Glued beam - reviews and features

Anyone who dreams of his own house faces a choice - to build a brick "classics" or houses from glued beams. Feedback from owners of the private sector gives preference to both, and other material. As practice shows, it is more profitable and more convenient to buy a ready-made house. On the Internet you can meet on a wooden house from glued beams reviews are different - positive and negative. The latter is written mostly by those who decided to build a house from scratch and at the same time orders services for the construction and design of the house in different organizations. First of all, buying a house on a turn-key basis, you save time, without spending it on studying projects, cost and purchasing materials.

What you should pay attention when buying a home

First, from the beam of which shape the house is assembled - from a rectangular, natural moisture, glued or profiled. Each species has its own characteristics. For example, a rectangular bar, as a rule, is the cheapest, and houses made of such material require additional exterior finishing (siding, brick or plaster). Moreover, they give a strong shrinkage (up to 10%). The rectangular bar differs in size and shape, requiring cracks and additional impregnation by special means.

The most popular is the glued beam - reviews of a positive direction are mostly given to users.

The glued bar is made of pre-dried boards with an antiseptic coating, so the house gives a minimum shrinkage of 1%, which allows finishing work to be done immediately after construction. A variety of this type - a beam with cellulose warming. It does not shrink, you can enter it right away, as soon as the construction is completed.

It would be nice to know who the producer of this material is and what its cost is. On the glued bar you can find reviews of different, but the beam, bought from a reliable manufacturer, will not cause censures. Glued beam at a low price is the first sign of a substandard product. When building independently, choosing the manufacturer that offers glued beams, customer feedback should always be considered.

More profitable houses from profiled bar. This is explained by the fact that there are special notches on the ends of the beams, which excludes the presence of cracks and does not require external finishing (enough impregnation with antiseptic, varnish or paint). If the profiled bar has a special drying, shrinkage of the house will not be more than 5%.

The second point - the timing of construction of the house. All the wooden houses will shrink (an exception is the insulated glued bar, reviews on which you can read on the Internet), and a house built in 3-4 months will give a lot of trouble in half a year.

The third condition of a quality home is the presence of antiseptic, as well as fireproof wood impregnation - this greatly depends on the period of use of the structure and the safety of people living in it.

Check the house from the bar to meet standards is not difficult. It is necessary to begin with a foundation - there are unacceptable cracks, build-up of mortar, as this prevents the wooden beams from densely fitting to the foundation. Inadmissible release of reinforcement, lack of waterproofing.

Carefully inspecting the house from the outside and from the inside, it is unacceptable to ignore the sticking nails and the deflection of the walls. Pay attention to the presence of blowouts (natural ventilation) - their presence is mandatory on each side of the structure, and they should be above the level of the snow cover.