Screw piles for creating a strong, high-quality and durable foundation are becoming increasingly popular. However, after the construction of the building is completed, many happy owners of a new house are at a loss as to how to properly and beautifully finish such a basement.
This article, illustrated with a photo, provides detailed instructions on how to finish the basement of a house on stilts with your own hands. Guided by the recommendations of experienced and professional builders, masters of their craft, you can create a really beautiful and unusual cladding.
The modern construction market is filled with a variety of building materials that can be successfully used to solve the problem.
If you have a pile foundation, the plinth can be finished with the following industrial products:
Also quite common is the use of decorative bricks.
It should be noted that finishing panels are in great demand and popularity among builders who know well how to finish the basement of a stilt house.
This is due to the following factors:
Today we will consider two options for facing works - hinged panels and decorative bricks. Which method to choose is up to you - it all depends on your personal preferences and attitude to a particular material.
He will note that finishing the basement of a house on screw piles can be successfully performed with any finishing panels mentioned above. Fortunately, their price is relatively low, and therefore the final estimate of the work will be acceptable.
A variety of options for finishing the basement of a house on screw piles with hinged panels has a number of undeniable advantages.
So, if the question of how to finish the basement of a house on screw piles has already been resolved for you, and you have chosen finishing panels, let's look at the sequence of work.
First you need to create a crate:
After the crate is fixed around the entire perimeter of the house, you can begin to hang the panels.
Advice. Before proceeding with hanging the plates, the part of the soil with which they will come into contact should be sprinkled with sand to a depth of forty centimeters, but more is possible.
When installing, bring the corners and individual parts as accurately as possible, which will serve as a guarantee of durability and aesthetics of the finish.
If the soil is too heaving, then in this case it is recommended to leave a small distance between the soil and the panels - this will avoid damage to the finish. To prevent small animals from entering under the house, the holes should be closed with a fine mesh.
This method is more time-consuming and costly, because in addition to using decorative bricks, you need to fill in a shallow strip foundation around the entire perimeter of the house, on which laying will be performed.
Naturally, this type of finish also has certain advantages, which are worth mentioning.
However, there are certain disadvantages, which also cannot be ignored:
At the first stage, it is necessary to pour a shallow foundation between the piles. After the mortar dries and gains strength, you can lay the bricks, providing holes for vents.
Advice. Vents must also be created in the basement from hinged panels.
They are necessary for good ventilation of the subfloor.
To prevent rodents from penetrating into them, other living creatures, including domestic cats, the vents are closed with a fine mesh.
If you did the laying not with decorative, but with ordinary bricks, then in this case it is worth providing for additional finishing, which will increase aesthetics. To do this, you can use ordinary plaster.
Screw piles are a great way to reduce the cost of building a house, but not to lower its performance. (See also the article.) And using one of the above plinth lining methods, make the structure incredibly beautiful and attractive.
In the presented video in this article you will find additional information on this topic.
