"Framing" New House, Old Soul - Ep. 4
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2023
- Studs, headers and joists seem routine today. How was framing different in the 1700s/1800s and has it improved since then? What design and craftsmanship elements can be seen in modern framing practices, and what may have been lost?
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This series is so important! Wood brings both character and sustainability to builds. Amazing work, Brent! ❤❤❤
Really enjoyed the history of framing. Thanks.
Fantastic content and explanation
That exposed beam roof was incredible. Looks far superior to the Pinterest inspired examples that are a dime a dozen these days.
Absolutely loved this episode. As a framer I need to step my game up, everything we do is fabricated trusses. I have no idea how to hand stack a roof.
I use to own a balloon framed house. Built in 1895 in Ohio. It was pretty wild to see as I had built a modern home (in the last 10 years) before purchasing this one. There was tremendous 1st floor sag because the basement stairs were literally hung off the first floor. I had to go back and jack up the entire surrounding area and install posts to support the stairs and 1st floor.
I live in England in an oak framed timber home. It was built in 1450 and is still standing so I think timber frame as a way of building is fantastic 🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Wow, that is one helluva barn.
These videos are very well done.
I like your idea how to double value of my house . I just run a beam across entrance door so people would think that house are designed by very famous architect
Love the building history!
Need more of this!
Love this!
Outstanding content and explanation.
very informative, thanks for the education
Would be nice to show one of these Old Soul builds in earthquake country.
Is there an overview of the house at 39 seconds? I love the outdoor area
Great video, I think post framing like that used in commercial or agricultural building has some benefits too and we see that in "barndominiums" and as they become less and less industrial looking we see it becoming just another residential building method.
Fascinating
Fascinating video. Well done. I suppose that the decline in traditional framing with elegant mortised joints was facilitated by drop in price of iron. Before the industrial age, iron was extremely expensive.
Who knew🤷♂️. Then in more recent times, to save time and maximize profit, cardboard and staple construction was invented! Great video. Very interesting.
I got dibs on that house when it's done....
My wife and I bought what must have the transitional phase between balloon framing and Western framing. 1 acre came with, right before the bubble burst in the housing debacle.....it was a steal!
Stripped it back to the studs and found 2x4 bracing on all corners, top to bottom with square cut nails....the saw marks were visible on all of the balloon framed studs.....top to bottom.
The sills were 4x6's with hand cut in joints that locked together, the studs nailed to the sills with cripples filling in around all corners.....ZERO insulation in the exterior walls, so some rotting had occurred under the widows. Original German lap siding had been covered with vinyl.
The roof had been installed by a complete moron, and was pushing the exterior walls apart.....collar tie connections had been placed way too high, so the entire roof was bowed from the stress.....
Shimmed the lower studs plumb, inside and out, and filled the cavities with high density fiberglass.....added poly-iso sheathing (OSB at the time was pushing $18/sheet...)...I knew the wall bracing was bullet proof, and that ladies and gentlemen, was the best decision I've ever made.
This old houses bones is THE most energy efficient in my area BY FAR....Raleigh NC area with multi-million dollar homes all around. Installed a water source heat pump (using well water....NEVER do the ground loop BS, or bored grouted heat recovery...this is exactly why geo has such a bad reputation as far as intial cost and recovery....)
The entire house is wrapped with R-Max poly-iso.....the stuff is incredibly energy efficient!!
The funny thing is my 1950s house is balloon framed. Which I still find surprising. My house was also built originally a a split level. Clearly it is just a very strange house for its era, and doesn't match any of the clearly similarly built houses in the neighborhood. I wish I knew the story on why it ended up this way.
I have a friend with a very nice modernish post and beam house. The problem is their addition has fake beams. It doesn't look right at least to me.
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Fire block at floor and ceiling levels.
I have seriously mixed feelings about this series. On the one hand, I love the "restoration" aspect of the series and the craftsmanship essential to an excellent restoration. I have vivid memories of touring a historic community in the midwest where the workers re-created historic buildings in a town from the first half of the 19th century, and how I marveled at how they could create amazing things with so few tools and such great knowledge. And I like what you are doing to preserve that knowledge. On the other hand, so much of what you are doing is creating fiction, and the thought of living in a residence that is essentially telling a story that isn't real, that is essentially a "lie," is pretty much a turn off to me. As you said, you are "fabricating a story" about a new building that isn't true, that is pretending to be something that it isn't. If there are people who want to live in that kind of a building, more power to them. Most of us want to live in the real world, not in a history that never existed. For me, it is pretty disturbing. Despite modern psychology and marketing, perception isn't reality, unless the perception is accurate. And the accurate description of these "new homes" is not an "old soul," but a contrived soul.
We are all living in a history that never existed... Until we make it. Your story doesn't have to be everyone else's story. Do whatever you want.
When going to these lengths to use highly crafted materials and methods thruout why are you using sheetrock for most interior finishes instead of multi coat cementatious products applied to lath base and finished by hand even when plaster is applied by spraying/gunite methods it's still hand finished and mouldings were hand formed with special plasters (guaging casting ect.)? Ray Stormont - I love the builds although they require quite a commitment from owners.
Almost a full minute into.......? Guys this isn't old TV- The title of the episode is why we are here. Are your videographers getting paid by the second and thus stretching things out or is it a big ego of the producer wanting to see their name and business in "lights"? It has to be something one your end, nobody on this end cares about the intro.
Get to the point, we are here for information/Learning