nuances, then wall cladding at home will be easy.
