The “green gold” of Finland
The building of the wooden houses is much more complicated process than building of stone houses. Why? It is because the inaccuracies and roughness of the masonry can be masked by the facade and interior decoration. But the tree does not forgive mistakes. Everything must be designed, manufactured and assembled perfectly. Only this way the house become a masterpiece, a comfortable and cozy place to live. If you see many decorative elements on a wooden facade, you should understand that those decorations are not the elements of a design, but a camouflage of construction weaknesses. The real beauty is on the brevity. And for the success the main important thing is a premium quality of material.
Don’t be afraid for the nature!
For sure, the building multi-storey concrete buildings is more economical. That’s why you can hear a "valid" point – “if you build from wood, you are destroying nature”. It’s probably true, but not in Finland! The forest is the heritage and the treasure of Finland (the Finns call it "green gold"), and all the laws work for the protection and increasing of this treasure.
Please kindly see by yourself:
The Finns grow about 100 million cubic meters of timber annually, and 60 million cubic meters are exported and used for the domestic market. This way, the annual absolute growth is 40 million cubic meters of the forest! People build their houses, and the forests in Finland are still growing.
When you build a house from Finnish timber, you can be sure that you did not harm nature in any way, because new trees are already growing in a place of the felled trees.
Why Finnish timber is recognized as the best in the world
Recipe of the success:
The land of Finland is covered in 90% by forests and all forests are is in private property. The goal of the owners is to sell as expensive as possible, so they do everything to grow the high-quality trees:
- The forest is planted properly, carefully looked after, regularly cleaned, and undergrowth (weeds) are always cut down - so the trees receive enough light and nourishment from the soil
- The care for the forest is strictly controlled by the state. For improper care, the owner will be sentenced to penalty or even for confiscation. This strict law is the guarantee of the highest quality of Finnish timber
- Trees are cut on a ripe age (from 60 to 90 years) - only such trees are used in housing construction (up to 60 years old tree is still unripe, tree after 90 years is already too old). As a tradition, parents take care of the forest, and their children sell it)))
- Ideal conditions for growing softwood are weather conditions (Finland is located on the border of different climatic zones) and growing conditions (dry hills and sandstones)
- The most environmental friendly wood. Finland is the most ecologically clean country in the world: it is a country of a thousand lakes (188,000 lakes), completely covered with clean healthy forest.
All this rules make the trunks of the trees "ship-based" - strong, slender and even. It gives an extraordinary technical and aesthetic advantages for our houses.
The high quality timber can be produced only from healthy forest
- The quality of the timber could be easily checked by its length in the walls of the house. The walls in our houses look beautiful, because they are made of long, perfectly smooth timber made from healthy trees of the best period of their ripeness. The length of our Finnish timber is about 13 m (it could be longer, but limited by the size of the transport).
Variety. Coniferous wood is divided into four grades: A, B, C, D. For the construction of our Finnish houses, we use only the highest grades A and B. It is a reliable guarantee of quality, strength and durability of the house. We never give any compromises on the quality.
We make timber from lamellas, not from boards. A lamella is a board made by cutting a trunk exactly along the core. Only 2 lamellas can be obtained from one tree! So we get only two 60-70 mm lamellas from one tree (at the age of 60-90 years) and from those lamellas we glue our timber.
Many manufactories neglect this condition and trying save money, saw trunks to thin 30-40 mm boards (more boards and less waste). Such "plank" timber does not stand the test of time; here will be a lot of distortions and other problems.
Another necessary condition for the quality of house structure is that the lamellas in the timber should be glued only with the cores outward on both sides of the timber! Only this way it is possible to prevent cracks, warpage, twisting of a timber and other problems.
- Our timber should stay a truly environmentally friendly material; so we do not impregnate or process it with anything! All antiseptics and other substances for wood protecting contain chemicals that is why we do not use them.
Timber made of healthy and ripe wood does not need any processing substances! - In order we want our houses to be 100% environmentally friendly, we use expensive eco-friendly adhesives (Swedish and Swiss) for gluing lamellas, while many other factories use cheap synthetic adhesives (with phenols, formaldehyde, etc.)
The quality of the surface of the timber. Rough timber means a manufacturing flaw and / or low-quality wood. Correct and high-precision grinding allows us to achieve perfect smoothness, which is why Lumi Polar’s timber is often called “the silk timber”.
Why choosing the right material for your house is so important?
The life of a wooden house depends directly on the quality of the timber. Therefore, the savings, which firstly seem justified (using low-quality wood, short beams, timber glued from thin boards, etc.) will bring many unexpected problems.
The clients often tell us about their unsuccessful previous experience – distortions in the house, squeaking in the walls and floors, dry rot and mold. The reason is not in a violation of norms, standards and technologies of production and construction, but also in the quality of the material.
If your dream is a real eco-house, where you can breathe so easily and sleep so sweetly, where the floors do not creak, and there is no blowing from the windows, you should start with the main thing. And the main thing is the choice of quality material, in our case the high-quality wood!
In any product, the quality of the material is the main thing!
The low-quality car messed up, the suit doesn’t fit, and the house will warp!
A house made of low-quality wood will make itself felt more and more over the years. Time after time, cracks will appear and grow; houses will be blown through, leak and freeze...
If you want to live and enjoy, and do not deal with fixings and repairs, if you don’t want to pay huge amounts for heating, please kindly think should you try to save on the main thing – the wall of your own house?