What affects the cost of the log house

The construction market is replete with offers of houses with completely different configurations, layouts, materials and design delights. However, it is difficult to find a structure that is more environmentally friendly, natural and natural than the classic pine log house.

For some reason, it is generally accepted that a log house is incredibly troublesome, long and expensive. The most obvious parameters when evaluating the cost of building a house or turnkey log bathsare:

• total area of ​​the log house;
• log diameter;
• type of foundation;
• materials used;
• roof shape, etc.

But what if you look deep into the building kitchen? What secrets lie in her? Some companies and specialists in this field are quite open and willing to share internal information. Among them is Vladimir Kirmel, director of the UtKi construction company. Thanks to such open builders, we can imagine a more complete picture of the pricing of the construction of the log house.

The cost of logs

When buying a log house, the manufacturing company, as a rule, will show you only the total cost of making the log house. It is very rare to share information with you what this value is made up of. And it consists of the following components:

• 30-40% of the total cost of manufacturing a log house - the cost of a log and its delivery.
• 30% - the cost of debarking a log and making a log house.
• 7-9% - rent or maintenance of their own equipment for the manufacture of a log house (manipulator, crane-beam, etc.).
• 7-9% - the cost of consumables (chains, oil and gasoline for saws, abrasive materials, etc.).
• 5% - the cost of renting or maintaining your own hangar (only serious companies have this article).
• 7-21% - the profit of the company.

Of course, the numbers are very arbitrary and may differ significantly in different companies, but the essence remains the same: a log is 30-40% of the purchase price of a pine log house with an average diameter of 28-32 cm.

Forest prices are associated not so much with seasonality as with congestion of foresters. If they have a lot of orders - the price rises, if not enough - falls. Everything, like everyone else. However, it should be noted that serious construction companies, worrying about their reputation, take the risk of increasing the price of the logs and do not change the price.

It is also obvious that for St. Petersburg the cost of a log from Karelian pine will be significantly lower than the cost of a log from Angarsk pine.

Log shipping cost

When buying a turnkey house log house with delivery to the site, a significant part of the price can be exactly the delivery. It depends not only on the remoteness of your site, but also on the ability to drive to it. It is no secret that in the spring in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, many highways are closed for drying and freight traffic on them is seriously limited, which in turn leads to an increase prices.

If the direction in which you want to transport the log cabin, popular with the carrier (for example, Moscow), you will receive a price significantly lower than when transporting, for example, to Karelia. And the point here is not in the distance, but in the fact that it is more profitable for the carrier to always move with the load, and on unpopular routes back, as a rule, transport moves empty.

It is also worth remembering that delivery is necessary not only to the log house, but also to materials for other works, for example, for roof manufacturing. If the roof is large, the materials will have to be transported by wagons and the same problems will arise.

External factors: political and economic environment

World politics and economics affect all spheres of life. All of us, to one degree or another, depend on oil prices, on the compliance of trading partners and sanctions. It would seem, what do we care about them? Nevertheless, the construction market is very sensitive to various macro-financial changes. Agree, it is not clear what fuel prices would have been if the government had not agreed with the oil companies. So the increase of this variable alone could explosively increase the price of building a log house from a log, because fuel cannot be dispensed with in every workflow - this is the delivery of materials, the refueling of chainsaws, and the smooth operation generators.

As you can see, not everything is so simple in setting the price for the manufacture of a log house, and only some of the subtleties that builders have to constantly consider are listed above. It is generally accepted that the construction business is one of the most profitable, but here we must remember that real builders remove from customers and bear so many risks that it is worth paying for it!