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Framing House with Rough Cut Lumber
Posted on 6/24/16 at 4:18 am
Posted on 6/24/16 at 4:18 am
Any homebuilders here or anyone that may know if using rough cut lumber is acceptable for house framing as far as inspections/insurance is concerned?
Will be building a house hopefully sometime this year and trying to weigh my options. I have plenty of pine trees on my property that i could use. And I've always wanted my own sawmill after using an old relatives. My only concern is dealing with the permit process and inspections.
Will be building a house hopefully sometime this year and trying to weigh my options. I have plenty of pine trees on my property that i could use. And I've always wanted my own sawmill after using an old relatives. My only concern is dealing with the permit process and inspections.
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Posted on 6/24/16 at 4:35 am to lildaddy86
You need to check local rulings. Check with your parish PJ.
The small camp/guess house I'm building is 90% ruff cut lumber. I did put it up "green". Only had a couple studs and a couple ceiling joist go crazy that I had to change out. The living room and kitchen area is timber framed.
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The small camp/guess house I'm building is 90% ruff cut lumber. I did put it up "green". Only had a couple studs and a couple ceiling joist go crazy that I had to change out. The living room and kitchen area is timber framed.
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Check code first- most require stamped wood and the only way around this is a building engineer who will stamp your plan and products
I would not use freshcut softwood in my home-
A little known fact about kiln dried lumber is that the heat kills any insects, insect eggs or larve that could be present in the wood. SO how will you address this is you use green lumber?.
With rough cut you are going to have a lot of dimensional variation
IF you get a code variation they are going to want to inspect at a lot of construction points.
Finally - you will not really save that much money.
I would not use freshcut softwood in my home-
A little known fact about kiln dried lumber is that the heat kills any insects, insect eggs or larve that could be present in the wood. SO how will you address this is you use green lumber?.
With rough cut you are going to have a lot of dimensional variation
IF you get a code variation they are going to want to inspect at a lot of construction points.
Finally - you will not really save that much money.
This post was edited on 6/24/16 at 7:35 am
Posted on 6/24/16 at 3:50 pm to lildaddy86
I would not use green lumber to build anything. The odds of you seeing significant movement from the lumber is almost 100%, since it will be under a load and the cull rate on softwood, like pine, is higher than you might imagine to begin with. You probably won't see much movement for months and probably even more than a year.
Also, if there are no building codes in the area, they almost certainly require graded lumber. Not sure about insurance.
Also, if there are no building codes in the area, they almost certainly require graded lumber. Not sure about insurance.
Posted on 6/24/16 at 4:20 pm to lildaddy86
Make sure you mill it to size and thickness and dry it.
I built a shed from rough lumber once and it was a pain because I did not have it planed. It was a very old slash pine and the boards were very hard--bent the nails. It will probably stand forever.
I used a boric acid compound too like the aforementioned timbor.
I built a shed from rough lumber once and it was a pain because I did not have it planed. It was a very old slash pine and the boards were very hard--bent the nails. It will probably stand forever.
I used a boric acid compound too like the aforementioned timbor.
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