Modern hand logged wooden houses

For more than 7 years our company has built hand logged wooden houses. During this period, we built more than 350 buildings of different purposes, in different architectural styles.

Every wooden house made by “The Red Boat” and “The Norwegian house” has a five-year warranty for its foundation, roof and all finishing operations.

Warranty work, done for every our client, are also:

• caulking of timber bowls
• making flue drill in lift slabs and a roof
• making technical drills when matching heating, water supply and drain systems

A base technology of building wooden houses is Norwegian hand log of lafet, the most high-test in lifetime of timbers and construction safety.

Norwegian hand assembly is based on several principles

WALLS

• Walls inside and outside a house are made of lafet - plain cut on both sides to a broad trunk.
• During machining every trunk is cleaned of bark and week upper layer of wood, and during cutting we make sure in the absence of hidden defects.
• Thanks to large trunks, the height of cedar timber work reaches 450-600 mm.
• Half reducing the quantity of timber works, we have the best results in warm saving, comfort and long living in comparison with houses of lined planks.
• Massive walls of lafet improve acoustic isolation and make central living rooms warmer.

RAFTER SYSTEM

• A traditional Norwegian rafter system includes fully cut faces outside and faces of all the rooms of the second floor.
• All faces are connected to each other by powerful “horse” and “ledger” system in equilibrium.

Such roof construction was necessary for grass or earth roof demanding a rafter system of high strength because of earth weight and additional snow stress in winter.

SECOND FLOOR

• One of main architectural features of Norwegian blockhouses were high domical ceilings of the second floor thanks to a little angle of dip of the roof and to high side walls.
• That is why unlike Finnish or Russian half-floor attics on the second floor, in Norway these rooms were a full functional living area and windows were set in high side walls for better lightening.
• Thanks to initial safety and strength of Norwegian rafter system in the whole, nowadays we can use any roof material without additional expenses for strengthening constructive elements.

NORWEGIAN HAND LOG

• A “Norwegian castle” as a technical element of wooden building is the most complicated and safest of all possible ways of linking trunks into bowl
• This is due to constructive features of a Norwegian bowl – landing and accepting parts of a lafet have a cone shape, providing regular shrinkage.
• After final shrinkage, lafets are blocked up in bowls in such a way that one cannot put a razor between the trunks. There is no need to caulk walls like in Russian tradition.
• In Norwegian houses only bowl are caulked, not more than 7-10% of all.
• Another important feature of a Norwegian bowl is hidden “broadtail” or “dark corner” preventing penetration of cold air inside the blockhouse.
• These feature demands much experience and skills of the cutter and it is the breath of the nostrils for preventing warmth blowing out of the blockhouse in windy weather.
• Thus, we can be sure that wooden houses of lafet made by professionals will be not only comfortable and safe home, but their exterior will attract attention of the most sophisticated judges of real blockhouses.