However to provide this efficient wood house good construction details are important as well as the selection of mate rials for each specific use.
Timber floor construction detail.
Solid external masonry wall.
Details for conventional wood frame construction.
Ceiling joists are usually 2 by 6s or sometimes 2 by 4s if it is an older home.
Building and understanding a suspended or hollow timber floor.
A floor s framework is made up mostly of wooden joists that run parallel to one another at regular intervals.
These floor joists are raised above the subfloor on small supporting walls called tassel walls or sleeper walls.
Construction details in this type of flooring timber planks of 20 to 25mm thickness and width 150 to 200 a concrete bed of 100 to 150mm thick is laid.
215mm aircrete solid wall λ 0 15 w mk render insulation λ 0 022 w mk pitched roof gable.
Such methods use a 4 foot design module which governs a 16 inch spacing of joists.
Whether building a ground floor suspended timber floor or a first floor hollow floor we explain the different options and techniques that you can use in its construction.
Suspended timber ground floors consist of the finished timber floorboards being attached to floor joists which are suspended above the subfloor of the foundation.
Ce 200 details of construction.
Floor joists are typically 2 by 8s 2 by 10s or 2 by 12s.
Wooden battens of 50 to 75mm thickness and trapezium in shape are embedded in bed concrete at an interval of 500 to 700mm.
Some newer homes have manufactured i beam shaped joists.
150mm insulation 0 044w mk between rafters.
Wooden planks are laid on the battens.
Few if any materials can compete with wood framing in the construction of houses.
The accredited construction details document which comprises of this section and five other parts is produced to assist designers verifiers and site operatives in the.
We explain how hollow or suspended floors are made and what the key building regulations that affect them are.
Planks are connected to each.
3 12 timber frame timber suspended ground floor 3 13 timber frame separating wall junction with external wall.
Wood construction data 1.