Construction of any house can be considered incomplete, until its external facing is performed. This is a very important stage in the process of building the building, because the decoration of the facade of the house is performed not only for decorative purposes.
All facade material is the protection of the building walls from aggressive street factors - rain, snow, wind, heat and frost can very quickly destroy even the strongest concrete. It is for this reason that the finishing of the facade is not the last role.
Facade materials
There are many ways to finish the facades, which are designed not only to protect the walls of the building from weather disasters, but also to give the house a very attractive appearance. These technologies are so different that sometimes one can even question the appropriateness of using some of them - but this is only at first glance so, but in fact, all of them successfully cope with the tasks assigned to them.
A key role in any technology is played by materials for finishing the facades - they determine the whole process of facing the building. Today, three main areas of facing are used in construction: all sorts of facade panels, plasters and tiles, or stone. It is these options for finishing the facade of the house not only guarantee it will decorate it, but will also serve as a full-fledged protection against natural aggressors. We will discuss them in more detail.
Finishing the facades of the house with plaster
Facade panels
Decorative finishing of the facades with panels is the most common in the capital and private construction - there are a lot of varieties of these panels. The main, often used facade panels include siding, aluminum composite panels and fiber cement siding - all of these materials have a similar mounting technology. And most importantly, with their help you can imitate almost any structure of natural materials.
Finishing the front of the house with panels gives many advantages - in addition to being a good protection for the walls of the building, they also perform the function of a heater in passing. An important advantage of the panels is a quick installation - assembled according to the principle of the designer, this material makes it possible to coat the house in the shortest possible time.
These advantages some home owners use not for very good purposes. The fact is that the facade panels quite easily and cheaply hide all the problem places in the building. For example, before selling a house in this way, you can mask even the deep cracks in the walls that appeared during the shrinkage of the building due to a lack of solid foundation - facade siding is one of the common ways to hide such defects.
Facade panels photo
An interesting option for finishing facades are fiber cement panels - this is a relatively new building material based on nanotechnology. This decoration of the facade of a private house looks pretty impressive - this way you can simulate the structure of almost any kind of natural stone and wood. They are shields about the size of about half a meter, which are attached to a metal frame. The only drawback of fibreous cement siding is its cost - low it by definition simply can not be. The fact that it is made exclusively in the Land of the Rising Sun - the use of nanotechnology and delivery from overseas affect its value not in the smaller direction.
But aluminum composite panels in private construction are practically not used - they are widely used for finishing commercial buildings. Quite often they can be found on the facades of shops and office buildings.
Finishing of facades with panels
Finishing of facades with plaster
Finishing of facades with decorative plaster today is the most common in the construction of private houses. For the most part this popularity of this type of facade decoration is due to its versatility and some features:
- First, there are no restrictions in the color scheme - to paint the house, lined with decorative plaster, you can almost any color. Recently, even the color painting of such facades has been practiced.
- Secondly, their cost. Decorative plasters are one of the cheapest ways to give the facade of the building an attractive appearance.
- Well, thirdly, this is the possibility of their own application.
Finishing of facades with plaster
Modern industry today produces a wide range of all kinds of plasters for the facade. The most popular of them is pebble and "bark beetle".It is they that enable the master to carry out a creative approach to solving the facade problem.
Decorating with bark beetle at one time occupied the leading position among all types of facade plasters, but after a while its popularity declined. The fact is that the structure of this coating is based on all sorts of small pits, which in the process of exploitation are sufficiently clogged with mud. And to wash them, as you understand yourself, is quite difficult.
Unlike bark beetle, pebble plaster does not have this disadvantage - a practically even texture does not allow dirt to be stuffed into small structural patterns. The pebble decorative plaster is applied almost in the same way as the bark beetle.
Plaster facades photo
Finishing the facade with natural or artificial stone
Decorating facades with stone is perhaps one of the most expensive technologies - this is affected not only by the cost of the material, but also by laborious manual labor. Fitting the pebbles takes a lot of time and effort of the master. But, at the same time, this is the most effective way of facing facades - if you want to see your house in the old Gothic style, then this kind of decoration is for you.
Finishing the facade with a stone photo
Modern technologies allow you to wall the house not only with a natural stone - finishing the facades with an artificial stone makes the appearance of the house no less spectacular. But the cost of the material is much lower. Modern industry produces an artificial stone of two kinds - it can be both cement-based and gypsum-based. The use of this or that material is conditioned by the base of the walls - on the hard surfaces it is best to lay the stone on a cement base, but on the foam-insulated surface of the walls it is better to lay a lightweight artificial stone on a gypsum base.
Another of the most common methods of finishing the exterior walls is the decoration of the facade for brick - clinker tiles, used in this, in its qualities, characteristics and appearance, almost no different from the walls lined with brick. This type of decoration can often be found on the fences and walls of private houses.
Finishing facades for brick photo
On many facades of buildings you can see the preserved or restored stucco decoration. Modern homeowners rarely resort to this kind of finishing, but still such solutions are found.
Finishing facades stucco photo
And in the end we will show one more variant of facing - multi-colored tiles. That's how you can transform a house and make it more "fun."Living in it will immediately become much more pleasant.
Finishing the facades of the house with tiles
As you can see, the facade of the house can be decorated with different materials. Which of them do you prefer? This is a personal matter for everyone. The main thing in this whole story is to understand that all types of facade wall finishing should be applied according to a certain technology.
Author of the article: Vladimir Belov
