Facing the house

Now, any structure can easily be turned into a castle of a knight, a log cabin or a modern urban dwelling. The list of finishing materials is huge and it is easy for a newcomer to get lost in it. This is a shortened list of what you can use today in construction.

Materials for facing facades of houses

1. Tile for facing the house.

This kind of decoration of the facade can be used, both for new buildings, and in restoration work, when housing is in the old historical areas. The variety of the texture of the material makes it possible to embody the most fantastic design solutions. Here are the most common types of tiles for exterior decoration of walls and facing the base of the house:

• tiles made of stone;
• tiles from porcelain stoneware;
• concrete tiles;
• clinker tiles for facing the house;
• slab of agglomerate;
• thin ceramic tiles.

This material is old, expensive, heavy, but extremely stylish and durable. Traditionally used in the construction of granite, marble, limestone, sandstone. There are also substitutes, not inferior to them in their characteristics. For example, you can order an architectural stone of artificial origin, which can not be distinguished from sandstone or limestone. In addition, make a facing stone from waste of natural raw materials, which in the masonry resembles granite, slate, other natural rocks.

Impregnated with modern antiseptic wood has not only a great view, but also is able to resist bad weather, hot sunshine, frost and other factors. There are several types of lining materials based on natural wood:

• ordinary lining - dried and prepared board for finishing the walls of a single piece of wood;
• block house - the exterior of the house resembles an old dwelling built of real round logs;
• board for simulating the construction of a bar;
• planken - covering board with four chamfers, having different configurations, usually it is fixed to the wall with small gaps.

If you do not want to waste time for additional preparation of walls and expect the arrival of heat, which allows you to produce "wet operations", you can consider the option of exterior decoration of residential or economic buildings with convenient and practical panels. At the moment, a number of natural and synthetic materials are used, of which these products are made.

Types of facade panels:

• metal panels (aluminum, galvanized steel, copper);
• PVC siding for facing the house;
• wood fiber panels;
• panels made of polyurethane;
• panels of fiber cement composition;

All this wide choice will allow you to easily simulate a brick finish, the lining of a house under a tree or a masonry.

Modern bricks can look quite unusual and can be successfully applied even for design work. You will easily find products not only with a flat surface, but also with a matte, covered with glaze, having an invoice for wood or natural stone, which has a variety of colors.

With the advent of panels and facing artificial stone, users have become slightly less likely to use wet types of wall finishing, and the warranty period for old mineral plasters does not exceed 10 years. But there are also more expensive mixtures that have completely unique characteristics.

Here is a list of modern plaster compositions:

1. Acrylic plaster . It is not able to "breathe", but it is great for a surface insulated with polystyrene. This coating is durable and not afraid of vibration.
2. Silicate plaster . This material has even more valuable properties. It is ductile, air-permeable, has good anti-static properties, which do not allow dust to stick to the walls. The disadvantage of such plaster is one - high cost, but it can serve the owners for almost a quarter of a century.
3. Silicone plaster . This type of coverage can be called the most "advanced" from a technical point of view. The properties of silicone plaster is almost ideal, it is 25 years old, it does not absorb salts or other harmful chemical compounds, which allows it to be used near motorways or the sea coast.