The document details the construction process of a ferrocement house, aimed at providing low-cost housing in rural India using locally available materials. It describes the requirements, dimensions, and materials needed, along with the construction stages including skeleton arrangement, meshing, mortar filling, and plastering. The overall cost for constructing a house measuring 6.3ft x 6ft x 7.9ft is estimated at ₹10,000, which is about 20% less than conventional methods.

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Ferrocement House ConstructionFerrocement House Construction
Students:
S.Niharika
M.Meghana
P.Rohith
B.Akshay
R.Venkatesh
P.Jeevan Reddy
Project
Presentation

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• Project Overview
• Requirement Description
• Skeleton steel arrangement
• Meshing
• Cement mortar mix
• Plastering of cement
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Project OverviewProject Overview
Almost everywhere in rural India, the houses are made
of locally available building materials such as stones,
mud, unburnt bricks,bamboos, wood reeds, leaves,
grasses, etc.This is more true of the poor people
who cannot afford the luxury of building materials
other than the locally available ones.
In order to construct a house at low cost which is about
20% less than the conventional construction.we can
construct in a desirable design which is durable,
fire-resistant etc.

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Requirement Description
• Estimated amount for the construction of
this house of dimensions 6.3ftx6ftx7.9ft is
10,000₹
• Materials required for the construction
• hexagonal mesh-
• opc bags-7
• fine aggregate-1 load
• steel rods of Fe 415 type-4 bars

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Skeleton steel rods arrangement
• Steel rods of 8 mm dia are cutted to the
taken dimesions of the dimensions with
rod cutting machine
• Firstly,The rods are arranged in the
vertical manner in according to the taken
dimension of height 7.9 ft and space
between the rods should be 1 feet
• Horizontal arrangement of rods are to
completed by leaving the space between
the rods is 1 ft

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Construction Process
• To construct Ferro cement House various
stages are involved are
• Arrangement of steel bars
• Meshing
• Cement mortar filling
• Plastering with cement

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Meshing
• In this stage, the steel
mesh is weaved is
inside and outside of
the house along the
given dimensons

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Cement mortar filling
• Cement mortar mix is prepared by mixing
opc with fine aggregate at which
aggregate quantity should be 60 % of
volume of mortar
• Now mortar mix is filled in the space
between mesh layers and over the rods

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Plastering of cement
• Cement plastering is commonly used as ideal coating for
external and internal surface of wall. Cement plaster is
usually applied in a single coat or double coat.when it is
required to get a very fine finish. The process of applying
a double coat cement plaster on wall surface consists of
the following 5 steps.
• Step-1-Preparation of surface for plastering
• Step-2-Ground work for plaster
• Step-3-Applying first coat (or under coat or rendering
coat

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