Houses from glued timber from finland: we get acquainted

Projects of houses from glued timber from Finland constitute an essential part of the proposals of any reputable Russian company specializing in wooden construction.

In this article we will try to find out why the Finnish timber is so valued, and who produces it.

What it is

First meeting

Glued laminated timber differs from the traditional building timber by two features:

1. It is not a solid product. Glued laminated timber is not cut from a whole tree trunk, but glued together from a multitude of thin and well-groomed boards - lamellas.
2. The cross section of the timber, in contrast to the traditional material, does not constitute a square or rectangle. Products are equipped with grooves and protrusions on horizontal surfaces. Irregularities are designed to protect the walls from blowing and from the mutual displacement of the crowns.

Please note: do not confuse glued laminated timber with profiled, made of solid wood. The strength of a conventional profiled bar (primarily for bending) is noticeably less; lower and price.

As for the reasons why Finnish glued laminated timber is valued - material of consistently high quality traditionally comes from Finland. Since raw materials are harvested on site and transported over a moderate distance even by the standards of a small Europe, its cost is not exorbitant, which is what determines popularity.

Buyers are offered both raw materials - actually glued timber of standard length - and finished house sets. It is clear that the latter cost much more expensive: in the Leningrad region, a domokomplekt for the area of ​​the finished building of 150 m2 will cost about 100,000 euros.

Manufacturers

What names should you pay attention to if you are going to build your own house from the material we are discussing? The market is a market, and there certainly can be found a lot of low-quality products.

Move

The factory complex under this name produces wooden houses from timber on a full cycle: from timber harvesting to the shipment of the finished house set. Its products are focused not only on exports, but also on the domestic market, which for Finland is a criterion of its quality.

Curiously, glued beams produced by this plant are sold under a different brand - Kestopalkki.

The assets of the plant include not only proven technology, but also a fleet of modern logging and processing machines of German production.

Finnlamelli

Founded in 1995, the company managed to conquer a significant part of the European and Asian market. To date, it supplies products to 11 countries, including Japan. The buyer is offered ready-made house sets or very benign raw materials for self-construction.

The volume of production is divided in equal shares between the domestic and foreign markets.

Honkatalot

If the previous manufacturer is quite young, the history of this, on the contrary, has more than a century. Of course, glued laminated wood fell into the list of products relatively recently: technology has only about three decades.

И в этом случае мы можем наблюдать полный производственный цикл, что гарантирует стабильно высокое качество продукции. Любопытно, что последнее время компания уделяет много внимания не традиционно-пасторальным проектам сельских домов, а строениям в стиле «модерн», что в сочетании с деревом выглядит крайне необычно.

As a result of the recent rebranding, houses manufactured by the company are shipped abroad under the name Polarlifehaus, and construction services are offered under the Lumi Polar brand.

Conclusion

So, we have the opportunity to build a house of a stylish, extremely high-quality and impeccable in terms of the ecology of the material. However, alas, quite expensive. The video in this article provides additional information on a specified topic. Successes in construction!