Wooden house features a selection of the material

The material from which to build a house? This question is asked by many budding developers. We already wrote about the most popular of wall materials. Our today's article is more specific - on the wall material for a wooden house.

Features wooden house

One of the main advantages of living in a wooden house - it is a favorable microclimate. The house is built of wood, easy to breathe in it cool in summer and warm in winter.

These features are due to the properties of wood. Wooden walls have low thermal conductivity - in a stone building, but the walls in the house from a tree - of lesser thickness.

This reduces the construction costs. Since the wooden house weighs less than a stone, there is no need to build a strong foundation under it. A wall thickness at the corresponding wooden house does not require additional heat insulation.

Dimaelektro (Member FORUMHOUSE):

- In my opinion, for a permanent home in the Moscow region for the walls is sufficient to take profiled beam thickness of 190-195 mm. If we take a conventional timber of 150 mm in thickness, the need for additional insulation façade to 50 mm. A round logs should have a diameter of not less than 260 mm.

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The greatest heat loss, as a rule, do not go through walls, and through poorly warmed floor, the roof and the improperly installed windows.

Also in the construction of a log house is necessary to pay attention not to the diameter of the material, and the width of the groove (the place where the logs are placed on top of each other). For example, it is possible to put the frame with logs over 300 mm, but the groove width of only 5-7 cm. As a result, the actual thickness of the wall will be all the same 5-7 cm and, in spite of the spectacular appearance of the house, built of such logs in the winter it is very cold. Do not save even heating on the main gas.

Therefore, before starting the construction of a wooden house is important to understand what it is built and how it will be used: as a summer cottage, or as a place for permanent residence.

If the wooden house used in the "villa", then on arrival at the station, he quickly warmed, and well protoplenny wooden house, built of thick logs, thanks to their heat capacity, long keeps warm (walls act as water tank).

In addition, even in the wooden house neprotoplennom no damp feeling, because wood, due to its good water vapor permeability, removes excess steam and moisture out. Studies have shown that the movement of steam and air in the log takes place more in the longitudinal than in the transverse direction.

Because steam, seeking out moves in the perpendicular direction (along the annual rings), there is no mixing of these streams.

The vapor does not reach the external chilled layers in wooden wall and is removed through the ends of the logs in, but does not condense in the event of "dew point".

Therefore, a wooden house is supported by a favorable microclimate.

During the construction of wooden houses and the choice of materials for its decoration is important to follow the principle: the degree of water vapor permeability of materials should be increased from the inside out.

Among the advantages of wooden houses can be noted:

• showy appearance;
• the finishing of the walls: they often do not require additional exterior and interior decoration, except for staining.

Despite all the advantages, wood as a building material of the wall, is not without a number of drawbacks.

Wooden cottage sits for a long time, so you can not just do it finish - install windows, doors, etc. The house has to "dwell" under a temporary roof. On average, this process takes about a year. Shrinkage of the walls: a change in their height depending on the starting material moisture saturation may be from 3 to 12%. Therefore, at the stage of the project, it is important to establish this ratio high flows.

The tree can start to rot, it can lead to spin or "helicopter", it is subject to cracking and to insect pests. Also, the tree needs comprehensive protection from the damaging effects of water and sunlight. To combat these phenomena treated wood fire- bioshield means, painted and impregnated with a special compound.

Wood - the "live", capricious material, which at all times have the effect of external factors unfavorable weather.

Of every tree to build a house?

Most often manufacture of wooden home used coniferous wood.

hermes -sz(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- In the old days, log cabin house cut of pine, spruce or pine, at least - larch and baths were built of hardwood: aspen or lime tree.

On the wood species, from its place of cutting, on - winter forest or not, the quality and durability of the house depends on many things.

For example, spruce and pine, depending on the place of growth: in the mixed forest, in a dense forest, on edge, on a hill, about swamps, in the hollow, may differ significantly in density and lubricity.

By resistance to deformation, the reliability of retention of the metal fixture is not inferior spruce pine. Because of differences in cell structure of the fir absorbs moisture less than pine. This wood species less susceptible to changes in volume.

Spruce is more commonly used for the manufacture of floor beams.

For this reason it's better all "breathing" walls made of pine.

If we take the "heat shield" the walls of the timber or pine timber for 100%, the same wall of spruce or cedar will be about 10% "warmer" than of pine, and larch - by 25-30% "colder" pine.

Understand what is better to use different types of wood are available with the following data:

• oak - window and door openings;
• Spruce - joists, truss system for floorboards floors, ceilings and roofs;
• pine - a wall;
• larch - is put under the lower crowns at home (because the tree does not rot for a long time);
• linden and maple - and carved woodwork.

A significant impact on the quality of the wooden house has it, what part of the barrel sawn wood went into business.

Sundi(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- The strongest layers of wood - is external.

Nir(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- it was carried out the following experiment -Samples natural preservatives and processed timber sizes 15x15x220 mm established in rows in the ground so that the surface was only half the height sample. Annually, the samples were removed from the ground, inspected and their condition marked degree of destruction.

According to the results of eight years of tests, the wood 14 species divided into four groups. Resistance was expressed in relative values, index (with respect to resistance sapwood limes). Resistant timber has an index of 9.1 to 4. Total:

• larch core - 9.1;
• core oak - 5.2;
• the core of ash - 4.9.

In srednestoykoy timber index from 3.8 to 3.1. These include: ripe wood fir and spruce, fir sapwood, ripe wood of beech, spruce and larch sapwood.

In malostoykoy timber index from 2.5 to 2. These include: the sapwood of beech and hornbeam, the core of elm, oak sapwood, maple, birch.

In unstable timber index of 1.8 to 1. These include: the central zone of birch and alder, aspen ripe wood, sapwood alder, aspen, basswood.

disputes also often carried on when it is best to build a wooden house - winter or summer, and out of the forest - summer or winter logging. Practice shows that daylight saving building has its own, particular, specific.

Dimaelektro:

- I think the winter forest better and here is why:

• Winter forest -.. More dry, so to frosts sap flow in the trunks of slowing down. Accordingly, during the drying of the collected log it turns less, it is less deformed, smaller cracks are practically no fungus and the bark beetle.
• Log cabin of the winter forest shrinks less.
• During transport, loading and unloading, assembly tree house in winter is less soiled.
• At the winter construction of the house did not have to think about precipitation: rain is unlikely, and the snow can be swept away with a broom.
• Due to the reduction of the amount of work orders and easier to find a construction crew.

All the features of the winter the construction of wooden houses covered in this article.

The main kinds of wooden wall materials

One of the significant advantages of wooden construction is accessibility of the tree and its relative cheapness. In our country, the most widely used these kinds of wooden wall materials:

• log hand made;
• Round logs;
• timber natural humidity;
• shaped beam of natural moisture;
• dry profiled beam;
• laminated veneer lumber.

Each of these materials has both pluses and minuses. What do you choose to build a house? For clarity, it is possible to reduce the members of the forum preferences (as a percentage of the number of votes) in the following table:

timber

Bruce can be as simple or glued profiled. Depending on the manufacturing process, the wall material having different properties.

The usual timber of natural humidity is easy handling and stowage in the wall, price and availability.

But when dry it can spin "helicopter", it is prone to cracking, and upon drying gives a significant shrinkage.

Also, the walls are composed of the usual timber, you must regularly caulk. The house, built from the usual lumber, needs additional finishing or polishing the walls. However, practice shows that with appropriate respect and culture construction, this material has more pros than cons.

Bair(Member FORUMHOUSE):

- I build houses under relocate from a conventional timber of natural humidity and dry, 180 mm thick. Material of this budget, the special cons I do not see it. Timber can dry well on their own. If desired, the wall can be prostrogat and sand. I believe that only stay in a wooden house gives an incredible feeling and positive emotions.

Dry profiled beam - it is a tree that has passed the drying chamber and machined, where the working parties (Places at stacking logs in contact with each other) is attached to a fixed form - profile "tongue and groove" or "comb". Due to this bar less "leads", it is reduced shrinkage, blowing off the walls and eliminates the need for caulking.

Glued laminated timber - is a modern and expensive wall material. Due to manufacturing features (first sawn wood at a certain width of the board, so called lamella), dried, impregnated with an antiseptic and then glued to each other. Such timber has a flat smooth surface does not decay and gives little shrinkage.

Walls made of profiled or laminated veneer lumber does not require additional finishing and, thanks to a pronounced texture of the tree, beautiful in themselves, they only need to paint or lacquered.

Article, which describes in detail about these wall materials such as glulam , ordinary timber and dry profiled beam .

The log is hand-cutting

Debarked, whole log - the wall material is less likely subjected to machining. Accordingly, there remains external, most durable and less prone to rotting layer.

Debarked timber has high durability and long service life.

manual cabin house considered a classic wooden house-building. Debarked log is obtained as follows: hand-scraped bark of a tree trunk. Ax, unlike saw or planer, seals the wood, making it stronger.

Because logs are of different thicknesses, each log you have to manually adjust in the construction walls of the house to each other - the butt to the top, etc. This process is long and laborious, however this type relates to the elite cottage housing.

In case there is a carefully selected woods. The process of construction of houses a large area may last for several months. After that, the house put under a temporary roof and left to settle for 1 year. The result of the work depends on the skill of craftsmen who are building a house. Low-skilled workers can ruin even excellent material.

Round logs

Smooth machine rounded posts (they are called "sticks") are produced by means of machining. The result is a smooth material strictly predetermined geometric shape. These logs (as they have a round shape) to quickly and easily add up to a wall of the house. All the necessary slots and locks are made in advance at the factory. Therefore, the construction of houses made of logs reminiscent of the designer assembly, where each log is reserved strictly specified project home place.

However cylindering has a significant drawback - in the processing machine to grind logs its most durable outer part. Moreover, since feedstock can be curved, irregular, etc., the processing portion can grind the logs closer to the center (prone to decay more) parts.

Otsilindrovka absorbs moisture and may crack upon drying.

Therefore, a house built of such material, requires careful handling and antiseptics timely maintenance (painting, impregnation of protective structures), especially in the first 3-5 years after its erection.

Learn all about building a house out of the ordinary timber users FORUMHOUSE can in this topic. What is the okosyachka in a wooden house? Answer here. About insect pests of wood tells here. Learn how to build your own warm home of laminated veneer lumber, you can by clicking this link. Talk of building a house for permanent residence of the profiled beam is conducted here.

Of this video you can learn more building a house of laminated veneer lumber. here shows how to build a house made of logs with a ground floor. And about the features of chopped home covered in this THE VIDEO.

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