wooden buildings on personal plot should not only be protected from the weather, but also look decent.
Therefore, their facades must be periodically painted. I'll tell you how to do it without much straining.
Painting a wooden shed: background
Our rather spacious utility block measuring 4 x 5 m with a small veranda, divided by a partition into two rooms, each with its own entrance, was built first and was initially used for living. They treated him carefully and carefully watched his appearance.
But over time, other buildings grew on the site, so that hands and funds were not enough to maintain in perfect order all objects. Because of this, the re-painting of the walls of the utility block outside began much later than it should have. Old protective covering it peeled off in places, these areas darkened greatly, and the sheathing boards themselves were noticeably warped from rain and sun. In such a situation, it was decided not to sand the surface of the skin and not to wash off the old rather light coating from it, but only sweep the walls with a brush from dust, cobwebs and peeling paint. For finishing, they chose the Aquatex-Extra protective coating in the Kaluzhnitsa color - darker than it was before.
The mother-in-law heroically took up the finishing of the utility block, because in her youth she worked for some time as a painter at the factory, but demanded that she buy an airbrush. Before that, we usually managed with a brush and a roller.
But ordered - done. We chose an inexpensive, although not the cheapest model of the Defort DSG-400 spray gun with a built-in fan. The paint is fed into the sprayer nozzle by a powerful air stream created by a fan (as in a hose nozzle for domestic vacuum cleaners).
Therefore, the number of parts of the spray gun that must be thoroughly washed after work is much less than that of a similar tool with a piston pump. In our case, the torch at the outlet of the atomizer is formed in the form of an oblong oval rather than a cone. In this case, by turning the bell, you can choose the vertical or horizontal direction of the long axis of the oval of the torch. In one pass, a uniform, fairly thin layer of coating is applied to the surface.
But the work is moving fast. It took less than an hour to paint in one layer of gables and walls - however, five layers of paint had to be applied to make the result opaque. A serious drawback of the composition used for finishing is a significant holding time before applying the next layer. I had to "catch" the weather without rain and strong wind. But we were quite satisfied with the result.
Painting the hozblok with an airbrush: photo
Paint a wood shed with a spray gun: work progress
The powerful (400 W) spray gun turned out to be quite light: together with paint (0.8 l), it weighs less than 2 kg.
The viscosity of the paint was checked using a VZ-4 viscometer. It is measured in seconds.
Filling the viscometer cup with paint to the brim, we measured the time during which it would flow out through the lower hole 0 4 mm. Depending on the type of paint used, the viscosity should be in the range of 18-35 s. We didn't have to thin the paint.
Before starting work, you need to protect yourself from getting sprayed paint on the skin, eyes and lungs. A protective suit, gloves, goggles and a respirator coped with this. Having connected the filled spray gun, they checked its functioning.
Holding the spray gun at a distance of 25-30 cm from the surface to be painted, alternately up-down and right-left movements formed a layer of protective coating.
Each time going up or down the stairs, the location of the power cord of the tool and the extension cord was controlled, since they are energized.
After disassembling and washing the parts of the spray gun, a small amount of solvent was washed into its reservoir and, having assembled the tool, the solvent was sprayed to clean the nozzle.
In country design, even utility blocks can be not just a barn, but a real work of art. I bring to your attention interesting ideas utility sheds, houses for inventory and workshops. All these structures can be made to give with your own hands, decorate to your liking.
Hozbloki can be without windows to prevent easy theft of the tool if your site is located in a not very quiet place.
The wall of the shed can be decorated with painted plastic plates screwed on with self-tapping screws. At my dacha, the northern wall is decorated in this way, I painted them myself.
Your workshop may also have a small porch where you can sit and take a break from country affairs and worries.
The classic design of a cute hozblok, decorated with ampelous flowers, as well as tub and tray compositions.
The octagonal guest house can be used both as a workshop and as a utility block.
Hozblok combined with a garage. Even a shed can have a beautiful front garden with flower beds.
A stylish guest house made of foam blocks can also serve as your workshop.
Here's another one nice idea hozbloka enthusiastic summer residents. Doors, as I like, with floor-to-ceiling glazing.
A wonderful idea for a utility block combined with a guest house.
The idea of imitating windows with trays of flowers will revive plain walls barn.
A nice composition of a shed and a pergola with a seating area.
Classic barn in the country or private courtyard.
Still, it's nice that there are people who create beautiful landscape design solutions from ordinary, familiar buildings.
It would seem like a barn, but here is the porch, here are the flowers - and already a completely different feeling! Some joy...
If the shed is painted in light shades, then the site will immediately become more fun.
Old tools can be hung on the walls, decorating them in rural country style.
Neat guest house, lined with shingles.
A beautiful idea for a shed in the country is a flower bed and flower trays, a stone slab path leading to the building.
high barn with pitched roof and windows for light from the ceiling.
The original hozblok for storing inventory in the country.
Workshop idea for suburban area- I can assume that the artist creates his masterpieces here!
natural roof in scandinavian style- in Norway, on old houses you can find turf. Well, here the designer's idea was to plant a flowering lawn.
Some ideas are so good that they can even form the basis of a small country house, not the hozbloka.
In the photo - a completely working option for a summer house on a plot of 6 acres.
Wenge-colored shed - stylish solution in color!
A stone hozblok in an English estate is a construction for more than one century, and more than one century is ahead!
A simple idea for a shed for storing inventory in a summer cottage.
Beautiful frame shed, sheathed with plywood.
A squat hozblok is a design idea for your dacha.
The original solution is an imitation of shutters on the window.
You can make such hozbloks with your own hands in a week, thus you will find a place where you can store the tool. But do not turn the room into a pantry!
The idea of designing an approach to outbuildings in the country.
It would also be good to provide a canopy over the door so that in the rain you can open the door without standing under falling drops of water.
An unusual solution for the entrance group made it possible to create an additional door.
A solid barn built in Western style.
The idea of the hozblok is a square-shaped workshop.
The idea of a hozblok with an asymmetric roof.
Hozblok with a beautiful front door on massive loops.
Unusual hozblok with walls made of wood cuts. I have repeatedly met a similar solution, I wonder how labor-intensive and reliable it is?
On this, let me say goodbye to you today, see you tomorrow! Stay tuned for updates, share ideas with your friends, get inspired and create unique beauty on your site!
The summer resident is constantly in time trouble with problems related to the maintenance of the site. Painting a barn is far from an urgent issue of improvement. However, it should not be removed from the agenda. You just need to do it quickly, beautifully and for a long time.
Barn impregnation
Usually the construction of a barn precedes the construction of a summer house. The task is to store tools and materials. You can sit out the bad weather or relax in the shade. All forces and means are thrown at home. There was only enough energy for the correct placement of the utility block on the site, giving it even geometric shapes with upholstery of the walls with an unplaned board. If funds allow, you can deviate from the accepted path and buy a shed for a summer residence.
The situation is quite understandable and justified, but only until the main building appears. Inexpressive structure, lost on the border dacha territory, will thoroughly spoil the overall impression of the result achieved. The way out in this situation is to paint the barn in the country with a water stain and antiseptic solutions. This solution provides a number of advantages compared to traditional staining:
- no surface preparation required. When it comes to unplaned boards, the point is extremely important. Allows you to save a lot of time;
- wood is deeply impregnated. The hairiness of the surface does not affect the color. Exfoliating the fibers only improves the quality of the surface;
- you can paint the barn using the most a simple tool: brushes and roller. Any primitive spray gun, including hand-held flower sprayers, will greatly reduce the time;
- save money and time. The cost of stain and tools is small. The impregnation procedure consists in the abundant application of the agent to the surface of the board. Smoothing movements are not required. Good result in time and quality is achieved when painting with a wide brush;
- in contact with aqueous compounds, the villi experience cyclic moistening and drying, as a result of which they warp and fly off the surface. Each time the treated surface only gets better;
- it is possible to apply impregnating compositions with additives that improve resistance to decay, insect damage, and increase the fire resistance of wood.
- the widest range of colors and shades that can be obtained by preparing a stain solution.
Gradually, the time pressure will become less acute. The eyes will pick out imperfections such as blackness from nail heads, a matte surface, color unevenness in tarry areas, and surface damage. So, it's time for the traditional painting of the barn with preliminary surface preparation. By this time, the pile had completely disappeared. It remains to clean up the remains with sandpaper, putty the bumps and choose the right paint. At the same time, repair the dilapidated roof using modern materials.
Paint selection
For sheds in the country, it is better to stop at oil paints. Their film thickness is sufficient to hide surface imperfections. In addition, they do not cause the appearance of wood hairiness. They have a good gloss and a variety of color scheme. Can be the basis for alkyd enamels. This is in case the owner of the country barn does not have enough of a slightly muted oil sheen.
Acrylic compositions from painting to painting last longer, but it is extremely difficult to remove their residues from the surface. On large areas that are not in perfect condition, it is difficult to do this.
What color to paint the barn in the country?
When choosing a color, you should not beat the composition of the external design of the house. Utility buildings should set off the main structure. The gaze should only glide over their design, snatching correct forms and a strict color corresponding to the barn, and again return to the house, the lawn, the gazebo near it.
The established color scheme was the use of gray or brown tones in combination with black shading elements. Traditional color schemes "take their eyes off" small "blunders", which, of course, are always present in a hastily knocked together barn that marked the beginning of the development of a summer cottage.
No matter how much space there is country house, on a personal plot one cannot do without such a necessary outbuilding as a barn.
If there is no experience of self-construction yet, but the owner knows how to handle the tool, he can easily build a barn at the dacha with his own hands, following the instructions.
If the shed will be located next to the house, and it is important that it looks aesthetically pleasing, it is better to use the same materials from which the house is built. To reduce the cost of construction, you can finish the shed with siding - it can be different, and imitates any materials - wood, brick, stone of different textures.
How to make a barn quickly and inexpensively
Guided step by step instructions how to make a barn on your own, you can build it in as soon as possible while spending very little money.
One of the easiest, fastest and cheapest options is a frame shed. The frame itself can be either made of wood or metal, it is sheathed on the outside suitable material, install the roof - and comfortable outbuilding ready for use.
If the barn is wooden, then the frame can be made of timber. But it is more convenient, more reliable and durable to make a frame from profiled pipes with a rectangular or square section - a profile with round section more difficult to join and weld.
There are also ready-made metal frames on sale, which are assembled using self-tapping screws, and at the factory you can order a design according to your own drawing.
As practice shows, the assembly of both metal and wooden sheds usually takes only a few days. The photo shows sheds on frames - what they are, and how beautifully they can be finished.
What to be the foundation
Sheds on frames are lightweight buildings, so the foundation for them is made lightweight. Most often, several posts, screw piles or a concrete block are enough - one or more, depending on the area of \u200b\u200bthe barn.
If the soil is land plot complex, the foundation can be tape shallow laying of special monolithic blocks.
Reinforced strip foundation it will withstand even bricks and building blocks as walls - the building will be reliable and will not crack on the ground, which is prone to swelling, since the movement of the building will occur along with the foundation.
The choice of the type of foundation depends on the soil on the site, the area of the barn, the material from which it is built, as well as the financial capabilities of the owners of the site. But the easiest, fastest and cheapest way is to build a barn on a frame without a foundation.
Frame shed without foundation
Frame sheds can be built without a foundation at all. There are two options. In one case, the racks treated against decay are deepened by 60-80 cm, concreted, and then the lower trim is attached to them, on which the floor is laid on the logs. It should be noted that this method is only suitable for building a small area.
On soils that absorb and drain water well, you can also build a barn without a foundation like this: the site for construction is marked in such a way that the site on which the barn will stand is 0.5 m wider on each side than the area of \u200b\u200bthe building itself .
Sod is removed from the ground and sand and gravel bedding is made, which must be carefully compacted. A strapping beam is laid on the prepared place, logs for the floor treated with an antiseptic are attached to it - the logs will be in direct contact with the ground, so treatment with an antiseptic is required.
As soon as logs for the future floor are laid on the site, the floor itself is made. It can be made of board, from sheets of moisture-resistant plywood or from oriented strand board (OSB). In this case, the recommended thickness of materials:
- for the board - 20 mm;
- for plywood and OSB - 13-15 mm.
When the site for the building is ready, you can begin to build a barn.
Note!
When building a frame shed with a shed roof, the roof should be installed correctly - its angle of inclination should be such that snow easily rolls off it.
Practice shows that the optimal angle of inclination is achieved with a height of one wall - 3 m, and the opposite - 2.4 m. It is good to cover the roof with ondulin - this roofing material is also called euroslate.
Ondulin is much more attractive in appearance than slate, it has a wavy shape, and its color can be different, this allows you to make the roof of the barn beautiful, cheerful, truly country.
Having started assembling the frame, first, racks of each wall are mounted alternately in the floor. If not boards are chosen for sheathing, but ready-made slabs - made of wood, metal or other material, sheathing can be installed on the frame of each wall in advance, on the ground, and the wall can be fixed to the floor in finished form. Alternatively, the walls can be sheathed with OSB 9.5 mm thick.
There is an alternative technology - Balloon (balun). With this method, the installation is carried out gradually - immediately on the strapping or the blocks themselves, the corner frame racks are fixed as the racks are mounted in height. Between them, at each new height level, a rope is pulled, along which the next racks are then set up.
Note!
When installing window and doorways it should be noted that the load on the frame is greater here, therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the frame in those places where the window and door sashes will be attached. To do this, the openings are equipped not only with corner, but also with reinforced racks.
Roof erection
Since the roof of the barn will be shed, rafter system is simple: rafter boards, the length of which, to ensure an overhang (as a rule, it is made 30-50 cm) must be greater than the length of the side of the area itself, intended for the roof, are laid on the edge. For example, if the planned shed area is 3 m by 3 m, then the length of the board for the rafters should be 3.840 m.
The boards are nailed obliquely - two nails on both sides, so that the roof can more reliably withstand loads under snow pressure and when strong wind, it can be reinforced with metal corners.
It is necessary to mount a crate on the roof (suitable 100 * 25 mm). If the roof is planned to be covered with ondulin, then recommended by the manufacturer of this roofing material the optimal step of the crate should be 40 cm.
The final step is to cover the roof with the selected material - ondulin, slate or others.
Note!
Completion of the barn
After the erection of walls and roofs, windows and doors are mounted in the prepared openings.
At the door, you can make a small porch, or just one or several small steps, depending on the height of the barn threshold.
The sheathing of the shed can be painted to match the roof, or if it is wooden, leave the natural color, which will look organic in the country, by drying it.
And the foundation, so that the building looks aesthetically pleasing and neat, is sewn up with an asbestos sheet.
Such a barn, if the site on which it is being built, has already been prepared, can be erected in just a couple of days. Built with your own hands and taking into account individual needs, it will turn out to be very comfortable and beautiful.
DIY barn photo
