People who live near railroads often use sleepers to build houses. At first glance, this is economically justified. With current housing prices, who refuses to build sleeper house- accessible and cheap material? But this is only at first glance. Because with quite significant advantages, such a building has one very serious drawback. Is this disadvantage so significant and can it be ignored? Let's look into this issue together.

To begin with, I will list the advantages that such a house has.

High heat capacity in winter it warms up well and retains heat; in summer it is cool and comfortable.

Durability. For the manufacture of sleepers, coniferous wood, mainly pine, is used. This tree has a straight, even trunk, which makes it easy to process. Pine is a soft wood. In addition to pine, softwoods often used in construction include larch, spruce, fir, and yew. The wood of these species is moisture resistant, has a uniform structure, has sufficient strength, does not split, does not rot and perfectly retains its properties for many years. In this regard, sleepers, as a material for building a house, justify themselves.

Sleepers are impregnated with a special composition - creosote . For reference: creosote is a mixture of various phenols and flavored carbons. Creosote is obtained from wood and coal tar. It has strong antiseptic properties. The service life of sleepers coated with creosote should normally be 20-25 years, in practice it is up to 50 years. This is when the sleepers are outdoors and under heavy use. It is believed that sleeper house, plastered inside and out, is able to survive more than one generation. It will not be destroyed by a fungus, insects and rodents will not damage it.

This last advantage is also a serious disadvantage. Why?

The fact is that the method by which creosote is extracted from wood and coal tar involves the use of caustic alkaline solutions and sulfuric acid. The product obtained at the outlet has a specific smell. More terrible than the smell is that creosote is a carcinogenic substance that is harmful to health and contributes to the development of cancer.

It is recommended to buy used sleepers for the construction, in which the creosote has dried up under the influence of wind and sun. In practice, the inconsistency of such advice is visible. From people who live in houses built of sleepers, one can hear that despite the fact that second-hand sleepers were used for construction, and despite the fact that the building is several years old, the smell of creosote continues to bother them.

So the answer to the question "Is this drawback so significant and can it be ignored?" comes by itself. Essential! Can't be ignored!

Surprisingly, many still do not pay attention to the danger. I have heard and read statements that if you think well about the decoration of the facade and interior walls, then you can minimize the harm received from creosote. Minimize, but don't get rid of! Personally, I don't like this state of affairs. I wouldn't build sleeper house for your family.

In addition, trying to minimize harm by finishing is unprofitable from an economic point of view. Judge for yourself: to get rid of the smell of creosote, you need to get to the sleepers and process them with liquid glass, including all the cracks. Then the entire surface should be covered with a film, overlapped. Then fill the shingles on the walls and subsequently plaster it. There is another option - sheathe drywall. This will take a lot of time, effort and material resources. Could it be better to build a house from other, safer materials?

Common building materials are expensive these days. Therefore, people with a limited budget have to turn their attention to not quite ordinary ways of housing construction. Old railway sleepers have been in use for decades. And do-it-yourself sleeper house The most economical option for building from solid wood.

Sleepers are bars made of coniferous wood, impregnated with a special composition of creosote. This mixture of phenols is used as an antiseptic, it protects the timber in the ground from rotting and bacterial growth, as well as damage by insects and rodents.

Houses built from sleepers are warm and dry, withstand earthquakes well, unlike brick or panel houses. For the construction of a one-story log house 10x10 m, about 350 strong pieces of wood without surface defects will be required. You can buy them at the nearby railway departments that perform track repairs. Right now, wooden parts are being massively replaced with reinforced concrete. Resellers are also involved in the sale of used supports, but, as you understand, their prices are 23 times higher than the nominal.

Is it possible to live in a house made of sleepers?

Creosote is a chemical compound that is dangerous to humans. Its vapors lead to swelling of the face and hands, and direct contact with the skin can cause burns. There is even evidence that it has carcinogenic properties and can provoke cancer. Is it safe to live in a house soaked in such a substance?

Firstly, you can only use old sleepers that have rested in the ground. Their average service time is 15 or 20 years. During this time, under the sun and rain, the wood loses most of the impregnation and an unpleasant odor. Such samples have a lower content of chemistry, and they are cheaper.

Note!
Cannot be built from new unused sleepers. The smell of fresh creosote is sharp and persistent, it will haunt you constantly, intensifying in hot weather. A mixture of phenols is an oily liquid that can seep through any layers: putty, wallpaper or plaster and leave yellowish spots on the walls.

Secondly, careful finishing on the inside will be required to reduce the risk of contact with residual fumes. The outer walls along the perimeter are sewn up from the inside with a membrane that does not allow creosote to penetrate into the room. Outside, on the contrary, a well-ventilated facade is arranged. When building internal partitions, it is better to abandon the sleepers and use ordinary wood or other materials.

Thirdly, the techniques for manufacturing and processing rail supports are different. Some products are soaked through with an antiseptic, while others are only 35 cm. For construction needs, it is preferable to take the latter.

How to build

Having dealt with the building material, let's talk directly about the installation:

• For a building made of sleepers, like all wooden houses, columnar supports are sufficient. If a basement or basement floor is planned, then a strip foundation is poured around the perimeter. A waterproofing layer must be laid on top of the tape or grillage before the laying of the log house.
• The first wooden row is attached to the concrete base with long embedded bolts with a step of 1 m. The bars are laid flat, with a wide edge on top of each other. This increases the consumption of material, but this way the house turns out to be warmer, and the log house is even and dense, without large gaps.
• There are several types of sleepers, with different geometric parameters, so for each row it is necessary to select parts of the same size. Neighboring blocks are connected into a spike and fastened with building brackets.

• Between the rows of sleepers are fixed with pins or iron staples at both ends. Holes for them are drilled with an indent of 5070 cm from the ends.
• When laying, the vertical is checked on the inside of the walls with a level and a plumb line. Irregularities from the outside will hide the facade.
• At the corners, the log house is reinforced with metal squares every 3 beams. Also, to stiffen the structure, steel strips 4 mm thick and 2030 mm wide are nailed diagonally to each side.
• Sleepers can be installed vertically in the piers between window openings. The gaps between the bars are compacted and insulated, filling the gaps with tow or glass wool.

Home decoration

The log house, made of dark worn wood, does not look very elegant, so in conclusion, finishing on both sides is necessary.

The inner lining is designed to protect against the penetration of creosote vapors into the room. As a durable insulating material (and inexpensive), foamed polyethylene film with a thickness of 200-300 microns is suitable.

Note!
All seams and joints must be carefully sealed with construction tape or filled with mounting foam.

Then a crate is stuffed over the membrane and drywall is attached. All cracks and junctions of sheets to window and door openings are carefully puttied with fiberglass gossamer. To enhance the protection against odors, you can additionally cover the primed surface of drywall with paint.

From the outside, the structure of the sleepers requires a ventilated facade with the possibility of weathering the antiseptic. For this reason, for external insulation of the house, it is better to take mineral stone wool, and not foam plastic and similar materials, the wall should breathe.

First, a vertical crate of bars with a section of 50x50 mm is nailed. A heater is fixed between them, so it is advisable to choose the lattice step according to the width of the roll or plate. From above, the heat insulator is covered with a windproof membrane. Then, in order to ventilate the facade and unhindered evaporation of chemical impregnations and moisture, it is necessary to leave a small air gap between the finishing layer and the insulation. Therefore, a light counter-lattice is installed from wooden slats 30x30 mm. It is attached to the decorative trim of the house. Most often used metal or vinyl siding. Another option is wooden or PVC lining or facing bricks.

Often today you can find a house of sleepers. Not everyone knows how to remove the smell, which is quite noticeable in such a building. In this article, we will discuss this issue and some others regarding sleeper housing.

Sleeper house

Nowadays, when apartments in high-rise buildings are expensive, and plots of land are even more expensive, people are trying in every possible way to save on building materials. Building your own home is no exception. For example, families that live close to railroads often build their houses out of railroad ties.

Both new and used sleepers are used for these purposes. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks about the question: is this housing construction option harmful or not, because the material is quite cheap, and the shape of the beams greatly simplifies the process of building a house.

Important! One of the most important questions that should be puzzled even before building such housing is how to get rid of the smell of sleepers in the house? With this approach, you will greatly simplify your life and quickly be able to equip your family nest cozy and comfortable.

Advantages and disadvantages of a sleeper house

In any case, you need to know all the advantages and disadvantages of such housing, so that later you do not regret the work done, the money and time spent.

High heat capacity

In winter frosts, such a building warms up very quickly and retains heat for a long time. In the summer heat inside the house is always cool and comfortable.

Durability

Sleepers are made mainly from pine or other softwood. Thanks to the even trunk of trees, their processing is greatly simplified.

• Pine is a soft wood.
• She is moisture resistant.
• Has a uniform structure.
• Doesn't split.
• Has great strength.
• Not subject to decay.
• Retains all its properties for a very long time.

All of the listed characteristics of wood are considered to be the dignity of railway sleepers as a material for building a house.

Impregnation with antiseptic

The special composition of creosote, which is impregnated with sleepers, has a strong antiseptic effect. Thanks to this treatment, the service life of the sleepers is maximized. It is believed that a house built of sleepers and covered with plaster on both sides is able to survive more than one generation. He is not afraid of any fungus, rodents or insects.

What is creosote?

It is a mixture that consists of various phenols and aromatized carbons. It is extracted from wood and coal tar using caustic solutions of alkali and sulfuric acid. Therefore, creosote has a rather specific smell.

The last advantage is also the most significant disadvantage of a sleeper house. Since creosote is a strong toxic, carcinogenic substance that can significantly worsen a person's health. And naturally, it is precisely for this reason that the question will bother you: “a house of sleepers - how to remove the smell?”

The effect of impregnation on human health or what are the disadvantages of a sleeper house?

With a long stay in a room with creosote impregnation, a person may experience the following symptoms of poor health:

• Constant headache.
• development of liver disease.
• Formation and rapid growth of cancer cells.
• Violation of the nervous system.
• Breathing problems, asthma.
• Chronic skin diseases, allergies.

Important! Creosote, if it comes into contact with the skin, causes burns. Its vapors, which are formed in warehouses of wooden sleepers at high temperatures, can also cause burns.

In addition to being harmful to human health, impregnated sleepers are highly flammable. Such houses burn down in a fire in 15-20 minutes.

Important! In 2003, after a study of the harm of creosote to human health, in the countries of the European Union, this substance was banned for use in civil engineering.

You can hear a lot of objections from people that their grandparents used to live in such houses, and everything was in order. Part of the answer to such claims lies in the way the wood is processed. In the manufacture of sleepers, they can be impregnated by the surface (to a depth of up to 5-10 mm) and through method (under pressure to the entire depth of the bar).

By using surface-impregnated sleepers for building a house, and by providing good ventilation to the room, the harmful effects of creosote are minimized. But a minimum is not a complete absence. In the heat, you will constantly feel the unpleasant smell of harmful impregnation. Therefore, it is up to you to decide whether or not to buy sleepers for building your own home.

How to get rid of the smell of sleepers in the house?

If you have built a house from railroad logs, or are planning to do so, then minimize the emission of harmful substances and get rid of the smell of sleepers in the following ways:

• Treat the sleepers with clean cement diluted in water. Its consistency should correspond to thick sour cream. Apply the mixture with a brush, carefully rubbing it into the grooves and crevices.
• From the inside, finish the house on a metal or wooden frame with drywall.
• Between the frame and the sleepers or between the frame and the finishing material, lay a layer of high-quality vapor barrier airtight material.
• Cover with a film internal and external partitions from cross ties, ceilings and a floor. All structures through which leakage of harmful substances is possible must be hermetically sealed.

Important! Fiberglass-reinforced polyethylene film or polyethylene foil foam are fairly reliable and cheap options for building vapor barrier. Ordinary greenhouse film is also suitable for this purpose, but it quickly becomes unusable.

• Eliminate other ways for harmful vapors to enter the house. All joints between door and window blocks must be filled with at least construction foam. Traditional tow in this case will not help much.

Important! The integrity of the vapor barrier should not be disturbed by sockets, switches and other electrical wiring elements.

• Complete vapor barrier turns the house into a hermetic structure. Having done all the procedures, you will minimize the degree of penetration of unpleasant odors and harmful substances into living rooms, but you will lose an important property of wooden walls - their “breathing”. To ensure air exchange and remove excess moisture, it is necessary to think over and ensure ventilation of the premises. Rooms should have adjustable openings through which fresh air will penetrate: micro-ventilation devices, vents, windows. The bathrooms and kitchen should have exhaust ducts. Thus, you will establish a favorable microclimate in the house and be able to get rid of the smell in the sleeper house.

How to build a house from sleepers yourself?

If, after reading all the above information, you still have not abandoned the construction of housing from sleepers, then the following recommendations will be useful to you during construction work:

1. The construction of each room begins with the foundation. As a rule, a columnar foundation is built for sleeper houses. But if you plan to make a basement under the building, then the best option would be to fill in the strip foundation.
2. The upper part of the foundation should be covered with waterproofing before laying the log house. To do this, it is necessary to coat the concrete with melted bituminous mastic, and lay several pieces of roofing material on it.
3. This is followed by the laying of the first row of sleepers. They lie flat on the wide side. For the bottom row, it is best to choose the heaviest sleepers, for example, wood completely impregnated with creosote. Ligation is carried out with a spike connection.
4. On the first crown you need to lay a heater. Moss, jute or tow can act as a heater.
5. After that, the second row of sleepers is laid with an edge with a narrow side.
6. Fastening takes place in the dowel method. To do this, holes are drilled for wooden pins that will hold the sleepers at a distance of 60 centimeters from the ends on opposite sides of the log.

Important! Installation of the structure can be carried out without laying insulation. The seams are subsequently sealed with mounting foam. Rows can be fastened with 200 mm staples and nails.

1. It is worth choosing the same parts for each row. They will depend on the geometric parameters and dimensions of the sleepers.
2. Using a level or plumb line during masonry, the vertical direction inside is checked. Irregularities of the outer walls are hidden with the help of facade decoration.
3. Angular fastening of wooden sleepers is carried out similarly to brickwork - with the help of a special dressing and staples.
4. Window and door openings in the piers are vertically filled with 50 mm boards or installed sleepers. Cracks are eliminated with tow or mounting foam.

Important! Internal partitions are best made from ordinary wood. In this case, you will get a warm and dry house of sleepers.

Very often, when planning the construction of a private house, future homeowners choose sleepers as the material as the most economical option. You can learn how to build a house from sleepers, and how to do it yourself, from the video on the Internet and the information below.

Advantages and disadvantages

The most obvious advantage of building a house from sleepers is the cost-effectiveness of its construction, due to the low cost of the material. In addition, there are other advantages:

• The high level of heat capacity of the sleeper house, thanks to which it quickly warms up in winter, does not release heat, and keeps cool well in summer, creating a comfortable atmosphere inside the house.
• The durability of the material due to the fact that the sleepers are made of coniferous wood (pine, larch, fir, spruce, yew). This wood has a homogeneous structure, which does not split during processing, and the processing process itself is quite easy. It is also moisture resistant, durable, does not undergo decay processes, retaining its properties for many years. As a result, the built house will be warm and dry, which is not afraid of any weather conditions.
• Impregnation with creosote, which is obtained by distillation from wood and coal tar, provides sleeper wood with strong antiseptic properties. This allows for a long time to keep the material from damage by rodents, insects and fungus, even under conditions of intensive use. Plastered inside and out, a sleeper house can survive several generations.

Sleeper house pros and cons

With all the existing advantages, the last of them at the same time can be a serious drawback. The fact is that creosote, in addition to having a strong unpleasant odor, is also a carcinogenic substance. Therefore, in order to protect yourself as much as possible from the harmful effects of the walls of your home, you should adhere to the following recommendations:

1. In no case should you purchase new sleepers for construction. They must lie down thoroughly in the ground, the creosote must be washed out by precipitation and dried in the sun. This will take at least 15-20 years, even better if 50 years have passed since the start of the operation of the sleepers.
2. Careful finishing with ventilated facades from the outside will allow creosote vapor to evaporate, and a protective membrane from the inside will prevent its smell and fumes from penetrating into the building.
3. For the construction of a residential building from sleepers, it is better to use those that have not undergone through treatment with an antiseptic, but only 35 cm.
4. You should not use only sleepers for the construction of all structures of the house, and, moreover, internal partitions. It is best to combine sleepers with ordinary wood or other materials.

Necessary materials

In order to build a house of sleepers with your own hands, you need to purchase the following materials:

• Sleepers - for a residential building measuring 8x10 m or 10x10 m, you will need at least 200 pieces.
• fittings
• Sand, gravel, cement
• Rolled waterproofing material for the base
• Tow, heat-insulating material for internal insulation
• Steel pins, metal staples
• Window and door blocks
• Materials for interior and exterior decoration
• Roofing material.

Construction stages

Before you build your house, you need to clear the site for its construction and lay the foundation, this will be the first stage in construction. A structure made of sleeper material does not weigh too much, so the type of foundation that will be able to withstand the load of the structure will not be time-consuming and costly. Its height should be 50 cm above ground level. When pouring it, fixing bolts with a diameter of 40 mm are installed in increments of one meter, and a waterproofing layer is laid on top of the foundation tape. Tow must be laid between the waterproofing layer and the first row of logs. The foundation of a residential building should stand after pouring for about 14 days.

Sleeper house - strip foundation

The second stage is the construction of walls. The first row is laid out by attaching to the bolts in the base with a wide base on top of each other, such laying will provide greater thermal insulation of the walls, as well as more even, dense rows. Corner joints of logs are fastened into a "spike" with metal staples. The rows are fastened together with pins and also with brackets, holes for which are made at a distance of 50-70 cm from the ends. Further, every third row of the frame is fixed with metal squares, and to stiffen the structure, each side is fixed diagonally with reinforcement 4 mm thick, 20-30 mm wide. When laying, each row must be checked by level. In the designated places for window openings, sleepers can be installed vertically. Each row must be caulked with tow and glass wool. Before laying the last row, it is necessary to mount fasteners for installing the roof truss.

The third stage is the installation of the roof. A layer of waterproofing and insulation is laid on the top row of bars. In general, roofing installation is no different from installation for buildings made of other building materials. Roofing material is selected based on the financial capabilities and wishes of the owners.

Interior decoration

Interior decoration should not only perform a decorative function, but also protect the sleeper residential building from the penetration of creosote vapors. To do this, first, insulation is created in the form of a film, which is attached to logs covered with liquid glass. In this case, you can use an economical option for insulation - a foamed polyethylene film with a thickness of 200-300 microns. All joints and seams between the logs must first be foamed or covered with construction tape.

The insulating film is overlapped on the walls. Further, a crate of shingles is stuffed onto it, on top of which drywall is attached. All joints between sheets of drywall are carefully puttied, and the walls are primed, then covered with plaster or paint.

For the floor, it is better to use a wooden coating with a layer of thermal insulation and waterproofing. The ceiling can be finished with the same materials as the walls.

Exterior finish

How to build a house from sleepers - exterior decoration

The best solution for the exterior of a building made of sleepers is the installation of a ventilated facade, which will help to weather the creosote vapors. For its arrangement, a crate is first arranged, a mineral wool insulation is attached to it (polystyrene is not recommended for insulation). Further, the heat insulator is covered with a windproof membrane. Between it and the insulation, an additional crate of wooden slats 30x30cm is arranged in order to create an air gap. After that, siding is attached to the crate, often vinyl or metal, but ordinary lining can also be used.

Those working on the impregnation of sleepers with creosote can very quickly develop a severe burn of the face (especially the cheeks and nose), forearms and neck, which they are forced to stop working after 0.5-1 hour. In mild cases, pigmentation may appear after 1-3 days, in more severe - peeling and prolonged pigmentation. At the same time, 50% of workers may experience: photophobia, lacrimation in a small number of cases - damage to the cornea (with prolonged action - staining it). Hyperkeratosis and warty growths caused by creosote can develop into skin cancer, metastasizing to the lymph glands and distant organs. Apparently, for the appearance of cancer from creosote, its long-term exposure to the body is required. According to recent studies, creosote is considered a potential carcinogen. In this regard, since 2003, the unlicensed use of creosote has been banned in the EU countries.

How dangerous is a sleeper house?

But these measures are not sufficient to eliminate the harmful effects of creosote on humans. Some people object and say that their sleeper houses, when well insulated, do not smell, and that their great-grandmothers, grandmothers and relatives lived happily ever after in such houses.

Part of the answer to this objection lies in the quality and method of impregnation of wooden sleepers. In the production of sleepers, there is a surface (to a depth of 5 cm) or through impregnation (under pressure).
So, when building a house from wooden sleepers with surface impregnation and good insulation, the harmful effects of antiseptics are minimized. I would also like to note the fact that many more people who own such “miracle houses” respond extremely negatively.

To be or not to be a house of wooden railway sleepers?

I wouldn't build a house, no matter what anyone says. 4. ... I lived in a provincial town in the south of Russia, where there was never wood. There, 90% of the houses are from used, decommissioned sleepers lined with bricks.

The combination of sleepers + bricks is considered to be a very solid structure there, there are no smells, it is warm in winter, cool in summer. The plaster does not crack. I believe that the harm from creosote weathered over decades is no more than from dried drying oil ... 5.
... in the south of Kazakhstan, many built houses from sleepers. The main thing is that the sleepers are old, lying in the ground. From the new, of course, no one built. My grandfather built this house.

My father, aunts and uncles grew up in it, and then we are grandchildren. And no one died because the house was a sleeper. Between the sleepers, old rags were stuffed into the cracks (whatever they had, they stuffed it) and covered it with clay.

Inside they stuffed "shingles" and plastered with clay and straw.

Creosote how it affects a person

Half of the house is plastered and there is no smell. In the second half there is, but as they say, it does not hurt the eyes. Dismantling a house is cool, because. if there are funds, it is easier to build a new one.

Philosopher Forum Member Philosopher Forum Member Registration: 09/29/08 Messages: 366 Likes: 0 So, at the moment, the entire extension is covered with plasterboard from the inside, a foamed polyethylene film is previously laid between it and the sleepers. In the process, changes were made to the design, namely, the seams were sealed not with mounting foam, but with putty-vetonite.

It seemed to me more reliable, in addition, such seams give the wall a more finished and attractive look. Result: the sleepers were reliably insulated, the smell disappeared.

We bought a house from sleepers, how to get rid of the smell of creosote

Attention

After all, some diseases from chemistry appear after decades, or even on the next generations. In general, phenol is a highly toxic substance and building a house from wood containing it is a dubious economy, very dubious.

The health of loved ones and children is not worth it in any way. 11. ... at least whoever remembered how much poured out of the toilets from passing trains onto these sleepers that were used in the construction of the house? After all, all the diseases of the world have been “waiting” for years on these sleepers. In a word: “build a “cozy apartment” out of a public toilet.
Only “how to get rid of the smell of urine? Can you tell me?”… 12. … I have acquaintances. The house was built from sleepers about 20 years ago. Fortunately, there the whole town is “tied up” on the railway.
Husband, wife and son like... Wife from cancer a year ago, husband is also on the way... I don't know about my son. ... it’s easier, in my opinion, while living in a hostel, to put a kilogram of mercury under the bed ...

Sleeper house!!!

To buy or not to buy railway sleepers? Ultimately, it is up to you to decide whether it is worth saving on your health or not. Based on the above, I personally strongly advise against building a house from used wooden sleepers, and even more so from new ones.
It is acceptable to use used wooden sleepers as building elements for the construction of utility rooms, where a person spends very little time (hozbloks, sheds, etc.). Although the owners of such utility rooms write that even after 30 years of operation, especially in warm weather, the premises have an unpleasant smell both inside and outside. And finally, for those who already have a strong desire to build a house from wooden sleepers - choose only new sleepers that are not yet impregnated with toxic antiseptics, especially creosote - such a house will be warm, dry and comfortable for life.
The complexity of the disposal of sleepers is associated with the high toxicity of the antiseptics used (creosote, coal oil, cresol, etc.) Creosote, which is most often impregnated with sleepers to prevent their decay, is a product of the distillation of coal and contains more than 70% aromatic hydrocarbons (phenols, their esters, cresols, naphthalene, anthracene, etc.). Direct combustion of sleepers impregnated with coal antiseptics is impossible, since smoke emissions contain up to 3-4% of unburned aromatic hydrocarbons.

The most suitable for solving this problem are cement kilns, where the thermochemical process proceeds at a higher temperature up to 1700-1800 ?С with increased residence times of the destruction products. For efficient use of railway sleepers in cement kilns, they are pre-crushed in a HAMMEL 750D/DK crusher.

Sleeper construction. advantages and disadvantages

After 11 months, the symptoms intensified, additionally appeared jaundice, liver tenderness, uneven pupils, trembling fingers, dizziness, sweating; in the blood - Geyts bodies. With the action of creosote, cases of toxic polyencephalitis have been associated, which developed after several pillars were treated with creosote in a poorly ventilated garage.

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A few hours later, the victim developed diplopia, nystagmus, paralysis of the oculomotor muscles, speech disorder, ataxia, and left-sided hemiparesis. The fundus of the eye and blood without abnormalities; all symptoms disappeared after 2 weeks and were not observed thereafter (Arieff, Altas).

Skin contact with creosote leads to the appearance of pink spots, papules, warty growths, strong pigmentation, and increased keratinization of the skin. The disease is especially acute on sunny days.

They built a house from used sleepers - the smell of creosote comes from the underground: what should we do

And this is far from the same thing. CONS 1. ... we built a house from used sleepers, laid a grid inside and plastered it, now in some places stains from the composition with which the sleepers were processed appear through the plaster. What to do and how to treat the walls to stop the penetration of stains? ... 2. ... my father built a summer kitchen from a sleeper during the perestroika period, 12-14 years have passed, I don’t remember exactly, but in the summer, when the sun warms up, there is a smell, from the inside stains appeared on the plaster, it was covered with tin on the outside ... Regarding the vapor barrier with a film ... this is the same mistake as the house from the sleepers itself, firstly, the film becomes a sieve after stuffing the mesh, and secondly, it is not a vapor barrier, since nevertheless at least a little, but it passes air and moisture by itself, and it is short-lived ... 3. ... many houses were built from railway sleepers.

Sleeper houses are harmful to health

Looked at the garden area. And the place is good, and they ask inexpensively, but it’s embarrassing that the house is built of sleepers. True, it is plastered inside and out. Nearby stands an unfinished bathhouse, also made of impregnated sleepers. How dangerous is this impregnation for health and does it fade over time? Gennady Makhovikov FOR 1. ... my grandmother had a house from sleepers and my great-grandmother had a house from sleepers, my grandfather had a house from sleepers, from his wife's side, and there were no problems, no smell, no headaches. In the summer in such a house it is cool, and in the winter it is warm. And this is despite the fact that at the grandmother’s it is simply plastered from the inside, and from the outside it is not finished with anything at all. I built a garage for myself with sleepers, and I’m finishing building a bathhouse, and soon I’ll build a house (of them). By the way, it is possible that the sleepers of the sleepers are different. When I sawed, I found that they were impregnated by 5 mm at the most, and the rest is all pure wood, maybe that's why there is no smell.

Is a sleeper house harmful to health?

Often, for the construction of country houses or baths, they prefer to choose improvised materials in order to save money. For example, the proximity to the railway may encourage gardeners to build structures from new or used sleepers.

This option attracts financial affordability and speed of construction. Is it really a profitable option? Let's try to figure it out.

To build or not to build? The pros and cons of building with wooden sleepers The advantages of such construction have been revealed by many years of operation of such houses. Indeed, houses made of wooden sleepers are light, do not rot, are durable, protect well from low temperatures and rodent invasions, and these houses also perform well in earthquake conditions.

In addition, the specific shape of the sleepers makes it easy to mount houses of simple structures.