Planning to build a new two-story house about 90+90 sqm, considering using solid wood as the load-bearing part of the frame instead of a stud wall. I'm thinking of a solid wood panel (5 layers to achieve tightness) + insulation + horizontal wood paneling. I've looked into KLH Solid Wood (link below), which can handle a 16-meter-long wall in one piece, and having the house erected in a day sounds appealing. Does anyone have experience with them as a supplier or with solid wood in general?
http://www.klhscandinavia.se/
http://www.klhscandinavia.se/
which prefab house has not had its frame erected in a day, do you mean? A joint or two on a long wall is hardly what takes time...
Or is it something else you are aiming for?
Or is it something else you are aiming for?
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It must cost a fortune, solid wood + insulation. Do you still need to frame the wall to make room for insulation?
They use PUR glue and as I understand it, it's 200 grams/m2 and four gluings (5 layers), which means 800 grams/m2 and PUR is not cheap.
It will look like a log house but without the movement of the wood.
Well, if you can afford it, you can always give it a try.
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They use PUR glue and as I understand it, it's 200 grams/m2 and four gluings (5 layers), which means 800 grams/m2 and PUR is not cheap.
It will look like a log house but without the movement of the wood.
Well, if you can afford it, you can always give it a try.
Protte
Why the rush when it comes to the most expensive thing you will buy in your life? Or is it a commercial property that must be quickly finished to generate money?
If it's just a private residence, it rarely ends up well thought out if you assume the construction must go extremely fast and preferably be ready to move into in 3 weeks.
If it's just a private residence, it rarely ends up well thought out if you assume the construction must go extremely fast and preferably be ready to move into in 3 weeks.
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"Roof on" is good if it happens quickly, but even prefab houses (neighbor's) have to stand and dry for a while so they still don't go that fast.
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There goes a large part of the point of a quickly move-in-ready prefab house...prototypen said:
Hmm... I'm as far from conservative as one can be in these contexts, but here one has to ask the question: "Why?" No obvious advantages over regular construction?
You could probably hang elephants on the walls in any case... so a flat-screen TV won't fall down anytime soon!
You could probably hang elephants on the walls in any case... so a flat-screen TV won't fall down anytime soon!
We have a "prefab" house from 1938. The walls are made of standing 2-inch tongue-and-groove planks that were delivered in large sections to be assembled together, so you could say it's somewhat similar to KLH's more modern variant. As mentioned, it's fantastic to have two inches of wood on the inside of the walls for most things. You can screw anything anywhere. What's not quite as fun is installing electrical and plumbing. How does KLH solve that? Shafts? Or is there space inside their blocks somehow?
