Larch is stronger, denser and more resistant to decay than pine, but more difficult to process and easy to split. It is ideally suitable as a wall material, is used as material for structures (beams, valley, rafters, tightening, etc.). Larch is more resistant to moisture, is highly valued, is 2-3 times more expensive than pine. Larch – a single tree, not rotting in the sea. Used for the manufacture of log wood with a diameter of 26 cm to 40 cm, and sometimes higher.

The choice of the log diameter depends on the willingness and financial capacity of the customer, the climatic conditions and seasonal use at home, as well as the requirements of the external aesthetics of log houses. In addition to the thickness of the logs, another important indicator of the aesthetic to the use of timber is its knotty. In pine at the bottom of the barrel virtually no knots, so the most expensive, but better quality, is the so-called butt saw cut – the bottom 6-8 m of the trunk. In Russia, the most common is the round log profile, the so-called round timber, in addition, you can use the round timber with Protestants, that is, on one edge protesannoe the inside of the timber. But keep in mind that this is very time-consuming work, leading to higher costs of the framework. In Scandinavia find wide application logs hewn on two edge. The walls are actually straight from the outside and inside, but it is not lost aesthetics manual cabin home. The first operation to prepare logs for log home manufacturing – Barking and his redoubt.

Cleaning the logs of bark, usually performed without the use of power tools. Redoubt, by contrast, is done with electric planers. Currently being developed technology debarking logs without damaging the sapwood and subsequent outposts. Sapwood – the upper, most dense layer of wood, which is protective.