For laying wood concrete blocks, it is recommended to use perlite mortar or sawdust concrete mixture. The use of cement-sand mortar requires moistening the material before starting work. If this is not done, the wood concrete absorbs water from the solution, which negatively affects the strength of the masonry.

Features of wall construction:

• The blocks are laid in a checkerboard pattern. Bonded masonry is more reliable and durable. To reduce the consumption of adhesive solution and improve the quality of masonry, you can use tongue-and-groove arbolite blocks.
• After laying three rows, you need to take a break for a day. After the solution has dried, work can continue. The use of additives that increases the rate of strength gain allows you to increase the speed of work.
• When building residential buildings from wood concrete, it is recommended to reinforce every fourth row of masonry. To do this, use a polymer mesh or steel reinforcement treated with enamel or other anti-corrosion compounds.

1.4. Roof

It is recommended to use lightweight materials for roof construction. Both the frame and the roofing must meet this requirement. The best option for a residential building made of wood concrete would be to install a gable roof. This design perfectly performs its functions, does not interfere with the melting of snow and allows the weight of the roofing system to be distributed as evenly as possible over the load-bearing walls of the building.

In addition to double-slope roofs, common types of roofing systems include:

• Hip hip roof. Its design consists of two trapezoidal and two triangular slopes. Such roofing systems are very popular due to their reliability and excellent external characteristics.
• Hip roof. Four slopes, having a triangular shape, are connected at the top point. Correctly performed installation and successful selection of materials guarantee an attractive appearance and durability of the roof.

• Mansard roof. The upper slopes will have a gentle slope, and the lower slopes will have a steep slope. A sloping roof allows you to create additional useful space under the roof.
• Roofs of dome and conical type. Vaulted roofs decorated with turrets serve more of an aesthetic function. Such designs look very nice on large buildings with differences in levels.

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Arbolite is a unique, environmentally friendly building material

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Arbolite: material features

Wood concrete, or wood concrete, is an environmentally friendly building material. Nowadays, it, undeservedly forgotten in the 90s, has received a second life thanks to a lot of advantages. The most common form of wood concrete is masonry blocks. This material is widely used in the construction of dachas and cottages.

Features of the composition

Wood concrete is made from wood chips (up to 90%), high-grade cement and an environmentally friendly hardener. In fact, it is a type of lightweight concrete. It combines the advantages of wood and stone.

Positive properties of wood concrete

This material perfectly retains heat and provides air exchange, so the cost of heating a house made of wood concrete is significantly reduced. It is as strong as stone. Wood concrete is practically resistant to rotting, so fungus and mold will not form in the walls of the building. It is fire resistant and can withstand high temperatures - up to 300 degrees.

Wood concrete is lightweight, so during construction there is no need to pour a foundation from expensive materials, and there is no need to use additional equipment to move wood concrete. In terms of volume, one block replaces almost one and a half dozen bricks, therefore, the construction of buildings from this material takes a minimum amount of time. Wood concrete, like wood, is easily subject to mechanical influences: drilling, sawing, so any fasteners can be fixed in it.

Wood blocks perfectly absorb concrete, which ensures their strong adhesion to each other without reinforcement. In this case, the walls become monolithic, and there is no need to waste time sealing cracks, as when building, for example, a house made of timber. When the building shrinks, due to the bending strength of the wood concrete, cracks will not occur. For the same reason, almost immediately after the construction of the box, you can begin finishing the walls. It is easy to carry out this process in a building made of wood concrete both from the inside and outside of the building. Wood concrete can be finished with any materials: plaster, siding, clapboard. When upgrading the external walls of a house, you must take care of waterproofing, since wood concrete consists mainly of wood chips and has high moisture absorption.

Building a house from wood concrete will save significant money, since the material itself is inexpensive compared to other analogues. There is no need to spend large sums on building the foundation and finishing the building. At the same time, wood concrete is an environmentally friendly material, strong and durable. A house made of wood concrete will always be warm and cozy.

In the modern world, every family wants to live in a good-quality country house! But a modern country house must be environmentally friendly, energy efficient and technologically advanced...
The ideal option for combining all of the above qualities of a modern home is Arbolit.

Source: Lesstroy Archive

People living in cement urban jungles often want to build their own home without the disadvantages of urban dwellings. The task is not easy, but there is a solution. This is the construction of a house made of wood concrete. The name of the material is unfamiliar to many, although it was developed and standardized back in the 1960s. At that time, 100 factories producing wood concrete were built in the USSR, and the material was quite popular. is a type of lightweight concrete, which consists of 90% wood chips, as well as high-grade cement and a hardener - calcium chloride.

Let's consider the questions that most often arise among people who are in the process of choosing a technology for building a house from wood concrete, as well as the answers that the owners of houses built from wood concrete have already received.

Advantages

It is 90% wood and does not burn. Arbolite consists of 90% wood and at the same time does not support combustion and does not smolder.

Low thermal conductivity. A house made of wood concrete is very warm. This will save on heating costs. In terms of thermal conductivity, it is inferior only to a house built of wood.

Speed ​​of building a house. In 1.5-2 months you can build a durable and warm house.

Project “4-180” from the company “EcoDom”, built from wood concrete

No need to wait for shrinkage. Arbolite blocks are easy to saw and chop, since the blocks are large - 300 × 200 × 500 mm. The house can be built “in one go.”

Allows you to save on the foundation. Arbolite blocks are lightweight, which makes it possible to save on the foundation - both in material and time terms.

The house does not require forced ventilation. A house built from wood concrete has good air exchange and breathes almost like a wooden house. This means that it does not require additional costs for installing ventilation and its operation. There is never dampness in a room made of wood concrete blocks, because wood concrete absorbs moisture well and releases it just as well.

Eco-friendly material. All components that make up wood concrete are environmentally friendly materials: wood, cement, calcium chloride (a chemical additive used in the food industry).

Good adhesion. Or, in other words, good adhesion allows you to plaster wood concrete walls without adding additional mesh.

No additional sound insulation required.

Myths

Arbolite is fragile. Most often, people think that it is impossible to build a two- or even three-story house from wood concrete. However, it is worth noting that wood concrete makes it possible to build such houses. The main reason is that wood concrete is a fairly durable material, which is similar in density to foam concrete, and the density of aerated concrete and some types of wood (for example, spruce) is even higher.

Project of a house made of arbolite blocks from the company ""

Wood concrete walls will not support kitchen cabinets. Arbolite walls are strong and, according to the owner of a house made of arbolite blocks, it is easy to drive nails into them and screw in self-tapping screws. The walls can also support heavy kitchen cabinets.

The block absorbs a lot of moisture. This is true. Here, manufacturers simply limit the use of wood concrete. Thus, it is not recommended to use wood concrete in contact with the ground, for example, as a foundation. In order to reduce moisture absorption of walls built from wood concrete, they must be protected from the external environment. The best way in this case is to plaster the house. It protects the house and allows the walls to breathe.

The house is shrinking. According to GOST, a house made of wood concrete shrinks 0.4%. Moreover, even if shrinkage occurs, the walls will not burst. When shrinking, arbolite slabs do not burst, but shrink. This is due to the fact that the slab is made of wood chips, which gives the wood concrete slab a slight elasticity.

You should also take into account: to prevent the house from distorting and bending, according to the technology, it is necessary to lay a load-bearing armored belt in the walls.

Lots of marriage. If only the wood concrete blocks were bought from dishonest manufacturers. If the block is produced without complying with GOST, then instead of wood chips in the wood concrete slab you can find bark, as well as unground tree knots. It is precisely these would-be manufacturers that often have problems with the geometry of the block itself. And due to this, it will be necessary to increase the thickness of the masonry seams.

The block is externally unattractive / has imperfect geometry. This is not the biggest drawback. Moreover, the house will be plastered and the blocks will not be visible. It is more important to buy wood concrete from trusted manufacturers.

Let us add that every tenth visitor (12%) is interested in real examples of building a house from wood concrete blocks. At the “Low-Rise Country” exhibition, real-size ready-made houses built from wood concrete are offered by the companies “” and “Ekodom”.

The year-round exhibition of houses “Low-Rise Country” () is unique in the suburban real estate market. Here you can see most of the currently available construction technologies for building houses in one place - there are more than 12 of them at the exhibition. View the house from the outside, go inside to get acquainted with the furnishings and interior design. Get advice from a representative of the construction company. 40 construction and manufacturing companies are presenting their homes at the exhibition.

Address of the exhibition of houses “Low-Rise Country”:
Moscow region, Kotelniki, Dzerzhinskoe highway. ow. 7/7

Draw your own conclusions:

It's no secret that wood is the most environmentally friendly material. It is easy to breathe and pleasant to live in a wooden house, it is warm and relatively inexpensive. However, it has important disadvantages: it is not durable, as it is susceptible to rotting and burns quickly.

A stone house does not have these disadvantages: it is made of brick or different types of concrete. But such a house deprives you of the opportunity to have a microclimate favorable for life, is devoid of the unique aesthetics of wood, and, of course, many simply cannot afford it.

A house made of wood concrete is the best composition of wood and concrete!

The optimal structure of wood and concrete makes it possible to implement the construction of country houses that “breathe”, are durable, do not burn, save money when heating the house, and also excellently retain heat inside the house.

Thermal conductivity of a house made of wood concrete is 0.08-0.11 W/(mK), wood 0.15-0.4 W/(mK)

The thickness of the standard wood concrete block “wood block” is 40 cm. Walls made of such blocks correspond in “warmth” to walls made of logs 50 cm thick. And these are not dry calculations, but real practice. For example, in Siberia, people live in houses made of wood concrete with walls 30 cm thick and are not additionally insulated. We recommend a block thickness of 40cm according to the new SNiP standard.

Why does a house made of wood concrete “breathe” like a wooden one?

Wood concrete walls are porous and consist almost entirely of wood, therefore they have the same breathable properties as solid wood.

Please note that since wood concrete does not require additional insulation, the “breathing” of the walls is not blocked by a dense “greenhouse” film of insulation and vapor barrier.

A house made of wood concrete is not afraid of fires!

Stone houses have stood for centuries. They will not turn to ashes in 15 minutes in the fire of an accidental fire, unlike wooden ones. Yes, wooden houses are protected with various fire retardant compounds, but it’s no secret that this is weak protection, and over time it “evaporates.” In addition, no one wants to inhale toxic fumes from fireproofing and antifungal impregnations.

Wood concrete does not support combustion and is a non-flammable material. Tests show that a house made of wood concrete can resist open fire without additional treatment.

A house made of wood concrete is not susceptible to rotting, fungus and pest infestation!

The wood “filling” of arbolite blocks is hidden under a reliable shell of a concrete shell. It completely protects the tree from mechanical and weather influences. Therefore, the house does not rot and does not lose its appearance.

A country house can be built from arbolite blocks in 1 month, and a country cottage in 2 months, without fear of “shrinkage” or seasonal temperature fluctuations!

Houses made of wood concrete blocks do not shrink. This property allows you to:

• First, build the walls very quickly,
• secondly, don’t wait a whole year and start finishing right away.

Cost of houses made of arbolite blocks

Construction of houses from arbolite blocks

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