The choice of material, from which will be manufactured wooden profile – it is enough responsible, because of the wood depends not only on the cost of the window, but also its performance, attractive appearance and durability.
Among all species of trees used for the production of wooden windows, the palm of popularity spread across a relatively inexpensive conifers – pine and larch. Above on the price line are wooden windows of elite species – oak, beech, ash or exotic mahogany (Maranta), are a sign of the special status of their owners.
The value of a particular species of wood opredelyaetsya several parameters, of which the most significant, in addition to the aesthetic characteristics are density, resistance to biological effects, and resistance to atmospheric and climatic factors of the environment.
Most budgetary material for the manufacture of wood windows is a wood of pine. Pine has a wide area of distribution, and its wood is easily processed, – combine to make this window of pine profile quite comparable in price with plastic windows, that is affordable for most families.
However, this advantage pine, as the softness of its wood, is proving to be quite dubious. The surface of the pine frames and window sills is unstable to an almost inevitable in the operation of mechanical damage. Deprived of the lacquer coating, the damaged areas are vulnerable to decay, which is almost inevitable, if pine wood was not pre-impregnated with special chemical compounds. If such impregnation was carried out, then there is another problem: the selection of chemicals in the interior of the premises.
The drawbacks of Scots pine growing in central Russia, deprived of pine, which is not only a half times greater than its European cousin, the density of wood, but is more resistant to the effects of putrefactive microorganisms. Naturally the cost of a wooden profile of Angara pine will be higher than the profile of the European pine.
Next on the value of Angara pine tree species – this is the Siberian larch, which differs as high hardness, and outstanding resistance to any biological, climatic or atmospheric influences. In a more “smoothed” form of all the inherent dignity of the Siberian larch, has a European larch.
Due to the effect of curing resin hardness of larch wood only grows with age, so larch frame and window sills, even many years after installation will be deprived of dents, scratches and furrows, sooner or later, appearing on products from the pine profile.
Another advantage – no need to any chemical treatment has been providing ecological purity and complete safety for human health of windows made from this wood. Finally, the larch, which has beautiful texture in the range of bright, sunny yellow hues, the appeal could easily compete with such elite species of wood, like oak or ash.
The cost of the windows of the larch profile by about 30% higher than the usual pine frames. It is connected not only with the undoubted advantages of larch, but with the fact that high gummosity this breed to difficulties in processing the wood.
Along with the larch, to the best breeds for the production of wooden windows is oak. Window frames made of oak, especially in combination with interior doors and furniture made of the same material can bring the interior a feeling of solidity, robustness and the discreet luxury that is characteristic only of the highest class apartments.
Is very hard, oak is also a very beautiful structure with a sharp pattern of fibers, which alternate with light, grayish-greenish, and darker, greenish-brown patches.
Almost the only drawback is its high cost of oak-related, primarily, with those difficulties, which cause drying and processing of wood. In particular, cutting tool used for cutting oak, worn twice faster than during the processing of pine.
In addition, despite the resistance of oak wood to rot, oak profile still has to varnish, – otherwise, over time it can acquire an undesirable grayish hue. Luck is needed for the protection of beetle-grinder, to whom the oak, unfortunately, can not resist.
In the category of elite species, together with oak and Siberian larch, ash is also included. White or matte gray ash with a texture, a rich interplay of clear-cut fibers, has high hardness, while maintaining the flexibility and relative ease of machining.
More recently, in Russia the market of wooden windows appeared window profiles of mahogany (Maranta), are native to humid Indonesian jungle. However, although this breed is very beautiful and has a high hardness, yet eurowinows mahogany hardly be recommended for installation in harsh climate of Russia, it is impossible to predict how the window frames of Maranta react to frost and will not be violated whether the This geometry of the window.
However, if you wish, in whatever was to decorate the interior windows of a mahogany, you can take advantage of special varnishes, close to repeating colors and shades of any exotic species. The effect of such a simple action usually exceeds all expectations. Windows made of pine or larch profile beginning to look as if they were actually made of mahogany, while maintaining a high resistance to any vagaries of weather, typical of northern latitudes.
