A hanging porch is an external extension with a staircase and a platform under a canopy, which organizes the entrance to the house and rests on cantilevered extensions from bracket logs. In other words, this design rests on pillars and ends of logs that extend beyond the boundaries of the log house. This porch is durable and stable. Lumber shrinks less, does not deform, does not float or swell. This increases the reliability, stability and durability of the extension.
The porch is an important and integral element of every project country cottage, cottages or baths. It can decorate a building, add elegance and sophistication, and complete appearance Houses. A hanging structures look most impressive and original.
In addition, such an extension expands the functionality of the building, because here you can dry things and even arrange a recreation area. In addition, the additional area can be expanded and a real terrace can be equipped. The porch can have railings on one or both sides, and be closed or open. Interesting projects country houses with porch and terrace different designs and areas you will find in .
Types of hanging porch
- The single-pillar design consists of four pillars with spikes at the bottom and top, which are used as the main posts and placed in the corners. For intermediate supports, take two shorter pillars with a smaller cross-section or diameter. To decorate such a porch, arched boards and carved diamonds are used. By the way, the arched frame will not only decorate the structure, but also protect the site from rain, wind and snow, without blocking the view;
- The two-flight porch provides a platform and two staircases on the sides. The structure is installed using corner posts and fencing boards. The optimal parameters of the boards will be a thickness of 5 centimeters and a width of 30. in this case install railings from a bar;
- The two-column type assumes that the top board under the railing remains smooth; diamonds with concave edges and a width corresponding to the width of the board are marked on the two lower boards. Moreover, one half of the figure must be placed on the bottom board, and the other on the top;
- Covered porch with internal staircase. In this case, the upper and lower straps are made, equal in size. The bars or logs are connected to each other to form half a tree. Make sockets for the tenons of each rack and install the prepared structures sequentially, and one rack must be tilted from the vertical. Fence boards are placed in the grooves and the post is then straightened.
Materials for a hanging porch
The porch to the house is made of brick, stone, concrete, wood, various profiles or steel. Brick is not entirely suitable for the construction of such extensions, since it is exposed to the negative effects of the soil and, as a result, gradually disintegrates. To avoid this, you need to build a deep foundation and raise the structure. That's why brick houses build at a height of at least 40 centimeters.
Stone, profiles, steel and concrete are characterized by labor-intensive and time-consuming installation. Therefore, most suitable option will become wood. Wherein wooden porch looks appropriate and harmonious not only with wooden house, but also with brick, frame, block or concrete. If desired, you can decorate the wooden structure with brick or stone cladding, or add forged elements.
A wooden porch will create a cozy and comfortable atmosphere, preserve naturalness and environmental friendliness country house. This design will organically fit into the exterior and complement the project. By the way, it’s unusually beautiful in wooden structure look carved elements and ornament.
Wood is distinguished by quick and easy installation. Moreover, such a porch can be developed at the stage of designing a house or attached to an already finished one. It is light in weight, so it does not require a deep, massive and stable foundation. In this case, columnar is suitable.
Installation of a porch in a wooden house
Before installing the porch, it is important to select high-quality and reliable materials and calculate the design. The installation of the stairs will be especially important in this case. The work on the porch should begin with this element. To arrange the stairs, you can use the available terrace board or a more solid and expensive solid wood.
“MariSrub” masters will develop the project wooden house or bathhouses with any porch. We offer individual design or modification already ready-made version. The architect will make the necessary changes according to the wishes of the client and the characteristics of the soil on plot of land. We produce lumber ourselves and select consumables.
We guarantee high-quality and reliable construction. We competently and promptly carry out work on installing a porch with stairs and a log house, insulating and finishing the house. We offer comprehensive construction of a wooden house with a foundation and roof! In addition, we supply and install network engineering, we do antiseptic treatment of lumber and the structure as a whole, and carry out interior and exterior finishing.
A hanging porch is a porch that rests on cantilevered extensions from log brackets.
Single pillar porch
You should prepare four pillars with square section and spikes below and above. These will be corner pillars. We need two more shorter posts, with a smaller cross-section - for intermediate supports (from the top trim to the railing). It is better to make the pillars without carvings (without a pattern), otherwise the porch may turn out “motley”. For decoration, you can make arched valances and cut “bent” diamonds on the horizontal boards of the fence. Valances are smooth or carved boards that frame the open areas of porches, awnings and bell towers. They also help protect against rain, snow and wind without obstructing your view.
Two-flight porch
You should hollow out nests for the posts in the corners of the frame, and also select fencing boards (it is better that their thickness is 5 cm and width 30 cm). In accordance with the thickness and selected height of the fence, grooves are selected in the corner posts. Then you need to select a block for the railing. If the block is quite thick, we cut out tenons at the ends. Sockets for the railings must be hollowed out in the pillars. In the center of the railing we hollow out sockets for the spikes of the intermediate posts.
Two-pillar porch
We decorate the fence with four diamonds. The top board under the railing should remain smooth, but on the two lower boards we mark diamonds equipped with concave edges - one half of the figure should be located on the bottom board, and the second half on the top ( overall height diamond is approximately equal to the width of the board). We make cuts with a hacksaw, cutting off the excess with an ax.
Covered porch with internal staircase
You should prepare boards for valances. We cut out grooves for them from the upper ends of the racks. To collect all the parts, you should take care top harness. Its size is equal to the size of the bottom one. We connect the bars together in the corners in half a tree, sew them together with cokes. Remember to hollow out the tenon sockets for all posts.
Then we sequentially install the prepared structures. It is more convenient to do the work with three people: one person picks up the fence, and two more hold the posts. One rack should be slightly tilted from the vertical, and fencing boards should be placed in the grooves. After the handrail is in place, the stand is placed vertically. This frame is temporarily secured with struts (for example, a board one and a half meters long) and small wedges driven into the cracks between the posts and the handrail.
When choosing which porch to build, first of all you need to pay attention to the style in which the house is made. For a home in classic or gothic style You can’t install a wooden porch, and, conversely, you can’t install a concrete or metal porch next to a wooden one.
Most often, the porch is decorated in the same style as the house itself, so that the integrity is not compromised and everything looks beautiful. It is for this reason that porch designs for cottages contain some simple techniques that make it possible to visually perceive the facade of the house and the porch as one whole.
To get this result, it is necessary to cover the vertical surfaces of the porch with exactly the same material that was used to decorate the facade of the house, and on horizontal surfaces you need to use a coating that will be a continuation flooring, used on the veranda.
Metal porch - main advantages and disadvantages
A metal porch has a number of positive characteristics: strength, speed of installation, resistance to mechanical damage, temperature changes, the possibility of constructing both budget and luxury designs, good performance indicators, the ability to create products different forms and configurations, combinations with other materials.
Along with the advantages, the design of a metal porch has several disadvantages: the high cost of the material, the need additional protection from corrosion, the possibility of ice formation in winter.
Choosing material for the porch
The best material is galvanized, which does not require constant maintenance. However, working with it requires certain knowledge, which, unfortunately, not everyone has, but it can be learned. Most often, the porch is made of ferrous metals, which then need to be treated against corrosion.
The choice of material is influenced by many factors. Depending on whether it is planned to make the porch entirely from metal alone, or whether it will iron frame, sheathed finishing materials they are purchased to create a staircase. Also, an important role when choosing materials is played by the monetary costs that are needed to purchase them. If funds allow you to immediately purchase galvanized metal, this will help you save on the costs of anti-corrosion work during the operation of the porch.
Usually for making metal porch choose the following metal products: angles, profiled and round pipe, iron fittings. In order to save costs on expensive rolled metal, the porch can be made from a profiled pipe, an equilateral angle and a metal rod of small cross-section.
Metal porch construction
A metal porch, as well as structures made from other materials, requires precise calculations, on the basis of which a construction project is drawn up. The main parameters for the porch are regulated regulatory documents, State Standards and SNiPs clearly state the basic requirements for this type of extension.
The porch consists of a platform, a staircase attached to it (steps), if the structure has more than 3 steps, then safety precautions dictate that it is necessary to make a railing 0.7 - 1.2 m high. To protect the porch from precipitation, a canopy should be provided or canopy
More often small porch is being built for back door or for side exit. The porch area in this case should be located slightly below the level of the porch itself. front door. Therefore, when calculating the dimensions load-bearing structure, this fact must be taken into account.
A small porch usually consists of steps, a platform, railings and a canopy. There is no need for any extra buildings blocking the approach to the house. And even a canopy is not necessary, since the side or back porch is most often used only by the owners, who in bad weather can take refuge in the house or in some other garden structure while working in the garden. And for guests there is a front entrance, which must be equipped with such an element.
To begin with, we recommend deciding what load the porch will bear? Do you want to use its side parts as compact flower beds or not? Schematically, a metal porch can be divided into several parts: platform support (lower and upper), stringers, steps, handrails. Only having a drawing with calculated consumables you can begin constructing the porch and span.
Types of foundation for arranging a porch
Foundations can be used in four types:
- concrete pad;
- columnar foundation;
- strip foundation;
- slab foundation.
Steps for a metal porch
Steps that are made of metal, or in other words forged, are the most expensive. To make them, you need to have special skills and have the tools for the job. But you can buy them ready-made, or purchase only the elements and do everything yourself.
Installation of a canopy (canopy) over the porch
It is necessary to make a special canopy (canopy) over the porch of a country house. This additional element will not only be aesthetically attractive, but also perform a practical function.
The canopy over the porch helps complement the addition and blends with the overall façade of the house. A forged canopy over a porch made of metal or carved will look bright and unusual, as well as wooden canopy which will be painted bright colors or made in folk style. Shaped canopies over the porch will add unusualness and individuality to the overall appearance of the roof.
What is a Russian hut without a porch - it’s like a bird without a wing! Porch, “porch”, “porch” - it beckons, attracts the eyes of passers-by, inviting them to cross the threshold of the house, bow to the hospitable owners, exchange a word with others.
“Come out onto the porch, show your white face”
A boardwalk in front of the entrance to the vestibule with or without steps, with or without posts and railings, covered or not, with lean-to canopy or gable roof- that's all the porch. What's so strange about this? And a lot.
The porch is strange, as it embodies hospitality, cordiality, readiness to greet anyone with a white tablecloth, bread and salt, be it an old acquaintance from a fellow villager, or an unknown stranger.
The porch is strange in its simplicity and intricacy at the same time - what kind of master would have enough imagination for what: what kind of pattern to paint the railings, columns, what kind of windows to illuminate the upper platform of the porch. An outlandish porch connecting the outer the world and the inner world with all its home life, everyday worries and troubles. A marvelous porch, demarcating and contrasting “one’s own,” mastered, lived-in space with “alien,” spontaneous, natural space.
Simple and complex
The Northern Russian hut is located perpendicular to the street, which means the entrance to the entryway is traditionally from the side facade - this is where there is a porch, on the side, like a wing.
And if the hut in the southern Great Russian regions is parallel to the street, then the porch in front of the door in the entryway is located on the side of the front facade, looking at the street.
One hut has a simple porch with one or two steps, and the other has a high staircase, or even two. One porch is open. The other is the opposite, with a canopy, but open on the sides, only with columns that support the roof and railings. Here it is a “railed”, “feathered” porch. Where would a wing be without feathers?
The third porch is partially covered with planks on the sides, and the fourth is completely closed: covered with boards or cut out of logs. With such a porch and canopy, no frost, no whirlwinds are scary.
And if you look at the fifth porch: it has not only a staircase, but also two lockers, that is, two platforms, one above, the other below. They are always protected from rain. Such porches are complex, difficult, and even with an opening, a lattice window, on the upper platform. It’s a pleasure to look through such a window - that’s why it’s a “lookout” window.
In the North, the porch is always large, spacious, solid, unlike the modest southern porches without railings, carvings, awnings, columns, decorative arches and windows. And no wonder!
After all, the porch in the North primarily protected the hut from bad weather. But not only practical, but also picturesque.
An unusual northern porch with a staircase adjacent to the side wall of the house, rising steeply to the floor level on a high basement, subfloor, or even to the second floor.
But how is such a porch constructed? Simple and not ornate, like everything in a Russian hut. The upper locker is supported either on pillars, or on a separate frame, or on logs coming out of the wall like brackets - this is the “hanging” porch. On such a porch, both old people, young people, and children will gather in the evening for gatherings in the warm season: gossip, think about this and that. Without such a porch, the life of both one house and an entire village is unthinkable.
Galleries-"promenades"
In the North, in large “estate houses”, often consisting of two huts with a vestibule in the middle, the upper platform of the porch turned into a kind of balcony, balcony, gallery, or walkway. The external staircase to the upper locker in this case disappeared and was replaced by an external entrance under the balcony, combined with the staircase in the entryway. Such a gallery, like lace, encircles the walls of the residential part of the house at the floor level of the second floor.
We went out to the walk and walked around the hut to close the window shutters at night, to insulate the windows for the winter. But with the advent of winter shutters, protecting the home from icy winds, and curtains on the windows, protecting households from the annoying light of white nights, both shutters and walkways, which once had a practical purpose, became decorative decoration, a special openwork detail in the decoration of the hut.
They built bypass galleries, the work of a painstaking craftsman, around the boyars' towers. Walking grounds were also built on the wealthy huts of the Don Cossacks, whose houses, located on the banks of the middle and lower Don, often flooded in the spring, were built on high basements.
In such houses, the steps, that is, stairs, to the porches were high, and the porches smoothly turned into galleries that covered the huts on three sides at the level of the residential floor.
Supported by release logs or pillars-piles, the walkways were hidden under the overhangs thatched roofs or had special canopies that continued the plank roof and were supported by carved pillars, lovingly decorated by a skilled carpenter.
This is how you begin to observe the huts, their decoration, you will find front porches, red, elegant, welcoming guests, you will also see black porches - the back ones, facing the courtyard. You can’t stop looking at the patterned walkways, and you can’t take your eyes off the balconies. Located in front of the light, the balcony or “exit”, as it is called in the Arkhangelsk region, easily and playfully enlivens the surface of the gloomy log wall, accustomed to severe cold and bad weather, lulled by violent winds and snowstorms.
The lighthouse was usually built above the “front” - a hut with windows facing the street. And the little girl looked out with a balcony onto the street, and not a simple balcony, but a carved and painted one, of unprecedented, unheard-of beauty. And the whole hut seemed to light up, take wings, decorated with porches, walkways, balconies, as if it forgot about the harsh, unruly winter, reconciled with it, invited, like anyone else, to stay.
