The real advantage of wood beside comfort and insulation perform the better overall for the construction. But it also has drawback regarding the nature of natural product called moisture. The danger of moisture damage in wooden buildings is always great. It is shown from a field study conducted in 1995 that it was revealed that 82% Finnish wood house detached houses built after 1950 have serious moisture damage.

It becomes so clear that moisture damage is sturdily linked to each way of building. The greatest moisture problem of houses was cellar walls leaking, pipe leaking, and ageing of roofing. The building site also makes contribution to the level of damage. High above ground level location influence the time of damage happen.

For this kind of damage, manufacture and expert have worked out to finish the entire problem. For most part, damage to roofs and pipes has been successfully held in checked. Whilst the floor structures, the joint between the floor, foundation and exterior wall, and wet areas are the most difficult details of the moisture technical design of a wooden house.

The way of handling moisture damage is started from the grand design. By working on the careful design, construction and maintenance of wood as the house structure, the house will stay longer. When its structures are properly protected, wood is a long-lasting and reliable material that creates luxury, warmth and coziness in our housing environment.

By using solid wood and wood based products, it is possible to lessening the weakness of the wood as material itself. The new wood-derived materials are in addition dry, crack-free, and homogeneous, so that they retain their original shape and size. It is possible to manufacture in industrial scale. The complete set from wall, floor, and roof can be produced in factory. Many manufacturers also provide stack and set, dry-in or turn-key assembly instructions depend on the building site are.

Wood today is available in modern form of beam and planks. For a long time, wood formed into timber in traditional way but not in this modern era. Today it is possible to produce wood-based materials with predefined properties. This is achieved by first shredding the wood to produce shavings or chips, then reconstituting these using special techniques to give the required product. It also affects the mechanical strength of wood if it is loaded across or along the grain. The term prefabricated wood assembly becomes common makes timber framed method is as second choice.

Whilst in the past houses were constructed primarily using concrete block or timber-framed methods, today prefabricated wooden assemblies are becoming more and more common. Construction using wood-based materials is beginning to establish itself as standard building technique.

Wood house provides the elegance and warmth atmosphere that people always ask for. Compared to man made substitutes material, the concept of wood house creates the natural finish of living for the home owner. Earth tone found from the earth color and texture have emerged the impression to surface.

In addition to the impression of wood house as shelter, people feel more comfortable to live inside them than in brick or concrete constructions. Wood framing keeps the adjustment of homeowner indoor temperature, warm in winter and cool in summer. It means that wood is economical choice of low energy for alternative building material.

For deep tradition, the long history of the wood house evolves the priceless legacy to the generation beside for its sustainability. It also can be an infestation for the next generations since the cost will be higher through time. However, to live close to the nature is something that you could not resist I suppose!

There is a proof that wood known as building construction by the existence of old European wood house made in the 16 century. It is also proven that wood performs better toward fire risk compared to steel or brick. Many wood house manufacturers apply fire rated materials like plasterboard or charcoal to cover the timber frame in order to added protection to it.

Charcoal is crystallized pyrolysis on the outside surface which in itself acts as an excellent heat insulating material. It is a secret made by most construction manufacturers when the decomposition wood happens to the temperature around 271 degrees Celsius. Wood does not char until a high temperature is reached and does not conduct heat well that makes this reaction is slow to penetrate into the interior of the wood beam.

Modern wood or timber frame construction uses technological advances for improving the performance of wood. It is done without changing the benefits of the raw material. It surely experienced to retain the product quality.

Healthy house is a term refers to the material of the building or the house. The material affects the human body whether they pay attention on it or not. People who smartly live in the healthy house have a meaning of less sick days and less visit from the doctors.

House which made of dominant or totally solid wood is called safe house namely for the content of the material. The process of solid wood as the material of house creates less indoor air pollutant. It is different from the engineered wood like particleboard, plywood or MDF which has formaldehyde inside. If there is pollutant, wood will rid the things away.

Indoor air pollution is one of the serious problem people are facing for today housing. In some recent extremely issues have lead to health syndrome. But, by building the house from wood the natural healthy living condition is added. It does also provide cooler air to breathe in winter and fresh air in summer as the benefit to radiant heating as opposed to forced air heat.

People are aware of many benefits of wood as beautiful furniture and flooring. They can understand the advantage of wood as house material now. It is durable, strong and healthier material to make a comfortable and attractive house to make.

Compared to another building material like steel or concrete, wood has less impact to cause. As it can say, wood has low embodied energy needed in term of processing. The impact is that it lowers the pollution in manufacturing and operating the wood. Concrete needs 5 times and steel 6 times more energy to produce than timber. Besides, using 1 cubic meter of timber will save 0.8 tones of CO2 from our atmosphere.

As the only renewable material, wood substitutes the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. While young growing trees on the natural forest or planted by the forest products industry, reduce greenhouse gasses by taking in carbon dioxide and storing carbon.

Wood reacts constantly to its surrounding that makes it more people choice today. Acting as the natural air conditioner, wood keeps the room stable. If the humidity is high, wood absorbs moisture and the opposite; if the humidity is low it emits moisture. The natural cooling and heating effect is provided by wood since it tends to adjust the weather of surrounding.

Then the log building houses system or wooden house has been continued to spread to America by the Scandinavians  introduction in the early 1600s. Since then the log and shake method of building a home soon became the standard for housing from the Atlantic to the Pacific until the mid 1800s. And now, log home are another name for vacation home in lake surrounding or in the hills or mountain.

Wooden house building construction is not merely for European or American people, but its existence can be found through out the world. Like in Indonesia, South East Asia, there are kinds of types and size also the functions as well and Indonesia does have the richness of culture such as traditional wooden house. These wooden houses are diverse for its form and function since the kingdom era in 1800s.  From east to west provinces of the archipelago country, wooden house is not hard to be found.