The way home - a new project by Din Lemn magazine dedicated to wooden constructions

If you are among those who want a house built from scratch according to your own wishes and needs, you should know that building a house is an emotionally, financially and time-consuming process. Even if you know very well what you want your future home to look like, the road to realizing your dream is full of trials and unknowns. For the journey to be smooth and for the experience to be enjoyable, you need to be informed and informed. And the experiences of those involved in house building, architects, designers, builders and beneficiaries, information about building systems, companies and materials will help you better understand which are the best choices for you and what problems you can prevent. Your reactions to the topics on wooden houses we've covered over the years have convinced us that there is a growing interest in this type of construction, and your questions have made us realize that there is still a great need for documented information. All this has led us to our latest project - The way home.

What the Road Home will be like

The project aims to show the journey of those who go through the experience of building a wooden house, from the design phase to moving into their new home. The films will be presented in the form of a series, each episode representing a stage of the construction: foundation, building elements in the factory, assembly on site, finishing, impressions after moving into the new house. There will be several of these series so that you can get a full picture of what it is like to build a wooden house.

We will try to talk to as many of those involved in the projects as possible: beneficiaries, architects, builders, structural engineers, material suppliers. We'll find out why a particular variant was preferred, what the design requirements are for a timber frame house, what a timber house means compared to a concrete or brick house, we'll discuss budgets, construction times, insulation materials, energy efficiency.

What questions we aim to answer

The questions you'll find the answers to while watching the movies will be the ones you've received over time:

What are the advantages of a timber frame house? Why choose such a house?
What problems can occur in a wooden house and how can they be solved?
How earthquake resistant is such a house?
How is fireproofing done? What is fire resistance?
What thermal insulation materials can be used?
Are wooden houses energy efficient?
How is sound insulation solved? Does noise travel more easily in a wooden house?
How long does it take to build a wooden house?
How much does the price/m² of a wooden house vary? What influences this cost?
Which is better to choose, a typical house design or a customized one?
Does a wooden house need planning permission?
What does Romanian legislation say about wooden houses? How tall can these houses be?

If you have any questions and you did not find them among the above, leave them at the end of the article, in the dedicated space. We will add them to the list and try to find the answer. And subscribe to our YouTube channel to see these films.

The road to home will lead us to houses on prefabricated wooden structures, log houses and houses on stilts

Although in this period wooden frame houses (timber frame) are the stars, it's not just to them it will lead The way home. Topics will include houses in buștenirectangular beams, houses on wheels or those on pillars. We will try to present several houses for the same type of construction in order to compare projects.

There will be smaller or larger houses, permanent or vacation homes, residential or hostels. You will see each project through the eyes of the beneficiary, the architect or the builder and you will get an overall picture. You will be able to superimpose the image of the house you are dreaming of on the projects presented, thus finding out the advantages and disadvantages, the construction time, the approximate cost and other information that would otherwise be difficult to find. We want this project to be an important source of information for those thinking of building with wood, but also a way of showing those who are not yet convinced that wood is the building material of the future.

We have already started on this journey and the first two episodes are already online

The way home has already started. The first project is called House between the apple trees and is built in Voinești, near Târgoviște, in a hilly area recognized for its apple production. Andrei Pavelescu is building a vacation home here in the middle of an apple orchard. Initially he wanted a classic concrete house. But he changed his mind and decided to build a wooden one. What prompted him to change the construction method you can find out in the first episode of the series. Also from the first episode you will learn that Andrei wants to start living in this house in September this year. And he makes this declaration on July 7, 2020, standing on the foundation of the house, because it was the only one being built on that date. A real challenge! We are curious to see if he will succeed.

So watch House between the apple treesepisode 1 and 2!