Decorating a frame house wooden materials. Advantages, disadvantages, technology.

Wooden boards are often used for decoration of frame houses. Using wood as exterior finish has its positive and negative sides.

Advantages and disadvantages

Among the advantages of natural wood finishes can be noted:

- Environmentally friendly. House "breathes".
- Accessibility in terms of the price of the material and installation costs.
- Easy installation technology.
- The house looks noble of natural wood.

Disadvantages:

- building fire danger, even though the special coating.
- The need to periodically update the protective coloration, or wood darkened by rain, will burn in the sun.

It makes no sense to describe the styling options, about which everybody knows. Let us discuss some of the most interesting and unknown variants.

Planken

Strip - is specially treated lumber, which edges are rounded. These roundings are doing to be a small space, which is almost does not affect the saving heat in the house, but provide additional ventilation, which has a positive effect on safety wood.

Termodoska

This is - a way of processing timber. Most often termodosku made of larch. After special heat treatment of wood acquires new qualities when preserved the texture of wood. It attains higher density, is resistant to moisture, swell ceases. Such a timber can be installed as an exterior finish without any additional processing, however, and the price of the material is quite high, which is associated with a complex processing technology.

Block house

Finish this lumber simulates a house built of lumber. This material is very similar to a normal board, but there is a difference in the shape of the outer front side. She looks like a timber CYLINDRICAL. There are many varieties block house, which differ width of the board, the processing method, the volume of the protrusion. When the technology of the material creates the full effect of the wall, built of round logs.

Exterior Scandinavian board

Scandinavian board for exterior finish - it's material, planed on three sides. Face is the fourth, planed side. In the factory, this side is covered with paint in compliance with coating technology. The rough side absorbs the paint, besides strict adherence coating technology makes this board ideal and durable material for facade frame house. As a result, you get a nice aesthetic façade with clearly highlighted the structure of wood.

Molded "The American"

This wall paneling in the cut like a irregular rectangle. The thickest part of the lining has a groove. Board thickness is - 28-45 millimeters, then it comes to naught, to the groove width. This design mimics the installation of finishing planks overlap. Thanks to the joint, this exterior finish provides excellent protection frame house from rain and snow. It fits "American" only horizontally.

In the next article we will talk about finishing frame house facade panels.