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I have been waiting for this wonderful moment for a long time, when, nevertheless, I will begin to demolish buildings and clear the adjacent territory from barns. Here he is, gradually starting to be embodied in reality...
As soon as my wife moved the last package with "clothes" to the new house, I slowly began to break down the house where we had lived for more than 3 years.
We bought this old brick house for temporary use - for the construction period. And now, I want to leave only a part of it - half of the house, where I plan to make a workshop. The rest is for demolition. At this place there will be a gazebo and a barbecue :-)))
... after dismantling the communications, I proceeded to the floor ...
Having hammered a crowbar under the floorboard, dismantling it was difficult for me. But I was 100% convinced that the floor would be rotten!
No matter how it is! The nails sit like self-tapping screws ...
At that moment, my wife came to pick up her jars, and I heard a question behind my back:
"We've probably been breathing mold for all 3 years?"I replied that I don’t know yet, I don’t smell dampness ...
She joked about the current world topic about the crown, they say, if I was sick... I don't smell ...
I joked that they didn't get sick twice, we looked at each other, laughed and I continued on ...
... picking up old boards, I roughly estimated that the external state of the underground corresponds to its years. According to the documents - house 1976 As beams - railway sleepers, which used to be "in vogue". The sleepers rest on brick pillars and not a single layer of roofing material! How so?
The brick stands directly on the loose ground and, in theory, should take moisture from the ground, from which the tree should rot at the point of contact. But no!
After all, they lived somehow, without insulation and without "super-duper" membranes. Everything is dry.
I lifted the beam:
He removed the bricks and, for sure, they lay on the bare ground ...
Due to the fact that the floorboards are 5 meters in size, I cut with a circular saw for easier dismantling. As can be seen from the cross section, there is no rot.
The boards are all one to one, despite the fact that there is not a single underground air vent, not a gram of ventilation, no hydro or vapor barrier, and even NO roofing material between the beams and brick pillars!
The boards are all one in one, even if you take them and make another floor out of them.
An underground with fragments of Soviet bricks, which stands without dampness with the walls of the old house only half bricks thick. HALF backing brick is 120 mm!
I don’t understand how the floor has served faithfully for so long? If I had not broken it, I would have served as much, no doubt about it.
So that "we didn't breathe mold, dear" - answered his wife with a clear conscience, and for me it still remains a mystery why everything is dry ...
If you know the answer, please comment ...
That's all, thank you for your attention.
Hope it was interesting!
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