Torn off roofs, cracked stoves with broken boilers inside, freezing water pipes and sewers, spring rain from insulation, entrance doors which open only in summer...
“It's good that we did not listen to the advice and did not buy a ready-made house. As a result, they built it “for themselves”, with all the conveniences, very warm and fast,” the soul rejoices when you read such messages on FORUMHOUSE.
Purchase finished house justified in rare cases, because you have to overpay at least 30%, and no one will give guarantees of quality, and you will have to adjust your desires and needs to an existing design.
A house that you built yourself is the best housing in the world, but sometimes such gross mistakes are made during the construction process that you look and don’t understand - what is it, in general? A sophisticated way to commit suicide?
Maybe they are filming a movie here, and then the house will be spectacularly blown up? The customer-sadist scoffs at the builders? Or are the builders cruelly taking revenge on the owner for something?
Such assumptions FORUMHOUSE members for the third year they have been building around a house that was being built near Samara. This vivid story has already been described by the journalists of our portal with a detailed analysis of all the mistakes. But it also has a second side - in many ways this is a story about human qualities that are not very compatible with building your own house.
From the very beginning, a FORUMHOUSE user Yuraberg, a good and kind person, tried to bring the owners of the house to life - “ you stop the child if he crosses the road in the wrong place”, and explain to them that such a house is not a tenant. Moreover, it was clear that the owner is clearly constrained in funds, building on the latter.
About the results of this event Yuraberg then he said briefly: "He was sent." Later there were proposals to send a delegation from FORUMHOUSE to the owner, toss him a printout of the discussion of this construction - I wanted to somehow stop this disgrace until people entered the house and no one had time to get hurt ....
But judging by how the construction went on, the owner of the house belongs to the category of people who react painfully to any doubts about his competence in all areas of life. Now the house is built, but it is unlikely that it will survive next winter. Discussing this story, the people on FORUMHOUSE were perplexed - what lessons can be learned from it, besides being stupid is bad?
We agreed on this: your own opinion may not always be true. And nothing terrible will happen if you listen to someone, and then think again.
This “listen and think”, by the way, allows you to save significant amounts of money. We offer you an overview of the construction blunders that were discussed at FORUMHOUSE.
Torn off roofs, cracked stoves with torn boilers inside, freezing water pipes and sewers, spring rain from insulation, front doors that open only in summer, and in winter the owners squeeze through a 30-centimeter gap ...
To the user of our portal Andrey73Tver it is enough to walk through the streets of his microdistrict of individual developers who received plots from the state to understand that he is far from the worst builder. Why is this happening? According to him, because:
- 70% of people build themselves;
- 25% hires clumsy, drunkards and loafers for a small price;
- and only 3-5% can afford to invite professionals.
The result is, for example, like this - a window that opens from the outside.
That is, he wanted to open the window, went out into the street, ran around the house. And from a security point of view, this strange trick is acceptable if a couple of Caucasian shepherd dogs run around the perimeter of the house.
cdfhobre FORUMHOUSE User
No, well, I understand, drunk one window to confuse, but two - this is already a clear plan and clarity of thought.
Most people would like to live in own house on earth, you can't argue with that. But the absolute majority of this majority, as they say on our portal, "is not in the construction topic." The customer is "not in the construction topic", and when he hires casual workers to implement it is not clear whose ideas, the result can be anything.
Vodopad FORUMHOUSE User
Sometimes your hair stands on end, sometimes you laugh, sometimes you are perplexed, but you want to take pictures.
Vodopad drove past the unfinished neighbor's house every day and each time was surprised: "how is it possible?".
So he did not manage to find a reasonable explanation.
Indeed, some building solutions leave a feeling of mystery among the users of our portal.
Here, let's say, what did the author of car tires under the bay windows want to say on this incomprehensible structure?
Or this house that feels like Elenavrn, its owner does not build, but dismantles, and with the use of explosive devices.
In the village ElenaKul there is an amazing house, right through the roof of which there is a power line. Maybe that's why they can't complete it.
bair never ceases to be surprised: a neighbor over the fence otgrohal two-storey house from a bar and covered the whole EPPS-m. Someone taught him. And people wrap log cabins in roofing material: “you start explaining that you can’t do this - they are offended.”
3BOHKOB tells that to his friend the second floor of a house made of timber was built on reinforcement instead of dowels.
3BOHKOB FORUMHOUSE User
And he does not sit on the armature. It would be funny if it weren't so sad... Finger gaps between the bars.
This is what the “window wishlist” that arose at the last moment looks like in reality.
And in this user photo Consultant111 the sad and very short history of the panel house is shown.
The house was built in the winter, and in the summer it "formed".
Technology was violated during construction: walls panel houses can be sewn up by assembling the entire frame and covering the roof. But at the same time, the frame must have permanent braces (they are installed even if the house is sheathed with OSB), and be reinforced with temporary braces that are removed after installing the OSB.
Here, the walls had not yet been sewn up, but the frame was assembled in its entirety.
But the fence, also from the FORUMHOUSE collection, was built by guest workers who said they understood the task, and the customer did not begin to control the process.
Here are some examples of the work of "masters" that I had to face Mickas.
Here we see the turning of a brick pipe along the beams of the ceiling (6 meters), and this is only "one small part of the horrors that were made during the construction of the furnace." The oven itself stands in the middle of the floor slab, and the slab has a deflection of about 4-5 cm.
And here - 100x50 rafters a meter apart. The roof has already collapsed.
Jazzway is convinced that all, without exception, "jambs" of this kind are the result of the owner's voluntary delusion, multiplied by the Russian "maybe". Some buildings are even scary to drive up to. And people are sure that they lined up correctly and economically.
Jazzway FORUMHOUSE User
Examples of what I've seen:
1. A log house made of sleepers is lined with 0.5 bricks, finished with gypsum board with insulation from the inside!
2. Strip foundation from FBS, deepened by 1.5 meters (with a basement!) Without waterproofing at a groundwater level of 0.2-0.5 m! In the swamp, in general. Gas block house.
3. “FBS Shallow Tape” one block high. Foam block house. Crack from foundation to ridge.
With the largest building blunder user FORUMHOUSE Valerey met in the early 90s. One economical man hired an inexpensive team of masons ... to build a house from a bar.
The bricklayers did not know how to work with wood, so they did this: they quickly cut the timber into meter-long pieces and from them, like bricks, they brought out the walls.
Instead of mortar, bricks were fastened from timber to nails. When the owner of the house came to accept work, he almost had a heart attack.
Of course, now is not the 90s, and the likelihood of encountering bricks from a bar or a pipeline from propylene pipes, brewed with a lighter, reassuringly small. But the need for a competent specialist for technical supervision has become, perhaps, even higher. It’s just that you don’t need to save on it - moreover, it will save you money on a clear calculation of volumes, work and materials.
sem2005 I recently followed the finishing on a cottage with an area of 220m2. The customer chose facial materials at exhibitions, then looked at their prices on the Internet, chose where it was cheaper, and sent a link for purchase. sem2005 offered the customer to buy the same material, only in firms where they sell him at a discount.
So I want to say: why? After all, everything that had to be assessed by the foundation and walls with ceilings is already securely hidden ...
On our portal you can find out how long the house that Yuraberg tried to take patronage will last, watch a video that tells about typical mistakes in building a house from a bar and the flaws that builders make when building a frame.
Perhaps our articles will also be useful to you: about the most common mistakes that are made when building a house, and about how to still build a house without any experience.
I showed this house 3 years ago as an example of “how not to build” back in the period of its “semi-construction”:
Many doubted, they said: “No, well, maybe he will do it normally later, he will carry out the insulation, he will fix the jambs ....”
I was sure that if an idiot undertakes to do something, then it will be idiotic. This is the law. That is, if there are signs that the building citizen is an idiot, then he will definitely make all the mistakes, despite the fact that theoretically they can be eliminated at subsequent stages. And even sometimes normal people do them with an eye "I'll remove it later, it's temporary." I immediately said that an idiot was building here and, apparently, even a constructed horror is not the apogee, and it will only get worse, although purely technically it was possible to do something quite decent even from this freak and horror of heat engineering.
So, now the house is completed and we can say unequivocally: everything turned out as I said - the freak turned out to be just a reference:
As I promised, in the process of vapor barrier, let alone insulation, no one did. You can love it - the siding was smeared right along the rails:
Now it looks like this:
Next to it is a "bathhouse" of congenial design. And a pipe on strings. Weeping.
So what do we have? Surprisingly ugly coffin-of-music house. I remember that Raskolnikov went from living in such a kennel to killing old women. The layout is still the same, it must be. Dark. Yes, even terribly trimmed with siding with a claim to "design". Nightmare. And that's just outside.
It's even sadder inside. Monolithic slabs on foam-gas-lizards laid without belts, ligaments and frame. How it all holds up is unclear. Don't understand the foundation. There is no warming. The ends of the ceilings go straight into the frost: hello ice rink on the floor in winter, despite the hellish wood-eating stove and the sauna under the ceiling ...
Let's note, it would be okay if people from poverty sculpted something like this, a la “A group of birdhouses under the type of one roof named after the Voronya Slobidka”:
Or something like "A Very Lonely Birdhouse":
Everything is clear here - from what it was, from that they blinded. For 5 rubles from shit and sticks. The sabzhovy house - on lyam, from all the best, was made immediately according to the plan, and not as “Let's do something, and then, as soon as the money appears, we will attach a porch and a kitchenette on the mezzanine to the toilet!”. No, here they immediately built garbage with full awareness of what they were doing. Not “from what it was”, but from the best. But shit turned out worse than that teremok.
No, citizens, the construction idiocy of fellow citizens is incurable. I am writing here these analyzes, I am writing, and the freaks are molded more and more terrible and pompous!
Previously, they sinned on poverty, this and that, on the wretchedness of life, because, they say, the sheds are so terrible. Now you can't write! All money chickens do not peck, they visited Europa, the Louvre was already climbed all over to yawning boredom, and freaks are growing like mushrooms on an ever-increasing scale. No, there is definitely nothing to do with Soviet power. Sounds like something needs to be changed at the conservatory. I mean, only a good surgeon can help a bad dancer. Lobotomy. Otherwise, no way!
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