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Advanced Framing- How important is it?

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Author: bcampbell Created: 5/22/2008 8:45 PM

An explanation of advanced framing.

Thursday, May 22, 2008

Advanced Framing- It requires know how, and supervision.

Advanced framing is a technique that demonstrates the fact that less, truly is more. Less wood in the wall means more insulation. Less wood in the wall means a higher R-Value. Less wood means a tighter building envelope. Less wood in the wall means a more efficient use of the resource. Less wood in the wall means less waste. My understanding and appreciation of advanced framing has afforded me the ability to offset the the cost of the premium spray foam insulation I use in the construction of my homes. I estimate that I eliminate up to 30% of the wood framing materials used in the construction of the homes I build, when compared to the amount of material needed to frame an equivalently sized home conventionally. On the larger homes I build rough lumber packages can exceed 100K dollars. In those cases the 30% savings can offset the cost of the entire insulation package. We are talking about substantial savings when done correctly. &#...