Timber Frame Buildings Timber frame currently accounts for around a quarter of all new homes
being built in the UK. Over 85% of homes in the developed world use a form of timber construction. Timber frame offers a number of advantages compared with most other forms of
construction. Timber frame homes are known for faster on-site co nstruction, making
weather less of a problem. Timber frame construction is highly flexible to suit different budgets,
from kit packages to fully bespoke architect-designed projects.
Timber is a natural, renewable and sustainable resource with low
embodied energy, especially if supplied locally. From
the outside it is impossible to tell a timber-framed house from a masonry one,
because the external cladding is unaffected by the choice of internal walls.
The outer decorative 'skin' is finished in the same way as any traditional
block house, using bricks, stone, timber cladding or rendered blockwork.
Timber
frames are largely hollow and therefore relatively easy to insulate to a high
standard, whilst maintaining a clear cavity between the frame and the external
cladding. A timber frame has less mass than a solid masonry home and will
therefore heat up and cool down more quickly.
Timber has proved
to be a strong and durable material. If built well timber frame buildings will
last for hundreds of years.
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