Criteria for choosing wood for building a house
Wooden houses have always been built, and will be built. Which tree is the best way to make a log house? A large favorite in this business is the species of coniferous trees, such as larch, pine, spruce. Larch the most expensive building material. It is not subject to decay, but also hard to process. Lucky houses can stand for centuries. Spruce has many knots, after processing blue, more fragile material. Pine the most affordable building material. It is used most often when building houses than two other.
Sometimes a cedar is used, but cedar deforestation is mainly prohibited or limited. Therefore, it is very, expensive and rarely used building materials. Sometimes they use birch, aspen, ash, beech, oak in the construction of houses. But this is rather an exception than the rule. By the way, log cabins of, good, processed and dried aspen, can last many years. In addition, aspen is very easy to process any processing. There are certain rules in the construction of wood buildings. The bathhouse is built from deciduous trees, for example, from linden. And houses made of coniferous rocks. Practically the house can be built from any tree, it already depends on the financial capabilities of the owner. Some build houses from exotic trees.