Country houses 6x4 (35 photos) with an attic: features of wooden buildings and structures from block containers. House layout
Many of our compatriots, when acquiring or inheriting a summer cottage, receive along with it a small building. A large country house is great, but you can’t accelerate much on Soviet 6 acres, so the classic one-story country change houses 6x4 without insulation or country houses from block containers were originally installed.
Standard house 6x4
Summer cottages of this size have been built for about 30 years. For plots with a small quadrature, this is the best option, provided that there is a desire to set up another garden and vegetable garden.
wooden house
Suppose you have received a ready-made light wooden country house 6 by 4. It is impossible to demolish and build a new one, since this requires serious investments. But you can rebuild and insulate an already finished structure, getting a good cottage for reasonable money.
Initially, you need to carefully inspect the load-bearing beams and if they are in order, you can begin the conversion. The height of an ordinary gable roof does not always allow you to equip an attic under it, so it is better to dismantle the old structures and re-roof it. It is optimal to make it a broken line, thereby expanding the space for the second floor.
Walls can be insulated from the inside and outside. In our opinion, it is not advisable to insulate from the inside. Firstly, a lot of usable space is eaten up in an already small house. Secondly, if the house is not new, then the exterior finish will significantly improve its appearance.
Both floors and floors can be insulated with foam, but it is better to use expanded clay. The price will not be much higher, but the material is environmentally friendly and vapor-permeable. As for the walls, foam plastic can also be used here, but high-quality mineral wool is better, followed by clapboard or siding lining.
Tip: when choosing between polystyrene foam and mineral wool, you should ask about the quality of the mineral wool.
The fact is that cheap mats will be of poor quality and will soon begin to crumble, causing serious harm to health.
Therefore, if it is not possible to buy high-quality mineral insulation, take foam.
House from block container
This type of building in summer cottages is common. In fact, this is quite convenient, because you immediately get a ready-made sealed, often insulated structure with a subfloor, walls and ceiling. The width of such a block is about 2.5 m, the length varies from 3 to 6 m.
So by connecting 2 four-meter blocks, you immediately get a one-story country house 5 by 4. It used to be popular to use construction trailers, which, in fact, are also a kind of container block and have similar dimensions. With a competent approach, all these designs can be entered into the general plan of a new house.
A monolithic strip foundation for such a structure can be poured, but this is not advisable. It is much faster and more profitable to lay it with your own hands.
The instruction is elementary simple.
- Pits are dug along the load lines in increments of 1.5 - 2 m, with a depth exceeding the freezing point by 100 mm.
- After that, a sand and gravel cushion is made and well compacted.
- Then a reinforced concrete layer is poured, the minimum thickness of the pour is 150 mm.
- On such a base, you can simply lay several levels of cinder block, this will be enough for a light wooden or frame structure.. But we advise you to lay out cabinets from solid bricks. The masonry is made by a well, the internal space is reinforced and poured with concrete.
Important: if you subsequently wish to build a house from foam or aerated concrete, then brick-concrete, reinforced pillars can easily withstand such a construction and you will not need to fill in a new foundation.
A country house 4 by 4 or 4x6 can be made from a block of containers using 1 container to which an open veranda or a closed vestibule with a wardrobe is attached. To ensure the solidity of the structure, it is necessary to weld a single strapping from a metal I-beam from below. On this basis, you can confidently build a house with an attic.
For the construction of an extension frame for a house with an attic, it is recommended to use a wooden beam with a section of 100x100 mm or 100x50 mm. To expand a one-story change house, a beam of 50x50 mm is enough.
House layout
A country house 4 by 5, assembled from 2 blocks of containers 2.5x4m, without an attic will be quite miniature. Therefore, in this case, the attic add-on will not only increase the number of square meters, but also turn your cottage into a small house from a fairy tale.
The plan of a country house 4 by 5 from a block of containers may look something like this. The first block will be occupied by the kitchen and a small wardrobe, the second will be used as a living room or bedroom. In the two-story version, the possibilities are much greater. Here the first block is divided into a wardrobe and a spiral staircase to the second floor, the second block will have a living room combined with a kitchen, and upstairs there will be 2 bedrooms.
Important: the use of block containers for the construction of summer cottages is also convenient because the metal is already covered with anti-corrosion paint, plus the wavy configuration of the sheet provides good ventilation for external insulation.
Let's talk about the attic
As mentioned earlier, the attic in houses with a small quadrature is best done with a sloping roof.
We will proceed from the fact that the second floor must be fully insulated and suitable for use in the winter.
- Let's start with the fact that for roof insulation in most of our country, at least 200 mm is needed. The price of monolithic rafters with such a depth will be higher, so it is more profitable to splice 2 beams of 100x50 mm, plus such a beam is well suited for.
- From the outside, a crate is stuffed, on which slate or other roofing material will be attached. From the inside, the crate and rafters are lined with a waterproofing film with a small ventilation gap.
- The insulation itself is mounted on the waterproofing, it is advisable to use high-quality mineral wool, but foam plastic may be suitable as an economy option.
- Next, the insulation is hemmed with a layer of vapor barrier, which is fixed with lathing strips. You can already attach the facing material to the crate to your liking, but the most common option for giving is lining.
Tip: 2-3 people can rebuild a finished house or build a structure based on a block of containers in a week, a maximum of 2.
Therefore, if there is no power supply yet, renting a diesel generator for giving will help you out.
Output
If there is a small house on your summer cottage, do not despair, with a strong desire, using the recommendations of the specialists of our site, you will be able to qualitatively rebuild and insulate the structure with your own hands.