6 Low Cost Building Materials to Build a Great Home
Home is one of the most important element of a family. Building a home is probably the most important investment in our lives or to some extend, it’s a lifetime investment. No matter what your job is, when a day has passed, the house is a place where everyone wants to go back to rest and recharge their energy for the new day.
However due to the economy situation today, access to homes is truly expensive to most of the people. You need a credit or a large amount of your own money. Therefore, some people may choose to buy their own lands and build their own houses, or alternately buy a more budget house and renovate it.
Currently construction materials are diverse and abundant, you can easily choose a range of good materials at affordable prices. There are also construction methods and techniques that can help you to build an affordable house that fits the budget but still ensures the quality of the house. You probably just need to do more researches in order to save yourself from burning your wallet.
Now let’s cut it short and get straight to the points. Let’s look at some of the most important points to build a home with good materials at affordable prices.
OSB (Oriented Strand Board) Panel
OSB board (Oriented Strand Board, also known as directional particle board) is one of the industrial boards that have many applications used in the world, regardless is for building home, office or building. However, this item is not widely known in our country yet.
OSB panels are a great choice for products that tend to be rustic, close to nature thanks to its beautiful natural surface. It can be used to make furniture, exterior, wall partitions, ceilings, floor mats, shelves. display, and also support frame for other furniture products.
OSB panels have the following advantages:
- Suitable for both interior and exterior
- Good bonding and rigidity
- Absolutely durable in moist and water environment
- Easy for screwing and high elasticity
- Easy and fast utility for construction and installation
- Simple to save construction costs
If you do not mind to put more natural look into your house, OSB panel is probably one of the best choice for you!
Concrete Floor
Polished concrete floor is a concrete floor, in addition to the special blending ingredients with appropriate proportions to give it the desired colour and texture. After that, it is finished to achieve gloss and waterproof, scratch-resistant, not inferior to today's granite stones.
It is undoubtedly the most important floor replacement in the last 10 years and is one of the most priorities in industrial projects, while becoming more and more popular for other type of buildings like home, office, cafe, gym, etc. The result is a beautiful floor, environmentally friendly, easy to maintain, and most importantly: durable.
This type of flooring is also used in airports, churches, schools, factories, distribution centres, sports complexes, cinemas, office buildings, hardware stores and many interior designer has started to feature this flooring style in the home.
Wall Construction Materials
When building a wall, there are usually 3 basic options: mud bricks, clay bricks, concrete bricks.
For external walls, it is recommended to build a normal 30cm brick wall, or fired brick for a 20 cm wall, or concrete bricks, also 20cm thick for necessary insulation and sound insulation.
Common bricks offer many advantages in insulation, although the cost per square meter of the wall is 40% higher than that of hollow bricks. Why? Simply because it takes a long time to build a common brick.
However, at present, concrete bricks are being applied widely, with advantages such as ease and speed of execution, as well as meeting structural requirements for building walls in buildings up to three floors.
Zinc Roof
Like copper, zinc is a very durable material: in a rural environment, it can be used for up to a hundred years. In general, zinc does not need any maintenance or maintenance during its use, although the roof placement usually requires high maintenance.
In addition, zinc is resistant to corrosion, very flexible and brings a harmonious appearance. All this makes it the preferred material of housing construction projects.
On the other hand, zinc is 100% recyclable, with more than 90% of the zinc used in the construction industry being recycled. This material is ideal for roofing, allowing for traditional and contemporary design, whether new or remodelled.
Gypsum Wall
Previously, building a new wall was a tedious, time-consuming task. Today, creating a new room or dividing the space inside is easy with the plaster wall system. In addition, it reduces the time and cost of construction work, suitable to be applied during construction of affordable home.
Gypsum wall is a galvanised metal structure system and gypsum for interior, and fibre cement for wet areas such as bathrooms and kitchens. We can use gypsum board from 6mm to 12mm thick.
How to install them? Very simple: we have to draw a straight line on the floor and another on the ceiling, in the exact place where we will place steel rails, fixed by screws. Then we place the other rails vertically and paste the gypsum board into the metal structure. Once the work is done, we fix the plaster on the other side of the ceiling. Finally, we adjust the links and conduct plaster ceiling finishes.
Once the wall is done, you may proceed to perform finishing to make it looks great with many choices like paint, patterned panel, wallpaper and many more.
Steel Structure
Steel structure is a basic part of the bearing part of a building. It is chosen because of its advantages in construction, labor costs, material costs, budget, and more.
Metal structures have great bearing capacity thanks to steel and in addition they are cheap, to almost the same price as traditional materials.
Lastly, unlike wood, steel does not become termite or deformed, so the walls are completely guaranteed and this is also the material that ensures the durability of the foundation of the house.
As long as you are incorporating these materials into building your home, you will certainly find out that you are paying less for your bill ultimately. Most importantly, remember to communicate your thoughts with your contractor or project manager.
