INFO
The facilities of Verstas are primarily rented out as a turnkey service, where we handle all the arrangements for you. By agreement, our spaces can also be rented for personal use.
The operations of the workshop are managed by an energetic core team that fulfills even the most demanding requests. The host and CEO of Verstas, Harri, is an innovative and social person. Feel free to contact us, and we will tailor a solution that suits you or your company perfectly. We are happy to respond to all inquiries.
At Verstas, all parking is free.
The distance to the center of Pori is only 20 km, to Tampere 115 km, to Turku 125 km, and to Helsinki 230 km.
VERSTAS
Pyssykankaantie 170
29270 Nakkila Google Maps
Sales are open Monday to Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM.
reservations and inquiries
Harri Höglund, Verstas host, CEO
Hotel and event planning
HISTORY
The foundation of the workshop was laid in 1950 when Uuno Lamminen, the owner of the Lamminen sawmill, along with his sons Hannu and Olli, decided to build a planing mill, a sawmill repair shop, and a workshop next to the Pyssykangas frame sawmill. The building was completed in 1952 and consists of three approximately 300 m² floors. In the basement, there was an immediate sawmill repair shop where sawmill equipment was repaired and built, and even today, this basement level serves as the workshop of Olli Lamminen, the village blacksmith and "Gyro Gearloose" with over 90 years of experience. A planing mill was built on the middle floor, where the sawmill's products were processed. In the 1970s, a large planing mill was built next to the sawmill, and the middle floor mainly served as a sales warehouse for planed goods. In the upper floor, there were initially the production facilities of Harjavalta Oy (now Puustelli) and later, among others, Nikusen Puutyö. In the 2000s, Lardella Oy's Puupaja operated on the middle floor. The building has a long history and was given a new life in 2017 when Harri Höglund bought it and named the place "Verstas" in honor of its history.
The workshop has been renovated with great care. In the renovation, there has been a determined effort to preserve the sense of history and the spirit related to the building and its surroundings. Over time, fashions and preferences have changed - when the renovation began, all the interior walls of the Workshop were plastered with lime mortar and painted with latex. The most laborious and dirtiest phase of the renovation was sandblasting all the interior walls, which revealed the atmospheric old bricks. These are not today's sterile, identical bricks, but hand-fired and occasionally imperfect Pyssykangas bricks. The workshop was built at a time when resources were scarce and everything was utilized. Respecting originality, the old glass windows were preserved and restored during the renovation phase. The interior ceiling and the beams in it have been painted white, and the light in the space is provided by nearly 100-year-old streetlights from the city of Vaasa, which hang from pieces of snow chains from an old sawmill's log truck.