Eco-cottages of straw and clay

Modern country houses seem to us too expensive. Construction of garden shed from a mixture of clay and straw will create a low-budget accommodation in the summer. Projects such economical suburban homes can be made unique by giving it an interesting shape.




First of all, you need to choose a place to build a house. It is important that the selected construction site for the future of the country house was the possibility of a good soil drainage. It is best if the area is the highest in your area, in order to prevent water dripping from the house, but not to him.

Make a preliminary plan of your holiday home, how many rooms in it will be, will he have a veranda where will be located the bathroom and kitchen, what should be the optimum height of the room. Think about where and how much will the windows in the house, which will form the roof of the house.



After the approval of the sketch the house, calculate the planned volume of the main building materials: gravel, sand, pipes, glass, wood, wires. Find out which additives are usually added to the local clay in the construction of houses of clay, such as huts, etc. On this basis, determine the necessary amount of clay, straw, sand and other additives for the construction of holiday homes.



Prepare the site for the construction of the house. align it, lay drains, lay the communication in the home. Prepare the house foundation on the concrete pad. The height of the base should be 50 cm or more, at 20-25 cm width greater than the thickness of the walls, the finished surface of the foundation should be roughened. The soil that you have chosen for the construction of the foundation for the use of building a house.



Typically, for a house of the clay is a mixture of three parts of straw and one part of clay, but depends on the quality of your local clay and other additives. The mixture was diluted with water and kneaded by hand, or rather, the mixture interfere underfoot. There are several technologies of erection of a country house made of mud - with the help of wooden crates and using adobe blocks.

Technology wooden crates so: built a wooden frame on which to apply the mixture with a lot of straw and a small amount of clay

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Block technology provides for the formation of clay (mud brick) blocks with a lot of clay, drying them for 48 hours under a canopy, and the traditional laying of the walls of the blocks.

In addition to the house, you can make out of clay, and part of the furniture that will also allow you to save on home construction.


The features of the holiday home of the clay is sufficiently large layer of plaster and a roof with a large shed - all this is necessary to protect the walls from moisture house

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Construction of the country house made of mud - not fast, so if you have conceived a big house, it is best to build it step by step.