Stone house or wooden?
Life consists of paradoxes: when people learned to create everything artificial, they finally started appreciating the natural! We try to lead a healthy lifestyle, use products without preservatives and wear clothes made of cotton and flax. And also - clean and moisturize the air we breathe. But your way to health and long life should start with the main thing: with a life in an ecologically clean house.
When a person thinks about building his own house, he realizes that this is much more difficult than buying a finished apartment. We do not take into account cheap options - we talk about a safe, warm and cozy house, which will become a real family residence.
To build a house of stone or wood – it is up to you to decide! We only suggest you to get acquainted with their main differences.
Ecology
Not a single building material can be compared with a tree in terms of environmental friendliness. Thousands of articles have been written about this matter and thousands of surveys have been taken. The main advantage of a wooden house is that there is always clean air, because the tree is "breathing"!
The tree has a porous structure consisting of cells that filter and clean the air, removing the toxic substances of the human body, carbon dioxide, microbes and other gaseous pollutants from the interior.
Allergy sufferers can forget about coughing and stuffy nose, and fatigue and nervousness disappear after a good and restful sleep. After all, you are surrounded by nature! Conifer trees also have unique antibacterial properties due to their volatile production.
Stone houses essentially lose to wooden ones: they quickly dampen at low temperatures, while at high temperatures the air in the rooms is too dry. A comfortable microclimate will can be achieved with the help of special devices.
IMPORTANT:
All these advantages of wooden houses concern only those that have not been soaked or treated with any antiseptics or other modern remedies as they contain large quantities of harmful chemicals, (especially dangerous - phenols and formaldehydes).
If you are interested in knowing why wooden houses should not be touched by any remedies (including fire-fighting) - read the answers of Finnish experts on our website in the section «Your Questions»
There is not a cheap synthetic glue in the glued timber, but an expensive natural eco-glue! For example, we use Purbond, a unique Swiss heavy-duty eco-glue, which doesn’t contain any harmful chemical substances and unlike all other glues increases the strength of structures by 5 times!
Cost and construction dates
Building a stone house is more expensive. Heavy walls require a more solid foundation. The walls of the timbeer is much lighter.
In contrast to the expensive interior decoration of a stone house, our perfectly polished “silk” timber doesn't require finishing the house either outside or inside - the smooth structure of the highest quality “ship wood” is so beautiful itself that it is a sin to close it with some kind of artificial materials. Transferring it to the language of finance, it also means significant savings!
Our Finnish wooden houses are built 2 times faster than the same stone one, because all house constructions are 80% factory ready - houses are assembled, like Lego - in “2 shakes”!
No cuts and modifications on the construction site - all constructions have a multi-modeling, gashes to hundredths of mm, seals and insulation are installed in timber at the workshops of the factory, the trusses are mounted on the production - restrictions only by car dimensions!
All this and much more provide our houses with fast terms and enormous savings on construction, and also the highest degree of energy efficiency (energy saving is 60% higher than the average!) because constructuions have an ideal fit density!
We apply large glazing areas and panoramic sliding (floor to ceiling!) glass doors in our houses, even beyond the Arctic Circle!
Maintenance costs
The house is not only built, but it is maintained later! Our energy efficient houses minimize heating costs as much as possible (cold and wet - maximizes). Our houses from high-quality glued laminated timber also has no sealants, foam, cheap synthetic heat insulation and other artificial materials - therefore heat losses go to zero!
Lumi Polar house - 100% sealed! There you will live and enjoy your life, and not freezein winter and repair everything in it the whole year!
In comparison with the houses of all other building materials, Finnish wooden houses are not only the most useful, but also the warmest, the most durable, the most earthquake resistant and what surprises may people - the most fireproof!
But this is a completely different story and we will tell it to you in our next articles. And if you want to learn it earlier - read about it on our website in the sections «Valuable advantages of a wooden house» and «Your Questions»
Architecture
The advantage of stone houses is the ability to build "curved" walls and surfaces. In financial terms, this is an expensive pleasure, besides in the future the facades need to be plastered and painted.
Wooden architecture today is not traditional anynore! The variety of high-tech architectural solutions is amazing: these are classic houses, chalets, half-timbered houses, minimalistic buildings, and various fashionable roofs!
Our ultramodern wooden houses look stylish, elegant and have more advantages over their stone "brothers".
The Finns are traditionally in the breakthrough!
The big breakthrough in wooden housing construction was the construction of multi-storey buildings made of glued timber! Pioneers here are traditionally the Finns! They have hi-tech and energy efficient technologies!
In Finland, not only private eco-friendly houses of glued timber are built everywhere, but schools, kindergartens and even a whole quarter of multi-storey residential buildings in the center of Helsinki!
The main point of the innovation policy of Finland is the high standard of life and comfort of the nation! The Finns prognozed that in 15-20 years all Finns should live in natural eco-friendly wooden houses!
Why do we focus on quality?
Because the amateurish approach destroys the advantages of any material. The most luxurious project of a brick house will be completely ruined by curved masonry and height differences.
A house of low-grade wood, low-quality glued timber will definitely lean , and cracks will have to be repaired and caulked.
It is XXI century!
A century when manufacturers who respect themselves and their customers invest in high technologies. Such technologies as robotic production, natural glue, innovative minute gluing of timber and much, much more.
The use of eco-structures and materials, hi-tech and energy-efficient technologies - gives us the right to declare:
Finnish wooden houses Lumi Polar - the best option for life on earth!