Houses

Sooner or later we understand that home is the main place in the world. That is the place where we spend time with our family, experience happy moments and look forward to every new day. That is the place where we can relax and be ourselves. That is why that is the place which can tell a lot about us.

Building of a house is an important decision, because our dreams and ideas turn into fixed architectural formwork. Since we want to choose the best for our house, there is no wonder why a lot of customers prefer more profitable wooden houses made of glued squared timber to constructions from brick, concrete or foam-silicate. Nowadays wood is the most natural building material among the existing ones.

Since 2003 we have built a great number of wooden houses made of glued squared timber following the individual demands of our clients for aesthetics, comfort and purposefulness of a house. More than once we have proved how easy and fast construction can be, provided the building technology is properly kept. The production process has been tested for many times and it meets quality standards.

Our aim is not just house construction but creation of zestful houses, the houses which can reflect the personality of an individual customer. We are trying to embody your ideas without imposing our own views and to give our customers an opportunity of self-expression.

What advantages do the houses made of glued squared timber by "Variant Ltd" possess?

The advantages of our houses are obvious. At present the wooden houses made of glued squared timber by "Variant Ltd." meet the challenge that will be claimed in future to their thermal isolation, which makes you independent of upward adjustment in energy supply. Energy-efficient properties of such a house make it possible to save on heating up to 40%. Every house by "Variant Ltd." is planned and designed according to the individual preferences of our customers. One more perfect advantage of such a house is sound insulation.

Glued squared timber consists of a number of glued wooden lamellas. And it is a real construction since one must stick to strict parameters when it is being produced. This makes glued squared timber different from any other wooden building material.

Such a house does not shrink. Glued Squared timber does not crack, does not change its form; it is firm and possesses a greater resistance to heat transfer than whole squared timber. Since glued squared timber can be of any size it can be used for building of the biggest house, frame of roof included. With the help of such a building material a house can be built with the shortest possible delay since the house can be built as a construction set.

What materials and technology we use

The use of natural and tried-and-true building materials is the main condition for maintenance of salubrious climate in the house. For producing our glued squared timber we use coniferous woods. Such material possesses healing properties: everybody knows the usefulness of volatile production that is released from the pine. Initially wood is bucked on the powersaw bench and goes into the log frame where timber for radial cut and tangential cut is presorted. The selected material in bundles undergoes air drying towards 20% humidity. After this the material is put into the drying chambers where drying control is chosen taking into account species and section of the material and is regulated with the help of computers. The eventual outgoing humidity after the drying chamber is 8-12% taking into account equilibrium humidity of the wood in that place where glued squared timber will be used (in Belarus - 14-15%) to prevent even minimal shrinkage or swelling. At such humidity in the wood eliminates the possibility of development of microorganisms (rot, mould) and the size becomes stable.

After conditioning during 2-3 days edge-surfaced lumber is treated on the quadrilateral dunters. The quality of the end product is proved by the absence of wood flaws. Cracks, falling knots, core and other imperfections, which have a bad influence on the solidity and the outside appearance of the product, are cut out. The obtained work pieces are joined in length on the minicoak. During joint-making special attention is paid to that fact that adjacent areas should match in colour and pattern of the wood. As a result of these operations work pieces for glued squared timber - lamellas of equal length and homogeneous structure - are obtained.

Before being glued into the squared timber, lamellas are sorted again so that one piece of squared timber should have lamellas with mutually complementary location of the annual rings. It helps to compensate the tension which arises in the adjacent lamellas and to guarantee that the glued squared timber will not break in the glue line and will not warp and crack even under the unforeseen influence of water, for instance, because of breach of a steam-heat pipe.

After joint-making the work pieces are planed and then they undergo volume gluing where pasting automatic device "SC 2R 300" and presses "Mita" are used. For gluing we use waterproof ecological polyurethane glue "PUR-501" and "PUR-510" (for joists). Among all the advantages of this group of glues one can note their high heat-insulating quality, which in their turn affect the total thermal conductance of the whole construction.

Consequently we obtain building glued squared timber which is
- More solid than whole timber since the work pieces lack imperfections
- More durable since deep cracks are impossible, which is the reason for the biological lesion of wood
- Fine since unsightly areas are removed, and the grain patterns and colour and matched.

Wall length made of such material is unlimited since glued squared timber is jointed in length on the minicoak and it will keep its shape over the whole life service period under any weather conditions.

Such a checked technology of house construction opens up ample possibilities at the design stage making it possible to combine innovation and ecological compatibility of housing.

The factory production ensures compact jointing of the details without additional fitting-up during assembling.

Windows and doors are also made of wood (or in the combination of wood and aluminum) in a great assortment in form and colour. The windows have double-glass unit energy-efficient glass and massive frame of 86 mm thickness, which makes them twice as warm as usual ones and gives dwellers a possibility to save on the average about 40% on the heating.