Why did the owners of private houses love so much siding - this material that appeared not so long ago in the construction market? The answer is simple: first, for its cheapness, and secondly for its universality. After all, for a small cost can be very quickly and for many years to decorate and simultaneously warm your home with your own hands! So let's learn more about finishing the facade with siding in this short article.
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What is vinyl siding?
As a rule, even at the stage of gathering information on the purchase and installation of siding for finishing the facade of the house, the financial issue is in sharp focus. And here, despite the joy of buying a quality and practical material for the decoration of the house, it turns out that its installation will cost you half the cost of the material itself. At the diligent master there is (and it is not for nothing that arises), the thought to do this work with one's own hands.
Having found all the information on this issue, he only gets stronger in his intention, because finishing the house with a siding with insulation is absolutely simple and economical for the family budget. In addition, the length of the siding panels, in most cases, corresponds to the length of the gable of the house (six meters).
For decoration of the facade siding is most often used the most popular of its kind - vinyl. This siding is a two-layer material consisting of the inner and outer layers. The outer layer of the siding protects the surface of the house from the negative impact of unfavorable weather factors, and also carries the function of "decoration" of the facade of the house.
The following behind the outer, inner layer, at the siding serves to prevent curving of this finishing material.
Finishing the front of the house with a siding with your own hands
Finishing of the facade with vinyl siding usually begins with the fact that along the perimeter of the entire renovated house, fix the initial launch pad, butt-to-last to the last siding panel, previously installed on the base. That is, as you correctly understood, the siding is started with the siding from the bottom of the house.
But this is only the beginning. And in order to strengthen the siding further and higher, you can not do without scaffolding, since although this finishing material is considered to be one of the easiest, it is still possible to lift it upward yourself, and then to be able to accurately place the six-meter sidetrack panel in special grooves of plastic angles, standing only on the stairs, you need to have a lot of experience and a sense of balance, and this is not everyone has.
Further, the decoration of the pediment with siding is not a very easy job, although it is quite feasible.
Judge for yourself, in addition to the complexity of qualitative adjustment of siding panels (in view of the special geometric shape of the gable - triangle), when each of the panels must be appropriately beveled, so also their fastenings should be with certain gaps.
However, all this is solved and, with a great desire to make your home more beautiful and warmer, is achievable. And if you also have an assistant for such a painstaking, but very pleasant, work there, then it will go twice as fast!
Finishing the house with siding with insulation
The decoration of the facade of the house with vinyl siding with warming is the necessity of our domestic climate.
After all, due to the influence of winter wind and temperature changes, frosts and thaws, other popular finishing materials for the cladding of a house (for example, lining) can be shattered and cracked, which will significantly reduce their warming and protective functions.
The vinyl siding has a service life of up to half a century, and it can withstand temperatures from minus 60 to plus 60 degrees without problems. In addition, it comes in a variety of colors and is quite inexpensive (about five dollars per square meter), and installed easily and quickly. Nezhelen siding and care - enough to periodically water it with water from a hose in order to wash off dust and dirt from it. And he will insulate your house really tangibly, making it absolutely windproof and without unnecessary heat loss.
The finishing of the house with siding with insulation begins, first of all, with the preparation of the surface of the walls. It is necessary to remove all unnecessary things that can prevent you in the process of work (wall elements of decor, lights, drain pipes, etc.). Then you can start installing siding panels, starting from the base and following up to the roof of the house.
Window decoration with siding
Based on the type and size of the mounting profile, you can find several options for finishing windows siding. The profile can be starting and outer corner (universal profile or "J" profile). Angle profile is used for siding finishing windows with slopes, and starting - for all standard windows.
Before the siding begins to be finished with siding, as in the case of the siding of a pediment, the crate is made using a wooden or metal profile. Metal will last longer, but it's easier to work with wood. However, it can be simply impregnated with a special compound before the installation to protect it from moisture, fire, and giving it durability.
The frame is mounted not directly, but at an angle of 900, regardless of where the slopes of the window opening are directed.
Windows that are not equipped with water spills and peaks are equipped with these necessary elements during the finishing.
Okolokonnye bars are used for sheathing of slopes, and platbands are used to frame openings that go level with the wall of the building.
Regardless of what types of siding you decide to use, carefully think through and calculate in advance all the nuances, so that it does not turn out that you will start this business, and you will not be able to finish it. But, so that this does not happen, in addition to the article, we offer you a video about how to properly finish the house with siding.
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