When you want to build your own home and you’re wondering how best to do it, it’s time to look at private homes in the United States. About the advantages of these projects and their disadvantages. And American residents have a lot of experience with this issue because 60% of them live in the suburbs in their private homes.
It should be noted that many residents are tied to work, and so they plan their lives by putting the main occupation in the forefront. And so as they change jobs, they also change their homes, selling the past and moving to the next house closer to work. Or they start building a house closer to their future job.
The construction usually lasts a little more than a month. Thus, strip foundations are not poured everywhere, but only in places with high humidity. Not always and arrange basements. Construction is done in stages: work on the walls, communications, finishing work.
The frame is made with wooden beams, preimpregnated with protective solutions. And insulation is placed between the walls. The outer part of the surface is covered with plastic or a separate film. Roofing is often used as roofing felt.
Then make wiring communications – electricity, water, heating, ventilation. In suburban buildings, all communications are autonomous. Then comes the stage of internal finishing works: sheathing gypsum board walls, install floor covering.
Such a building can last up to 50 years.
The negative factors of such houses can include: low thermal insulation, sound insulation, a large price for the internal thermoregulation, construction instability, the need for preventive maintenance of buildings after 10 – 12 years, expensive maintenance.