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Why is timber framing a superior choice for home construction?
Well crafted timber homes provide three big advantages: greater energy efficiency, more interior decorating options and outstanding durability.
Insulation:
Conventional construction uses 2”x6” wood studs every 16” in a wall, filling the spaces between these studs with fibreglass insulation. The result, at least on paper, is a wall with an R20 insulation value but at every wall stud the actual value is just R6. Taken in total a conventionally framed home performs well below its advertised insulation value.
Timber frame homes separate the wood structure from the insulation, so the timbers seen inside your home provide all the support needed for the roof, walls and floors, allowing the wall and roof spaces to be entirely dedicated to unbroken insulation. Using structural insulated panels a 6” wall is a true R24 and a 10” thick roof is R42.
Choose timber framing for clearly superior energy efficiency.
Decor:
Timber homes can be designed to emphasize open areas or to provide intimate spaces and can even include a combination of both styles. Where “bearing walls” once blocked views, you can now have open sight lines between kitchens, dining spaces, living areas and sunrooms. Both designers and customers find the new possibilities wonderfully freeing.
An added benefit of timber frame is that the use of natural materials, like wood and stone, are soothing to the senses and also create added visual interest. For a generation like ours that grew up in drywall spaces the rich variety found in natural timbers is simply refreshing.
Many of our customers who were first considering a rustic log home find the question of colours and decor to be a pivotal issue when finally choosing their construction method. Combining timber frame with painted drywall, textured and faux finishes create brighter, richer and more cheerful spaces than can be achieved with log interiors or by drywall alone. Finishes for the timber can range from light and clear to rich and dark and everything in between.
Choose timber framing for open, bright and varied decorative choices.
Strength:
Only stone structures have a durability track record that can match timber frame buildings. From the Orient to Europe and North America well built timber frame construction has shown that it will endure for centuries where “stick frame” construction’s lifespan is measured in decades. An often heard response in North America is, “This may be well and good, but which one of us will be around to know or care in a hundred years?” True enough, but this short-term view is exactly what is causing our landfills to overflow and our world’s forests and oceans to be depleted. Build once, build right and know that your home will be enjoyed by others after you. In the time that your house stands new forests can grow and the energy consumed in building it will be renewed several times over.
Choose timber framing for good stewardship of our world’s resources.
Well crafted timber homes provide three big advantages: greater energy efficiency, more interior decorating options and outstanding durability.
Insulation:
Conventional construction uses 2”x6” wood studs every 16” in a wall, filling the spaces between these studs with fibreglass insulation. The result, at least on paper, is a wall with an R20 insulation value but at every wall stud the actual value is just R6. Taken in total a conventionally framed home performs well below its advertised insulation value.
Timber frame homes separate the wood structure from the insulation, so the timbers seen inside your home provide all the support needed for the roof, walls and floors, allowing the wall and roof spaces to be entirely dedicated to unbroken insulation. Using structural insulated panels a 6” wall is a true R24 and a 10” thick roof is R42.
Choose timber framing for clearly superior energy efficiency.
Decor:
Timber homes can be designed to emphasize open areas or to provide intimate spaces and can even include a combination of both styles. Where “bearing walls” once blocked views, you can now have open sight lines between kitchens, dining spaces, living areas and sunrooms. Both designers and customers find the new possibilities wonderfully freeing.
An added benefit of timber frame is that the use of natural materials, like wood and stone, are soothing to the senses and also create added visual interest. For a generation like ours that grew up in drywall spaces the rich variety found in natural timbers is simply refreshing.
Many of our customers who were first considering a rustic log home find the question of colours and decor to be a pivotal issue when finally choosing their construction method. Combining timber frame with painted drywall, textured and faux finishes create brighter, richer and more cheerful spaces than can be achieved with log interiors or by drywall alone. Finishes for the timber can range from light and clear to rich and dark and everything in between.
Choose timber framing for open, bright and varied decorative choices.
Strength:
Only stone structures have a durability track record that can match timber frame buildings. From the Orient to Europe and North America well built timber frame construction has shown that it will endure for centuries where “stick frame” construction’s lifespan is measured in decades. An often heard response in North America is, “This may be well and good, but which one of us will be around to know or care in a hundred years?” True enough, but this short-term view is exactly what is causing our landfills to overflow and our world’s forests and oceans to be depleted. Build once, build right and know that your home will be enjoyed by others after you. In the time that your house stands new forests can grow and the energy consumed in building it will be renewed several times over.
Choose timber framing for good stewardship of our world’s resources.
