Modern technologies and finishing materials allow not only to build new beautiful, warm and durable residential buildings, but also to reconstruct buildings of old construction, warming and updating their facades. Such opportunities are given also by use for front finishing of brick thermopanels.
Design features of brick thermopanels
In the 19th century in Holland where facades of brick houses especially suffered from the destroying impact of salty and damp sea winds, have begun to use the clay panels pads burned at high temperatures for facing of external walls. The clay which was affected by temperature from 1200 wasps above became especially strong, gaining the new properties allowing it not to be afraid of neither moisture, nor aggressive environmental activity. The additional outer layer of the panels imitating brickwork completely updated exterior of facade, at the same time warming it.
Modern thermopanels are also manufactured of the clay tiles laid "under brick" on layer of polyurethane foam and are monolithic construction by which production apply method of dry pressing or extrusion. The polyurethane foam layer performs not only function of substrate, but also serves as the fine warm and soundproof material providing multifunctionality of brick panels are finishing, warming and reconstruction of outer surface of facades.
Now producers use extruding method more often for production of thermopanels as it allows to provide the best decorative properties and functionality. As for decorative features, color of panels depends on roasting temperature, as a result of use of the different modes the tile having different shade turns out that very much shows to advantage on one panel, however, there are panels where all tile has identical color.
Advantages of use of brick thermopanels
Really there is a lot of these advantages. To begin with the fact that facing of facade high-quality brick thermopanels from the famous producers allows to reduce heatlosses by 4 times what provides big power saving or fuels, used in heating services. The polyurethane foam substrate thanks to which panels are good heat insulator is frost-resistant and is not afraid of temperature drops, it is not subject to rotting, do not live in it and bacteria and microorganisms do not breed. On assurances of producers, the thermotile is not deformed and does not change the linear sizes at any ambient temperatures, at least, within the first 100 years of operation.
Use of brick thermopanels eliminates need to check condition of facade and excludes carrying out some additional works on care for it.
Use of brick thermopanels for warming of the house gives the chance to refuse traditional materials which absolutely it was impossible to call eco-friendly. Mounting of panels at front finishing of any building does not take a lot of time – panels are easily and quickly fastened among themselves and easily fasten to wall, this process does not demand any additional equipment, excludes works with use of water therefore it can be made at all seasons of the year. Brick thermopanels do not render heavy loads on the base and load bearing walls of the building. External warming of facade does not reduce the interior useful area of the building and increases the term of its operation, protecting walls from atmospheric precipitation and limiting penetration of foreign sounds from the outside. Polyurethane foam reliably isolates facade from water and provides steam-out outside. Beautiful and strong thermopanels perform decorative function, allowing to implement various architectural and design concepts, both for external, and for interior finish of interiors of the house. They ideally fit into any landscape and now are applied to finishing of gazebos, fountains and pools. Not only their price belongs to advantages of brick thermopanels, but also the fact that economy at their use concerns literally any point: material, labor and time expenditure.
Mounting of brick thermopanels
Process of mounting clinker terpopanely for front finishing is technological and simple. Warming of the two-storeyed house up to 100 square meters will not take more than 2 weeks on time and can be carried out at all seasons of the year, at the same time you will not need to strengthen the base or in addition to strengthen external walls. You can buy thermopanels complete with dowels by means of which they fasten on wall, socle profile, special polyurethane foam and multi-colored finish for seams.
Fixing grooves by means of which panels fasten among themselves are located from their inside.
After panels are strengthened on wall, it is necessary to process the seams which have remained between them. The finish carries out not only the fastening, protective and isolating function, but also decorative therefore it is made in different color options. To facilitate process, in set with brick panels detailed instructions where all stages of mounting and fastening are described are put.