What is a wooden building and what are its types

Recently, most people recall a timbered building in the foothills, a wooden church, a cottage, a garden house or a footbridge over a stream. Their not very good reputation was also ensured by

the classic window, according to which many still attribute to

wooden buildings for example, the fact that everything can be

heard in them.

A better name we can meet today is a wood-based building. In modern wooden buildings, wood is just one of many materials that can be used in the construction of a house. In addition to solid wood in the form of thin profiles, boards or beams, there are various types of insulation and board materials based on wood or plaster.

At first glance, you can hardly even recognize a wooden building.

These are not only constructions where solid wood is directly admitted, but also objects that are built from sandwich constructions. And even more, than 90% of masonry buildings have a wooden roof with a residential attic, which is also a wooden building.

Basic types of wooden buildings

The nomenclature used and the division of timber constructions are relatively inconsistent. With regard to the type of construction, we have been able to distinguish wood-based buildings as follows:

Typical design feature: wooden frame filled with insulation and sheathed with boards (it may not look like a wooden building at first sight)

Lightweight wooden skeleton - created directly on the construction site. A wooden frame made of uniform profiles is exposed to the prepared base plate. This is filled with insulation and sheathed with a sheet material that interacts statically in the structure.

Panel wooden buildings (sandwich panels) - the sandwich panel is created in controlled conditions of the production hall. Individual panels arrive at the construction site at different stages of completion and the crane assembles the whole house together in a few days.

Typical design feature: solid wood construction (often recognized)

Panels of laminated solid wood - the building is built of solid panels, which are machined in production by CNC machined to exact dimensions. Panels often remain visible in the interior. The exterior attaches insulation to the panel and makes a traditional facade (plastered or tiled).

Heavy wooden skeleton - the building is built of solid wooden beams, which have a larger cross-section than a light wooden skeleton. With this technology there is no need for plate materials to reinforce the construction, therefore the beams often remain admitted from the interior, exterior or both sides (but this is significantly disadvantageous from the viewpoint of thermal technology). The space between the beams can be filled with masonry, slabs or, for example, glass - this is the most common reason for choosing this technology.

Log cabins - are traditional buildings, built of solid beams or logs horizontally stacked. The difference between them is in the corner joint. While the logs overlap the corner at the log connection, the timbered logs are joined at right angles to the dovetail. Log timber is usually built from rough round logs, while timbered logs from chipped rectangular beams do not have to be the rule. places great emphasis on energy savings, we can also find a "sandwich", where the wall structure doubles and an insulation layer is added between it. At first glance, we do not know the difference.

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