“Red Boat” – logs and houses of cedar and larch

In January 2003 we began to put up our first house of mountain cedar lafet, the same year we began working with larch.

Questions of regular receiving of round wood from far regions, specifics of its machining, storing, using in building hand logged houses – all these complicated questions required maximum attention. So we singled cedar and larch houses out in separate project.

We called the project “The Red Boat”, this is a registered trade mark since 2006. Now in the whole production of wooden hand logged houses we have more than 70% of orders for mountain Altaic and Sayan wood.

A special difference of Altai mountain cedar wood is a remarkable rose-red color, obtaining deeper golden red color in course of time.

Polished lafet of mountain cedar turns interiors to magic galleries, full of light and warmth; it bears an amazing feeling of harmony, lightness and strength like waves through the entire house. A little harsh balmy scent of cedar fulls everything around with delicious odor.

Cossacks who came to Siberia called this tree a Siberian giant or a Sacred tree, a healer and a patriarch of Northern forests. In accordance with Evenki legends a Cedar is a source of power, beauty and health, tales tell us that only kind spirits live in a cedar because this tree is the most generous.

A mountain cedar rises up to 50 meters and more than a meter and a half around, average age of trees reaches 400-500 years. Nowadays in Russia there are strictly regulated orders of felling cedar, this provides saving forest sources. With that we can realize amazingly that cedar trunks in our houses began rising at the age of Ivan the Terrible.

Use of mountain cedar is deeply rooted in Siberian everyday life, people got gum from cedar tar medicinally, they made useful and nourishing oils and infusions of cedar nuts, in winter carpenters made houses, backyards and Cossack pikes of selected trunks of taiga giants.

They cut boards of cedar, broad floor boards, rafters and roof shingles.

Gummy mountain cedar wood deters damaging insects, and in old times there were no moth in furniture made of massive cedar boards like chests, wardrobes and bureaus. In Europe plates were made of wood, dish-makers insisted that milk did not spoil in such utensils, obtaining pleasant smell. It was commonly known that food and drinks in cedar utensils obtain its reviving power and extend a human life.

Nowadays it is scientifically proved that cedar wood kills all saprogenic bacteria in rooms and air in a cedar house is practically sterile. There are not more than 300 bacteria cells in a cubic meter, and medical conditions let 500-100 nonpathogenic microbes per a cubic meter in the most sterile buildings.

Cedar is the best building material made by nature. Under microscope a secret of unique thermal conductivity of cedar wood becomes obvious – these are more than 60.000 smallest pipes full of air per every square centimeters, such structure provides heat proof much more than one of concrete and stone.

Besides, ministructure of cedar provides high resistance to watering and chapping.