Monthly Archives: February 2014

Fire shut-off dampers

Cut-off fire dampers are used in places where ventilation or air conditioning ducts pass through building partitions, which are elements of fire separation. Under normal conditions, all hatches are open – remain in the waiting position. Fire fighting in case of fire …

Sound insulation of a building made of wood

Walls without door openings separating the bedrooms are subject to increased sound insulation, walls separating living quarters and sanitary rooms.

These walls must be filled with thermal insulation with a high specific weight and covered with double plasterboard or gypsum fiber board..

To increase the acoustic insulation of the ceiling i …

Ventilation of a timber building

In order to remove moisture from the building space, proper ventilation of all building elements must be ensured:
■ przestrzeni podpodłogowej – for buildings with a hollow floor
■ pomieszczeń mieszkalnych – obligatory kitchen, bathrooms, dressing room technical room, garage
■ poddasza użytkowego – roof slope
■ …

Wooden house facades

Any facade systems can be used on buildings with a wooden structure.
■ wooden or vinyl cladding,
■ plaster on a layer of corrugated polystyrene fixed with pins or on polystyrene on a grid with a ventilation gap
■ plaster on glass or stone wool
■ …

Timber frame construction

How to set up? Wooden houses can be set up on a traditional foundation slab or a wooden ceiling with a void under the floor.

What layers of the partition?

A typical arrangement of floor layers above the sub-floor space - from above:
top finishing layer
plating plate. min. 22 mm, insulated from the structure …

Advantages and disadvantages of wooden houses

Advantages:

healthy house wood as a natural raw material, having the ability to self-regulate humidity, creates unique, difficult to obtain in other technologies, microclimate inside the building,. In countries where timber construction is widespread, the statistical inhabitant of these houses lives a dozen or so years longer.…

Increased interest in wood construction

Wooden construction has existed in Poland for centuries. Examples of wooden objects from years ago can be found in almost every village, in every town. However, the greatest development of wooden construction in our country took place at the beginning of the nineties of the last century, when it started to come back …

Frame construction technology

At the beginning of the 90's, frame construction technology came to Poland (wooden skeleton) based on the experience from America (USA and Canada), Scandinavia as well as Germany and Austria. Despite the great interest in this type of construction among investors, companies offering houses in the timber frame system …