Timber houses are particularly popular in areas with large fluctuations in temperature because they provide their own heat insulation. In the summer timber does not bring the warm outside air indoors and in the winter it does not take the warmth inside outside. Consequently, the constructions that separate the inside from the outside require the use of much less material than in the case of brick houses, which means less work and less cost.

Timber does not absorb the warmth from the heating, so that a timber construction requires much less heating capacity to ensure pleasant living conditions.
Thus wood that is five centimetres thick insulates much better than a piece of granite that is a metre thick and the inhabitants make considerable savings on the cost of heating.

Wood expands when heated. The pores in the wood completely absorb the moisture contained in the air until saturation point is reached, after which the excess moisture is relinquished to the inside or outside air. This leads to optimal and, in addition, autonomous moisture regulation.