Expand useful space by adding a veranda to the house with your own hands

Attaching the veranda to the houses with your own hands is most often performed when the capital has already been habitable.

The construction of the veranda allows to expand the useful space of the living space.

At the same time for its erection, various materials can be used, often a preference is given to the wooden beam.

This is explained by the fact that the construction of the frame of the veranda from the timber, unlike the brick structure, will not need much time and effort.

As the foundation of the house and the foundation of the future verandah will differ from one another in the same shrinkage, it is recommended to attach the veranda without the main walls of the house.

Rigid fastening can over time distort the newly-erected building.

If an extension of the veranda will be made to the brick house, it is necessary to lay a moisture-resistant layer between the two bases, which will help to protect the frame of the erected object from deformation.

With regard to the future load-bearing structure for the extension of the veranda, it can look like a strip foundation or be erected on screw piles.

Pay attention to the photo, this is how the veranda from the bar attached to the house can look like.

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Features of building extensions

Determining which side of the house will be attached to the veranda is a construction project.

The ideal location of the structure can be considered the facade or the end of the residential building.

You do not need to build an extension near the front door of the house, because the opening can be done from the bedroom.

At the same time, the length of the terrace of the veranda should correspond to the length of the main house wall, and the width of the extension can be in the range of 2.50-3.00 m.

Drawing up the design of the future building by oneself, think over not only what material will be used for the construction of the veranda,but also its quantity.

By the way, the building material for the construction of walls and roofs is better to use the same as for the house, in order to combine everything into a single architectural style.

As a rule, building their own veranda to the house, they already know about its purpose.

If it is a summer terrace, as in the photo, then the consumption of materials will be small, usually such terraces have a half open view and are furnished in a rustic style.

For winter, the summer verandah is covered with glass or polycarbonate sheets.

When planning a winter veranda project, it is necessary to take care of its complete thermal insulation, including floors, walls and roofing.

Usually such an annex is heated, due to which it becomes a good place for a winter garden.

What materials can be used for building verandas?

Attach a comfortable and light veranda to the house with your own hands from any building material.

The main thing is to draw up the project correctly and choose the side of the light so that in the summer the veranda does not fill the sun too much, and in winter most of the day the space of the terrace was illuminated by natural light.

Especially, this is relevant for the room, which will later serve as a winter garden, as shown in the photo.

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Wooden lantern

Usually an extension from the timber is connected to a wooden house, since any other material will look tasteless against the background of natural wood.

Unless in the future it is planned to finish the extension of the house with natural or artificial stone.

Frame from the beam with their own hands erect for several days, after giving the wooden product resistance to decay, by processing the material with a special antiseptic.

You can build both a summer and a winter extension of the house from the timber, but with certain requirements.

Openings for windows, as well as the roof itself, can be equipped with polycarbonate.

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Extension from brick

Unlike the wooden frame house extension, which is most often used for summer recreation, a brick structure is preferred when they want to receive a warm and durable room.

In this case, the brick walls of the verandah can have windows of their entire width and height from polycarbonate, as in the photo, which will make it impossible to notice in the design of the gravity of the structure.

Although because of this, for its erection will need a quality tape foundation.

Polycarbonate lid

Using polycarbonate sheets for a semi-arched or arched frame structure from the profile, you can create your own visually attractive transparent annex.

Her appointment will not depend on the time of the year.

In winter, as well as in the summer, the addition of polycarbonate will make the residents of the house enjoy a comfortable climate.

If you pay attention to the photo, you can see an unusual combination of the capital structure with this weightless construction.

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Despite the fact that polycarbonate production began relatively recently, transparent and light products have already managed to occupy their niche in many construction areas.

Due to the heat-insulating and impact-resistant properties of polycarbonate, the material will remain for a long time beyond competition.

Basement options for extension

Variants of the foundation for adding a veranda to the house are chosen based on the weight of the structure. For example, a wooden or polycarbonate structure is ideally suited for a foundation on screw piles.

But for a brick object just right, there will be a ribbon bearing base capable of withstanding a heavy load.

Ribbon foundation is equipped on a cushion of sand or gravel, it can be monolithic, stone and brick.

If the soil on the site is not stable, it is not recommended to bind it to the foundation of the capital structure.

The newly-grounded base will "walk" for a long time until it finally settles. Therefore, it is necessary to lay it with their own hands as for a separate building.

More details about the construction of the basement under the extension to the house will tell photo and video materials.

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As for the foundation on the screw piles under the veranda, here are its features of its device.

Scheme of pile-screw foundation assumes the location of screw elements with a distance from each other of 1,5-3 meters.

The exact distance is determined by calculating the load that will come from the extension, this information is necessarily included in the design.

The foundation on screw piles can be laid in any soil, even with unstable characteristics.

Under the wooden lightweight extension, instead of the foundation on the screw piles, you can build a base of wood, as shown in the photo.

Here at once it is necessary to note the difference in the duration of operation of the wooden structure and the foundation on the screw piles. Proceeding from this, more often, piles are chosen.

Features of the construction of the floor and walls of the extension

The wooden floors of the verandas from the edging board are arranged on the lags mounted on the lower strapping.

For a winter variant of construction between a rough floor and a finishing floor lay a layer of hydro and thermal insulation.

In the floors of the summer veranda, between the boards, small gaps are left for draining the rainwater and ventilating the underground.

Before laying all the wooden structural elements, including flooring, are treated with special anti-corrosion compounds.

Then subjected to priming and staining. The floors on the pile foundation are lifted from the ground by 20-30 cm.

The construction scheme of the extension walls depends on the material used in the construction.

If this is a wooden beam, then a frame structure is constructed from it, which is subsequently partially or completely finished with a finishing product.

All carcass racks are pretreated with an antiseptic protective compound.

Polycarbonate extensions are made according to the same plan - they are mounted on a wooden frame or a structure made of plastic profiles.

A brick veranda attached to a brick house can have an open and closed view.

For a summer verandah, the masonry is laid in half a brick, for its winter version - thick walls with openings for windows and a door are made.

Both cases involve a waterproofing device between the walls and the foundation.

As it is not recommended to rigidly tie the walls of the veranda to the capital structure due to the future shrinkage of the new structure, the gap between them is blown out by the mounting foam.

After complete shrinkage of the object, they are closed thoroughly.

Detailed information on the construction of the walls of the extension will allow the following video.

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Options for roofing

The roof of the veranda attached to the house can have a gable and single-girder construction, insulated and not insulated type.

The type of material for the roof is chosen the same as that used for the roof of the house.

The order of construction works usually looks as follows:

• perform rafters of roofs made of metal profiles or wooden beams;
• using edging boards, frame the frame;
• is spread over the waterproofing layer;
• carry out the installation of roofing products.

For verandas attached to the cottage house of a winter type, under the roofing material they arrange thermal insulation, sheet products are mounted on top of it.

Polycarbonate roofing for a summer veranda is mounted on a skeleton base made of metal.

At the end of the article, we suggest using the tips from the following video material.

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