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Adding a terrace

Adding a terrace

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We had some small outstanding works to be done with a client for whom we built a house about one year ago. Good opportunity to take some photos and put them on our website. And we were lucky because this client had just built himself a wooden terrace. Originally this was a concrete terrace, but wood looks so much better. It sort of places the house on a pedestal.
A little Valhalla

A little Valhalla

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When in the neighborhood sometimes we drop by older clients, just to say hello, or to regulate a window (which can be necessary in a log house from time to time). So we dropped by this log house that we built some three years ago, and guess what: they turned a muddy plot into a little Valhalla. For those that are familiar with Almere in The Netherlands: in the background is the famous flying saucer house.
A new log house, from solid wood

A new log house, from solid wood

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Today we started with the assembly of a new log house. This log house is a bit like all the other log houses that we built, except for one thing: solid wood. So far we used laminated logs, i.e. logs that have been cut into 40 millimeter planks, dried, and then glued together. Such “gluelam” logs have some technical advantages: they are physically more stable, they don’t warp or crack, and they can be made in any length.
A second Eric & Flo

A second Eric & Flo

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The Eric & Flo is one of our most popular houses. A strikingly simple and timeless design, and also very powerful from every angle. In 2017 a Dutch client wanted a copy. Now an exact copy was not possible because of the Dutch building regulations and we had to raise the roof by a few centimeters. Also this client installed underfloor heating with a heatpump whereas the original Eric & Flo has no heated floor, not even heat-pump, just a wood burner… But other than that the house is almost identical.
Panel house in The Netherlands

Panel house in The Netherlands

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In 2016 we built a house in The Netherlands, but were too busy to put photographs on our website. Better late than never, so here are some photos of this house. Architects design (Edward van der Drift), 190 m2 footprint. This is when we had just handed over the house. The weather was terrible that summer but with some snow everything looks better. We placed bitumen on the roof, our client later added sedum for the green roof.
Ventilation in public buildings

Ventilation in public buildings

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Previously we wrote about “damp closed or damp tight buildings” and the fact that nowadays almost all utility buildings (offices, hospitals, airports, schools, …) are damp closed, i.e. moisture can not leave the building via the roof or the walls, or even via windows as often such building have no openable windows. Instead all air is refreshed via an air conditioning system that pre-heats incoming air using heat exchangers and heat pumps.
Riethoven log house

Riethoven log house

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In the South of The Netherlands we built the Riethoven house. Designed by the owner himself, this house is both a log house and a panel house: the ground floor is a log house, and then the second floor is a panel house, but constructed in such a way that you can not see the difference. If you would not know any better, you would think it is all logs. The panel construction gave us just that little extra flexibility to meet the demands.
Paalfunderingen

Paalfunderingen

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Dit artikel is in de eerste plaats bedoeld voor niet_Nederlanders (translation here), want Nederlanders die kennen dit wel. Net zoals bij alle andere soorten huizen, hebben onze houten huizen een fundering nodig. En funderingen zijn altijd een lokale specialiteit, heel sterk afhankelijk van de bodemgesteldheid. In the Alpen en Pyreneeën moet je een stuk berg wegtrillen totdat je een plat stuk terrein hebt waarop je kunt bouwen. In Nederland is alles al plat, maar zo zacht dat je er met je huis in wegzakt.
Grotere kraan

Grotere kraan

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Voor houtskelet-woningen gebruiken we meestal een 10 ton-meter-kraan, dat is een kraan die een ton over een afstand van tien meter kan tillen, of 500 kilo over 20 meter. Voor een gemiddeld huis met 6-meter panelen is dat voldoende om een paneel uit de vrachtwagen te tillen, 180 graden te draaien en het paneel op de fundering te tillen. Maar de technici vonden dat het tijd was voor een beetje snelheid.
Wood prices

Wood prices

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At this moment (March-July 2021) wood prices have gone through the roof. And since our houses are wooden houses, it has consequences for our business, and maybe for you as a consumer as well. Why did prices go up, and by how much? And when will they go down again? Why did prices go up? To be honest we don’t know exactly why prices went up.