Project Eco Home in Finland

Foreigner with Finnish wife, building a house in Finland. Initially we didn’t know a thing about building and there is not much information available in English how to manage it in Finland. This project is our long-term dream coming true yet it is very complex. Especially if you really want to understand how your money is spent. This blog is a sort of diary where we will share our experiences with everyone. And yes, it will all be written in non-native English ;) mixed with some Finnish too.

Monday, 4 April 2011

week 13: House steel pillars were installed

17 pillars in total.

Not that much happened in week 13 except that in one day the pillars for the house were installed.

I drew the imaginary line of the house. The pillars will support the plinth beams (sokkelit). On these beams the floor beams and the house walls will be standing. There is an additional plinth beam on the middle of the house floor. Also on the side you can see the place where terraces/ porches will approximately be.

Also we have added to thew blog the original Lapponia House package plans which we have modified quite a bit to get to our own model. There are modifications both on the inside (mostly) and outside. See:
http://project-eco-house-finland.blogspot.com/p/house-package.html