How to deal with Rodents in a frame house: How to protect during housing and construction: Tips + Photos and Videos

Although the concept of erecting a frame house is not at all new and has been familiar for centuries, however, this method is especially famous received erection in recent years. Firstly, the growing need for affordable and high-quality personal housing and, secondly, the emerging manufacturing technologies of current building manufactories make it possible to produce a frame house on high-quality and environmentally friendly

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Advantages of a frame house

In North America, in northern Europe and in In Germany, a frame house is presented as a base for low-rise construction, our Russian builders also appreciated the advantages of this technology. The use of current materials makes it possible to produce a frame-panel house that is not inferior in strength and strength to a stone or brick one.

At the same time, the frame-panel house stands out advantageously:

• speed of construction, and therefore the lowest cost;
• less massive, not calling for a strong foundation: for frame houses, lightweight types of foundations are used on piles;
• ease of installation
• the possibility construction without reference to the season, since the materials used are not afraid of temperature drops;
• the use of panels with a straight surface significantly reduces the period for finishing;
• the use of sandwich technology makes it possible to use a huge variety of insulation materials , the selection of which is determined by the climatic region;
• modern building materials make it possible for frame-panel dwellings to compete with classical ones in terms of heat and sound insulation, fire resistance, vapor permeability.
• ease of installation and ease of installation allows the designer to form the most diverse shapes.

A few words about the exterior decoration of the walls of frame housing. It is possible to use virtually absolutely all current facing materials: from wood lining and wood block house, up to vinyl siding and finishing bricks. The current frame-panel house meets absolutely all conditions of comfortable and tidy housing: it is created from natural environmentally friendly substances and can show its originality with the help of design solutions.

It could be characterized as perfect for the purpose of personal construction, when not one defect, at the main glance frivolous: these are mice. These small animals organize their own burrows in expanded clay and glass wool.

If they have already settled in the walls of housing, in this case, you need to think about how to drive them out of that place.

Maybe it won't work, maybe the mice will go to summer, and by winter they will return to their personal healed burrows. However, you should not be afraid in advance, it is easier to prevent the invasion of rats in frame houses than to drive them out.This must be done at the construction stage, and deciding how to protect a frame house from rodents, as a rule, is negotiated in the plan for building a dwelling.

How to protect a frame house from rodents

1. Thermal wool , used as insulation, carried out in the floor slabs of the lower floor, will protect against the appearance of mold, fungus, insects and rodents.

   The lukewarm wool, consisting of eighty percent recycled cellulose and twenty percent a mixture of boric acid and borax, is an excellent antiseptic for logs and repels insects and rodents.

2. A solution of borax or lime , which can be used to trim the structure of the structure.
3. An old method of rodent control, which our ancestors used from time immemorial: an addition to insulation ash, slag, tobacco dust, dry mint or wormwood .
4. Mechanical safety: monolithic reinforced concrete slab , laid in the base, will be a sure barrier for rodents. It is allowed to use the most inexpensive type: a fine-mesh iron net, filled in places where rodents are likely to penetrate.

We cover the frame house with a mesh from mice

It is allowed to hold it on the rough floor or wrap the base with it. The level of the iron mesh, filled in front of the plinth trim, must be at least one meter.

In addition, before insulation and finishing, it is allowed to cover all corners of the housing with a fine-mesh net.

It is allowed to protect the previously created frame house with a metal net. To do this, you should open it along the base of the house, at a depth of up to eighty centimeters (and if the holes of rodents already exist, then deeper than the dug passages). The grid is allowed to be dug at a distance from the dwelling, according to its perimeter, make a deep, narrow ditch and dust it with rubble. The base of the frame housing can be sheathed with a profiled sheet of structural steel of one and a half millimeters, which will serve as an obstacle on the road for rats and mice.

Protection of the floor

The floor, as the most likely place of invasion by rodents, needs loyal protection. When installing it, it is allowed to operate both an iron mesh and a monolithic reinforced concrete slab.

Also, an effective method of protecting the floor will be the use of such material as expanded clay. When installing a rough floor, expanded clay, which personifies the material acquired from burnt clay, should be placed on the ground with a layer of at least thirty centimeters. On top it is covered with a polyethylene shell, on which 2 layers of OSB-three plates are placed.

Then again a layer of expanded clay, and you acquire the structure of a rough floor, thoroughly protected from rodents.The effectiveness of the "expanded clay castle" is increased by oriented strand boards impregnated with boric acid and artificial wax - substances that repel rodents.

Heaters in the fight against rodents

When building frame houses plastic, which is an inexpensive material for thermal insulation, can be used as insulation.Nevertheless, foam polystyrene itself, despite its own excellent characteristics, is becoming a favorite place for nesting mice and rats.It is necessary to sacrifice the low cost of this construction material and use the most expensive type of insulation - lukewarm.

Undoubtedly, only specialists with the support of special equipment will be able to put the heat in high quality, they will carefully lay all the thermal insulation work, blocking everything probable crevices through which rodents can get in. This material will serve as an excellent protection not only from rodents, but also from insects, gris bka, mold, forming some kind of antiseptic environment, which eliminates the formation of absolutely all possible adverse conditions. In addition, the environmentally friendly material has excellent sound and heat insulation qualities.

Teplovata contains wood pulp and borax in its personnel, which are absolutely not dangerous to human health. The insulation does not emit harmful toxins, which is very important for people prone to allergic reactions.

"Grandfather's" methods of protection from rodents

There are methods of protection from rats and mice, which our ancestors used to enjoy. Rodents in all periods were unwanted visitors to human dwellings, as a consequence of this, he fought with them from small to large with improvised tools, which were effective, and almost all builders use them when erecting frame structures.

When building a dwelling, it is allowed to add tobacco dust, slag, ash, pine branches or dry wormwood or mint to the insulation. These natural resources will always drive away rodents with their own aroma. In addition, in a previously built dwelling, you can along the walls and behind them almost all builders in the course of housing construction cultivate structures with lime solutions.

Mechanical methods of protection

If the frame house was previously built, and into it at the same time families of rodents have moved in with you, and you have neither the strength nor the stress If you want to remove the dust on the floor and walls again to protect or process them, then it is allowed to turn to the classical methods of fighting mice or rats. The conversation is about glue traps or mousetraps.

An exhausting battle with rodents with the support of mousetraps has the ability to last constantly, if they have previously multiplied in large numbers. At that time, pesticides may arrive for reinforcements, which must be used with extreme caution. There are a number of negative factors here.

Firstly, a pet can get poisoned together with rodents, and secondly, a killed rodent has the ability to rot for a long time in an inaccessible area, carrying a heavy aroma through the dwelling.

Ultrasonic scarers

Specialized generators are quite productive at war with rodents, that function on the basis of ultrasound. The introduced supersonic repeller forms an area of ​​discomfort for rodents, completely without interfering with a person's own work.

Biological weapon

This is the most ancient enemy for rodents - a cat. When you are not allergic to the wool of these tame animals, the mere presence of a mustache-striped pet in your home will force the rodents to leave warm spots.

However, not all cats have the ability to catch mice. Decorative breeds of animals will not be able to provide a suitable rebuff to arrogant newcomers. As a result, you need to take an ordinary servant aristocrat, which in a short time will deal with annoying rodents.

Remember that rodent invasions are easier to avoid than fight them later. As a consequence, think about security methods before moving on to building.

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