Building a house is not as simple as building a wall, it is like stacking bricks, just stacking bricks on top of each other.

There are many things to consider when building a house, such as the area of the house, roof waterproofing, house insulation, etc., in addition, Su Yan also has to add a kang and a stove to the house.

The design of the house was completed as early as last year, and sketches were drawn on the stone slabs.

Standard houses for ordinary people:

It is two meters wide and seven meters long, which looks relatively narrow and long, and the height of the house is not the same, the front wall is 2.2 meters high, and the back wall is 2 meters high, because the height of the front wall and the back wall are different, which will cause the roof to be tilted, so that the result of this design is that rain or snow can slide down the slope whether it is rain or snow.

The house only has a 70-centimeter-wide and 1.7-meter-high opening at the front as an entrance, and a wide animal skin is usually used as a door to cover the gap.

There is no kang in the house, only a stove is built with adobe bricks in the middle of the house, and a smoke passage is built for the stove with adobe bricks, so that the smoke and dust in the house will not be filled with smoke and dust because of the fire made by the stove.

Not only can the stove be used for heating, but it can also be used as a stove, boiling water with large pottery and roasting meat directly on the stove.

And the most important thing is the roof, if the roof is not done well, it will leak when it rains, it will collapse when it snows, and the house will not be insulated in the cold winter, it is as cold as outside.

There are no tools such as axes, so you can only choose wooden poles with the thickness of an adult's small arm as the support of the roof, arrange them at a certain distance between the front and back walls, and then take some wooden sticks that are only the thickness of your fingers and intersect them vertically with the support, and use straw rope to tie and fix the thin wooden sticks and thick wooden poles to make a complete frame.

Then there is a kind of wide leaves that Su Yan often sees in the tribe, which can reach a meter in length and between 30 and 40 centimeters in width, and the leaves can be preserved for a long time after being dehydrated.

With this wide leaf, two layers are completely spread on the frame, then a thick layer of hay is spread on the top, and then two layers are spread with wide leaves, and finally four ordinary adobe bricks are pressed in each square meter, and the work of the entire roof is completed, which can be protected from rain and heat to a large extent.

It can be said that the roof is the most troublesome one when building a standard house, but it is also the most important one of the whole house.

The house is rated for 10 people, with almost every 4 square meters being 3 people living space, and the maximum occupancy can reach more than 20 people.

Su Yan designed a standard house for ordinary people to live in, and also designed a special house where Su Yan himself, Wu, and the leader lived.

The special house is three meters wide and four meters long, and the total area is smaller than that of a standard house, with a height of 2.1 meters on the front wall and 2 meters on the back wall.

Not only the area, but also the interior layout of the house is different, the interior of the special house is divided into two parts, the inner house is 2.5 meters wide and the outer house is 1.5 meters wide.

After entering the house, people first enter the outer house, and then enter the inner house, and open a gap of 0.7 meters wide and 1.7 meters high on the front wall and the inner wall of the house as the entrance, and also use a wide animal skin as a door to cover the gap.

The front half of the outhouse is a stove connected to the inner wall, and the stove is 2.5 meters long and 1.8 meters wide in the inner room.

The construction of the kang is very troublesome, you need to first build a one-meter-high, two-point-long brick wall at 1.8 meters, and then fill it with earth, which needs to be filled to 80 centimeters and flattened.

At this time, a special adobe brick is needed, which is different from ordinary adobe bricks with a length of 20 centimeters, a width of 10 centimeters, and a height of 5 centimeters, and the specifications of special adobe bricks are 30 centimeters long, 30 centimeters wide, and 5 centimeters high, and a special adobe brick is equivalent to four and a half ordinary adobe bricks.

Use such a larger special adobe brick to lay a layer on the soil, and then use ordinary adobe bricks to place two parallel pieces of width and height on each special adobe brick, keep a certain distance between ordinary adobe bricks as much as possible, do not touch each other, and then put the special adobe bricks on these ordinary adobe bricks to lay a flat layer, and finally use the soil to carefully wipe it again without leaving a gap, and the fire kang is built.

Also, don't forget to leave an empty space 25 centimeters long and 20 centimeters wide in the corner of the kang for building smoke exhaust pipes.

The method of paving the roof of a special house is the same as that of a standard house.

In this way, there is almost time to build a special house to build two standard houses, and the special house can live up to five people, and any more will seem very crowded, but because of the fire kang, the special house is more comfortable than the standard.

Think of lying on a hot kang covered with a layer of hay and a layer of animal skins in the cold winter, and then covering it with a layer of animal skins, it feels like winter is like that.

Su Yan planned to build only three special houses for the time being, only Su Yan himself, Wu, and the leader were eligible to live in them, and the standard houses were built in large quantities to accommodate more clansmen.

If the population of the snake tribe increases dramatically but there is not enough place to live, then it is really uncomfortable.

Su Yan has designed both standard houses and special houses, which are more in line with the conditions of the current snake tribe, and the next thing is to look at the actual construction, first build a house to try, if there is discomfort, you can quickly change it, and after the first house is finalized, it can be built in large quantities.

After the completion of the wall enhancement project, the construction of the house will commence immediately.

As the first person to propose the construction of a house, Su Yan became the overseer of the construction project, and before the first house was built, he had to participate in the construction of the house with his clansmen.

Houses also need foundations, and Su Yan drew a line with a wooden stick at a distance of one and a half meters from the wall, and the vacated distance of one meter and a half is very useful.

At the beginning of the construction of the house, it was not necessary to involve all the labor of the snake tribe, only a fifth of the labor force was enough, and the rest of the labor force could continue to fire adobe bricks, and a brick wall was only one meter and two meters high on the inside of the wall, and this brick wall did not need a foundation.

The real purpose of this low brick wall clinging to the wall is that if the enemy attacks, the people of the Snake Tribe can stand on this brick wall, peek out from the wall, and throw short spears and stones at the enemy.

It is not feasible to put the back wall of the house next to the fence, or to use the fence wall as the back wall of the house, because the roof cannot withstand the weight of an adult, and it is easy for the roof to collapse.

Therefore, the house should be built at a certain distance away from the wall, and at the same time, a low brick wall should be built close to the wall.