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Many owners of private houses are thinking about arranging storage for their harvest - canned goods and vegetables. At the same time, some do not understand the difference between a basement, a cellar and a basement. Let's work with the RMNT website to figure out how these underground storage options differ....
Organizing a storage system in a barn
A barn is a necessary outbuilding that can be found on almost every summer cottage and household plot. At proper organization Storage systems in the barn can accommodate all the necessary household items. The RMNT website will give you tips to help you effectively use all the space in your shed....
Choosing a mesh for a sauna stove
In this article we will talk about such an important part of any heater for a traditional Russian bath as a grid for stones. Without this addition, the stove will not be a heater, and the owner of the bathhouse and his guests will lose the opportunity to add steam. The RMNT website will tell you about choosing a mesh for a sauna stove....
Non-trivial ways to protect your dacha from thieves
Protecting your own property from robbers - headache many summer residents. When leaving for the winter, they are concerned that everything will remain safe until the owners return. The RMNT website has collected advice and reviews from summer residents who have taken measures to protect themselves from thieves....
House building in Finnish – Asuntomessut-2019
Every year an unusual exhibition of finished residential buildings takes place in Finland. Anyone can come in and see what a house built for specific customers looks like. And the owners will move into it later, when the exhibition is over. The RMNT website has selected the main trends of Asuntomessut-2019....
Choosing a place for the stairs in the house
Of course, you need to plan a place for stairs in the house at the stage of development or selection of a project. This is an important architectural element, which also takes up a lot of space. The RMNT website decided to look into the pros and cons various options location of the stairs in a private house....
Dunit - stone for baths and saunas
Natural stone is an invariable attribute of a Russian sauna with a heater. And just in the decoration of steam rooms, stones are often used. Today the RMNT website will talk about this interesting stone, like dunit, which will be an excellent choice for arranging a bathhouse and sauna, as it has a number of positive characteristics....
High-speed shut-off valves: choosing high-quality shut-off valves Control and shut-off valves - high-quality shut-off valves, used for quickly shutting off/disabling pipelines...
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Despite the fact that the purchase of ready-made residential buildings is becoming an increasingly common trend in Russian market real estate at present, the majority of future homeowners still prefer to build cottages and houses on their own, using the labor of commercial contractors or private construction crews. The feasibility of such a solution is determined by several key factors: firstly, the vast majority of private developers very often do not trust specialist builders and are confident that if you provide them complete freedom action - they will definitely start to mess around. Accordingly, homeowners become much calmer in cases where they independently control each stage of all construction and repair work performed. Secondly, many private developers want to get exclusive and original design interior and exterior, that is, so that their residential building turns out not like the majority, but unique and inimitable.
Thirdly, most of our compatriots naively believe that independent construction will cost them much less if they save on paying professional builders or on building materials.
Naturally, self-construction of a residential building is often quite a profitable and economical process. However, homeowners should not delude themselves too much - there are many subtleties and nuances in self-construction. Of course, in the case when a private developer is well versed in the topic of construction and, in particular, drawing up estimates, then the savings on repair and construction work will be very significant, for the simple reason that he will not allow himself to be fooled by the contractor if he introduces estimate documentation for the cost of non-existent building materials or unperformed services. Do not forget about the amount of “left” money that is laundered by contracting commercial organizations during the construction and sale of entire countryside villages. Naturally, homeowners want to avoid such “laundering” when building their house or cottage, and if they know all the intricacies of such work, then undoubtedly there will be certain benefits. In addition to knowing all the details of construction and renovation work, homeowners must have the time and ability to constantly monitor the construction process, then of course everything will go perfectly. In addition, a private developer can build exactly the kind of country or city house that he has always dreamed of and make all his wildest desires and dreams come true. Otherwise, when buying a ready-made cottage, it will hardly be possible to get original version, since with this option, when the contractor builds a whole series of residential buildings, then, as a rule, they all turn out to be of the same type. However, many Russians shell out a lot of money for ready-made residential buildings only because they understand perfectly well the impossibility self-construction cottage, since this process will take away from them large number time, effort and nerves.
In publications from the section "Construction, repair and installation" you can find interesting tips and recommendations from specialists for those who decide to independently make repairs in their apartment or house. In the category "Construction, repair and installation" visitors to our site will be able to learn about the repair and decoration of apartments, the construction of city houses and country cottages, design, etc., which will be useful not only for beginners, but also experienced craftsmen. The section "Construction, repair and installation" contains useful information on the construction of facilities, as well as on the implementation of design, finishing, facade, dismantling, high-rise and other works.
Inca bridges
The Incas considered bridges to be such sacred structures that anyone who damaged them was sentenced to death. Perhaps the most unusual and impressive Inca bridges were the rope chacas, stretched across huge gorges, canyons and rivers.
The ropes from which these bridges were constructed were woven from fibrous grasses, and the ropes themselves sometimes reached the thickness of a human hand and a length of more than 53 meters. The Incas were responsible for maintaining the condition of the bridge and its repairs by special workers who were completely freed from other activities. The process of repairing such a suspension bridge was very dangerous and often fatal for the maintenance personnel. Today, only one bridge built by the Incas remains in the world.
It is more than 500 years old, it is called Q"eswachaka and it spans the Apurimac River in the province of Canas (Peru). Locals to this day, preserving traditions, they maintain it in proper condition and regularly use it for crossing, although its modern, concrete counterpart exists very nearby.
Another bridge in Peru
The stone bridge (in Spanish it sounds like Puente de Piedra) in the capital of Peru, Lima, was built in 1608 according to the design of the architect Juan del Corral. This bridge is popularly called the Egg Bridge due to the fact that during its construction the masonry was held together not with ordinary mortar, but with eggs. seabirds. According to Peruvian legend, it took more than 10,000 eggs. This bridge still stands today, intact and undamaged.
The construction of the world famous 103-story tower in New York used the labor of 3,400 employees, more than 10 million bricks, 730 tons of aluminum and stainless steel, 473 km electrical wires and 5663 m3 of limestone. There are 3,194,547 electric lamps in the building itself, more than 80 km of heating pipes and 70 km of water pipes, 1060 kilometers of telephone cables and installed refrigeration equipment total weight 7450 tons. The tower's waste is also large: about 100 tons of waste are removed from the building every month.
The Empire State Building serves as the main lightning rod for all houses and buildings in the surrounding area, so it is struck by lightning at least 100 times a year.
The construction of this skyscraper cost $41 million, which was a huge amount in the 30s of the last century. The building weighs 365,000 tons and has a volume of 1,048,000 m3. For forty-one years this building was the most tall structure in the world.
Houses made of dung
Many houses in rural Nepal are made from a mixture of cow dung, various waste materials, sand and clay.
Photo of cow dung cakes that are dried and then used as a building material.
And not so long ago, the Indonesian company EcoFaeBrick began to produce bricks, which contain cattle manure, which is present in abundance in Indonesia. The manufacturer claims that this environmentally friendly material is 20% lighter and 20% stronger than its clay counterpart. In addition, it is cheaper to produce.
But it remains a mystery to me whether this kind of building material specific aroma when heated sun rays. Otherwise, obviously living in a house...made of cow poop is a real process of getting closer to nature.
Buddha statue
In 1588, one of the most famous informal leaders of Japan, warrior, samurai and politician Toyotomi Hideyoshi, faced with riots in the province of Japan under his control, decided to prohibit ordinary people from owning weapons.
A hand-drawn portrait of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was nicknamed the Monkey for his repulsive appearance.
“People in all provinces are strictly prohibited from possessing any swords, including short swords, bows, spears, firearms or any other weapon. Owning weapons makes it difficult to collect taxes and, as a rule, incites uprisings,” he decided. And he ordered his troops to collect weapons from all the peasants for the purpose of melting them down (this selection of weapons from the population would later be called sword hunting). The resulting metal was used to make staples and nails, which were then used by more than 50,000 Japanese artisans over the course of 3 years to build a huge wooden Buddha statue at Hōkō-ji Temple (Kyoto). According to the chronicles, this 24-meter statue, called Kyoto Daibutsu, was so large that it obscured the sun and mountains. However, on August 14, 1596, a powerful earthquake destroyed both the temple itself and the huge Buddha statue. After the earthquake, in 1602 they tried to restore it by casting the destroyed parts of the statue in bronze, but again fate had its own way. During the casting process, careless workers caused a fire and completely burned the magnificent statue.
Now the largest man-made Buddha figure in the world is the 120-meter statue Ushiku Daibutsu, built in 1995 in Ibaraki Prefecture, 50 km from Tokyo.
Each side of the base of the largest pyramid in the world, known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops, is 230.4 meters. Thus, the footprint of this building would fit 10 football fields.
It is believed that the process of constructing the pyramid lasted 20 years, and its original dimensions were even larger. Its mass is now estimated at approximately 5.9 million tons, its volume at 2,500,000 m3. And if we take as a basis that the construction of the pyramid lasted 20 years, it is possible to calculate that about 800 tons of stone were laid by workers per day. In addition, since the Cheops pyramid consists of approximately 2.3 million stone blocks, over the course of 20 years, builders moved an average of 12 blocks every hour.
Almost all the stone blocks that make up this amazing structure fit together with incredibly high precision. Modern scientists, having studied this issue, have confirmed that the gaps between them do not exceed 0.5 millimeters.
For those who don't know, the US Department of Defense headquarters building is a pentagon.
And the history of the construction of this unusual structure is very interesting in its own way. The decision that the American War Department needed a new building arose in July 1941. Initially, government officials agreed that this headquarters should be built on the banks of the Potomac River in Arlington, Virginia. And there were many requirements for its construction. Firstly, it was planned that its height would not exceed 4 floors, which predetermined its “spreading” in breadth and not in height. Secondly, and this was one of the main conditions, its design had to include minimum quantity steel. The Pentagon was built as reinforced concrete structure, in the construction of which 680,000 tons of sand were used, extracted from the Potomac River.
The third condition was the ability of the building floor to withstand a weight of 732 kg per m2. This requirement arose from the assumption that the Pentagon, if necessary, could be used as a storage facility.
Construction of the Pentagon lasted approximately 16 months, and cost the American budget a tidy sum - $83 million. Its dimensions are also impressive: although the height of the building is quite small - 23 m, each of the five sides of the building is 281 meters in length. To get around the Pentagon building, a person will need to walk about 20 minutes at a normal pace.
The building area is about 600,000 m2, of which more than half is occupied office premises. The Pentagon has five sides, five floors above ground, two levels underground and 28.2 km of corridors.
A lot has been written about this building of Chinese civilization, so we will limit ourselves to just one funny fact, which many consider true, while others consider it fiction.
There is an opinion that the Great Chinese wall is the only human structure visible not only from space, but also from the Moon itself. Regarding the Moon, we can definitely say that this is a myth, and scientists have proven this more than once. But the fact that the Chinese wall is visible in low Earth orbit is still under debate. Moreover, these disputes have been resolved more than once even in courtrooms. At least, the astronauts claim that none of them was able to see the Chinese wall from space with the naked eye. However, even the European Space Agency once tried to officially prove that this was possible by posting an alleged photo of the wall on its website. However, quite soon representatives of this organization refuted their own information, saying that the river appeared in the photo. So, most likely, not a single existing structure on earth is visible from space. Even the Great Wall of China, no matter how much anyone would like it.
The John Hancock Tower is a 60-story, 240-meter skyscraper in Boston. Built in 1976, it held the leading position as the tallest building in England for 30 years. For its time, the Hancock Tower was an incredible architectural masterpiece that embodied all the most latest technologies and modernist ideas of architecture.
However, despite all its masterpiece, this skyscraper is considered, perhaps, the most failed high-rise building of the 20th century. And there are many reasons for this. Firstly, the completion of its construction, which was planned for 1971, had to be postponed for as much as 5 years due to the fact that the process of constructing the building damaged almost all nearby buildings. Including the famous Trinity Church.
For all the miscalculations of construction and renovation work had to pay the project owners. And in total the cost of the tower, which was initially $75 million, increased to $175 million. But the main problem skyscraper became his large windows(1.2 m × 3.4 m), glazed with anti-reflective glass. The tower was less than a month old when, one bad day, dozens of glasses began to collapse onto the pavement on their own. The glass that did not fall out also behaved strangely - they made unusual sounds, “sang,” burst and cracked. It looked so mysterious, frightening and mystical that people fled the streets in panic and flatly refused to work in the ominous skyscraper. The architects tore their hair out, gave numerous explanations, apologized and hired workers to monitor the appearance of new cracks in the glass. But, however, they could not understand the reason for this behavior of the windows.
In October 1973, the tower's owners announced that they were forced to replace all 10,344 panes of glass at a cost of almost $7 million. Funny, about 5,000 of the replaced but intact panes were subsequently used elsewhere, and all of them were invariably... ordinary . Replacing this amount of glass took several months. At this time, many window openings were blocked with plywood boards, and soon the building among the common people acquired the shameful nickname of the Plywood Palace. People joked that Hancock Tower was the most tall building from plywood.
But the windows turned out to be not the only problem with the built tower. Those few residents of Boston who dared to work in it constantly complained of “sea sickness” and motion sickness, because the skyscraper was noticeably swaying in the wind.
The building was strengthened, examined and often shrugged, unable to understand what evil spell was cast on it. Ultimately, several more millions were poured into it. And only after a long and expensive study in a wind tunnel did they understand the reasons. It turned out that the structure of the building, under the influence of wind and due to thermal stress between the internal and external glass panels, seemed to twist and lose its stability. It was the laws of physics, and not otherworldly forces, that were responsible for this.
Did you know that initially no one believed in the fortress metal structure towers, believing that metal cannot possibly be as durable as stone.
But the tower turned out to be very “tenacious”, even despite the fact that under the influence of the wind it really sways noticeably. 72 engineers and mathematicians took part in the design and construction of the tower, the name of each of whom is engraved on their “brainchild”. One more interesting fact about the world famous tower is that every 7 years a large team of painters completely repaints it in brown. And this process takes no less than 50 tons of paint, and the color of this paint itself even began to be called “Eiffel Tower Brown.”
It’s curious, but it was thanks to the tower that the famous spy Mata Hari was “figured out.” Having hung a radio receiver on the tower in 1917, French counterintelligence soldiers were able to track its encryption, after which Hari was caught.
During the German occupation, the Nazis closed the tower to the public.
Photo from 1940
Nazi soldiers tried to hang a swastika on the spire of the structure, but it did not last even a day, torn off by the wind. In 1944, when Allied troops were approaching the capital of France, Hitler ordered Dietrich von Klotzing, the military governor of Paris, to blow up the Eiffel Tower, but he flatly refused to do so under threat of death. In 1960, Charles de Gaulle also wanted to dismantle the tower, albeit temporarily, moving it to Montreal for the Expo 67 exhibition. However, this plan was flatly rejected by the government and the public.
Brick is strong and durable; gas silicate and foam concrete blocks(in everyday life - foam blocks) have low thermal conductivity and, as is commonly believed, are relatively inexpensive. What material to choose for building a stone house? There is no clear answer; rather, it is a matter of making an informed choice between these two options. To help you make an informed choice, in this article we will compare country houses made of brick and foam blocks.
What wall thickness is best to choose for permanent residence in a house made of foam blocks?
The thicker the walls, the less loss heat. But heat savings come at the cost of increased construction costs. In this article we will discuss issues related to the reasonable choice of the thickness of walls made of gas silicate and foam concrete blocks in a house intended for permanent residence.
Is a boiler room always needed in a country house?
A separate room for the boiler room and boiler room is, on the one hand, convenience in terms of operation, control and repair of equipment, and on the other hand, loss usable area. Here we will discuss in what cases you can do without technical room(boiler room and boiler room), and in what cases it is inappropriate or impossible.
Construction of houses from Ytong blocks
Construction of houses from foam blocks, i.e. from gas silicate and foam concrete blocks in lately very popular. Is there a difference which gas silicate blocks to build a house from? Why are some blocks better or worse than others? And is it worth paying attention to this?
Cladding a house with bricks
One of the most common finishing options for all types country houses- facing the house with bricks. This type of finishing is attractive because it looks beautiful and stylish; externally brick houses look solid and solid, even if inside, under brickwork, hiding wooden frame or foam blocks; and it is, moreover, very durable: build it and forget it.
How does insulating its walls affect the ecology of a wooden house?
In order to wooden house was warm, that is, it complied with modern standards for heat retention, its walls need to be insulated. It turns out that from an environmental point of view, an insulated house is no worse, and in some cases better than houses from rounded logs or laminated veneer lumber.
How to properly insulate a house made of timber?
Since the walls of country houses made of logs or timber are, as a rule, 2-2.5 times thinner than modern heating standards require, in order for a wooden house to be warm, its walls need to be insulated. Good option insulation - insulation of the house from the outside using the "ventilated facade" technology.
Is it necessary to insulate a wooden house?
Wood, compared to brick and concrete, is a warm building material: its thermal conductivity is several times lower than that of brick, and about 30% less than that of gas silicate and foam concrete blocks used in low-rise construction. Only insulation has lower thermal conductivity - mineral wool or expanded polystyrene. However, modern building codes, in force since 2000, have significantly increased the requirements for the ability of walls to retain heat. In accordance with them, the thickness of external walls made of solid wood should be more than 40 cm. Of course, houses made of laminated veneer lumber with a thickness of 35-40 cm or houses made of rounded logs with a thickness of more than 50 cm are extremely rare and expensive exotics. This means that you can either ignore modern building codes or insulate the walls wooden house.
Projects of country houses and cottages
The Country House company offers a large number of different standard projects country houses. The project you like is finalized taking into account the ideas, tastes, preferences and specific needs of the Customer, so that the house that we build for you will in no case turn out to be a replicated stamp, it will have its own unique personality. This applies to the architecture, layout, and decoration of a country house. In essence, from the typical one it turns out individual project a country house, and this is good, because only a house made “for yourself” will feel truly “yours”, and you will feel like its owner.
Electric boilers in heating systems of country houses
Electric boilers for heating systems of country houses they work according to the principle instantaneous water heater high power. By method electrical connection Electric boilers are either single-phase or three-phase. Their minimum power is 2.5-3 kW. Quite often, several electric boilers are included in the heating scheme of a country house.
“What has technology come to!” - I just want to exclaim, looking at the huge selection of electric tools. Caring for a garden is no exception; there are also many new assistants replacing the usual manual equipment. The RMNT website will tell you about electric choppers....
9 steps to proper placement of small appliances in the kitchen
In pursuit of making the cooking process easier, many homeowners simply become overgrown with small household appliances. And there is less and less space in the kitchen, the countertop is filled with appliances. The RMNT website will give you tips regarding planning places for small household appliances in the kitchen....
Selecting and using formwork lubricants
In private housing construction, the most popular formwork option is structures made from scrap materials, plywood and boards. Such formwork will allow concrete mortar freeze in the desired form, but the technology has its own nuances. The RMNT website decided to look into this issue by telling you about formwork lubricant....
How to embed a sink into a countertop with your own hands
In some jobs related to kitchen arrangement, in particular, kitchen set, you can save money. The RMNT website is confident that you will be able to fit the sink into the kitchen countertop, because there is nothing super complicated about it! To help home craftsmen, we provide step-by-step instructions....
How to insulate interpanel seams
Seams and joints are the weak point of any panel house. It is the joints and seams between panels that often become cold bridges, as a result the temperature inside the rooms drops, dampness appears, and the entire façade of the building is destroyed. The RMNT website will tell you how to insulate interpanel seams....
Berry pickers: features of selection and use
Currants, raspberries, cherries, cherries, gooseberries, blackberries - berries at country and personal plots happens a lot. And manually collecting them is tedious! The owners come to the aid of simple, but sufficient effective devices— berry pickers, which the RMNT website will tell you about....
7 inexpensive ways to make your interior more expensive
We are all a little vain. I really want to make renovations and arrange the interior in such a way that the guests will gasp and ask in a whisper: “How much money did you spend?” A little, but you don’t have to admit it. The RMNT website will tell you how to inexpensively increase the value of your interior....
Rules for safe and effective work with an electric sharpener
An electric sharpener is a fairly simple machine. But, like all tools without exception, it requires compliance with the rules of safe and effective use. The RMNT website will give you useful tips on the topic of using an electric sharpener and correct sharpening tools....
What types of fillers are there for upholstered furniture?
When buying and ordering upholstered furniture, you need to know exactly what it is filled with. The convenience and durability of furniture items depend on this. The RMNT website has made a review for you modern fillers For upholstered furniture, so that you understand this topic and can make the right choice....
