Front facing thermal panels are presented in the form of special structures that perform two important tasks - they carry out insulation of the facade of the house and are a finishing material.

Thermal panels - facade decorative elements

Metal and rustic facade panels have gained well-deserved popularity due to the relatively low cost and high speed of installation works.

1 Features of facade thermal panels

It is worth mentioning right away that the presented metal and rustic facade panels of the Rockwool trademark embody the most rational and environmentally friendly clean solution thermal insulation issue.

Before you start insulating the outer surface of the house with such a product as a facade sandwich panel, it is worth considering that it can be compatible with any surface, be it stone or brick.

Insulation of the facade of the house with Rockwool sandwich panels will give top scores if they are attached to an extra layer of foam.

By the way, unlike polystyrene, Rockwool sandwich panels, stylized as a stone or brick, significantly improve not only the heat-saving qualities of the facade, but also increase its aesthetic appeal.

In addition, the Rockwool sandwich panel can be attached to the outer surface of the facade (as opposed to foam) on surfaces such as:

• Concrete;
• Expanded clay concrete;
• Classic brick on;
• Plastered facade;
• Unplastered facade;
• Block house wall;
• Aerated concrete;
• Wood;
• Unfired raw brick.

Thermal panels, stylized as a stone or brick, have for the most part positive reviews, which is associated with a certain number of advantageous features.

For example, it may be the possibility of insulating old buildings with sandwich panels. Products such as rustic thermal panels can, if necessary, insulate the facade of a house with a disturbed geometric shape.

It is almost impossible to carry out such insulation work using ordinary foam. In especially difficult cases maybe, in order to insulate the uneven facade of the house, instead of polystyrene, the crate is first trimmed, which levels the work surface.

After that, the facade is covered with thermal panels or sandwich panels, which can be stylized as stone or brick.

2 Characteristics and properties of thermal panels

When finishing the outer surface of the facade with thermal panels, the term of the installation work is significantly reduced.

In turn, this significantly reduces the total time spent on construction work, and as a result, their cost.

It is known that when carrying out construction work, a significant part of the costs is not only the purchase of material and labor remuneration, but also rent. scaffolding, with the help of which the facade work will be carried out.

Installation of a thermal panel does not require the involvement of highly qualified workers and specialists, because you can do it yourself without any particular difficulties.

To do this, by and large, you will need a minimum set of the most common tools. During installation, you can not do without:

• Electric drills;
• Construction knife;
• Hammer;
• Screwdrivers as per.

Before you start installing the insulation, you need to make sure that the surface of the walls is flat and does not have significant flaws.

Fastening the facade panels can be done with glue, foam or dowels. It is known that the presented panels cost significantly less than traditional brickwork, therefore, after carrying out simple calculations, you can find out the percentage of savings when insulating in this way.

Insulation, presented in the form of thermal panels, completely relieves the owner of the mandatory need associated with periodic repair of the facade and restoration of the outer surface of the walls.

However, if the work is carried out without observing the requirements of the technology, then the insulating coating may undergo deformation.

The presented material has a long service life, which is more than fifty years, while maintaining the original color.

2.1 Product Feedback

As already mentioned, reviews of facade panels with insulation are mostly positive.

Pavel, 45 years old, Izhevsk:

I recently purchased from the secondary housing market Vacation home... I decided to make in it overhaul before check-in. When it came to insulating the facade, I bought and installed Rockwool thermal panels. Excellent insulation and, moreover, pleasing to the eye.

Sergey, 50 years old, Kramatorsk:

Recently, the old heating system has begun to cope poorly with its task. I started to insulate the outside of the facade. I used a Rockwool sandwich panel as insulation. Now in all rooms optimum temperature... I recommend this insulation to everyone.

Vladimir, 43 years old, Zhitomir:

I am the foreman of a small construction team. We work mainly on private orders. When it comes to external insulation of the facade of houses, we use Rockwool thermal panels. These products have long established themselves as the best. Customers are always satisfied, excellent material, we have no complaints about its quality.

2.2 Clinker thermal panels

The presented variety of panels as a decorative layer has clinker tiles... If we talk about the degree of resistance to aggressive influences environment, then clinker outperforms some types of natural stone.

This material has a large number of colors and is made using shale clay. Such raw materials are currently being mined in North-Western Europe.

This suggests that the clinker is absolutely environmentally friendly material, which does not contain harmful chemical additives and impurities.

It is created during the implementation of the high-temperature firing method. Clinker panels show high performance mechanical strength, with an underestimated value of water absorption.

Such material is distinguished by its pronounced frost resistance and the ability to maintain its properties throughout its entire operational life.

In addition to the fact that clinker panels exhibit excellent thermal insulation and aesthetic properties, they demonstrate high sound insulation qualities.

In addition, the material acts as an additional waterproofing like. Such material is used not only as insulation and decorative element facade, but also for interior finishing work.

2.3 Thermal panels with porcelain stoneware tiles

Kermogranite is another type of insulation ceramic tiles... It is made from high quality raw materials, in the process of firing, exposure high temperatures and pressure.

The result is a very tightly compressed material that is virtually immune to the harmful effects of the environment.

These indicators are significantly superior to natural natural stones... The presented thermal panels are especially quoted by those home owners who prefer to design a facade with a detailed textured surface.

Thermal panels made of porcelain stoneware tiles differ large size, which easily allows them to imitate masonry.

As a rule, these products are used in houses, the appearance of which is oriented towards the Mediterranean or scandinavian styles... Despite the solid dimensions of the plates, they weigh a little, therefore, this allows them to be installed with ease with your own hands.

2.4 Thermal panels with glazed tiles

This type of thermal panels is currently very popular. Their use is especially important in the process of finishing low-rise houses.

The popularity of this material was already noticed in the 60s of the last century. Glazed tiles have a smooth surface and a non-uniformity in their colors, which makes the facade of the house look like natural brickwork.

This material is characterized by good appearance, simplicity during installation work, high strength characteristics and a minimum number of disadvantages.

2.5 Thermal insulation of the facade using clinker thermal panels (video)

If, with the onset of cold weather, the temperature in your apartment tends to zero, then you have a choice - to make all rooms with heaters and wrap yourself in a blanket or thoroughly insulate your living space. Let's take a look at the list in order possible problems heat loss in the apartment.

Common causes of coldness in an apartment

1. The first and most common reason is gaps in window frames... If you do not have the opportunity to put sealed double-glazed windows, then seal the gaps between the frames yourself. To do this, you can use foam rubber, paper or pieces of fabric. Take one of the listed materials, roll tightly and place in the gaps between the frame and the window opening. Seal the cracks on top with durable construction tape. This will significantly reduce the flow of cold air into the apartment, but will not provide complete thermal insulation.

2. If you live in panel house, then the second common cause of cold in an apartment may be poor-quality seams between the plates. It is your responsibility to seal the external seams. Management Company... But, as a rule, the procedure for filling out and signing an application for such work can take a very long time.

3. If you want to solve this problem quickly, you can contact construction company, engaged in sealing joints between panels using the method of industrial mountaineering.

4. However, even all of the above measures may not be enough for insulation corner apartment on the 7-14th floor. Wind gusts at this altitude are much more intense, and the water in heating system rising from the first floor, it manages to cool down considerably. Therefore, you need to thoroughly insulate not only windows and interpanel seams but also the walls themselves. Sandwich panels can be used for wall insulation.

5. You can fix the sandwich panels on cold walls inside the apartment. This is a relatively new, but easy-to-process construction raw material. Moreover, it is the most economical option since you make everything yourself construction works and only pay for the material. But the thickness of the sandwich panel can reach 25 cm. This means that the area of ​​the room along the entire length of the wall will decrease by exactly that amount.

6. If you are not ready to part with a part useful area your apartment, you can contact a construction company, and the sandwich panels will be fixed outside. This is an expensive procedure, but at the same time it is the only one efficient method allowing to insulate old apartment Upstairs.

For more complex, incomprehensible reasons, it is possible to detect cold places in an apartment using a thermal imager that can easily determine areas of heat loss. The only negative is that it's worth this device decent money, however, you can call a service that will give an exhaustive answer about cold zones in the apartment and about places where heat is lost.

Hello.

Thanks again for your advice. Let's discuss the designs with you some more.

I want to outline the construction of the Sandwich House in the Brick House.

Sew a 100mm thick sandwich to brick wall... The wall is not even, in some places the plaster has been rolled away. Sewn on level with anchor screws as tightly as possible to the wall. Without any suspension system and guide profiles. We ensure tight adhesion to the wall in level in several places (bottom, top, middle) with the help of foam, which we apply to the back side of the panel before installing it. We seal the anchor screw caps with rubber gaskets or ordinary silicone sealant... The bottom to the floor and the top of the panels to the ceiling are foamed, the side joints (groove to groove) are also foamed, you can also silicone it all. So the whole perimeter. Window and door openings - airtight finish, for example, metal sheet. From window profile to the edge of the sandwich with foaming of the slopes and siliconizing the joints. On the floor (screed or tile), the plinth is screwed to the sandwich. After, in the same way, the ceiling is assembled. The joints to the walls are foamed and silicone. The top plinth is also screwed onto the sandwich.

I perfectly understand that the air will be outside the perimeter of the sandwiches. Maybe it will somehow get there, but not by direct contact to the wall. He will need to travel 100 mm. I think that it will pass through the dew point, and at the contact with the wall it will already be cold. Or will it come from the side of the bricks? Can you explain please. Or it will stay there from the summer and at the first frost it will condense in the outer layers of bricks and remain there until the end of winter. And next summer it will be saturated with moisture again. But during the winter, he has nowhere to come from? With this option, it seems to me that condensation will occur only once a year - in the fall. Maybe I'm wrong. It seems to me that the same thing happens in an ordinary non-insulated thick wall of 5 or 6 bricks in the outer layers to the street. Please comment.

I would like to ask you about external insulation.

• Is it possible to insulate the outside hermetically, for example, also with sandwiches, or with foam (foam joints). Also a House in a House, only bricks in a sandwich. How then is moisture removed from the structure itself (concrete, bricks, floor slabs)?
• What will happen if there is insulation from the inside (5cm foam is sewn up with plasterboard in part of our room) and we make insulation outside (airtight).
• Is it possible to seal a wall or ceiling from both sides, for example, outside insulation with foam or sandwich, and inside tile to the ceiling along the perimeter (washing room). Or sandwich outside and sandwich inside (same washroom)
• I often saw that they insulate with cotton wool (special) and when sheathing decorative panels leave space under the crate. This is a feature of insulation with cotton wool (to remove moisture from the dew point) or for all heaters.

WITH inner wall from a gas block - good, but a large space is stolen, but in fact it is essentially the same internal insulation, and will get wet inside the wall.

Thanks. I am waiting for your answers.

Of course, the main component of a sandwich panel is its insulation. It is he who determines how comfortable the winters will be in the home. Insulation must meet the following requirements:

• Possess very significant thermal insulation indicators;
• If possible, have the minimum weight;
• Have high rate strength;
• To be able to maintain their characteristics even with elevated level humidity;
• Withstand low and high temperatures without problems;
• Be completely safe for humans, that is, do not contain harmful substances and do not burn;
• To be durable, that is, not to lose their own properties over time;
• Have a low cost.

The modern market offers to carry out insulation with sandwich panels that have mineral wool, polystyrene or polyurethane foam in their construction. A panel with one or another insulation has both disadvantages and advantages. Panels with polyurethane foam are distinguished by ideal thermal insulation properties, but they are quite expensive, and therefore are used only in specialized premises and freezers... Private construction is carried out mainly using mineral wool and expanded polystyrene.

The main advantage of mineral wool is its fire resistance. Polyfoam has a wider list of advantages: environmental friendliness (it consists of air by 98 percent), low thermal conductivity, low weight, highest performance, unpretentiousness, durability and minimum production time.

Mineral wool has a lot of disadvantages. It absorbs excess moisture, which leads to subsidence, damage to the integrity of the structure and freezing. Installation of mineral wool is quite difficult to carry out, and large mass leads to an increased load on the foundation. The disadvantage of polystyrene lies in its low degree of fire resistance.

The use of sandwich panels with mineral wool is relevant, first of all, in structures that need maximum protection from open flames. This category includes the bulk of the pre-fabricated buildings. Use panels with mineral wool in car washes, cold rooms ah, food shops are not at all appropriate. Foam panels perfect for reconstruction and construction of buildings, regardless of their purpose. Mainly, this group consists of buildings that require ideal moisture resistance, hygiene, practicality and minimal cost. If we talk about the ratio of quality and price, then it is panels based on foam that can be called the most reasonable option. They can be used fearlessly in all buildings, the roof and walls of which belong to the second and more categories of fire resistance.

The advent of sandwich panels made it possible to construct buildings very quickly. Today, thanks to wall and roof panels, not only warehouses, pavilions, terminals and other industrial structures are erected, but also private houses. Such widespread use of sandwich panels owes a lot of advantages: speed and ease of installation, lightness of construction, aesthetics and economy of material, excellent heat and sound insulation qualities. The constantly growing demand for the material has led to an increase in the assortment, and today, without preparation, you can only decide on the color, and there are more than 600 shades. But here how to choose a sandwich panel with the right type of insulation, the right thickness and profile?

# 1. Sandwich panel production technology

Is a multilayer material consisting of a layer of insulation, covered on both sides with metal or PVC. Its quality depends not only on the raw materials used, but also on the method of production. At the moment sandwich panels produced in such ways:

# 2. Cladding material type

As facing material can be used sheets of steel, plastic, drywall orOSB panels... Naturally, metal sheets the most durable, their thickness varies from 0.5 to 0.7 mm, and performance largely depends on the type and thickness of the anti-corrosion coating... Usually steel sheets galvanized, and the thicker the zinc layer, the more durable the panels will be. Alternatively used zinc-alumina coating(galvalum), which has been specially developed to protect sandwich panels and is excellently resistant to atmospheric moisture and sun rays.

Used also galfan cover(an alloy of zinc, aluminum, lanthanum and cerium), which, at a smaller thickness, surpasses the zinc coating in ductility and resistance to mechanical damage. Often panels are also coated with polymer over the protective alloy layer. In this way, an improvement in resistance to weathering is achieved.

Drywall allows you to get lighter sandwich panels, but they can only be used for installation internal partitions. OSB panels(oriented strand boards) - the basis, which also includes expanded polystyrene insulation. The structural features of OSB boards allow you to reliably hold fasteners, thereby increasing the strength of the finished structure. Such sandwich panels are used for the arrangement of floors, walls and roofs.

No. 3. Insulation type

The insulation layer can vary in thickness from 5 to 30 cm, moreover, sandwich panels with a thickness of more than 15 cm are used mainly for arranging refrigerating chambers. Materials such as:

• polystyrene;

They all differ in a certain set of advantages and disadvantages. So, mineral wool does not support combustion and is environmentally friendly, rodents will not live in this. Of the minuses, it is worth highlighting hygroscopicity, therefore tightness finished structure it is necessary to pay great attention, because when moisture is absorbed, the thermal insulation properties deteriorate. Nevertheless, it is mineral wool that is most often used today by domestic manufacturers in the manufacture of sandwich panels.

Polystyrene- durable moisture-proof material with high thermal insulation properties... He is susceptible negative impact sunlight, but thanks to the sheathing with steel sheets, this disadvantage can be avoided. Polystyrene burns easily, releasing toxic substances; rodents can live in it.

Polyurethane foam is in great demand in a number of European countries, since it has a minimum of disadvantages when huge amount merits, for which he is so loved in European countries. Among the advantages of the material, it is worth highlighting resistance to moisture: even if water seeps out to the insulation, it will not cause any negative consequences... This type of insulation is very lightweight, which simplifies the transportation of panels, their installation, and reduces the load on the foundation. The main advantage is low thermal conductivity, 2 times lower than that of mineral wool, and 1.5 times lower than that of polystyrene. Polyisocyanurate, a type of polyurethane foam, has self-extinguishing properties, and it is today that it is increasingly used as a heater for sandwich panels. In addition, the insulation will not become a place for development. Among the disadvantages is the possibility of damage by rodents.

No. 4. What is the difference between roofing and wall sandwich panels?

The basic principle of the wall and roofing sandwich panels one and the same, but still there are some differences in the design that make it preferable to use some panels for, and others for roofs.

The first difference is in the profile steel sheet ... For the construction of walls, smooth sheets or profiled under a log, microwaves are used. The roof panels are high-profile for greater strength and stability so that the roof can handle the heavy weight of snow in winter. Steel sheets can be profiled on both sides for even greater stability. Also for roof panels higher density insulation is used.

Another difference is the type of lock that the panels are connected to. Roof sandwich panels are characterized by a more complex lock, which is necessary in order to overcome the pressure of the atmosphere and precipitation. Also roof panels are distinguished by an even thicker anti-corrosion layer than wall panels.

No. 5. Required parameters of sandwich panels

For building walls sandwich panels with a width of 1.1 and 1.5 m are used, but the length can vary widely - from 2 to 18.5 m, so that you can easily and simply build a building with any necessary parameters. Width roofing sandwich panels, as a rule, is 1 m, length - from 1 to 16 m. In addition, it is important to remember that when installing roofing panels, you must adhere to a slope of 7 degrees.

If everything is more or less clear with the length and width, and their choice depends on the parameters of the building that needs to be built, then here selection of panel thickness Is a more responsible process. This parameter is calculated on the basis of a heat engineering calculation: it is laborious, but not the most difficult, and requires many factors to be taken into account. The calculation method is easy to find on the Internet, and even easier - to use a special calculation calculator or ask for help from specialists.

When choosing a panel thickness, it is necessary take into account the purpose of the building, the planned internal temperature, climatic features of the region, thermal conductivity coefficient, etc. For example, if the building is located in the Moscow region, and the temperature inside it is planned to be +18 0 С, then the thickness wall panels with mineral wool insulation should be 15 cm, with expanded polystyrene insulation - 12 cm.Under similar conditions, the thickness of roofing sandwich panels with mineral wool insulation will be 25 cm, with expanded polystyrene insulation - 18 cm.

When selecting required thickness important also take into account the costs of