Many owners of suburban areas would like to know how to attach a veranda to a house. After all, with the help of this simple construction, you can give the building a finished look, while increasing its living area. In the event that the veranda will be attached to the already built house, this business, despite the apparent ease, will be quite difficult. The difficulty here lies primarily in the fact that, unlike the attached veranda, the main building has already shrunk. How to avoid unnecessary problems and what you should pay attention to when conducting construction activities, we will consider further in the article.
Foundation construction
The question of how to attach the veranda to the house comes down primarily to the unification of its foundation with the foundation of the building itself. This must be done. The fact is that if these two structural elements are not fastened together rigidly, in the future the veranda can simply move away from the house as a result of spring heaving. In addition, it is necessary to ensure that the foundation of the extension is laid to the same depth as the foundation of the main structure. The height of these two structural elements must also be the same.
After the trench is dug around the perimeter of the veranda, you need to hollow out the niches in the concrete of the foundation of the house so deep that the reinforcement becomes visible. This procedure is necessary in any case. No matter what we do, we attach the veranda to a wooden house, to a brick or concrete one. Next, the formwork is installed in the trench and a sand cushion 15–20 cm high is arranged. The next stage is the installation of the fittings. It is installed between the formwork panels and fastened with the reinforcement of the foundation of the house in a long niche. This can be done by welding, but it is better to connect the rods of both structures with a special wire. As soon as everything is ready, concrete mixture is poured into the formwork.
Walling
Usually, asking themselves the question of how to attach the veranda to the house and what to make the walls of, the owners of suburban areas come to the decision to make a frame of timber and sheathe it with plywood, board or clapboard. This is actually the most successful version of the extension design of this type. Such a veranda will look good in combination with both chopped walls of the main structure, and with brick.
The frame begins to be installed after the concrete of the foundation has matured, that is, a month after its pouring. The lower harness is fixed with anchor bolts. Next, corner racks are installed, and then intermediate ones with a step of half a meter (except for those areas where the door and window will be). For fastening use galvanized corners. After that, the upper harness is mounted. The beam-beams for the ceiling are laid on it. Next, sheathing is performed with the selected material.
It is impossible to firmly fix the walls of the veranda to the house, otherwise, as a result of shrinkage, the entire structure can skew. It is better to close the gap between the extreme racks and the plane of the wall of the house with some kind of insulating material or fill it with mounting foam.
Roof device
The roof of the veranda should have a slope angle slightly less than the slope of the roof of the house. In this case, the building will look more harmonious. The crate is simply brought under the roof of the main building and sheathed with slate or glued with roofing material.
Thus, it is possible to attach the veranda to a brick house, wooden, concrete, aerated concrete, etc. Such a combination will look quite harmonious in any case. The most important thing is not to forget that the dimensions of the veranda should not be more than 2/3 of the dimensions of the main building. Otherwise, the complex will look awkward.
So, we hope you now more or less understand how to attach a veranda to the house. It is important by any means to try to compensate for the difference in shrinkage of the building itself and the extension. If this succeeds, the veranda will serve the owners for many years.