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My wife and I are building our second timber frame home. We are building in the mountains of North Carolina in a small town called Fleetwood. We have 5 acres of nice pasture land. We have our driveway in, septic system installed and
have our basement foundation walls up. We used Superior walls for our foundation. I am in the process of cutting our white pine timbers on my Woodmizer sawmill. We are building a 28'x32' frame. We'll be using sips for the exterior with board and batten siding. I'll be cutting the joinery for the sills and supporting posts and beams for the 1st floor subfloor as soon as I get all the timbers cut for them.
have our basement foundation walls up. We used Superior walls for our foundation. I am in the process of cutting our white pine timbers on my Woodmizer sawmill. We are building a 28'x32' frame. We'll be using sips for the exterior with board and batten siding. I'll be cutting the joinery for the sills and supporting posts and beams for the 1st floor subfloor as soon as I get all the timbers cut for them.
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Comment by Mike Shenton on February 27, 2010 at 11:17am -
A poured wall would have been about 1 1/2 times as much. I liked the fact that I only had to get concrete trucks in there once instead of 3 times and didn't have to pay for a concrete pump. They are already insulated also.
I had to have my frame signed off by an engineer here in NC so I already had the post loads, so all I had to do
was give it to Superior Walls and their engineers had the walls designed for the loads. They just double or triple the concrete studs in the walls and put precast concrete pads under the walls at the post locations.
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Comment by steve masse on February 27, 2010 at 1:46am - i'd love to see pics or details about how these Superior walls are constructed...if possible??..also, how do they compare in cost per installed linear foor with a regular 10" poured wall on a std poured footing( i assumed you just set Superior walls on crushed stone??)..real curious as i will be building this spring/summer..thanks...steve masse
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Comment by Ford Hall Heirloom TimberFraming on January 29, 2010 at 12:22am -
Mike,
Sounds like heaps of fun! Let me know if I can be of any help.
Cheers,
Ford Hall
Heirloom Timber Framing
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Comment by Carla S. Gentry on December 2, 2009 at 3:47pm -
Mike,
I hope you are allowing time for the timbers to dry out. White pine has alot of shrinkage after being freshly cut. By using the SIP wall panels the frame really doesn't have to be structural if the walls are designed to hold the load of the roof but if you are counting on the frame for support you need to get the beams dried to a certain %.
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Comment by Matthieu Theriault on October 20, 2009 at 10:03pm - Interesting, I didn't know about "superior wall systems". I've done timber framing on ICF's and on structural slabs... Did you also reinforce your footings? How are the seems of the individual panels sealed?
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Comment by Mike Shenton on October 8, 2009 at 9:05pm
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So far so good. I just had to have extra support under post locations. They had the walls set in about 3 hours.
I'm getting things ready for my slab to be poured now.
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Comment by Jake Lappan on October 7, 2009 at 8:47am - sounds great. How do you like using the superior wall system with timber framing?
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