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There are different methods of framing a house and roof and builders do tend to specialize in just one. Balloon framing is different than platform framing whic
by rdw 5y ago
There are different methods of framing a house and roof and builders do tend to specialize in just one. Balloon framing is different than platform framing which is different than mortise and tenon framing. To learn a new system, a carpenter would have to learn a whole new system of rules, measurements, suppliers, attachment methods, and seasonal tolerances.
Here's an overview of some of these techniques: https://www.hometips.com/diy-how-to/house-framing.html https://www.hometips.com/diy-how-to/house-framing.html
It's actually pretty analogous to programming methods.
- ncmncm 5y agoDifferent methods of framing correspond to different materials available. Long 2x4s are too expensive now for balloon framing to be cost-effective, just as posts and beams, and lath and plaster, became too expensive (for different reasons), earlier. None is abstractly better than the other, even for identical end products. In some places bricks are, or once were, cheaper than lumber. A carpenter who can't build a house with brick walls, or can't add a platform-framed room to one, is no carpenter at all.