Canadian houses built from SIP panels have recently gained immense popularity. They are not too expensive, and can be built in just a couple of days. The advantages of buildings of this type include primarily durability and the ability to choose any, the most convenient layout. The project of a prefabricated house is made, of course, taking into account some recommendations.
What are SIP panels
This material is a special “pie”, consisting of a thick layer of polystyrene foam or mineral wool having excellent heat-preserving properties, and two sheets of OSB fixed on both sides. Such a design of plates gives them truly unique properties:
Light weight. Under the house of SIP panels, you do not need to arrange too bulky, expensive and difficult to build a foundation.
Simplicity in processing. SIP panels can be cut with an ordinary hacksaw. Often, homeowners even just first erect walls of this material, but the doors and windows are cut through later in the most suitable places.
Strength. The roof of such a house can be assembled using any, even heavy materials.
Such properties of the panels make it possible to build very convenient and beautiful prefabricated houses out of them. Projects (photos of such buildings can be seen on the page) they are both complex and simple. Next, let's figure out what, in fact, the nuances should be considered when developing them.
Design Features
SIP panels - high-quality material, it allows you to build durable prefabricated houses. Projects of such buildings, however, should be developed taking into account certain rules. For example, the owners of the site should be aware that it is highly not recommended to build houses from this material above three floors. Otherwise, with the slightest violation of technology, more than serious problems can arise in the future. The dimensions of Canadian panels are as follows:
Typically, a prefabricated house project is developed taking into account the dimensions of the selected panels. That is, the height of one floor cannot exceed 2.5-2.8 m, and the length of the wall should be a multiple of the width of the panel. But if you want, you can depart from this rule. However, in this case, the panels, of course, will have to be cut. And this is additional labor and time loss.
Since the climate in Russia is quite severe, it is worth choosing panels that are thicker for the outer walls - 270 cm. For the interior, you can take cheaper material - 170-200 cm. Partitions are usually assembled from panels 110-120 cm.
What you need to know
Most often in the modern market you can find panels in the design of which polystyrene foam is included as an insulator. This material retains heat well, however, unfortunately, it is flammable. Therefore, when designing a prefabricated house made of expanded polystyrene, special attention should be paid to observing fire safety rules.
You can also spend some time and find a supplier of mineral wool boards. This version of SIP material is less common on the market, cheaper, but in terms of fire safety is considered much more preferable.
Architectural solutions for houses from SIP panels
The project of a prefabricated house from SIP panels regarding the layout can be absolutely anything. From this material it is allowed to build buildings with any number of rooms, attics, balconies, terraces, verandas, etc.
Most often, ordinary rectangular houses are built from SIP panels. However, nothing prevents the owners of the site to assemble a G-or U-shaped building.
The number of windows and their shape can also be different. You can make wide openings, narrow and long, tall, round or even polygonal. Any difficulties in the case of choosing non-standard windows can arise only when selecting frames for them. Doors can also be cut absolutely anywhere.
What decorative material for walls to choose
Beautiful appearance is also what distinguishes Canadian prefabricated houses. Projects of such buildings in terms of the choice of finishing can be any. In fact, a house made of SIP panels is a budget building. You can give solidity to such a building by successfully selecting the outer skin. For example, Canadian buildings with fachwerk decoration are very beautiful. The houses faced with artificial stone also look rich. You can use ordinary decorative plaster for such a house.
But still, most often, the owners of suburban areas choose lining for the decoration of Canadian buildings. It can be an ordinary wooden board or a block house. In the latter case, the house will look like chopped. Of course, you can choose for such a building cladding and cheaper - siding or even professional sheet.
Communications
Of course, the projects of prefabricated houses using Canadian technology should include methods for laying various kinds of engineering systems. Strobing or somehow violating the design of the panels is highly discouraged. After all, they act, inter alia, in the role of bearing supports for floors and roofs. Therefore, the electrical wiring in such houses, as well as in wooden ones, is usually pulled on top using cable channels. You can close the latter and make the walls attractive using plasterboard sheets, plastic panels or plywood. In exactly the same way - behind the outer casing - ventilation ducts, water and sewer pipes are carried out in SIP-houses.
As you can see, such a procedure as the development of drawings and plans of houses from SIP panels is not particularly difficult. However, if the owners of a suburban area decide to erect a large residential building or a structure of very complex architecture, perhaps they should contact specialists. Nowadays, there are companies whose employees draw up turnkey prefabricated house projects, as well as are assembling such structures.