Interesting facts about the laminated veneer lumber 🏠

Tech materials rapidly capture the construction market. Glued laminated timber is increasingly replacing conventional logs. Build standard log cabins became unprofitable: they are much less strong, have a shorter service life, sit down, log require regular application of protective layers and so on. The list of deficiencies can last for hours!
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Glued laminated timber - a new material, and it has spread recently in Russia. This significantly reduced its price, therefore afford a house of laminated veneer lumber are significantly more people. But it was not always so.
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Interesting fact: a hundred years ago to build a house it was impossible from laminated veneer lumber. The technology of laminated veneer lumber appeared only in the 50 years of it, when was invented waterproof glue. Although the first attempts to use laminated wood in the construction of the connection have been much earlier!
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If you believe the stories, the first to use laminated wood in the construction of connections decided Delorme French architect in 1548. These were wooden yard arch bizarre. But the low strength of the connection is not allowed to build large objects, so all the arches were of small size.

The next significant step in the development of technology has been made only in the late 19th - early 20th centuries. Then the first production of laminated veneer lumber has been implemented on an industrial scale in Europe. Used for bonding casein glue - one of the best at that time. The product has a much poorer properties than the modern laminated veneer lumber, but deservedly was rated in America and Europe. In Russia, the technology has not found its fans, so has not been used for a long time.

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