Deadwood pine houses

Dead pine used for a long period in the construction of houses in the northern regions. For a while, modern building materials have supplanted natural raw materials, but the fashion for environmentally friendly building materials has brought back interest in it.

The characteristics of dead wood as a building material, as if by nature itself, are intended for building a house. Deadwood pine houses durable and little affected by time.

The dead wood itself is a tree whose root system stops working, but the trunk itself remains in the ground, dead pine KELO, is mined in the northern regions of Karelia in places as close as possible to the Arctic Circle. For buildings, trunks from two hundred to three hundred years old are mined.

The northern climate serves as a "tanning" substance for wood, when the tree dies, its trunk is exposed to extremely low temperatures, sun and wind, due to which it acquires high qualities of hardness, resistance to decay and other climatic and biological changes.

The process of finding and extracting wood is very laborious and requires the involvement of professionals, therefore the construction dead pine houses - it will not cost cheap, but the result will be fabulous.

Until the moment the trunk is removed from the ground, its condition and age are assessed at the place of residence, after a positive assessment, the tree is carefully “pulled” from the ground with all its roots.

Often a helicopter is required for mining, due to the inaccessible terrain of finding the raw materials. Dead pine accounts for only about thirty percent of the total forest area in the main mining areas - North Karelia and Finland.

Construction houses from dead pine very popular not only in Finland, but also in Northern Europe, Denmark, Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland and North America. This method is winning its supporters in Russia as well.

Two main qualities make dead pine houses from KELO so attractive:

• the problem of shrinkage and cracking does not exist for dead wood; during the period of “conservation”, the wood undergoes such a serious preparation in natural conditions that the material already has a final density before starting work;
• both external and internal walls of the house do not require additional paintwork, natural wood is ready to serve for more than a hundred years without any chemical coatings.

Of the advantages dead pine KELO, as a material for the construction of an eco-house, can be called manual processing of each trunk, no factory processing, which is why the wood fully retains its natural properties.

Let's add to this the unusual aesthetics of the fairytale "hut", dead pine houses stand out for their natural form and organic nature. The wood is used in various lengths, the color of the outer walls casts a noble gray and each building is unique, it is impossible to repeat and build a twin house similar in all details.