Dry pine houses

Dead pine used for a long period in the construction of houses in the northern regions. At the time, modern building materials replaced natural raw materials, but the fashion for environmentally friendly building material again returned interest in it.

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

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

The northern climate serves as a “tanning” substance for wood when a 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 searching and extracting wood is very laborious and requires the involvement of professionals, so the construction dry pine houses - It will not cost cheaply, but the result will be fabulous.

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

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

Building dry pine houses It is very popular not only in Finland, but also in Northern Europe, Denmark, Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland and North America. This method is gaining its supporters in Russia.

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

• there is no problem of shrinkage and cracking for dead wood; during the “preservation” period, the wood undergoes such 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 benefits dead pine KELO as a material for the construction of an eco-house, you can call the manual processing of each trunk, no factory processing, which is why the wood completely retains its natural properties.

Add to this the unusual aesthetics of the fabulous “hut”, dry pine houses stand out for their natural forms and organicity. The tree is used in various lengths, the color of the external walls casts a noble gray hair and each building is unique, it is impossible to repeat and build a double house similar in all details.