loghouses

Wall design

Wall design

Moisture and condensation Recently a client in Germany asked us: Do you know ubakus? Maybe you think “ubawhat?”, but we know Ubakus very well, for us Ubakus is a highly valued engineering tool for the design of our walls and roofs. So what is Ubakus? A little background First a little background. Let’s say you’re wearing glasses, and you walk on the street during winter, it is cold, minus 5 degrees Celcius (for you across the pond: 23 Fahrenheit).
Church in Kedainiai, Lithuania

Church in Kedainiai, Lithuania

Some prospective clients worry about the life expectancy of wooden houses. Let us show you the church in the city center of Kedainiai, a small village in Lithuania. From the website www.kedainiutvic.lt: At the beginning of the 18th century, Carmelite monks settled in Kėdainiai. Local residents opposed the Carmelite monks, therefore they built their church only in 1766. The volumes of the church and nearby belfry are large and massive, forming a calm and monumental silhouette.
Insulation

Insulation

Not too long ago, when petrol was about 50 US$-cents and gas was almost free in Europe, we would “insulate” our roofs with, say 10 centimeters of mineral wool. As long as you could not look to the outside it was ok. Not anymore. Today we have EU-requirements, translated into local regulations for each EU-country, and these requirements are very different from not-too-long-ago. At Lithouse we can easily meet these requirements, and just look at this roof.
Building a loghouse in one minute

Building a loghouse in one minute

The first step in the construction of a loghouse (after the foundation) is the log shell, or the load bearing construction. Here we have a one-minute time lapse video of the assembly, over a period of six days.