It looks terrific, Brian! ☺
So happy to see it coming together for you after all this time.
Cheers, Rick
On Oct 7, 2016 11:00 PM, <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> Mike asked
>
> Looking good Brian!
>
> Two by six studs outside walls are
> common where more insulation is desirable
>
> It is the minimum here for
> R21. A few houses go thicker to accommodate higher R value or add rigid
> insulation or sprayed-in. And that looks like engineered wood? Is it
> sized to metric? Also notice more use of framing members than we do. The
> reason being that wood has a lower R value so transmits more heat. Less
> is more efficient both in material and future heating cost. Are you
> going to use vertical siding?
> .............................
> I had
> enough of a battle to get agreement to 6x2 without going bigger; and to
> get triple glazing agreed to was even more of a battle. I had to do all
> the leg-work (computer searches and talking) but finally got there. The
> extra cost will be covered by surpluses from contents insurance that
> will not be spent on replacing EVERYTHING that was burned.
>
> Vertical
> siding or not? I'm not quite sure what you mean Mike. There will be
> brick cladding as we call it, for the bottom story, and douglas-fir
> shiplap for the top story just as the original house was. The major
> misgiving I have about this part is that I wish I had stuck to my guns
> over re-use of the original bricks/blocks from the old house.
> That
> pattern is not made any more. With the exception of fire clay bricks
> from a place near Darfield (Canterbury), ALL house bricks are now
> imported across the Tasman sea, from Australia.
> I did take down and
> clean about 25% of the old bricks from the burned house. By rough count
> there were about only 1600 of them They were big bricks and we really
> liked the look of them. Our insurance people can up with all sorts of
> reasons why we should not; fire damaged (they were not, as all the heat
> went UP), not from a guaranteed source, the brickies wouldn't know how
> to lay them now, there could be no guarantee given on their performance
> and this would affect house resale value ...
> Hindsight is a great
> thing. I don't believe any of these objections amounted to a tinker's
> cuss. When it comes to resale, people will like ot for the looks and
> design and buy accordingly.
>
> It's too late now. Most of the bricks are
> now in landfill.
>
> Cheers, Brian
>
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