Eco-friendly house made of timber: the difference between winter wood is from the summer

Plan to build a wooden house made of logs. Of course the first thing was a question about the order log. Shoveled a lot of books and everywhere it is written that to do the frame exclusively from the wood harvested in the winter because he's the best. However, little discusses how to determine if winter is the forest and how to verify sellers.





 

Of course, conscientious carpenters harvested wood in the winter, and in spring and summer cut log cabins and collect them. But what prevents unscrupulous manufacturers to procure wood in the summer when make it easy to lay in store, and sell houses from it all winter and half of next year under the guise of the winter wood. Let's try to sort out this issue together.



First, a little theory or why the winter forest is so good:

In winter, the trees comes the rest, they are ready for the long winter. The pores are closed, the SAP and the growth stops, the excess moisture is released through the root system. Therefore, during use of products from such forests, we get the following advantages:
 

• when heated logs of them will stand out resin
• wood is more dense and dry ie less susceptible to deformation or cracking
• the material undergoes a long period of natural drying, as from the time of harvesting to summer heat is a few months
• preparation of a winter wood is produced at low temperatures, which means that the wood keeps its natural bright appearance and is less susceptible to infestation by fungi and insects.

Now let's get to practice —how to recognize what You sell in the winter wood.

I must say that non-specialist it is difficult to do, but possible. There are several ways:

First – better to see once — is to go to the site, where do log and look at unsounded forest, which is made of the house. If you see on the bark dirt, it says that his summer cut, if the saw cut appear dark spots, this suggests that the forest was under the rain. Winter forest with proper storage, as a rule, does not turn blue. Summer / winter forest bark is dried and partially flies.

Second – choose verified. Everything is clear from the title, you probably asked the carpenters, who have already made orders of your friends or acquaintances. Conscientious sellers have to be ' those whom they have already put a log or even mount them. Ask about the reputation of suppliers, and a lot will become clear.

The third factor time of order for additional security, it is necessary to buy timber, log wooden house or a bath in the winter months starting in January or February, at least in the spring. The reason is simple – it was at this time begins the preparation of a winter wood, and sawed in the summer, usually over. So at the end of summer, fall is the time to undertake a project to bathhouse or home and to choose suppliers and carpenters. Because the development of the project design, choice of internal layout clarification of details, the panache of the so-called poprawnosci for a house will take from one to three months. The time arrives and the winter woods, from which you need to build.

Fourth – trust but verify. If you offered a ready-made log cabin under the guise of winter and there is no way to comply with p 1 and P3 at least carefully inspect the product. The logs should not be deep cracks is not only a sign of the summer forest, but also talks about the use of improper drying. The logs need to dry slowly, naturally, and the longer the better: the wood must be dry not only outside but also inside. Ie if you are offered a box of the summer house timber felled in the same period, in dry summers the South exterior wall will dry out very quickly, and the interior and North more slowly due to internal stress, a large number of cracks.

Especially be wary if the manufacturer offers a box of a wooden house, covered with antiseptic. Here I can say that cut last season, failed to convert, and therefore treated by septic tank (and maybe bleach to make it look new) At the same mountain carpenters will argue that cut it in the winter. But why do you need the trouble and better to control everything and get quality framing.

The fifth instrument control. Some authors suggest to drip one drop of iodine on cross-section of a log. Because in winter the wood starch more wood on this site should turn blue. Then you can measure the moisture content of the logs at a depth of 10-15 cm, but this requires a special device hygrometer.
Here are ways to determine winter wood for construction exist. Each of them is not particularly effective, however, when applied to complex, the probability to get a quality frame for a wooden log cabin or manufactured home from a bar is quite real.published

Source: samodelka.net/blog/instrument/320.html