At 06:43 PM 1/24/2013, Brian Toscano wrote:
The lack of insulation makes for old house charm. :-)
Back then fiber glass didn't exist. In some rural areas, houses were
clapboard siding, studs, and tongue and groove or simply pine boards on the
inside with a tin roof. Exterior clapboards may never have been painted.
Wood stove inside, possibly serving double duty as a stove. The ground
level floor could have been supported with slabbed tree trunks, leveled
with a bottle.
Sounds about like our WV house when my wife and I arrived in
1981. There was no insulation. The walls were leaky clapboards
tacked on top of what a neighbor called "Yankee board". This is a
double layer of rough cut vertical boards.
In this system you start construction by nailing together a
floor grid of 2 X 4s balanced on stone piles. The walls are
made by laying boards on the ground side by side, then laying
another layer of boards on top to cover the cracks and nailing the
two together. A row of people lift up what amounts to a board curtain
and walk it up to become a wall of the house. It is propped in place
while other walls are similarly made, tipped up, and the corners
nailed. The top of the walls are notched for 2 X 4s that form the
roof. More boards on that and then galvanized metal. Holes are cut
for store bought doors and windows. All lumber must be fresh from
the mill since only green hardwood can be nailed without drilling.
When we got the place it was leaning a bit here and there but
basically sound after 60-80 years. So we added another layer in the
form of salvaged 2 X 4s attached horizontally to the outside by 60d
nails driven from the inside. That gave us some room for insulation
and then board and batten on top of that. It has been great.
Dave Gilmore, Cameron WV
Glory is fleeting by obscurity is forever.
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