{"id":254,"date":"2009-04-02T09:35:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/239-timberframe-construction-site\/"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:20:46","slug":"239-timberframe-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/239-timberframe-construction-site\/","title":{"rendered":"#239 Timberframe construction site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/239-timberframe-construction-site\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I recently shot some construction work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.balastructures.com\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.balastructures.com','Bala+Structures')\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bala Structures\" rel=\"noopener\">Bala Structures<\/a>\u00a0was doing on a very old timberframe home. What was needed were photos documenting the rebuilding of a few exterior walls from the inside.<\/p>\n<p>When the interior wall board was removed they discovered four inches of insulation in <em>many places<\/em>. Ahem, to put that in the &#8216;half empty&#8217; context there were many places without <em>ANY insulation<\/em> &#8211; no wonder it was hard to heat!<\/p>\n<p>The house will never be as efficient as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/25\/201-passivhaus-photos\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F01%2F25%2F201-passivhaus-photos%2F','Passivhaus')\" title=\"Passivhaus\">Passivhaus<\/a> but will likely be better than the &#8216;low&#8217; Canadian standards.<\/p>\n<p>The contractors rebuilt the walls in question with at least ten inches of fibreglass batts and styrofoam insulation. Below are a few photos documenting the rebuild process starting with what they found behind the drywall &#8211; notice the gaps in insulation and the old window that was just paved over:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/Bala%20StructuresTimberframe-1.jpg\" alt=\"Timberframe photo\" height=\"287\" width=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/Bala%20StructuresTimberframe-2.jpg\" alt=\"Timberframe photo\" height=\"288\" width=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/Bala%20StructuresTimberframe-3.jpg\" alt=\"Timberframe photo\" height=\"286\" width=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/Bala%20StructuresTimberframe-4.jpg\" alt=\"Timberframe photo\" height=\"285\" width=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/Bala%20StructuresTimberframe-5.jpg\" alt=\"Timberframe photo\" height=\"286\" width=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/Bala%20StructuresTimberframe-6.jpg\" alt=\"Timberframe photo\" height=\"287\" width=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/Bala%20StructuresTimberframe-7.jpg\" alt=\"Timberframe photo\" height=\"287\" width=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/Bala%20StructuresTimberframe-8.jpg\" alt=\"Timberframe photo\" height=\"287\" width=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I recently shot some construction work Bala Structures\u00a0was doing on a very old timberframe home. What was needed were photos documenting the rebuilding of a few exterior walls from the inside. When the interior wall board was removed they <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/239-timberframe-construction-site\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F04%2F02%2F239-timberframe-construction-site%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6644,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/6644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}