We use a calculator - we calculate the estimate for the construction of a private house from foam blocks

You need to be able to correctly determine your financial costs so that you do not have to overpay for unnecessary and additional services of construction organizations. You just use the calculator for building a house from foam blocks and get data close to real. In accordance with the results obtained, you invest in the construction of the facility.

Estimate for a standard house made of foam blocks. Foundation

If you plan to build a house from a foam concrete block with dimensions of 6 by 8 meters, and there is a terrace and 3 living quarters. There is also a kitchen in the building. You need to build a box of, but before that, carry out a number of important calculations.

It is suitable as a foundation for such a structure, but at the same time it is necessary to choose the right depth of deepening, depending on the characteristics of the soil and the parameters of the building.

Since foam concrete blocks are a building material with a low weight, it is allowed to deepen up to 0.5 meters, provided that we are dealing with sandy or clayey soil. If you make a deeper strip foundation, then there is an opportunity for a basement or cellar.

By design, the foundation for an object made of foam concrete blocks can be:

Buried,
Shallow,
Monolithic,
Team.

The most reliable design is the monolithic type, so this should be chosen. And the cost of materials for the foundation must be included in the total costs for. Basically, you will need a large amount of cement and sand, as well as crushed stone.

The overall dimensions of the strip foundation are 200x300x600 mm, while it is necessary to take into account that the basement part will be connected into the formwork to ensure the solidity of the structure. The height of the tape together with the basement is 1 meter. To calculate the length of the foundation, add up all the lengths of the dug trench.

Now it remains to summarize and calculate the volume of concrete mixture that will be poured into the formwork: 50 (trench length) × 1m (height) × 0.5 (deepening) = 25 cubic meters. For such purposes, high-quality concrete is used. One cubic meter of the foundation should contain:

385 kg of cement,
220 liters of water,
700 kg of sand,
1000 rubble.

With these figures at our disposal, it is easy to calculate the total volume of materials and the cost of the entire foundation. You just need to take into account the reinforcement and enter data into the calculator for building a house from foam blocks about the reinforcement used.

Before the floor is poured, a similar calculation of the concrete mix is performed, as in the case of the foundation.

Number of foam concrete blocks for walls

Almost any house has load-bearing walls and interior partitions, and they differ in design features. If it is recommended to use half-brick masonry for load-bearing walls made of a foam block, then a quarter will be sufficient for partitions. The side part of the foam concrete block is 200 × 300 = 0.06 meters, the bed is 300 × 600 = 0.18 meters.

Before using the calculator for building a house from foam blocks, you need to decide on the height of the walls, which can be 2.8 meters or higher. For a height of 2.8 meters, foam blocks in the amount of 14 pieces will be required, while the seams are 0.5 cm.This means, taking into account the fact that the bearing walls are laid in half a brick, we get 2.87 m.

The room usually includes floor and ceiling coverings that take up useful space, so the height can change downward. The area of the load-bearing walls is calculated using the expression (8 + 8 + 7.3 + 6 + 4 + 1.3) × 2.8 = 96.88 square meters. And if this value is multiplied by the area of the foam concrete block, then the number of stones is 1615.

Knowing the number of partitions and their height, it is easy to calculate the area: (8 + 3 + 3) × 2.8 = 39.2 square meters. Now you need to multiply this result by the area of a quarter of a brick and you get 218 stones.

In the calculator for building a house from foam blocks, data on the amount of special glue that will be required for both external and internal walls must be entered.

For these purposes, you need to use the length of all the walls and find out how many seams will turn out, both in the horizontal and vertical directions. The thickness of the adhesive layer is usually 0.005m.