If a wooden house is left for a long time without maintenance, it will lose its appearance. If you do not look after it for a very long time, then in places where the tree is in constant contact with moisture, soil or vegetation, pockets of rot will form, and over time these places will lose their structural integrity and rot. Also, from prolonged exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation, wood burns out, loses volume and crumbles. These processes do not happen quickly, but if you do not pay attention to their signs, it will soon become a serious problem.
Restoration and repair of wooden houses
repair and restoration of wooden houses are similar types of work, which often include the same stages, for example:
cosmetic and decorative, such as
- ✅ sanding of wooden walls,
- ✅ bioprotection (impregnation), painting, varnishing of wooden walls, floors and structures,
- ✅ repair, replacement or equipping of interior and exterior decorative elements (moldings, planking decorations, etc.)
as well as more fundamental -construction stages of work
- ✅ repair or replacement of the roof and its structures,
- ✅ replacing the crowns of a wooden house, usually the lower ones
- ✅ repair or replacement of ceilings and floors,
- ✅ repair or replacement of logs under windows,
- ✅ repair or replacement of parts of staircases or entire staircase structures,
- ✅ repair of porch, terrace, balconies, etc.
- ✅ elimination of cracks and sealing between logs, in corners and ends of logs or timber,
Operations for insulating a house here are similar to those that are carried out during service of wooden houses, let us recall what stages this includes:
3. Sealing seams and cracks with silicone
Gaps and cracks between the crowns of a log house are a common problem in wooden structures. Over time, they arise due to the slow evaporation of moisture from the wood. The logs shrink, forming gaps between themselves, which subsequently cause heat loss, thereby increasing energy costs for heating the room. As a rule, most sealants today are acrylic or acrylic-silicone.
Specialists of the Modern Wooden Houses company provide services for eliminating cracks and gaps between logs using the method of sealing cracks using the “warm seam” technology. The sealants we use allow you to easily eliminate cracks and crevices in wood.
Scope of application of sealants:
- Sealing the outer and inner sides of the inter-crown and inter-log joints of the log house;
- Sealing cracks;
- Sealing the end cut;
- Sealing bypasses of doors and windows;
- Sealing the junctions of wooden structures to roofing elements and foundations.
Sealing scheme:
- Preparing and cleaning the wood surface;
- Thermal insulation laying;
- Applying masking masking tape;
- Filling the seam with sealant;
- Removing masking tape;
- Finishing the seam.
Advantages and features of sealing technology:
- Environmentally friendly;
- Energy-saving features;
- High adhesion to wood;
- High elasticity of sealant in seams;
- Durability;
- Beauty and aesthetics;
- Wide operating temperature range;
- Resistance to UV radiation and weathering;
- Reliable protection of seams from water and blowing;
- Tinted in various colors during production;
Prices for repairs and restoration of wooden houses are negotiable. Each wooden house has many features, different technologies, wall materials, and most importantly, different degrees of damage and a different set of works and their quantity. The price of repair and restoration of a wooden house depends on the material and labor intensity of the work to eliminate defects and achieve the desired result. Therefore, you can find out the cost of repairs by ordering, through messengers or by calling a specialist to visit the site. When you meet, tell our employee in more detail about the result you would like to achieve, and we will, as soon as possible, provide not only a list and estimated cost of the work being discussed, but also suggest possible options for optimizing costs!
Reconstruction of wooden houses
Moreover, difficult questions arise, for example, about the common or separate foundation of new and old parts of the building, the rate of shrinkage/shrinkage of the new and existing part of the structure, because we are talking about a wooden structure. Also, it is not always advisable to carry out reconstruction without preliminary repair or restoration of either parts of the existing wooden structure or the entire building body; therefore, reconstruction, restoration and repair of wooden houses have many common stages of work.
The cost of reconstructing a wooden house is also individual! In one case, it may be equal to ordinary construction work, for example, if a terrace, veranda is added, or an independent partition is removed, in another case, it can be considered as a complex of repair and reconstruction work, if intervention in the main structures of the building is envisaged, such as the foundation, the body of wooden structures , roofing, ceilings, installation of stone stoves or a capital fireplace.
Not everyone undertakes reconstruction, restoration and repair of wooden houses!
The company Modern Wooden Houses has extensive experience in both types of services, both repair and restoration of wooden houses at a very high level. Sometimes, building a new house from scratch is easier than carrying out high-quality restoration. And if hundreds of companies and construction teams offer to build a wooden log house, then only a few will undertake the repair of the same log house or its restoration, and even fewer will do it in a qualified manner. The company Modern Wooden Houses employs experienced craftsmen and we have many cases of this type of work.
Why should you entrust the restoration, repair and reconstruction of wooden houses to us?
- ✅ we have been in the wooden house construction market for a long time, we have a huge portfolio of work and solid professional experience,
- ✅ we are the authors of many developments and innovations in the construction of wooden houses and have been developing this area for many years, enriching it with non-standard solutions,
- ✅ we are responsible for the result and guarantee the quality and durability of our work,
- ✅ we provide warranty and non-warranty maintenance of our facilities,
- ✅ We offer our clients only high-quality, optimal options for achieving what they want, because we value our reputation and keep our word!
- ✅ We strive to add the result of our work to our rich, varied portfolio, which means we will do everything so that the customer is satisfied, and we have something to be proud of when looking at the result :)
