Finishing work is an important component of any capital construction. Each person wants to transform their housing, make it unlike others and not overpay. Brick house decoration has been in demand for many years, because it gives an original and modern look. Also, this finish is highly reliable.
Another big plus is that finishing the house with a brick allows you to mask any irregularities and errors on the walls. There are many different offers on the market today, and not always a person without experience is able to make the right choice. Experts recommend before starting to understand what to pay attention to and what advantages each of the materials has.
How to choose a material?
There is an assortment of goods that could well become a brick home decoration. But what is more suitable, which option has a longer life and acceptable cost? Conventionally, all material is divided into purchased and one that can be made independently. Buy include:
- Panels for the facade.
- Decorating the house with brick siding.
- Clinker tile.
Now you need to understand what kind of finish and how to work with it. Facade panels are often compared with siding, but their dimensions are a hallmark. Although minor features that separate them into different groups are present. Brick siding for exterior decoration of the house has rectangular sheets, more even oblong, and the panels are square. According to external data, they are almost identical. In the process of creating these elements, the same material is most often used.
Homemade Finish
To implement the project of finishing a house under a brick yourself, you need to stock up on special components. It:
- Plaster.
- Cement.
- Tile adhesive.
The first option allows you not to do the creation yourself, so no time is wasted. In addition, you need to have some knowledge and be able to use cement compounds. Although, creating something on his own, a person takes into account personal needs and implements his projects, unique in the past and in the future. But in the end, each owner chooses what suits him best.
Front panels
Such decoration of the house with brick panels is considered the most popular and common in use. Because facade panels create various effects - both a perfectly flat surface and an emphasis on antiquity. The color is mostly natural. There are always various simulations of effects, but this is as close to natural as possible. The formation of masonry joints can also be different. The surface acquires smoothness or, conversely, roughness.
Going for a purchase, you can find several suggestions:
- Fiber cement.
- Polyurethane foam.
- Vinyl.
- Polymer sand.
- On a metal basis (at the same time they can have insulation or be without it).
All of these options can create any style you want for your home. Thus, finishing the house with brick panels allows you to create reliable protection that will last at least 15 years without requiring any additional coatings. Some are wondering how to care for the coating. There is no difficulty. As dust or dirt forms on the surface, you just need to rinse it with water.
What is suitable for any building?
Everyone knows that the most reliable building materials are cement and stone. Because the environmental impact on them does not have a great destructive effect. But to carry out such finishing work is always difficult and dirty. For this reason, everyone is trying to find an easier and cleaner way. Using fiber cement, unique panels are obtained that are soft and do not break when bent.
The manufacturing process has several stages. This is mainly a conveyor stream. The result is a product with its own characteristics and period of operation. Before you purchase it, you should know how the fixation occurs:
- On the wall.
- With the creation of a frame base.
Which way is better?
You need to choose a method depending on which walls of the facade of the building. If the house is built of foam blocks, then you can not do without a crate, because such a building material contains moisture inside, which can be absorbed into the panels. In addition, the crate acts as ventilation, so that moisture does not collect.
If the house is frame, then you can fix the finishing panels directly on the walls. Although experts believe that even in this case there will not be a full fit of the material to the wall. A small gap remains so that the steam leaves the house. After choosing the facing method, you can begin to directly finish the house (facade) under a brick.
What rules become the basis?
To erect a frame, you need to purchase a metal profile or wooden bars. Brick panels for exterior decoration of the house are also quite suitable for the basement. Based on this, the crate is also located on the foundation. Do not forget about ventilation, otherwise moisture accumulation will lead to serious violations of the integrity of the capital structure.
Recommendations
Do not skip recommendations from experts:
- The panels must not be placed too close to the starting bar. This is necessary to avoid the accumulation of moisture and the development of a favorable environment for mold and fungus.
- Butt joints should be as tight as possible so that water does not get through them under the finish, which can destroy the main structure.
- Mounting is done on special parts.
- There is enough clearance at the bottom of ten millimeters
- At work, the building level is used to completely avoid skewing of the material.
- Exterior decoration of a house under a brick is carried out starting from the central vertical axis of the wall, and then symmetrically in both directions.
What is required to be completed?
To implement any project, you need to plan and calculate how much will be required. Because all building materials are not cheap and you do not need to purchase too much. We need:
- Start and finish bar.
- Reciprocal level.
- Plank for forming joints.
- Corner details.
On sale can be additional components of any size. It is worth considering, according to your project, what exactly needs to be purchased. To calculate the cash and quantity of materials, it is worth making a drawing on a sheet of paper for clarity. In addition, a photo of a house decoration under a brick allows you to understand how visually it will look. For planning to turn out competent, the following parameters should appear in the figure:
- What is the length of the wall, minus the door and window openings.
- What is the distance between the openings.
- The distance from the corners of the walls to the window, door.
- From the bottom to the start of openings.
- From the top of the opening to the highest finish line.
Having learned all the indicators, it is already easier to calculate the finish area and, in accordance with this, the cost of the entire project. Moreover, the price in different regions may vary. After that, you need to start creating the crate. Her specialists pre-calculate, because you need to understand where she will stand. Carrying out the calculations, it is worth taking away the openings. All figures are in centimeters. Vertical profiles or bars made of wood are fixed at a distance of 100-120 centimeters.
When there is the length and width of one component, then it is not so difficult to calculate the area of the processed wall. In addition, it is easy to understand how much material is required.
What can’t you do without work?
To work quickly, you need to have at hand all the necessary tools:
- Screwdriver, screwdriver, drill.
- Hammer (when working with a concrete base).
- It is convenient to cut with a jigsaw.
- Level. The best option is hydraulic so that its length is sufficient.
- For metal cutting - scissors.
- Hammer.
To cut the panels to the desired length, an electric jigsaw is used, but you can also take the grinder with the corresponding nozzle. In order not to spoil the panels for decoration, it is worth doing all the work on a special table. Do not turn on high revs, otherwise sparks will appear. There are panels of small thickness on sale. But it’s more difficult to work with them because they break.
In order to fix the finishing material on the working surface, special fasteners - kleimers - are acquired. In addition, building brackets and other accessories will be required. All this is taken into account at the level of planning and calculating the cost budget. In the process of decorating a house, many use insulation. The process of fixing it has its stages of execution.
How to insulate?
When it is necessary to give the wall a denser state, then at the first stage heat-insulating material is laid. Foam sheet is quite suitable, although today many people choose mineral wool. For fastening, a dowel with an umbrella is taken. But when the surface of the walls is solid and even, you can get by with the glue mass. Here is the sequence of work:
- Installation of brackets.
- Glue application on polyfoam. After it is attached to the wall.
- For reliability, supplement with dowels around the perimeter at the right points.
- Using a stapler, a vapor barrier film is fixed to the heater.
- Then they make the frame and the panels themselves are fixed to it.
- The fixation of the base ebb.
When mineral wool acts as a heater, the process of its installation is the same. When warming is not required, then everything happens much faster.
Basic installation
When finishing a house with brick facade panels, do not forget about safety measures and personal protective equipment. Each material has its own characteristics, and in case of violations, fracture of the panels can occur. In addition, the service life is reduced. The project is transferred from paper to the wall - a marker, tape measure, level are used for this. And only after that the main work begins. You need to take a few basic steps:
- Drill holes for marking in increments of 80 centimeters.
- Suspensions are fixed around the perimeter of window and door openings, as well as along the vertical racks of the frame.
- The metal profile or bars are installed and fixed.
- Mounted vapor barrier film.
- Low tides are being made.
- Set the first starting bar on the bottom of the wall. Always at work the level is applied. Planks overlap.
- Outer corners join.
- To fix the panels, you need to use kleimers.
- Be sure to install a T-shaped profile so that there is no displacement of the panels.
- After it is better to set the finish and start - it is easier to create a smooth surface on them. Fixing these bars is not difficult.
- On the inside of the finishing area, you need to fix the drainage corners.
- After the installation of the panels continues. When approaching the inner corner, they fix the plate to the corner.
- Then the dividing bar is installed, and work continues.
- If a U-shaped profile is used, then gaps will need to be closed. For this, the components of the cladding are used, but in color identical to the base material.
- Next, you need to install window and door trims.
Phased execution of the work will not cause difficulties for anyone, and even beginners can follow the instructions.
Design and layout
When a design project is being compiled, it indicates which cladding is selected. At the same time, you need to try to combine it with all the elements of the exterior. If brick panels are preferred, then most often people choose gray or white shades. When there is a desire to transform the building, creating an elegant look, then the following options are suitable:
Sometimes projects are made from a combination of several colors. It turns out unique and beautiful. For example, a gray brick will look good with burgundy accents. Always in trend, red-brown color schemes against a gray or white background. Therefore, everyone decides what it is for him to choose for his structure.