9/23/2023 0 Comments Japanese framer construction![]() ![]() In Japan there is more emphasis on joinery than on the filling and painting. To the left is part of the Forbidden City in Beijing, built about 1410 and just restored for the 2008 Olympics,īelow is a New House built in traditional style - completely new but built just the way houses were built 1200 years ago and expected to last 1200 more years. Log cabins in the back woods and on the frontier sometimes had waddle and daub chimneys - which often caught fire - so they were built leaning away from the house so they could be easily pulled down to save the house when they caught fire.Īt least a thousand years before the cabin in Appalachia was built the Chinese were building timber frame houses on a very different scale. Later I will discuss the code and safety issues involved in building masonry chimneys through combustible roof framing especially since so many timber frame builders expose the timber frame construction. I thought it might be interesting to show you some pictures. We have had the good luck to design and build Rumford fireplaces in a wide wide variety of timber frame houses. Fireplaces, however, have given me a vantage point from which to see the world's timber framing construction. My interest and expertise is fireplaces and masonry construction so you all probably know much more about timber framing than I do. Timber frame construction is common to many cultures from Europe to China and Japan and here in America from rude log houses to exquisitely crafted works of art. Rumfords and Timber Frame Construction Buckley Rumford FireplacesĪ presentation to the Timber Framers Guild, 5/15/11 ![]()
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