It all started with the purchase of a plot in a newly built village the year before last. The decision to build a bathhouse with his wife was made spontaneously. We stopped at the project of a two-storey house with two bedrooms with a total area of 70 m2. The bar was ordered professional - chamber drying. The supplier was verified, so the quality of the materials was beyond doubt.
Construction process
The matter was approached by tradition - from laying the foundation. We built formwork along the entire perimeter and concreted it to the depth of soil freezing. Rubble strips were poured inside the perimeter of the foundation. When the concrete finally froze (~ 20 days later), it was time for the most interesting thing - laying the rows of the log house.
The thickest beams (20 * 20 cm) were used to assemble the first row - so that the structure could cope with heavy walls and roof. Before starting work, we placed thin 15 mm wooden slats along the basement plinth to protect the lower rows from rotting.
The gaps between the rails were filled with polyurethane foam. The bars themselves were treated with an antiseptic on all sides. Subsequent rows were laid with beams 15 * 15 cm of the same length.
The walls were erected in this order: first they laid the crowns, leveled them and fastened them with wooden dowels. The pins were driven into special holes that coincided with the holes of the fastening pins.
The holes were made at a distance of one and a half meters, and the drill drilled through the upper beam. After that, the lower bar was removed. Pins were driven into the holes, then a layer of insulation was laid. The upper bar was put in place.
All crowns were laid in the same way, incl. the topmost. We did not fasten the upper ones, because later they would still need to be removed for a while - for the installation of ceiling beams. When choosing mezhventsevoy insulation, I abandoned moss in favor of jute. The jute was unwound gradually and fastened to the bars with a stapler. After using jute, the need for caulking has disappeared.
When the main work was over, it was time to prepare the log house for a 6-month shrinkage. For this purpose, we placed boards on the upper crowns 40 * 50 mm and covered with slate on top - in this form the bathhouse had to spend the winter.
I didn't expect this
Spring delighted me not only with sunny days and the first snowdrops, but also with a lawsuit. Well, something, but I had no desire to act as a defendant. At first, my brain completely refused to delve into the content of the "letter of happiness." I missed the essence of the accusation, in my head one phrase sounded on repeat - a claim to demolish a bathhouse.
After chamomile tea (and a glass of vodka) the essence of the accusation reached me. The neighbors were not satisfied with the fact that my bathhouse "penetrated" half a meter into their territory. Say, the building violates the integrity of their site, and therefore creates a fire threat. Come to the Kamensky City Court and if you please defend your interests. One thing remained unclear. Why did the benevolent neighbors, seeing my shoals, keep silent in my face and chose to act like a rat?
If not for my good friend - a lawyer by education and mentality - I would have gotten out of this situation without a single nerve cell. Vadim clearly explained to me that in judicial practice, judges are not wolves, and often take a neutral position towards violators. Especially if the plaintiff's claims do not objectively correspond to the gravity of the actual violation.
Vadim helped me to provide counterarguments that the fire safety requirements were met. Water and precipitation are discharged to their own area, etc. After painstaking investigations, the experts decided that the violation of the borders with a neighboring site was not yet a reason for demolition.
Either the judge did not want to take part in the so-called. Neighborhood wars, or I understood all the absurdity of the appeal, but from this case I emerged as a proud winner. My reward will be the sour faces of the secret accusers, which I will see for a very long time.