To date, houses made of glued beams are increased popular by residents of megacities and this. This building material has many advantages inherent in other building materials of the wood type, but it is deprived of their shortcomings, which makes it an excellent choice for the construction of a suburban cottage. Below we will describe the main advantages of glued beams:
1) the surface of the high quality, ensured by the fact that before conducting the process of gluing wood, it is cleaned of defects and knots, and all the workpieces are sorted by textures and color. It is for this reason that all buildings from this material have an excellent appearance.
2) the constancy of geometric shapes and sizes – glued wood, in contrast to the whole, retains its shape and dimensions even after a few decades. It does not grind, does not bend and does not give shrinkage. The fact is that in this building material there is no internal stresses, and it is made from high -quality raw materials.
3) high strength-structures created from glued timber, have fifty to seventy percent more strength than if they were made of whole wood.
4) excellent thermal insulation – it has long been known that wooden houses are perfectly holding heat in the winter period. High thermal insulation parameters reduce heating costs. To heat a house made of glued timber, nine to twelve times less fuel is needed than to heat a brick cottage.
5) quick construction – it takes much less time to build such a structure than the construction of a suburban house of brick or an unprocessed tree.
