In country houses, very often in front of the entrance door builds a small room, which is called the veranda. It is simple and unheard, increases the space at home and makes it comfortable.
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Beginning of work
The veranda is built for many reasons, most often this desire to expand the living area, attaching another room to the house. It can be celebrated in it in the warm season, and this extension will additionally warm the house and especially the entrance door.
The veranda is usually built near the end side of the house, the entrance door is indoors. A timber or log is perfectly suitable as a building material, you need to build a frame method. You can use the remaining construction options, but for them you need carpentry skills. Examples of verandas from a bar can be viewed in the photo.

Before building a veranda from a bar, you need to draw a project of the future room. It specifies the sizes of materials that will be needed. The main part of the construction is the windows, and on their size, depends on which the veranda opens.
In the preparatory work, an important stage is to determine which depth to do the foundation. To do this, you need to consider what type of soil is at the construction site.
Necessary materials
Use standard bars if you want the veranda from the bar to have an affordable price. It is best to build a column foundation that the base consists of a brick. In addition, you will need such materials:
- rubbank;
- broken brick;
- concrete;
- bitumen hot.
For the roof, the veranda from the bar need to select the material that will approach the roof of the whole house. Or choose any modern coating. In addition, you will need:
- edged boards (for the construction of the lattice);
- rake (for fastening).
For windows, it is better to choose single frames. And in order to mount the frame to use:
- hammer, sledgehammer and ax;
- bulgarian;
- shovel;
- trowel;
- corner (made of steel) and level;
- roulette and nail);
- electric saw;
- nail, screw;
- antiseptic;
- construction lining, dry panel, gypsum solution.
Foundation of veranda
The depth of the structure should coincide with the depth of the foundation of the whole house, in this case the veranda will not "depart." According to experienced builders, it is better to make a column foundation under the veranda, but too tough it does not need to attach it to the house. The posts must be put under the angular rack, and if the structure is large enough, then also under the intermediate.
Troops Construction of the foundation:
- Make a markup where the foundation columns will be located.
- Drop the pits under the columns to the depth of 1 m.
- Pour into the pit of the sand with a thickness of 20 cm. In the sandy soil you need to fall asleep crushed stone instead of sand, 10 cm layer thick.
- Halong in the pit hot bitumen.
- Make a concrete base so that the edge above stood strictly horizontally.
- After concrete freezes, lay out brick poles. Half the veranda should be 20 cm lower than the level of the house.
- Poles to handle bitumen and flood with rubble.
- Brick fragments need to lay space in the middle of the pillar. Instead of bricks, you can use gravel.
- Between the supports to make a wooden or brick bog. Watch that the surface surface looks homogeneous.
Frame veranda
To build a frame, the bars with a cross section of 100x100 and 80x120 mm are remarkably.
- On the foundation pillars, put the bottom strapping. In the corners, the compound should be half a tree and a direct lock.
- Double strapping from below must be performed to crawl into lags. For them, the floor will be laid in the future.
- In the strapping you need to put racks and strengthen with nails, so the connecting nodes will increase.
- The strapping from above must be put on the rack and attach with spikes and nails.
- Place the rafters, attach their upper ends to the beam, which is located under the roof of the house.
- With the help of anchor bolts, turn the run and racks that are located near the residential area. Bakes with resting rafters need to be thoroughly attached in the wall.
Today, increasingly during the construction of the veranda from the bar is used by sliding walls. In addition, it is very beautiful, it is also convenient. Thus, from the veranda you can get a summer terrace. And in rainy or cold weather, the walls are closed, and it turns out a cozy room. The sections of this wall are binding to metal loops. When opening the wall, they are going to the harmonica. When they are closed, they must be consolidated to metal hooks moving one side to another.
Roof of the structure
The roof of the veranda needs to be made can be completely relative to the roof of the residential structure. From the materials worth to give preference to the one from which the main roof of the house was built, so the construction will look harmoniously. It is necessary to stream on the crate, the plank laying horizontally. They can be put, both closely and with intervals, for example, a rolled material is better to put on top of a solid flooring from the boards, the rubberoid is attached to them with the help of nails, the hats of which should drown in a tree.
Proceedings:
- On the flooring to put the material in rolls, to dissolve and nail a nail.
- Navigate the rails fixing the runneroid.
- On top of the rails cover with a chopped roll, to do this, use nails.
- Breasting under the crate to 7 cm below and nailing.
If the roof is steel, then the course of work is:
- Set a solid or rarefied crate.
- Connect steel sheets with falcue seam and consolidate to the crate with nails.
- If the roof is a wavy, then the reheat must be on the wave, and the sheet that below should be overlapped with a top 15 cm.
Window on the veranda
To set the window, you need to perform a number of works:
- At the height of the half-meter from the floor, fasten the windowsill board. On the veranda, the window sills will be lower than in an ordinary house.
- The distance between the strapping and the windowsill must be hidden under the lining or under wooden panels.
- Since this building does not be insteading, the loudsight of the veranda should be carried out outside.
- Experts recommend alternating windows, alone let the flaps be tightly closed, and others have to open. Since the room will not be heated, then there will be a frame with one glass.
- Window blocks must be set in this way: insert a finished block in the opening and wedges to attach it in the corners. Next to attach with nails window box. All the gaps that remain should be closed with dry palauls, but not to the end, leaving the third part of the package for the panel, which was dirty in the gypsum solution. It remains only closed gaps to close with wooden platbands.
Building floor and stairs
The floor in the veranda should be found in this way:
- The floor should look like a coating of boards in one row.
- Boards need to put on the lags that are between the two crowns of the lower strapping.
- From above and boards, and lags need to be treated with an antiseptic agent.
- From above, antiseptics apply paint or varnish.
- On the porch, the upper step should visually continue the floor.
After the floor of the veranda is ready, there will be a turn to install a staircase:
- At one level, with the floor you need to build upper steps.
- In the two growths that are a bit at an angle, you need to attach parts of the direct staircase.
- The lower step must be at the ground level, and its ends to fit tightly to the the teta and attach the nail.
- Now you need to install inserts, they are cut according to the template, they look like the outlines of the sideboard. They are also attached to the tutor.
- Between the inserts there must be risers and the supporting board, it will keep on yourself bother over.
Arrangement of the room
Highlights of arrangement:
- The door to the veranda can be installed on any side where you will be convenient, it will have to be included in the drawing to leave the place for it.
- When choosing a material for finishing, you need to pay attention to the finish of the whole house. Well, if the materials will coincide, so the whole design will look very organic. Do not forget to go through all the wooden elements of the antiseptic.
- If it is important for you that in the veranda it was warm in any weather, you can think about additional thermal insulation.
- The veranda can be issued in different styles, it looks good rustic and eco-style.
- Due to the fact that the verandas are usually built small, you need to carefully consider where to put furniture. Since almost every wall is located several windows, put the cabinets and hang the shelves from a deaf wall.
- Well saves sliding furniture. You can combine the desk with a window sill, put folding chairs or a sofa near the wall without windows.
- Be sure to buy curtains, blinds or sunscreen, so that in the summer time to escape from the heat.
In the hot period, relax in the veranda from a bar built with your own hands is a pleasure, it's not such a high temperature as in the rooms, so many owners even move there overnight. In any case, if you do not regret your strength and material, you can create a cozy place for recreation.










