The desire to escape from the urbanized space and at least to some extent feel unity with the natural beauty of the surrounding world in suburban conditions makes the demand for already popular ready house from round timber and construction according to standard or individual projects.
In the latter case, according to experts, the customer will not have to wait long for his dream of ideal comfort and a unique interior with a light woody flair to come true.
Taking into account the necessary nuances when designing
However, the actual construction of a turnkey round timber house is preceded by creative preparatory stage, which is carried out by specialized architect studios or employees of the development company. At this stage, the customer can express all his wishes and ideas, and even partially adjust standard project. If construction takes place on the basis custom development, then before creating it, you need to collect and analyze the initial data as much as possible: it is intended to be a summer type of estate or for year-round stay, how many permanent residents and guests it should be designed for, and take into account the lifestyle of the owners of a wooden mansion.
In addition, it is being investigated land plot for construction (configuration, dimensions, topography, soil characteristics) in order to correctly select the location of the building in relation to both the landscape and the cardinal directions of the surrounding buildings. To obtain a full-fledged house project from the customer, a topographic survey of the site may be required, as well as geological surveys. For example, the construction of a mansion in a swampy area is possible only on stilts, and it is advantageous to use the natural unevenness of the terrain to emphasize the dominant position of the estate.
Taking into account the necessary nuances during design allows you to create an ideal concept in each specific case, followed by its spatial visualization using manual graphics or computer modeling. The next step in realizing the goal of obtaining beautiful home– preparation of a sketch. At this stage, the entire structure is detailed: a floor plan is drawn, including the roof, windows and door blocks, longitudinal and transverse sections of the building are displayed, the appearance of the facade is finally formed.
The preliminary design becomes the basis for calculating the work plan, which includes architectural and structural parts. Specialists have to take into account the type of wood and the size of the round timber, the technology for processing and laying logs, the thickness of the walls, the slope of the roof, and the type of foundation. Floors are also selected if it is intended to build more than a one-story structure, the location of rafters, lintels, and beams is specified, and engineering and technical documentation is prepared. And only after rechecking all the data and agreeing on the package of drawings with the customer, the implementation of the creative concept begins.
Stages and features of building a house made of round timber
The modern art of building a home made of wood has borrowed a lot from the centuries-old experience of ancient masters.
Therefore, building a house from round timber does not take much time, and the durability of such a structure, as experts note, is 50-250 years.
The whole process consists of several stages:
1. Site preparation and foundation arrangement. After leveling the site, depending on the future load, the foundation is poured onto the base of the building at the optimal depth. For normal soil in low-rise buildings, its strip monolithic variety is usually used. To reliably waterproof hardened concrete mixture, you need to buy and lay roofing felt or bitumen.
2. Installation of walls. In order to strengthen the entire structure, rounded logs are placed in a checkerboard pattern and fastened with dowels. Wood is used in the work natural humidity domestic, Finnish or other. Despite her high ability to retain heat, insulation (linen, tow, moss, synthetic tape) is placed tightly between the logs. Special attention– corner joints. If a two-story building is being built, then upon completion of the construction of the walls of the first floor, installation work is carried out interfloor ceilings. The resulting frame also includes a rafter sheathing, on which a roof made of modern materials is laid.
3. Other types of installation. Interior decoration occupies a special place and includes the laying of prepared wood for the floor and ceiling, as well as the formation of window and door blocks. Work is also being carried out on sanding the walls and treating wooden structures outside and inside with a bioprotective composition.
4. Carrying out engineering communications. At the final stage, equipment for water supply, sewerage, and heating is installed in pre-prepared areas. The peculiarities of building a house made of round timber provide for an individual solution to this issue, depending on the preferences of the customer.
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What kind of wood to build a round timber house from?
More on preparatory stage you will have to think about how to build a country house and what wood to choose. Appearance this natural material, its structure is characterized by specificity depending on the variety.
In this case, experts recommend using coniferous species. They have the ability to “breathe” and at the same time are moisture resistant, durable and environmentally friendly. If in your area the forest abounds in spruce and pine, then best option You don't have to look. If you have the opportunity to purchase larch or fir, you should choose these varieties, as they are not subject to rotting and are durable. In addition, the question of how to insulate such a household will disappear by itself.
How to choose a contractor for a log house?
According to professional developers, correct solution according to the contractor, this is 70% of the quality of the house, regardless of how much it costs. When choosing, you first need to consider:
– experience of the contractor in the construction of mansions using the technology you are interested in;
– reviews from clients already living in new buildings;
– the applicant company has high-tech equipment and preferably its own production base;
– the degree of readiness of the developer’s representatives to draw up a detailed estimate, rather than a simplified one.
It would also be a good idea to visit specialized sales exhibitions, where market offers are clearly demonstrated. A review of the websites of specialized companies will help you decide on a contractor and expand your knowledge of how to make a log house from round timber in accordance with your own ideas about comfortable housing.
Round timber is a natural building material that combines modern comfort and centuries-old traditions. It is on the basis of this material that durable, beautiful and surprisingly practical buildings are erected that can serve their owners for many decades.
Starting to choose a house project based on round log or plan your own construction option, please note that there are several processing options:
- cylindering In this case you will receive logs perfect shape, which can become the basis of a geometrically correct building;
- manual cutting. This option will appeal to lovers of everything antique and individual. Houses based on round timber manual cutting, turn out to be very unusual. Due to the slight roughness and unique texture of each log, your home will be one of a kind and easily recognizable.
Why should a round log be the foundation of your home?
- Wood micropores will provide natural ventilation buildings and will create an excellent microclimate for human life.
- High thermal insulation performance will eliminate the need to install expensive thermal insulation. A house made of round logs will always have a comfortable temperature.
- Durability. Modern technologies Wood treatments can increase the resistance of the material to rotting, fungal development and deformation.
Choose a ready-made one or order your own project
The Marisrub company is ready to realize the dream of an ideal home in which harmony always reigns. Each client will be able to choose one of two construction paths:
- ordering a finished project;
- individual design.
In the catalog ready-made options you will find many solutions that differ in number of floors, area and layout. If you like one of the projects, but not all of its parts fully correspond to the idea, no problem. The company's architects will supplement the building plan with the necessary elements and make the necessary changes.
Individual design, in turn, will allow you to get rid of frameworks and realize long-gestating ideas 100%. During subsequent construction with the Marisrub company, design is provided free of charge.
How is the cost calculated?
Without preliminary assessment and knowledge of details individual construction It is impossible to accurately answer the question of how much a house will cost. At the same time, many factors influence the price:
- type of wood and diameter of logs;
- building area and number of partitions;
- type of foundation and materials for finishing and roofing.
The catalog will help you understand how much your desired housing might cost. finished projects from round logs from Marisrub. Just select one of the options you like and view it technical description, select the diameter of the log, the type of foundation and roof and you will find out its cost.
There are two types of round logs: rounded logs and hand-cut logs. Before construction begins, a rounded log undergoes machine preparation: it is given the same diameter along its entire length. A hand-cut log is cut down on a plot, after which only the bark is removed from it, and in this in kind, with all the knots and natural irregularities, it goes into the log house.
Compared to a rounded log, a hand-cut log has a number of undeniable advantages, so it is important to understand what kind of round log you will build your house from
Rounded log
When processing a rounded log, its outer, most hard layer. Therefore, such a log is susceptible to cracking. The bowls in the cuts (where the logs intersect at the corners of the log house) are also cut by a machine and made into a simple semicircular shape; After drying, through cracks inevitably appear in them. However, the main advantages wooden house made from round logs is affordable in price and construction speed.
Hand-cut log
Since these logs are cut in the forest and do not receive any special preparation other than stripping the bark, they go into the log house in the most original form, with all the knots and natural patterns.
There are two approaches to this type of log: some plan it, and we just sand its surface, which allows us to maintain a hard outer layer and reduces the possibility of potential cracking. We can make log houses from round logs into a claw, but we consider cutting into a bowl to be more reliable and durable; The key advantage of hand-cut logs over rounded ones is the design of the bowl: we use an additional tenon, which, after shrinking the house from a turnkey round log, allows us to avoid cracks in the corners.
The ECO-TECH company leads construction of houses from rounded logs, develops beautiful, comfortable, functional and high-quality projects of houses made of rounded logs taking into account the individual wishes of each client. Availability own production and many years of experience in the construction market allow us to optimize costs and strictly follow the technology of constructing houses from rounded logs.
Construction stages:
- The first stage is the arrangement of the foundation, which is most often the most expensive item in the construction budget. The use of rounded logs allows you to reduce the load on the foundation of the house and use simpler and cheaper types of foundation. Widespread options - pile-screw foundation and a strip shallow foundation.
- Next stage– construction of a log house. Making a kit at home in your own production workshops in parallel with the construction of the foundation, it makes it possible to significantly reduce construction time.
- Installing a roof when building a house from rounded logs is one of the most difficult stages, which should only be performed by experienced specialists. Roof structure in wooden house differs significantly from brick or reinforced concrete analogues, and errors in independent device rafter system will result in significant costs.
- After the construction of the power part of the house, it should stand from six to twelve months for natural shrinkage and ensure optimal moisture content of the wood.
- The final stage of construction is finishing, which includes finishing the crown joints, sanding and painting the logs, installing ceilings, floors, and installing doors and windows.
Design of houses made of rounded logs
Designing houses from rounded logs in the ECO-TECH company is a modern and profitable approach to construction, because we provide our clients with tangible advantages:
- literate price policy and transparent pricing;
- presence of an impressive database of ready-made projects;
- possibility of free development individual project V short time;
- construction of houses from rounded logs on a turnkey basis;
- 50 year guarantee on the built house.
A quality cottage is not necessary stone building two or three floors. No less reliable and at the same time beautiful and environmentally friendly is a house made of round timber. Such a cottage will become family pride.
A round log is a log prepared in production, rounded, sanded or calibrated, which has a single circular cross-section along its entire length with a permissible deviation of 0.8% of its total length. The surface of round timber, as a rule, is ideally cleaned and treated with antiseptics and fire retardants at the production stage.
Important: hand-cut logs that are processed exclusively with an ax can also be called round timber, as is done in Belarus (Kobrin) and Russia. But here the diameter of the wood may diverge somewhat at the two ends of the log. And therefore, the masonry of the house is carried out in this case with a constant change in the diameters of the wood in each crown, in order to compensate in this way for differences in sections and not to disturb the horizontal masonry of the crowns.
Choosing wood for round timber
All houses made of round logs are usually assembled from coniferous species tree. However, the properties of each type of wood are slightly different:
- Thus, pine logs are the most popular for the construction of a wooden house. The cost of such wood is much lower than other types of wood. However, pine copes well with temperature changes and retains heat well. The only disadvantage of pine is the formation of cracks when the logs dry out.
- Larch. More expensive type of wood for installation one-story house or two-story cottage. With increased humidity levels, larch becomes even stronger. That is why it is used for laying the lower crowns of the house.
- Spruce. Most often used for installation of all interior walls Houses. The spruce log has a smooth light shade over the entire surface. In addition, spruce enriches the air in the house with the valuable aromas of pine resins. Spruce is used less frequently for laying the outer walls of a house, since the tree has a fibrous structure that opens up when moisture hits the log.
- Fir. Has the most high cost among other types of wood, therefore it is used quite rarely. Cedar wood can also be compared to fir. A house made of these types of wood will be beautiful and durable, but very expensive. There is no need to talk about how much this type of wood costs.
Advantages of a log house made of round timber
The features of a wooden house made of round timber create an increased demand for the construction of cottages from this material. The main advantages of log cottages include:
- Absolutely environmentally friendly material;
- High breathability of wood, which creates an optimal microclimate in the house;
- The low thermal conductivity of round logs allows you to economically spend resources on heating the cottage in the cold season and provides warmth in the house;
- The evaporation of valuable coniferous resins into the atmosphere during the construction of a house and its operation has a beneficial effect on respiratory system household members;
- Besides, log houses They are distinguished by their durability (can last for about 80 years or more) and the ability to build cottages in seismically hazardous regions.
Types of round timber for home installation
To build a round timber house, you can use one of the types of logs that the construction market offers. The quality of each of the presented types of wood is the same, the only difference is in the type of wood processing. So, you can buy this round timber:
- Rounded log. This type of log is simply processed by removing upper layer(bark) and the next one (bast) using a scraper, clearing away branches and resin pockets. As a result, round timber has the densest base on the surface. This wood processing technology is successfully used in Kobrin (Belarus).
- Sanded log. It is this type of round timber that has discrepancies in thickness at its different ends, since during its processing only thin layer bark and branches. At the same time, the goal in production is not to give the log a single cross-section throughout its entire thickness.
- Calibrated log. Construction material, perfectly adjusted in diameter. All elements have the same cross-section, which simplifies the installation of crowns at home.
Important: when performing work using any type of log, voids and gaps between the crowns are inevitable. Therefore, professionals recommend filling the free space well with insulation. Dry moss has proven itself very well in this case, which is also an antiseptic for wood.
Calculation of the amount of logs
Before you start building a cottage from round logs, you need to calculate how many cubes are needed per house finished material. Accurate calculations will allow you not to overpay for extra wood. The calculations are not difficult to perform, the main thing is to know the design length of the walls of the house. Let's take a house as an example, the perimeter of which will be 6x6 m.
Important: when designing a log house made of round timber, it is important to consider that the standard log length is 6 meters. And therefore the length of the wall should be equal to this indicator. If you want to make the house larger, then a competent architect places the joints of the logs along the length in the cuts (in those places where perpendicular walls meet). A different design method is considered a gross mistake. Similar projects houses made of round timber cannot be used.
So, we perform the calculation as follows:
- As building material We will use round timber with a cross-section of 28 cm. It is worth remembering that a larger cross-section of the log will ultimately lead to savings in material, and therefore in the construction budget.
- In addition to the cross-section of the log, it is worth knowing the height of the log house. As a rule, the height of the walls of one floor is 2.4 m. In our calculations, we will take 3 m as an indicator in order to have some supply of material.
- So, now we divide the height of the wall by the cross-section of one log, that is, 300:28 = 10.71. We get 11 logs for one wall and add to this value the log for the lower crown of the house. In total we have 12 round timbers on the wall of the house.
- The resulting number must be multiplied by the number of walls of the cottage, that is, by 4. As a result, we get 12x4 = 48 logs needed for the construction of the outer walls of the cottage. But round timber is not sold individually. It is sold in cubic meters. Therefore, you will have to calculate the required volume of wood in cubic meters.
It is worth knowing that for each log diameter there is a different amount of round timber per cubic meter of material. The table looks like this:
- Log diameter 180 mm - 6.5 logs per m3;
- Log 220 mm - 5.3 pcs./m3;
- Round timber 220 mm - 4.38 pcs/m3;
- Log 240 mm - 3.69 pcs./m3;
- Log with a cross section of 260 mm - 3.14 pcs./m3;
- Log 280 mm - 2.7 pcs./m3.
That is, in our case, for one cubic meter of log with a diameter of 28 cm there are only 2.7 pieces of wood. Now we simply divide the number of logs needed by the number of pieces per m3 - 48:2.7 = 17.77 m3. We round it up to 18 m3 and go shopping for building materials.
We assemble the log house
You can make a cottage out of round timber with your own hands, if you have at least some carpentry skills. But first you will have to mount (make) the foundation for the cottage. As a rule, a shallow shallow base is installed under the log house. It must be waterproofed at the stage of pouring the solution, and also reinforced with steel rods. The foundation is waterproofed from above with roofing felt and bitumen mastic, but only after the concrete has completely dried.
Important: do not forget to make vents in the foundation so that wooden structure I was breathing from the floor. Otherwise, the tree will rot faster.
Wall installation
The walls of a round timber house should begin to be laid on a backing board. She will protect lower crowns log house from rotting. It is better to use moisture-resistant larch as a material for the backing board. The board is laid strictly horizontally on a waterproofed foundation. In this case, the lining should be anchored to the base and additionally treated with bitumen mastic.
The first crown of logs is already mounted on top of the backing board. Round timber is joined at the corners in several ways:
- "Into the bowl". This method requires additional processing wood to form bowls to join the wood at the corners. This method is considered the most aesthetic and at the same time warm. That is, cold bridges are practically eliminated provided that the insulation between the round timbers is installed in a high-quality manner. With this method of laying, the log should have a Finnish groove (small notch round section along the entire length). Thus, the upper round timber fits more tightly onto the lower one, which makes the cottage warmer. This type of joining of logs is also called “in the oblo”.
- Connection "in the paw". This installation method wooden houses made from round timber is also called a “cold corner”. Here the ends of the logs are trimmed in such a way that they take on a trapezoidal cross-section and join each other at an angle of 90 degrees. This method of joining the corners of a log house is more labor-intensive, and its result is not always pleasing with high-quality heat in the house.
Key points when working with logs during installation
Building a house from a log must comply with certain standards and rules. It is thanks to a competent approach that the log house will be strong and reliable. long years. Even if you decide not to build cottage, and a log house with an attic and a balcony, as shown in the photographs below. So, the basic principles of installing a log house:
- Before laying, it is advisable to dry all round timber and treat it with antiseptics and fire retardants.
- When installing logs, they must be fixed wooden dowels(pre-prepared hardwood pins). The dowels are driven into grooves drilled in the logs, driving them to their full depth.
- The dowels should be located in every 3-4 crowns with a step of 1.5-2 meters and with an offset of the dowels hammered below (in a checkerboard pattern).
- In the proposed window and doorways you need to drive the dowels to the entire height of the opening.
- After the house is ready, it needs to be given time to shrink (1-2 years). And only after that the openings for windows and doors are cut out.
- It is also necessary to caulk the log house only after it has settled.
- As finishing houses from round tree The log is sanded and varnished.
Roof of the house
The roof of the log house will be installed after the house is completely settled. And this is neither more nor less – 1.5-2 years. Otherwise, the roof may suffer greatly and the work will have to be redone.
The installation of the rafters is carried out on the mauerlat, which is the upper crown of the log house. In it, appropriate cuts are made for the rafters. The first truss is then assembled on the ground and lifted up. Attached to the Mauerlat using metal corners. Next, all other trusses (rafters) are installed according to the scheme in 60 cm increments. The roof is sheathed with lathing, hydro- and vapor barrier, and then covered roofing material. At this point, the construction of the house can be considered completed. Fully built wooden frame requires only final interior design in country, chalet, Mediterranean or classic style.
Video of a round timber house: