We exclusively produce kits from profiled timber with cutting for the project, completely ready for assembly. The full production cycle of a house kit includes not only the profiling of timber, but, most importantly, cutting of elements and bowls in production strictly in accordance with the project.
Our production is located in the Yaroslavl region. The Makron line (Finland), designed for profiling timber, cutting bowls on four sides, and grooves openings with high precision, has been operating since 2001. Production capacity - up to 400 m3 of profiled timber, cut for the project, per month. We produce profiled timber with a width from 120mm to 190mm, the profile is Finnish, the bowls are cut on four sides.
The cost of profiled timber with cutting according to the project is 12,500 per 1 m3. You can buy a house made of profiled timber by contacting our company. Projects of houses made of profiled timber are posted in our catalog.
Parameters of the manufactured profile.
It is possible to make it in a different profile, cut section, as well as from the Customer’s material.
Note. We can make a house with a mixed section: external walls made of timber 190mm wide, internal walls 140mm wide. For this purpose, a technology has been developed for cutting bowls for timber of different sections in one wall. But we must take into account that this is not advisable for all projects.
Full cycle of production of profiled timber for the project
Houses and baths made of profiled timber
Everything is done - all that remains is to assemble
Log house made of profiled timber - price
You can order and buy a log house made of profiled timber, made according to any project. The price of a house kit depends on the cross-section of the timber and the chosen project. To clarify the cost, you can contact us in any way convenient for you.
It is possible to produce a complete house from profiled timber according to your individual project.
- this is a log house with releases, when the logs extend beyond the log house box by 30-50 cm. The place where the logs meet in the log house is called a “lock”, where they are fastened together by cutting in the log, made in a special way. The castle was cut out in the form of a semicircle, according to the shape and size of the log that will fit into this groove, reminiscent in configuration of a drinking vessel, therefore, in the everyday life of carpenters, such a corner connection has been called “into a bowl” since time immemorial.
A log house without outlets is a log house where the corners of the house are smooth, without protrusions beyond the contour of the building and have a special shape in the form of a trapezoid or dovetail. The carpenter's term “corner of a log house into a paw” also goes back deep into antiquity, when Russian architects cut huts, wooden estates and towers with only one ax, erecting real works of wooden architecture.
The timber castle has nothing in common with a real bowl; it has straight shapes, because the beam itself has a regular geometric shape, unlike a semicircular log. Houses made from timber in a bowl are manufactured in production, so-called. “constructors” and manual, when a team of experienced carpenters at the construction site erects a frame house from timber and manually makes a cut into a bowl in each timber.
A log house made of timber “in a warm corner” is built “without a trace”, when the lock on the corners is cut out using a method called “half-dovetail” in carpenter’s terminology.
2. Profiled timber with cups manufactured in production
Mechanical sawing of the bowl has its pros and cons.
In production, a lock “with remainder” is made on a special milling machine. The design of the machine contains plates with cutters, which have sharp edges and rotate to cut out recesses in the wood of the desired shape and configuration. The cutters are removable; after sharpening, they are returned to their place. The plates are mounted in a special movable frame, which adjusts the length and width of the bowl lock being manufactured. The milling plates are raised and lowered to create the required depth of cut in the timber. From the machine model and milling plates depends on the level of complexity of the lock, which can be done mechanically in production.
The main advantage of the production of profiled timber with cups is its speed. Mechanical work special milling machine allows you to produce in the shortest possible time maximum quantity finished timber building material.
Theoretically, the manufacture of a profiled cup lock on a machine should occur with maximum precision, but in fact, this is not always the case. Building materials do not always turn out flawless; sometimes they have to be “finished” on site manually.
The most complex bowl configuration is considered to be a “labyrinth lock” connection, when the cups sawn from all sides are offset on both sides. With this arrangement of the lock in the beam, it is considered impossible for air to penetrate from the outside.
When making a “labyrinth lock” on a milling lock, sometimes inaccuracies and gaps occur when mechanically the production of this most complex type of lock can happen up to 1-1.5 cm, which does not happen with experienced carpenters who make this type of lock by hand.
3. Profiled timber with hand-made cups
Individual work with a log house made of profiled timber with a cup, when carpenters manually build a specific object, can be compared to the work of a fashion designer. Making profiled timber with a cup industrially can be equated to “ready-to-wear” work, i.e. mass produced consumer goods.
When assembling a house from profiled timber into a cup from a production kit, the work is most often carried out by semi-skilled carpenters who do not have complex manual skills.
Many manufacturers do not undertake to make log houses with it because of the complexity of making bay corner joints on a machine and offer their customers a frame view of this architectural element in a wooden house.
Experienced carpenters can manually cut a bay window from timber with a special corner connection in it.
The Chukhlomskaya Usadba company builds designer houses with profiled timber in a cup. But our special pride is the carpenters, the descendants of the architects who built in Rus' in the centuries before last. Our carpenters know the secrets of their craft, which were passed on to them from generation to generation by their great-grandfathers, grandfathers and fathers. They know how to build not only houses from profiled timber with cups, but also cut log houses from solid logs, which is considered the highest qualification of a carpenter.
Therefore, if you want to build a house from profiled timber with cups, contact the company "Chukhloma estate", we will build you a house, either from a construction set or manual cutting“haute couture” according to an individual project.
Projects of houses made of profiled timber with cups:
| 8x11 m 1 515 000 rub. |
12x8 m 1 776 000 rub. |
10x11.5 m 1 700 000 rub. |
| 8x10 m 1 368 000 rub. |
Question - “Assembling timber into a bowl or into a warm corner - which is better?” — arises not only among customers when analyzing projects wooden houses. Discussions about the optimal scheme for cutting the joints of timber for a log house are also ongoing among professional builders, but there is no consensus on this matter.
Practice shows that in terms of energy efficiency, both the bowl corner and the warm corner are approximately the same. Their design reduces the risk of blowing, therefore the heat loss of the building at the joints of the walls is reduced. But at the same time, these types of connections have differences in design, and therefore in the complexity of installation. Therefore, you can choose between two technologies only after analyzing all their pros and cons.
Technology for assembling timber into a bowl
When installing a log house in a bowl, the edges of the beams (or logs, if cylindrical blanks are used) protrude outward on both sides. The connection itself is made like this:
- An indent of 30-50 cm is made from the edge of the part.
- At the selected distance, symmetrical recesses (cups) are formed, the dimensions of which allow two transverse beams to be tightly joined.
- Sometimes the recesses are made offset, forming a labyrinth lock - in this case, the tightness of the joint increases and its mobility decreases.
Advantages and disadvantages of the bowl
The main advantages of houses made of timber in a bowl are an attractive appearance and good thermal performance. The protruding ends of the beams look organic, while the place of contact of the parts is not blown through, and also does not release heat. Another plus - simple technology: the formation of locking recesses does not take much time, and does not require highly qualified from the masters. Due to this, the work goes faster.
Connecting timber into a bowl also has disadvantages:
- Firstly, due to the protrusions, material consumption increases, which means that more money will be required to purchase them.
- Secondly, the side protrusions make it difficult (or impossible) external insulation Houses. So you will have to limit yourself to internal thermal insulation, which is less effective.
- Thirdly, the tightness of the corner cut into a bowl directly depends on the accuracy of the fit of the parts and the moisture content of the timber. If damp wood was used during construction, then during the shrinkage process, cracks may form on the locks, through which the rooms will actively lose heat. Main problem The problem is that all the problematic joints are located inside the wall, and it is impossible to caulk them without dismantling the frame.
All these shortcomings can be compensated for by professional house design with correct thermal calculations, as well as the involvement of qualified builders in the assembly of the log house.
Technology for assembling a log house into a warm corner
Warm corner is a technology that is more complex to implement, but at the same time more reliable. When assembling timber using this method, there are no protruding parts - the ends of the parts are in the same plane with the wall. Log houses are laid in approximately the same way (assembling the timber “into the paw”).
To form a lock, a groove is cut out on one beam (in the shape of a rectangle or half-trapezoid), and at the end of the second there is a symmetrical tenon. When assembling the beam, the tenon is inserted into the groove and adjusted as tightly as possible, which completely eliminates blowing. Additional sealing is provided by laying sealing material. Jute or flax fiber is used for compaction.
Semi-trapezoidal locks (“dovetail”) are more reliable - they minimize the horizontal movement of the beams in the log house. Therefore, when forming the corners of wooden houses, they almost completely replaced rectangular configurations that were easier to install.
Pros and cons of a warm corner
Today, assembling timber into a warm corner is considered as the main option for installing wooden log houses. There are two reasons - high design versatility and good thermal insulation:
- When assembling a lock (especially a semi-trapezoidal one) dovetail") a labyrinthine joint is formed, which is not blown even with strong wind. The configuration of the joint helps to retain the seal, which does not move even when the beams shrink and move.
- Locking connections securely fix the parts, preventing them from moving in the longitudinal plane. This also allows you to compensate for deformations when the wood dries.
- The high strength of the connections eliminates the need for additional mechanical fasteners using metal parts. Thus, zones with high thermal conductivity – “cold bridges” – do not form at the corners of the building.
- The shape of the log house itself is also different: the absence of protruding ends makes it easier further work on external cladding thermal insulation materials followed by decorative finishing.
The main disadvantage of assembling a warm corner is the high complexity of installation. Forming tongue-and-groove locks requires high precision and takes a lot of time. At the same time, it is important to strictly control the quality of the timber that is taken into work, otherwise cracks may appear at the bases of the tenons (the narrowest places), which greatly reduce the strength of the structure as a whole.
Which option is better when building a log house?
It’s impossible to say unequivocally which assembly technology – a warm corner or a bowl – is better. With qualified installation, they will have approximately parity in terms of thermal performance indicators: both options have low thermal conductivity and are not blown through.
Therefore, the microclimate in the house, if at all, depends on the choice of timber assembly method, but not too much.
But there are other aspects:
- When installing a bowl, the cost of purchasing material increases due to the formation of a protruding part on each beam. The cost increase is not too large, but on a large-scale project it can be noticeable.
- A house or cottage assembled in a warm corner is more economical in terms of materials. But the construction itself will take longer, and a more qualified team of builders will need to be involved in the work (with a corresponding difference in wages).
- It is also worth considering whether your own thermal insulation of a timber frame is enough for you. If the thickness of the walls is insufficient to retain heat in the house, you should choose a warm corner. This way you can install external insulation - either immediately at the construction stage, or later, if it seems to you that the effectiveness of thermal insulation is insufficient.
When choosing a method for assembling a log house between a bowl and a warm corner, you need to take into account appearance buildings. The option with protruding parts of the beams is closer to the classic log house, while the design with even plane joints looks more modern. But in any case, the final result - both externally, attacks and in terms of operational performance - will depend on the quality of the design and assembly of the structure.