For construction or repair the people buy large amount of construction materials. Sometimes there is such situation: the season of works comes to an end, there comes cold weather, and they are not spent. How it is correct to keep construction materials in winter time that they have not deteriorated?
In the winter construction materials can be also bought for the future on various discounts and actions.
First of all the most plain material at storage is wooden timber. They are enough to be spread out on stacks, laying each row rails. It is better to place timber on well aired places and to cover with either roofing material, or old linoleum. It is impossible to cover with polyethylene film at all. It badly passes air, and timber can become covered by mold. As for better wooden building materials (lining, block house, imitation of bar), they should be stored in the shed or under canopy in original packing without additional shelter. If you need to keep timber at the dacha during the winter, then it is possible to use for this purpose the garage.
It is obligatory to place metal construction materials in the dry and dark room to avoid their corrosion. The same storage stacks any heaters for walls, ceiling or floor.
Various rolled materials and roofing material bring to the warm room and establish vertically. Otherwise they will be very difficult to be rolled in the spring.
The main thing to save cement at storage from moisture. It can slezhatsya, turn into pebbles and harden completely. But even in the driest rooms cement loses in durability up to 5% a month. If you had small reserve of cement (one or two bags), then it can be placed in plastic bag and to stick strong. In such look it can lie several months.
And here to store lime or plaster long it will not turn out. Therefore it is better to get rid of them, for example, to sell at once.
Various paint and varnish construction materials surely place in the warm place and densely close. It is only necessary to remove from their surface dense film in the spring and again to use for designated purpose.
Here such in appearance simple rules will help to keep construction materials before the next season of works.