Wood is the most comfortable material given to man by nature itself for the construction of housing. A house made of wood is a guarantee of a healthy life, which is even confirmed by scientists who have proven that wood has a special positive energy that allows a person to gain energy, to fully relax in the minimum number of hours allotted for sleep.
What should we build a house from?
The decision to build a wooden house is easy to make. A more difficult task is to determine the material that will be most acceptable in terms of price / quality ratio. Experts recommend choosing a glued beam, since the use of this material makes it possible to translate into reality interesting design decisions and really calculate how much timber is in the cube of building material.
Also, glued timber is devoid of the disadvantages inherent in profiled or rounded timber. Glued laminated timber after laying in crowns shrinks during the year less than 1%, which guarantees the quality of construction. The downside is the relatively high cost (glued timber is about three times more expensive than a solid one), since the price of a box directly depends on how many cubes of timber a house needs. Another advantage of building a house from a bar is the speed of its construction. On the finished foundation, the house can be brought under the roof in three weeks.
How much does the wood component cost?
Before building a house, it is worth comparing desires with opportunities. There are two options: to purchase a finished house from a bar or, having ordered an individual project, build it yourself. In any case, it would be useful to imagine the consumption of lumber. To calculate how much timber is in a cube, you can use the construction tables, which give the calculation of pieces per cubic meter for different cross-sections and lengths of timber.
If you entrust the matter to a construction company, then they often give a ready-made answer, which you can check yourself if you wish. However, depending on whether it will be a log house or a fully equipped house, it depends on how many pieces of timber in the cube will be needed for construction. The average cost of a log house starts from 120 thousand rubles, and the price of a fully equipped house starts from 250 thousand.
Example for calculation
The final volume of building materials depends on how many floors will be in the house, what layout it will have, what will be its living and usable area. Specialists of construction companies or online calculators on the Internet will help calculate the required amount of wood. However, to estimate how much building material is required for your construction, you can simply use the formula:
P house × h walls × V timber (1),
where P is the perimeter of the house, h is the height of the walls and V is the volume of one bar.
So, to understand how much timber is in a cube, you need to calculate the volume of each timber separately, and then how many pieces fit in the cube.
Let's try to make an approximate calculation for a house 8m x 8m, if the beam has a length of 6 meters and a section of 200mm x 200mm. The volume of one such beam will be (200x200x6) 0.24 m 3 . The answer to the question: "How much timber in a cube?" - "4 pieces". Now we consider according to the formula (1) - 32 x 3x 0.24 - we get that for laying one crown, 1.28 m 3 of timber is needed. The wall height is 3 meters, so you need 15 crowns. In total, only cubic meters will need 45 cubic meters of timber (if we take the average price of 30 thousand rubles per cubic meter of glued timber, we get an amount of 135 thousand rubles).
However, the beam is needed not only for the construction of the log house, but also for the installation of beams, logs, rafters, partitions, while the necessary dimensions of the beam change . Our advice is to purchase a timber with a margin, because new ideas can always arise during construction.