For our “Green Home” we used the highest-grade lumber and trusses. We built our patios with solid 12” logs and 6x12” lintels. We contracted professional framing crew that frames a medium size house for a day. Well. . . 7 weeks later they were still doing final touches on our project house.
Engineered lumber of any sort was banned from our construction site. Every stud was cut exactly to the needed size and no finger-joints were used through the entire process of framing. The lintels, over the doors and windows openings, were made from solid 6x12” pieces of wood. Some of our exterior walls are 12 and even 18” and the rest of them are built from 2x6” studs. The final results were stunning and pleasing to the whole team.
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