Lake House: How to defend yourself from spring floods

High column foundation whose choice was due to the peculiarities of the site and annual spring flood, formed an unusual appearance of a log dacha

Our heroes are a married couple - they conceived to build a small cottage designed to relax in the summer season. The appropriate construction site was found in wooded terrain, at some distance from developed cottage settlements. Unfortunately, other characteristics, such as spring floods located near the lake, are attached to the satisfying hosts of the insulation and the picturesque landscape.

It turned out that the main source of its "nutrition" - melting snow, so after the spill, the reservoir quickly enters the shores and by the end of the summer it is generally a lot of merge. That is why the future owners did not become a fabulous site, to resolve the elements through optimally selected building technologies.

The future cottage from the very beginning appeared to spouses as a traditional architecture of a compact log cottage. Descending the planning project was found in the Kuusamo Hirsitalot catalogs, and its specialists of its design worked out a typical volume and spatial solution according to the requests of customers.

So, the future cottage was deprived of the attic - instead there was a living mezzanine, intended for arrangement of a guest room, and the living room received the second light. In parallel, the hosts consulted with the employees of the company's construction division, which advised not to abandon the rounded log for the construction of the walls, as the main element of the "defense" was to become a foundation. As a basis, simultaneously able to carry a load from massive logs and resist the spill of the lake, a column foundation with painter was recommended. The choice was also due to the impressive depth of soil freezing.

Monolithic reinforced concrete pillars were located less than 1.5 m from each other, opened by 2 m and brought to a height of about 1.5 m from the soil level. So that the cottage does not look like in the air, there was a well-ventible removable "Zabirka" between the collisters from wooden rails. By the way, this decision was taken by the question of the place of storage of the garden and economic inventory.

External and interior decoration

Maximum "dissolve" the cottage in the landscape environment and at the same time protect the material of the outer walls from the atmospheric impact helps the lesing, which does not change the tree of impregnation, selected for the processing of the rounded log from the street. The color was emphasized only by the door and window finish, eaves and stuffing of the skates, picking it to the tone of the basement of the foundation. From the inside, all the walls and partitions were also covered with impregnation on a water basis, but white, which visually spread the boundaries of the premises.

Heating system

Since the cottage was intended for seasonal living, he was decided to die with electricity. (The regulatory power allocated in Finland to a private house is sufficient not only for heating area equal to 200 m2, but also for the simultaneous sustainable work of all household and lighting devices.) The heating system made up from electrical convectors supplemented with a wood fireplace. The already traditional option with a water warm floor was not considered, since at the end of the season the owners would have to regularly inspect the cottage for its service job.

The landscape environment is left almost unchanged, so a simple garden inventory - plastic tanks for rainwater collection - in winter can be stored under the house

Landscape works were to clearing the site from the dog and other natural "garbage", as well as a delicate addition of the territory suitable for "meaning" with small architectural forms

Thanks to the large glazing area, the picturesque landscape surroundings - the pine forest and the lake - becomes part of a concise, decorated in natural colors (white, gray, brown, as well as various wood shades - from light to dark)

Bright paints in the cottage are almost not used. Exception is a soft group in the living room - a folding sofa and a pair of chairs in red upholstery

The cottage is located on the distance from other private buildings, so the windows in the premises are left without the usual - textile - design

To protect the floor covering from possible damage and extend its service life, the carpet has provided even under the dining group

Due to the insignificant height of the premises located under the mezzanine, the installation of suspended luminaires refused to favor false ceiling

TECHNICAL DATA

The total area of ​​the house is 82 m2 (excluding the Summer Room Square)

Designs

Building type: Wooden Citled Log

Foundation: reinforced concrete-type reinforced concrete type, horizontal waterproofing - waterproofing membrane

Outdoor Walls: Circusted Log in diameter 210 mm, Outdoor finish - Water-based lesing impregnation

Interior walls: logged in a diameter of 187 mm

Roof: Scope, solid flooring from profiled chalkboard, vaporizoation film, insulation - mineral wool ISOVER (thickness 250 mm), waterproofing - waterproofing membrane, roofing - bitumen tile

Windows: wood municipality klas1

Doors: Kaskipuu (entrance)

Life support systems

Water supply: Square

Sewerage: Local Claim Installation

Power Supply: Municipal Network

Heating: Electric Copper, Electric Convectors

Air conditioning: Split system

Additional equipment: wood fireplace, electric heater

Interior decoration

Walls: Water based tinting impregnation, ceramic tile (kitchen apron, bathroom, technical room), firing lining (sauna)

Floors: laminate, porcelain stoneware

Ceilings: lining (pine), lesing water-based impregnation

The enlarged calculation of the cost of living home with a total area of ​​82 m2, similar to the *

Name of works	Number of	Cost, rub.
Preparatory and Foundation Works
Marking axes in accordance with the project, layout, development, recess and backflow of the soil	set	76,000
Sand base device under the foundation	set	7250.
Device of monolithic reinforced concrete basement with painter	set	80 050.
Waterproofing foundation	set	8100.
Other works	set	18 300.
TOTAL	189 700.
Applied materials on the section
Sand for construction work	set	4750.
Concrete solution, reinforcement, formwork	set	180 300.
Waterproofing membrane	set	12 600.
Other materials	set	23 800.
TOTAL	221 450.
Walls, partitions, overlap, roofing
Building a house of rounded logs	set	360 800.
Driving Roofing Flexible Roofing	set	144 350.
Installing window and door blocks	set	128,000
Other works	set	39 350.
TOTAL		672 500.
Applied materials on the section
Rounded log diameter 210 and 187 mm, lesing impregnation on water based	set	638 200.
Vaporizolation film, mineral wool isover (thickness 250 mm), waterproofing membrane, bituminous tile	set	502 150.
Window wood municipality Klas1, Kaskipuu doors (entrance)	set	528,000
Other materials	set	83 450.
TOTAL	1 751 800.
Engineering systems
Electric installation work	set	48 300.
Installation of the heating system	set	46 650.
Plumbing work	set	182 250.
TOTAL		277 200.
Applied materials on the section
Materials for electrical work and installation of the lighting system	set	64 750.
Equipment and materials for installation of water supply and sewage systems (well, local cleaning unit)	set	362,000
Set of equipment and materials for installation of heating and air conditioning systems (electric boiler, electric convectors, split system	set	241 900.
TOTAL	668 650.
FINISHING WORK
The device of flooring of porcelain stoneware and laminate; Facing the walls with ceramic tiles and clapboard, ceilings - clapboard with impregnation of lesing compositions, other works	set	428 200.
TOTAL	428 200.
Applied materials on the section
Water based tinting impregnation, ceramic tile, spruce lining, laminate, porcelain stonework, lining (pine), lesing water-based impregnation, other consumables	set	731 750.
TOTAL	731 750.
TOTAL	4 941 250.