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Perhaps it's difficult to convey but I redid a lot of the interior of my current (brick and mortar) home from the 1930's myself and it really made me appreciate
by teekert 9y ago
Perhaps it's difficult to convey but I redid a lot of the interior of my current (brick and mortar) home from the 1930's myself and it really made me appreciate wood as a building material. Strong, very easily made into the required shape, easy to attach to each other, easy to attach other things to... I always felt wood was "how we used to do it"... not anymore.
Guess this place is a good as any to express my found love for the material.
- rsync 9y ago"Guess this place is a good as any to express my found love for the material." I agree with you but I would point out that the buildings and their "wood" materials that the article discusses are really not anything like what you worked with. The article speaks about wood and trees and "timbers" but these building materials are engineered panels and timbers that, while in many cases actually stronger than their "real wood" counterparts, do not have the aesthetics you remember. I would go so far as to suggest that they are moving not from concrete to wood construction, but from concrete to glue construction.
- teekert 9y agoAh, good clarification, indeed I mostly used pinewood for inside and Azobe and Meranti for outside (though some composite for the parts we walk on). But The pleasure was mostly from being able to drills holes and put screws in with a light cordless drill and saw it in the right shape either by hand or a light jig saw. It's carry-able and still very strong. I guess this also applies to the used composite materials your describe?