Wood is the future! It's so underrated. All it needs is a little help in the engineering department. https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-case-for-making-cities-out-of-wood
Wood is the future! It's so underrated. All it needs is a little help in the engineering department.
This is the kind of thing I will get excited about when I see it in use. There are so many factors in play and the fact that science news over hypes unrealistic and borderline ridiculous...
This is the kind of thing I will get excited about when I see it in use. There are so many factors in play and the fact that science news over hypes unrealistic and borderline ridiculous inventions makes me very skeptical.
How will this wood hold up after 20 years? How well can we join pieces together. "Strength" can mean a lot of things. If you run nuts and bolts through these wood pieces, are they susceptible to chipping?
Wood is great! There's nothing that you can get that is as workable, flexable, or as strong as good quality lumber. And carpentry is incredibly satisfying on a level that I don't think anything is...
Wood is great! There's nothing that you can get that is as workable, flexable, or as strong as good quality lumber. And carpentry is incredibly satisfying on a level that I don't think anything is able to beat.
That is off topic, but is true that wooden houses have no sound isolation whatsoever? That you can hear a fork hit the ground in the kitchen from your bedroom? Cause that would drive me crazy.
That is off topic, but is true that wooden houses have no sound isolation whatsoever? That you can hear a fork hit the ground in the kitchen from your bedroom? Cause that would drive me crazy.
It's not the wood, its the fact that the walls are made of 2 thin sheets of plaster glued to a frame. The walls are mostly empty space so they do not block sound very well. They can be filled with...
It's not the wood, its the fact that the walls are made of 2 thin sheets of plaster glued to a frame. The walls are mostly empty space so they do not block sound very well. They can be filled with sound dampening materials though.
In my apartment you can here almost everything between rooms but between apartments there is total sound isolation.
I've noticed that a wood structure's soundproofing depends heavily on when it was built. Old homes, especially before the 1960s, were poorly insulated, being designed to breathe. Their wood often...
I've noticed that a wood structure's soundproofing depends heavily on when it was built.
Old homes, especially before the 1960s, were poorly insulated, being designed to breathe. Their wood often remained strong, so long as they continued to be able to breathe, to let the moisture out. Putting modern insulation in thse homes can cause the beams to rot out.
Not being fully insulated, especially if no carpeting, causes sound to bounce and travel substantially. With modern insulation and some carpeting, it's far less of a problem.
Source: Lived in many different wood structures built between 1920 and 1999 with varying degrees of renovation.
The most important factor for fire risk in a home is whether or not it’s sprinklered. Fire sprinklers reduce the risk of fire by an enormous amount, and sprinklered wood construction seems to perform about as well as sprinklered non-combustible construction. And sprinklers are cheap, costing about $1-2 per square foot (much less than it would cost to say, change a wood house to concrete).
For wildfires specifically, we see something similar - construction details such as fire protected eaves and class A roofs, along with things like community density, matter far more than whether your home is wood or steel.
Wood is the future! It's so underrated. All it needs is a little help in the engineering department.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-case-for-making-cities-out-of-wood
This is the kind of thing I will get excited about when I see it in use. There are so many factors in play and the fact that science news over hypes unrealistic and borderline ridiculous inventions makes me very skeptical.
How will this wood hold up after 20 years? How well can we join pieces together. "Strength" can mean a lot of things. If you run nuts and bolts through these wood pieces, are they susceptible to chipping?
Wood is great! There's nothing that you can get that is as workable, flexable, or as strong as good quality lumber. And carpentry is incredibly satisfying on a level that I don't think anything is able to beat.
That is off topic, but is true that wooden houses have no sound isolation whatsoever? That you can hear a fork hit the ground in the kitchen from your bedroom? Cause that would drive me crazy.
It's not the wood, its the fact that the walls are made of 2 thin sheets of plaster glued to a frame. The walls are mostly empty space so they do not block sound very well. They can be filled with sound dampening materials though.
In my apartment you can here almost everything between rooms but between apartments there is total sound isolation.
I've noticed that a wood structure's soundproofing depends heavily on when it was built.
Old homes, especially before the 1960s, were poorly insulated, being designed to breathe. Their wood often remained strong, so long as they continued to be able to breathe, to let the moisture out. Putting modern insulation in thse homes can cause the beams to rot out.
Not being fully insulated, especially if no carpeting, causes sound to bounce and travel substantially. With modern insulation and some carpeting, it's far less of a problem.
Source: Lived in many different wood structures built between 1920 and 1999 with varying degrees of renovation.
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