Wood preservation starts during house planning - the aim of this is to maintain its natural resistance force. All timber parts are delivered to the building site in watertight packing. On assembly, a barrier layer is placed underneath the first layer of logs to protect them from rising damp. Our architects and designers make sure that the house design has a sufficiently large roof overhang, as well as mouldings over doors and windows, so that rainwater flows away from the house and cannot rest to penetrate the wood. To further ensure that moisture does not penetrate the wood, a wood protector is applied on construction, after the first year, and every three to five years thereafter.

Log houses are commonplace in regions with near identical climates to our own - for example, a large proportion of homes are wooden in Seattle, USA, where rainfall and moisture levels are comparable to our own.