A comment
In 2001, I built myself a cottage on a site allocated on the site of a former state farm. The state farm went bankrupt, the land changed hands, I got a plot on occasion. It was impossible not to buy, it was sold cheaply. So I bought it.
They began to build a cottage. There was already some kind of cheap red brick shack and I didn’t like it. Workers demolished it in a couple of weeks. Several Kamaz construction debris removed and debris. The previous owner did not spare cement, the walls collapsed badly. I even had to hire an excavator for demotage and loading. But that's not the point.
What was built instead?
The foundation was made soundly. The foreman promised that he would stand idle for a hundred years. They did not begin to touch him, and it was not clear how to pick him out - a monolith and reinforcement. Moreover, he defended. The problem arose because of the extension, that is, there was no ligation with the old base.
I bought brick more beautifully and more expensively, facing brands M150, a hollow. They brought it on pallets, in packs of 880 pieces, if my memory serves me right. I remember that it was inconvenient to count in thousands and cubes. Raised a brick with a crane.
Masons have done me well. Where only the foreman took these. Each brick was wiped off with a sleeve of sweatshirts and the main thing was how they started and ruined their first object, and then they learned nothing and got to the facing brick. As the team leader Sergey said: “A normal bricklayer will not come close to a facing brick, the responsibility is too high and it is difficult to work with him.” It is not clear how they themselves came to work with him with their brigade, but they were left behind the scenes and did not have time to tell.
What else? I brought them river and mountain sand, a couple of cars left clay. The solution was kneaded manually with shovels. They did not trust either the imported mortar or the concrete mixers. The solution was periodically rejuvenated, shovels were added and a certain amount of clay, sand, or water was added. Seen true professionals. The cottage grew by leaps and bounds. Over the summer, two floors were brought to me. Brick patterns made, multi-colored.
Then they plastered the walls, there was a lot of dirt, the finishers pasted the wallpaper, and most importantly, they set up a fireplace. The wife wanted to.
Now the repair is completed, a little picking on the plot, we come there periodically. We live in an apartment.
pros
Beautiful cottage. Quick erection. Warm.
Minuses
It is necessary to heat the house in winter so that the walls do not damp. Well, I think this is relevant for all houses. Even the corners of the cottage, in some places, were beaten by the workers, when they did not understand how landscaping was done.
