10 years ago, plastic windows for country houses were considered a luxury available to a few. Today they are installed everywhere: in apartments, in chic mansions, and in modest houses. Let’s talk about whether it is worth placing plastic windows in wooden houses. And if so, then what you need to know about. Plastic windows have a lot of virtues. And one of them is their low cost. In addition, the frames and wings from PVC profiles are durable, have excellent thermal insulation, do not require any special care, as well as regular updating the protective coating, painting, and so on. The seals used in windows guarantee good tightness. By the way, for city apartments, this is often a problem (there is no natural ventilation necessary for a comfortable residence), but if you buy plastic windows at a wooden house, the walls will “breathe” instead of windows instead. But there must be at least some disadvantages of this type of material? Yes, if we talk about real, and not invented (for example, that plastic distinguishes harmful substances or that it does not fit the tree because of its “artificiality”), it is worth saying about the inability to resist the serious load (for example, when shrinking the house). But in this case, all voltage falls on the opening, and if it is prepared and executed correctly, then the windows do not have to experience the load. If one of the leading companies builds a wooden house for you, it is advisable from it and order the installation of windows. And if your builder does not do this, you will have to take on further risks. In order for the installation of PVC windows smoothly, you will be asked to write a refusal of claims in case of damage to the window that can happen after it can happen (the meaning is that the window opening can be built incorrectly, the window is deformed due to shrinkage and in this case the “window sides” are not really are responsible).Sound and log walls give a shrinkage by 6%, sometimes – by 10%. For two years, the house should completely “sit down”, although it happens that in the third year, the shrinkage is more than one percent. How to solve this problem? This is usually done using the so -called casing. This is a draft box of bars, which is installed so as not to interfere with the vertical displacement of the crowns, but at the same time blocks the horizontal. The specialist must correctly estimate the percentage of the shrinkage of the log house in order to leave the correct size of the gap over the jumper of this box. There are three types of casing boxes. Firstly, the traditional type: from the ends of the logs that form the sidewalls of the opening, you need to form a spike, and put on it a jamb with a rectangular groove. Secondly, the type of grooves on the ends of the logs, and with spikes-on the jambs of the box. Thirdly, the modern type: with spikes and grooves, both the sidewalls of the opening and jambs are equipped, due to which a strong lock is formed, which protects the structure from a draft. The racks-kosyaks ideally should be from a whole piece of wood. However, their manufacture, as well as the manufacture of PVC windows, requires special equipment or considerable manual labor costs. For this reason, such details are most often made using screws and nails: nailed bars to the boards. But here you need to take into account a lot so that there are no large gaps – otherwise the structure can shatter. To prevent this from happening, the gap between the top of the opening and the jumper is recommended to fill with Pacley or polyethylene foam, which is easily crushed and does not exert pressure on the jumper itself. So we found out that there are no complex and insurmountable obstacles to the installation of plastic windows in a wooden building. Therefore, you can safely order them by applying our advice in practice.
