Hi All,just to let you know we are having two open days on Nov 27th and 28th Nov in our latest home before it goes on the market,Please come along and see around the house and have a chat.
Take a look at the timber frame building system that is used in the UK,Ireland and the USA and see for yourself the high end finishes and the hi insulation and airtightness qualities of the house,View the pictures on our website globalstructuresltd/bg/ under gallery,finished projects and Baserbovo 2

Wish I'd been able to come along and have a look. We're quite interested in modern timber buildings and have 2 extensions made from timber, highly insulated, cheaper than brick and much warmer. One day we might even build a whole house that way!

Hope your open days were successful.

Thanks Suzee, we had a great response and the newspaper in Rousse (ytpo) did a full page on us in Mondays paper as the whole concept of an open house I think is new in these parts and they could not believe that for the price of an apartment they could get a modern house,If you are ever in the area give us a shout as we are always building new homes hopefully soon in VT,I know we are building one in Sofia in the summer.

Hi It would help if you could post what the papers say here I'm sure it will give another insight to the houses and bring you more business

I will post the link,It is in Bulgarian off course but I suppose can be read with google translate [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.].

This is it translated but it isn't very good with Google

In the crisis build houses with wooden frame

November 29, 2010 16:32:29

Continued for over two years of economic crisis hit particularly hard construction, but building houses with wood construction is gaining momentum. According to partner in the Bulgarian - Irish firm Global Strakchars Boris Goncharov, contracts in recent months even increase. his first house the company raised in 2008 and since then Basarbovo has already built seven such sites. The construction is wood, but outside the building looks like a plastered solid construction. Use familiar technology in the world "
Timber frame construction"
, adapted to Bulgarian conditions. The main advantage of this type of houses is - low price - rough construction can come home to 200 leva square and all the finishing work - laminate flooring, woodwork and so long to switch from 350 to 400 euros - the price at which ponelkite currently sold in the suburbs of Ruse. On Saturday and Sunday Global Strakchars presented another site ready - two-storey house with an area of 170 square in Basarbovo offered price of 80,000 euros to the land and for which there are already two candidates. So far the company has built seven such sites, and has orders for two more. The main advantage of wooden houses is - good insulation, allowing for significant energy savings for heating in winter and cool in summer. Timber is imported from Sweden dried and standardized. The inner wall of the house is built of wooden bearing structure and outer - of brick, stone or block, forming a finished appearance, which takes all weather changes. The tree is covered with a membrane paropropuskliva of Dupont, which allows the wood to breathe, but stops moisture. Between the inner and outer wall forms an air "
cushion"
which acts as a heat insulator. Thus the inner part of the house is completely isolated from the outside, making it much - easy to heat and can reduce heating bills by 50%. Energy needed to reach a certain temperature in a brick or concrete house is seven times - more than the energy needed for heating a house with wooden structure, according to Global Strakchars. Therefore this technology is widespread in the construction of houses in Scandinavia, Northern Canada, Scotland or Northern Siberia, where the climate is extremely harsh. The outer wall is decorated according to customer preferences and did not differ in anything from any other house. Wooden panels are factory produced, ensuring accuracy in production and deviations are minimized under high scrutiny away from the vagaries of weather. Wooden panels are rapidly erected and installed in the foundation along with a building roof can be built within a few days. This allows workers to continue work in sheltered conditions in the building and work on the exterior cladding and the completion of the roof. As a result the house can be ready for several weeks, but not as usual for months.

Thanks for posting the translation,as you say it is not perfect but tells the story,I thought I could have downloaded the page from the paper complete with photos but this is great. I see you are from Canada so you know exactly what type of houses we are building,A lot of people in Bulgaria get afraid when they hear wooden house as they think that it is some sort of bunglow built on top of the ground but if you had seen some of the reactions when they came to see the house on the open days they were completly amazed at the finishes and style of the house.

Looks brilliant Joseph and all credit to you

Thanks Scott, That open weekend went very well for us, we had a great response and made some good contacts

[size=150:2j5h2nyk]Fnatastic News Jo Well done :: Onwards and upwards for 2011

Oddy

Joseph looks great you would almost think you were in the UK looking at it nice scheme,would be interested on the make up of the walls did you bring in kingspan or celotex insulation or some think different very interested

Thanks Bapps, We build exactly as in the UK with all the same materials a lot of which we import,That was our most difficult task when setting up the buisness in Bulgaria,sourcing the materials.

Hi joseph perhaps i can help i have quite a few contacts on the material that you would be using, if it helps send me a list that causes you most problem and i check with the companys i have and if there of use they may be closer than you think,only if your happy in enquiring . all the best

Do you know anywhere we can buy 6"
DPC in Bulgaria?

Do they use DPC in Bulgaria? or couldn't you get it imposted ?