Dead pine has been used for a long time in the construction of houses in the northern regions. For a while, modern building materials have supplanted natural raw materials, but the fashion for environmentally friendly building materials has brought back interest in it..
The characteristics of dead wood as a building material, as if by nature itself, are intended for building a house. Deadwood pine houses are durable and little affected by time.
The deadwood itself is a tree whose root system stops working, but the trunk itself remains in the ground, the deadwood KELO is harvested in the northern regions of Karelia in places as close as possible to the Arctic Circle. Trunks from two hundred to three hundred years old are mined for buildings..
The northern climate serves “tanning” substance for wood, when a tree dies, its trunk is under the influence of extremely low temperatures, sun and wind, due to which it acquires high qualities of hardness, resistance to decay and other climatic and biological changes.
The process of finding and extracting wood is very laborious and requires the involvement of professionals, therefore building a house from dead pine will not cost cheap, but the result will also be fabulous.
Until the moment the trunk is removed from the ground, its condition and age are assessed at the place of residence, after a positive assessment, the tree is carefully “pull out” from the ground with all its roots.
Often a helicopter is required for mining, due to the inaccessible terrain of finding the raw materials. Dead pine accounts for only about thirty percent of the total forest area in the main production areas – North Karelia and Finland.
The construction of houses from dead pine is very popular not only in Finland, but also in Northern Europe, Denmark, Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland and North America. This method is also winning its supporters in Russia..
Two key qualities make KELO deadwood houses so attractive:
- the problem of shrinkage and cracking for dead wood does not exist, for the period “conservation”, wood undergoes such a serious preparation in natural conditions that the material already has a final density before starting work;
- both external and internal walls of the house do not require additional paintwork, natural wood is ready to serve for more than a hundred years without any chemical coatings.
Of the advantages of KELO deadwood pine as a material for the construction of an eco-house, one can name the manual processing of each trunk, no factory processing, which is why the wood fully retains its natural properties.
Let’s add to this the unusual aesthetics of a fairy tale “huts”, houses made of dead pine stand out for their natural forms and organic nature. The tree is used in various lengths, the color of the outer walls casts a noble gray hair and each building is unique, it is impossible to repeat and build a twin house similar in all details.
