The question of how to close the pile foundation from the outside is relevant for improving the aesthetics of the perception of facade design and increasing the resource of the building's load-bearing structures. In the absence of a full-fledged plinth, brickwork, small-format facings glued to sheet material or panels fixed to the frame, plinth siding are used.
The unprotected ventilated underground, which has a country house on stilts, is a source of heat loss. Moisture inevitably gets under the building, rodents penetrate, dirt accumulates. Therefore, the side surfaces must be sewn up with facing materials, leaving ventilation ducts, the area of \u200b\u200bwhich should be equal to 1/400 of the area of \u200b\u200bthe underground space.
There are several pickup options:
Attention! There are no heat sources inside the underground, natural ventilation through the vents in the facing materials is a prerequisite. Therefore, it is not necessary to insulate the pick-up - apart from the expense of funds, this will not bring any benefits. Reducing heat loss should be achieved through good floor insulation.
Scheme of finishing the lower part of the pile foundation.
At the same time, upon contact with the ground, the resource of any cladding invariably decreases. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure the tightness of the interface of the pick-up with the blind area. To do this, roll materials are used, films, one edge of which is launched horizontally under the blind area, the other is bent at a right angle and fixed to the frame crate under the lining of the pick-up vertically. Only in this case, when melting snowdrifts will not flow into the underground.
A brickwork pick-up device is possible only with a sufficient budget. For a false base, only ceramic stone can be used. Since the structural element is exclusively decorative, it does not perceive loads, it is allowed to use hollow or slotted facing bricks. Technology features are:
The outer plane of the masonry can be flush with the facade or drown it inward to get rid of the installation of ebbs above the intake.
With a limited budget, it is possible to fix runs made of rolled metal (corner, profile pipe) or timber on piles, to fix asbestos-cement, cement-bonded particle boards on them. After that, the surface of these structural materials is decorated with tiles, flexible bituminous tiles, porcelain stoneware. In sheet materials, it is easy to make ventilation products of the desired format and decorate windows with ventilation grilles.
Advice! When the house is located on a slope with a large height difference, part of the underground is usually used as a cold store. Therefore, in the lower part of the basement, you can make a gate or a door that will be almost invisible in the overall lining of the bottom of the dwelling.
Installation of DSP slabs for tiling, porcelain stoneware or shingles.
The device of a zabirka from sheet materials allows to reduce waste of a cut. The advantages of tiling a false basement with tiles are:
Important! Manufacturers produce tiles of different formats, which makes it possible to do without cutting, trimming, and pinning waste.
For budgetary design of the basement space of a country dwelling, you can use flexible shingles. For maximum integration into the exteriors of facades, you should choose a texture that is as similar as possible to stone.
Shingles with a tile pattern are glued to the sheet material, additionally fixed with self-tapping screws or nails. Roofing manufacturers produce valleys and ridge elements that can be used in the outer and inner corners of the house, respectively.
The frame system is as similar as possible to the previous version of the runs. However, the horizontal lintels here are mounted on vertical posts, providing a higher spatial rigidity of the structure. This is due to the small format of the panels and the insufficient intrinsic rigidity of vinyl or acrylic siding.
The device of frames is possible from a bar or a galvanized reinforced profile from GKL systems. Racks hang on the grillage and do not reach the ground by 5 - 7 cm, in order to eliminate efforts during winter heaving of soils. Horizontal lintels are fixed with special elements (“crabs”) or side shelves are cut, the profiles are joined with self-tapping screws to each other.
You can choose vinyl or acrylic siding for lining the fence. The first option is cheaper, the acrylic material has a lower linear expansion, is more resistant to fading, weather-resistant. The most saturated colors, providing high-quality imitation of brick, natural stone, are observed precisely in acrylic siding.
Important! A significant disadvantage is the limited size of the basement siding (approximately 1.2 x 0.5 m). Which dramatically increases the waste of the cut if the base has a height different from this format.
Basement siding can sheathe the whole house, leaving the pick-up not insulated, laying mineral wool or expanded polystyrene in the crate on the facades.
Fiber cement and polymer sand panels are most in demand for pickups. Cellulose-reinforced cement stone is very light, practically does not load the foundation structure. Sand concrete with additives of polymeric materials weighs much more, but it has high strength and wear resistance, as it is usually painted in bulk.
Therefore, for passage places with heavy traffic, it is better to choose a polymer-sand composite. For detached houses on the site, the blind area of which is not walking paths, you can limit yourself to fiber cement material of a convenient format.
Advice! Clinker insulated panels are too expensive for pickups that do not require insulation. Therefore, they are practically not used in false socles.
This is the cheapest option for facing the basement level from the outside. With vertical installation of corrugated board on a false base, a minimum wave is used, which allows to further reduce the construction budget. Cutting waste is practically absent. Sheets of the desired height can be ordered from the manufacturer, completely eliminating the fit on the site. However, a dwelling with such a base resembles an industrial facility, so the technology is more suitable for outbuildings.
Important! The pile foundation is not afraid of heaving forces. However, an uninsulated blind area can swell during seasonal freezing of soils. Therefore, it is not recommended to support the pick-up at home on the blind area, it is better to adjoin it with a small gap to the false base.
Thus, the issue of decorating the outside of the pile foundation depends on the preferences of the owner of the house, the available budget, the architecture of the building, and the design of the facades. You can use sheet materials, brickwork, frame systems of panels and siding.
