We Preserve The Summer Cottage For The Winter

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

In the fall, summer residents and gardeners not only "count chickens" and canned jars of pickles and jam. The dacha itself and the courtyard also need to be able to mothball for the winter, so as not to run into the usual troubles that happen to it and the land in the spring, if you do not work a little for its benefit in the fall. These are the steps a summer resident should take when closing the next summer cottage period

Bypassing the site

The most important thing when closing the season is to bypass your site, dacha in order to complete some important tasks. Necessary:

• drain water from any tanks located in the country, including heating batteries, if any in the house;

• in the bath, check if there is water left in the heating and cold water tanks, if there is moisture in the heater;

• check the pipes in the country (sewer, plastic), they must be dried, there must be no water in them;

• treat the drinking well with chlorinol and purify, drain the treated water from the well (with a drainage pump, for example), close it with a lid, and in spring it will contain clean fresh water;

• close the ventilation holes in the basement of the summer cottage (so that moisture does not get inside and rodents do not get in);

• unscrew the electrical plugs;

• on the site to remove fallen leaves, cut or fallen branches, other debris with a rake;

• to dismantle the greenhouses on the site;

• take everything of value with you to a city apartment.

This is about bypassing the site and giving. After carrying out all the work, you need to carefully close the dacha, the shed in the yard, the bath to the castle.

How to protect your home from uninvited guests?

There are many options for protecting the perimeter of a country house or dacha, mothballed for the winter, from theft and visiting uninvited guests.

The simplest is to install a siren or beacon on the roof of the summer cottage, which will scare away those very guests and notify the summer cottage watchman, if there is one, that unexpected individuals are scurrying around the areas.

The second method, if a dacha or a country cottage is located in a protected area, they are connected to a private security console.

There are also modern systems for protecting the perimeter of a plot of land and a house, upon penetration into which a signal is triggered, which comes in the form of SMS to the phone of the owners of the building. In this case, he will have to either call the dacha watchman and ask him to check the dacha, or visit his country house himself to make sure that everything is in order there.

If the dacha is not completed

Any builder will recommend the owners of the dacha, if they have undertaken to rebuild it on their site, so that the construction is completed before the cold weather. Many disadvantages can be described when an unfinished house is left together with building materials for a winter evening in the open air, with rain and snow.

What are some of the owners doing, who started building a house on the site, but did not manage to finish it? They either leave the built foundation and walls of the house in the state in which they managed to complete the structure, or they carefully seal the building. So much so that no air enters under the wrapping material. In the spring, on such houses, the foundation can go cracked, fungus, mold, and other damage to the building material appear on the walls.

What do experts recommend if the house was not completed before winter? The most important thing is not to regret additional expenses and to treat the walls of the house and the foundation with chemical moisture-repellent substances,protecting them from dampness, fungal formations. The house should be covered with roofing material. Moreover, to cover it so that it covers the roof, walls, foundation well, but there was air access to these places. That is, it is necessary to observe the ventilation internal system of the building in the shelter.

Check with the building departments of chemical stores for advice on how best to treat your building before winter. Because for wooden buildings, some of their types are used, for brick, frame others. Roofing material needs to be changed every year, if the construction could not be continued the next year.

If unclaimed building materials remain on the site, they should be put into a shelter, for example, in a shed on the site. Otherwise, they also require shelter by the principle of closing the box or foundation of an unfinished house.