[Jizhen Little Science] From the perspective of avoiding earthquake safety hazards, what are the precautions for house decoration?

Source: [Lightning News]

From the perspective of avoiding earthquake safety hazards, what are the precautions for house decoration?

When decorating a house, we should not only consider the beauty and practicality, but also fully consider the safety and service life of the building. From the perspective of avoiding potential earthquake safety hazards, attention should be paid to:

Do not arbitrarily dismantle or modify structural components of the house such as load-bearing walls. If load-bearing walls, columns, and beams are damaged or knocked down during renovation, whether all or part of them are knocked down, windows, doors, or changes in size, the bearing capacity of the house will be reduced to varying degrees, and the transmission and support of the entire house will All will be destroyed, making the load-bearing structure unable to carry the load together.

Non-load-bearing walls cannot be demolished casually. Compared with load-bearing walls, non-load-bearing walls are also secondary load-bearing components and are extremely important supports for load-bearing walls. If residents of the entire building demolish and modify non-load-bearing walls at will, the earthquake resistance of the building will be greatly reduced.

Don’t drill holes in the wall randomly. When decorating a room, do not arbitrarily make holes in load-bearing walls, dismantle walls connecting balconies to doors and windows, and do not arbitrarily expand the size of original doors and windows or build new doors and windows. This approach will cause local cracks in the building and seriously affect its earthquake resistance.

Do not increase the total weight of floor paving materials arbitrarily. Do not pave all floors with marble when decorating ordinary buildings, because marble is dozens of times heavier than floor tiles and wooden floors, which may overwhelm the floor.

Do not remove the low wall next to the balcony. Some rooms and balconies have a door and a window on the wall. The doors and windows can be removed, but the low wall under the window cannot be removed, because this wall is the counterweight wall of the room and the balcony, which connects the east, west or north and south. The wall, if removed, will reduce the load-bearing capacity of the balcony.

Don’t dig your own basement. There are strict regulations and specifications on the architectural design of building basements. Excavating the basement without authorization, exposing or shrinking the foundation columns or even smashing them will affect the effective bearing capacity and stability of the entire building.

This article comes from [Lightning News] and represents only the author’s opinion. The National Party Media Information Public Platform provides information release and dissemination services.

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