What does the rural saying "adding walls to a wall will ruin a family and people" mean? Why do people who know the business believe it!

Article | Xiaoyu

For many migrant workers, it is very difficult to buy an apartment in the city, as if it is a fantasy. Even if you find land to build your own house in a rural area, it is by no means easy. Think about it, so many migrant workers born in the 1960s and 1970s have been struggling to earn money throughout their lives in order to own a house that truly belongs to them.

In fact, many self-built houses in rural areas slowly add floors, mainly because they don’t have enough money and don’t want to wait forever. The construction process of this kind of building is usually as follows: the house is built with two floors, or if you have enough money, you build a three-story house. But when the money is not enough, the construction is stopped, and the roof is not capped on the top floor. Instead, it is built with earthen tiles or a tent. A roof that provides protection from wind and rain. In this way, it not only ensures that the ground floor and lower floors are protected from wind and rain, but also saves manpower and money than capping the roof. It can also save a lot of effort for adding floors to the building in the future. It can be regarded as killing multiple birds with one stone.

Before a house like this is built, the original plan basically has additional floors. The beams, foundation, load-bearing walls, etc. of the house are all built according to the standard of how many floors need to be added. Yes, then there won’t be any big problems after this house is finally built.

However, because there are currently too few homestead sites in rural areas where houses can be built, those migrant workers who have returned to their hometowns have come up with the idea of ??building on old houses. After all, demolishing and rebuilding would not only be troublesome but also expensive. So, they came up with a way to build on top of the old house. However, they have forgotten the warning slogan "A wall is added to a wall, and a family is destroyed."

This approach is actually extremely dangerous, because all aspects of the old house did not meet the basic requirements for adding walls to the house. There are usually two types of old houses: one is an old building with many yellowing on the walls, and the other is a small bungalow with a civil structure that has a more dated feel.

This kind of old buildings were basically built by my father’s generation or even my grandfather’s generation. The materials and construction techniques at that time were very backward: the bricks were fired in earth kilns in the mountains, and their hardness was simply not up to standard. The mud connecting the bricks still relied on lime and yellow mud. They have withstood the wind, rain and erosion of the years, and they are almost "unable to protect themselves". If we have to forcibly add walls to the old walls, to put it lightly, cracks will appear one after another. If it is more serious, I'm afraid It will be turned directly into ruins!

Furthermore, even the foundation cannot bear any more weight. When houses were built in the past, the ground beams were all ring beams, which were only a few dozen centimeters thick at most. If you have to add a wall, the house will risk tilting and sinking. Moreover, this happens often and can often be seen in rural areas, proving that the risk is very high.

It goes without saying that for houses like this, in order to save money in the south, the first floor is usually an earth structure, and if there is a second floor, it is usually a wood and tile structure. It is easy to renovate this type of house, but if you want to add walls, you may be overestimating your capabilities.

Home is a house; a house is also a home. Out of 24 hours a day, rural people spend more than 12 hours at home. Living in such a house, there is of course the possibility of casualties. Otherwise, how can there be a saying that "putting walls on walls will ruin families and people"?

No matter where it is, if you want to add a layer, it must first be evaluated by a professional plasterer. If the standard of the addition is not up to standard, no matter how good or high the remuneration conditions offered by the owner are, the masters will not agree to it. Because they know that this matter can really mean that human life is at stake. And if there is any minor accident, the job of the plasterer may not be guaranteed. If there is any major construction accident, such as causing casualties, it may be a matter of going to court and going to jail.

Therefore, experienced and sensible masons will have some ideas in mind. They all know what jobs they can take and what jobs they can't. Therefore, the saying "adding walls to a wall will ruin a family" is not meant to scare people. What do you think?