Hello,
I am currently planning a single-family house (bungalow, about 180 sqm (1,940 sq ft)) to be built using solid wood construction. For wooden houses, especially those insulated to KfW standards, it is said that they are easy to heat up quickly. However, due to the lack of thermal mass, I was told that they also cool down quite fast again. To compensate for this, a question came up in a recent discussion about what it would be like to build the interior walls out of calcium silicate blocks or bricks.
We didn’t get very far with this question. So I’m asking here:
Does it make sense to build the exterior shell in solid wood and one or more interior walls in masonry?
Maybe someone can provide some insight.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
I am currently planning a single-family house (bungalow, about 180 sqm (1,940 sq ft)) to be built using solid wood construction. For wooden houses, especially those insulated to KfW standards, it is said that they are easy to heat up quickly. However, due to the lack of thermal mass, I was told that they also cool down quite fast again. To compensate for this, a question came up in a recent discussion about what it would be like to build the interior walls out of calcium silicate blocks or bricks.
We didn’t get very far with this question. So I’m asking here:
Does it make sense to build the exterior shell in solid wood and one or more interior walls in masonry?
Maybe someone can provide some insight.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
In our case, the heat pump did not work for 3 days during the winter from 2018 to 2019. The outside temperature dropped to 17°C (63°F) with frost, and there is no fireplace. Previously, it was about 21°C (70°F). I can’t say whether this is good or bad. There should be a stone house next door with exactly the same problem.
Solid wood is covered with drywall, and masonry is plastered.
The work preparation and process are different. Windows, water pipes, doors, cable ducts, etc., are embedded in the solid wood structure, while in masonry, this is taken into account on the construction site. Will the site manager be able to handle this?
What about cracks at the junctions between different building materials?
Solid wood is covered with drywall, and masonry is plastered.
The work preparation and process are different. Windows, water pipes, doors, cable ducts, etc., are embedded in the solid wood structure, while in masonry, this is taken into account on the construction site. Will the site manager be able to handle this?
What about cracks at the junctions between different building materials?
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hampshire27 Jun 2020 23:00tadeus321 schrieb:
Because of the lack of mass, I was told that these cool down quite quickly again. That is not correct.
tadeus321 schrieb:
Does it make sense to build the exterior shell of a house from solid wood and one or more interior walls from stone? No. You lose much of the character, scent, and atmosphere. You really can’t talk about indoor climate here without consequences...
It makes sense to install a heavy masonry stove in a solid wood house.
superzapp schrieb:
We had exactly this issue, but only with the party wall between our two semi-detached houses.
However, the contractor building the solid wood house has practical objections. The solid wood house is prefabricated in elements up to 9x3m (30x10 feet) in size. When the trucks arrive with the house, the shell construction, including the roof, is completed within 3-4 days. Building our partition wall with masonry would not be possible because it would have to stand free at a height of almost 9m (30 feet). First building the ground floor masonry, then placing the house and waiting for the masons would also not be practical. I can’t quite follow from your description—how was it resolved?
superzapp schrieb:
If your interior walls on the ground floor are load-bearing, you face exactly this problem. I mentioned this already: as a prerequisite for a practical solution, I would require that the relevant interior walls are not structurally significant.
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knalltüte28 Jun 2020 08:5511ant schrieb:
I can’t quite follow the example visually – how was it resolved?
As I already mentioned: a prerequisite for a practical solution is that the interior walls in question are structurally non-load-bearing.a) Not at all yet. The discussion between the builder and the architect is still ongoing, but (those who pay the piper ...) it will be, as we wish, glued laminated timber (glulam) like all the other walls. Not everything an architect wants (in this case for sound insulation reasons) can be realized if there are straightforward practical reasons against it.
b) True, but you put it so nicely that at first I couldn’t mentally visualize your "free-spanning roof structure" as meaning "no load-bearing interior walls."
Once the house or room size reaches a certain scale, the builder will simply have to include steel beams (support beams). That wouldn’t be my preferred solution.
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