A beautiful, spacious and dry cellar is needed in any private household. Here you can save conservation, vegetables, winter fruits, grape and wine collected in autumn. You can build a detached building, but it will not only take up space in the yard, but will require special protection from frost and moisture. It is most rational to build it together with the house. This option significantly reduces the cost of construction. By the way, if the area of the underground floor is relatively large, then it makes sense to divide it by equipping the boiler room, garage , billiard room, sauna with it below.
How to make a basement in the house with your own hands?
- Our article will tell you how to erect a house with a basement of blocks installed on a cast-in-place concrete slab. In this case, the base is obtained as a whole, shrinkage, if it occurs, will be uniform and without critical distortions, and the floor will be maximally rigid. To begin with, using the technique or manually swarm according to the drawings of the pit.
- At the bottom of the pit we prepare a pillow of sand, water it with water and we compact it.
- To equip the waterproofing over the cushions pour a plate of concrete to 10 cm thick.
- On top of the slab lay a waterproofing roll material, which is soldered. It is advisable to give issues on the sides up to 100 cm.
- Next, we make a framework of reinforcement. By the way, the slab can be poured more on the area, rather than the foundation of the house.
- Fill the concrete.
- One of the options for building a good basement in a private house with your own hands is the pouring of its walls of concrete with the M200 mark, which will require the erection of the formwork and installation of the reinforcing mesh.
- We chose a faster method using prefabricated blocks. To position them is as close as possible to one another.
- Install blocks on the concrete solution like brick masonry, so that they are located at random.
- In massive cellars it is better to use metal grids during construction, they will make the construction stronger, which is important in places with poor soils and areas with a risk of seismic activity.
- We adjust the viscosity of the solution so that it completely fills the formed voids.
- We control the laying level, the curvature of the walls worsens the fortress built.
- Over the blocks fill the reinforcement belt.
- At the next stage of building the basement under the house with their own hands, we cut the seams and fill the gap between the blocks with the building compound.
- Outside, we produce waterproofing of the structure and only then the trench is filled with soil.
- It is recommended to fill it with clay, then making a rammer.
- Strong walls and a flat floor allow you to easily produce waterproofing and finishing work.
- The construction of a quality and spacious basement in a private house by its own hands is finished, we begin construction of the walls.
Some owners missed the initial moment of building a dwelling or bought a building without an underground room. To erect a basement already in the finished house with their own hands is also possible, but this option has a lot of difficulties. Not every specialist will undertake it. For safety reasons, in order not to weaken the ground under the foundation with your new foundation pit, you will have to dig at some distance from the walls, and the cellar will occupy an area much smaller than the area of the main building.
Finally, we recall that any cellar requires a simple, but high-quality ventilation system. Usually a vertical channel is sufficient in the form of a chimney, which does not require huge costs, but allows for good air exchange in the basement.