Company "Modern Wooden Houses" has been successfully building frame houses for more than 10 years, including using Canadian technology. Analyzing the statistics of the last 3 years, we see that the interest in this technology is steadily growing. So for the period 2014-2015. the share of frame houses realized by the "Modern Wooden Houses" company was 40%. This number included frame and panel houses, dome houses, half-timbered, Canadian, glazed houses with elements in the Huf-Haus style, and a new trend inherent in modern Finnish and French projects that received the nickname in Europe - barn-houses.
The diagram shows that in 2015 the share of frame houses built by our company temporarily decreased. This is explained by the increase in competition in the economy segment of frame construction and the elimination of emphasis in favor of log cottages.
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Canadian frame houses
Canadian harvesting technology deserves special attention
So, for example, the well-known Canadian mortgage housing corporation offers various options for completing the desired housing based on environmental friendliness, an objective assessment of the client's annual income, and "smart risk management" of corporate credit programs. It is about a wide choice of "quality of affordable housing".
In short, this means that no matter how you approach the fund with the decision to build a house for your family with a known set of functions and amenities, they will ask about your annual income. So if it does not exceed a certain amount, you will be offered budget construction based on SIP panels. If you are able to ensure the payment of a higher quality and ecological house, then the choice will fall on another more successful and financially justified technology.
The diagram of the sandwich panel shows that the Canadian colleagues use a wall bar thickness of 2x6 inches or 38x140mm, and inside the room, the sandwich is sheathed with 0.5 inch or 12.7mm plasterboard.
SDB company conducts construction according to a different - more successful and better frame technology and does not recommend frame houses made of SIP panels, because the direction of our company's activity is ecology, life in wooden cottages. Unlike overseas colleagues, we take into account our mental tendency to choose better and achieve the goal by gradually implementing the plan. Therefore, SDB engineers took into account the correction of the thickness, density (up to 200 mm) and structure of the sandwich (more on this later in the article), according to the material available on the domestic market, and the corresponding standard of energy efficiency and heat loss. Such adjustments made it possible to implement a project where a frame house has the following most important advantages:
- Ecology and safety for the health of owners;
- Necessary level of natural ventilation and air exchange;
- Short construction terms;
- Conducting work at any time of the year;
- High performance indicators;
- Flow production and availability of components.
So for you - as a future resident - the most important factors are the durability of the building, the reliability of the structure, heat preservation, the affordable price of construction and, of course, the quality of the materials and works.
to achieve a set of these important features, a complex of well-thought-out actions, a successful interaction of design, production and construction is necessary.
How much does it cost to build a frame house?
Let's give a specific example:for example, we deliberately take a simple house of classical layout with an area of about 200 m2. In the "our objects" section, you can view a photo report on the construction of object 91 - this is our version.
The project of the house 206-1 from the section was taken as a basis projects of wooden houses and modified according to the wishes of the client. The result was an individual Frame house Project 239. When calculating the cost of a house with a total area of 239m2, the following configuration option was taken into account:
* The quoted price does not include foundation work, drainage and plumbing
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Secrets of the «Modern Wooden Houses» company's frame house construction
In order to ensure the reliability of the structure and the financial affordability of the construction using the frame and panel technology, the engineers of our company calculate the optimal alternation of the beams of the load-bearing and enclosing functions. We use load-bearing beams with a cross-section of 200x200mm and intermediate beams with a cross-section of 200x50mm. Door and window openings are mounted in this system of beams and beams. This is how the base is formed for fastening the windproof enclosing chipboards (OSB). Mineral wool is used for insulation inside the walls.
Secret No. 2 - frame houses of the «Modern Wooden Houses» company - "breathe" ... How is this possible?
To ensure vapor permeability and air exchange with the external environment without heat loss inside the walls, we use a super-diffusion membrane and a vapor barrier. The membrane does not allow moisture to penetrate from the outside, but lets air through gradually, and the vapor barrier regulates the passage of internal evaporation, preventing the formation of condensate. Thus, as far as possible, the microclimate inside the room remains its own, and humidity does not penetrate outside, although the necessary air exchange takes place.
This favorably distinguishes our houses from those that use polyethylene or SIP, because waterproofing creates an undesirable tightness for the house. As a result, the formation of condensate is possible, since the moisture that accumulates in the middle of the room has nowhere to go.
In our homes, the probability of such an affect is reduced to zero.
The structure of the walls of a frame house
In truth, frame houses are considered the most effective heat-saving technology of house construction known today. The basis is a powerful load-bearing timber frame, which can be made of both solid and glued timber.
The sandwich panel of our company has a 200mm layer of insulation (corresponds to 2000mm brick in terms of thermal conductivity), membrane and vapor barrier layers, internal and external wind protection layers made of OSB plates, an air "cushion" and a finishing layer. This is quite enough for a comfortable stay all year round
In order to avoid unwanted supports in the middle of the room, the SDB company often uses glued long span beams. Houses of other manufacturers may be deprived of such an opportunity. In order to protect the wood from mold, rotting, beetles and fire, it is treated with an antiseptic and antiperine.
If you want to give a frame house the style of a wooden cottage made of glued beams - this opportunity is now available in our company.
During the calculation, we assume the installation of corner crossbars from profiled glued timber. After the work is finished, visually you get a 100% stylized Finnish cottage, not like one made of glued beams, but with all the advantages of a frame house.
Maybe you will be interested in the project with the arched roof behind which our office was built. The use of trusses made of bent-glued beams allows the construction of arched and dome-shaped frame houses, and the roof structure in such cottages is ventilated.
Construction of a frame house in the shape of a dome will be useful for those who want to divide the interior space regardless of load-bearing walls. The structure of the dome is self-supporting and does not require support beams and load-bearing walls.
Decoration of the walls of a frame house
If you want to leave the house completely wooden, then there is a wonderful, spectacular finish with shingles, an imitation of a profiled beam, a classic block house from 160 to 200 mm, as well as clapboard. Before that, we recommend wooden cladding with a thickness of at least 35 mm - to avoid deformation under adverse weather conditions - sun, heat, moisture, frost).
Sometimes materials such as composite, facing brick, decorative plaster (for bark beetle), clinker brick, as well as all kinds of facades made of fiber cement boards are used for exterior decoration.
Wall decoration with a wooden block house | Finishing the walls with imitation of timber |
Wall decoration with facing bricks | Decoration of walls with siding |
Finishing the walls with plaster | Finishing the walls with clinker tiles |
We note that the interior and exterior decoration of walls in frame houses is quite diverse and each client prefers according to his taste. Working with us, you can be sure that your house will:
- Environmental
- Unusual;
- Stable (no shrinkage);
- Built at any time of the year;
- Energy efficient;
- Light, without massive expensive foundations;
- Available at cost.
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