House framing/绿色建筑和可持续的家庭装修正无穷ormation & Advice

...framingmaterials for the DemoHouseare FSC certified, and provided by our sponsor Kott Lumber . Kott engineered the plans for us , supplying detailedframingdocuments including a cut list for eachframingmember. We were also provided with a wood order to match, along with pre-cut lengths whenever possible. This g...

...houseframing, renovations and certain commercial applications as well. The truth about fire resistance and wood structures: The combustibility of a building'sframingmaterial has little to do with fire safety. Statistics show that the risk of fire is no greater for wood frame homes than for those built with other...

...Framinglumber choices for building homesFraminglumber, also known as structural wood, is the grade of wood used forhouseframing(studs, Larsen Trusses for Double-Stud walls , headers, roof trusses and floor joists, etc. as well as in timber frame construction). Its technical characteristics make it perfectly sui...

的OSB v胶合板——这是最好的呢?奇怪的是,如果you pass a housing development of wood-framedhouses, it will have OSB (oriented strand board) as exterior sheathing . When you count sub-floors, roofs and wall sheathing, OSB claims about 70% of the wood sheathing market in North America over plywood. Both products h...

...Housesustainability features include: Efficient design: Open concept layout maximizes floor space. Reduced material consumption: Timber frames use less wood than studframing. Reduced waste: FabCab utilizes state of the art computerized cutting machines that minimize waste. This creates precise, high quality a...

...housegas emissions over wood. Galvanizing steel also requires 83 times more water than treating wood with borate. Further Reading for WoodFramingChoices: Which Lumber & Materials to Choose forFramingHomes Is OSB or Plywood Better for Roofs, Walls & Floors? Which Building Envelope Material is Best? Wood, ...

...houseis strong, but so is a solid wood-framedhouse. There is a common association between containerhouses and diy green roofs , partly due to the fact that containers can withstand heavy loads. They certainly can, but this line of thinking underestimates the properties and strength of wood. You can easily frame a w...

...Housecontinues to act as a laboratory for resilient, cold climate building practices. Through software energy modeling it was determined that the KenogamiHousewould likely require 14.6 kWh of heat per square metre per year, but its actual performance seems to be even better. What we have learned this first winter ...

...framingor insulation and causing problems later. Moisture & more specifically humidity is the number one cause of degredation in North American homes , because as timber is a hygroscopic material, once the lumber in a typicalhousewall reaches a humidity level greater than 15% the chances of insect or mold attack i...

...house, fencing and sheds attached to thehouse, trees close to thehouseand so on. Recent studies found that wind-driven embers hit thehouseand drop to the ground at the wall, which is where they set fire to anything combustible. Wright pointed out that thehouses that survived the Paradise Fire - one of the deadl...

...houses, think again because modern prefab homes are often better than site built homes. You can see our LEED and PassiveHouse-ready prefab kithousemodels here ; each models performs considerable better than code and usually for the same amount of money or less. LEED Platinum Eco Home prefab kithouseMandato...