Last year, we managed to purchase a summer cottage near the water. With outbuildings, a garden house and a sauna.
These buildings stood for 25 years. Now, on the site of the old log house, a BATH HOUSE made of aerated concrete is being built. But I still have photos and videos. Look at what time has turned, place "cleanliness and hygiene for body and soul ".
From the open side, where it is least visible to the eye, the logs are half rotted. The owners of the old bathhouse, in order to somehow please the eye, inside all this was sheathed with clapboard, it looks fresh 2-3 years have passed. To my surprise when I removed all of this skin. There was still a lining under it, but of the old model.
Ie it becomes incomprehensible. Why sheathe the inside of the bath, because it is made of wood ...
It turns out so, according to my assumptions. They built a bathhouse, used it for five years. Inside, the log became dark, unpresentable. They decided to sheathe it with a tree from the inside, used it again until they again sheathed it. In addition, the joints between the logs must be constantly canned with moss or tow. When using a log house, you will have to fight with birds and rodents, taking these materials for their huts.
What comes out of this? The log performs a load-bearing function for sheathing. The question arises. Why do this? If it is a load-bearing function, for wood sheathing, you can make a brick, aerated block, make a frame structure. Moreover, having a lot of modern materials for cladding and insulation. A stone bath will last much longer than a log bath, and even more so from a profiled bar. Why are these dances with tambourines?
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From SW. Timofey Mikhailov