We all know that beautiful wood carvings and framings are one of the most eye-catching aspects that define your home structure. However, wood framings are not solely related to residential structures; they are also used for commercial structures. Therefore, you need the best planning, expert craftsmanship, and supervised construction for perfect wood framing.
In companies, the professional teams handling wood framing projects execute their plans with the latest machines and contemporary designs. It is visible that our entire construction pattern is gradually shifting from heavy engineered structures to lightweight structures like cable structure, membrane structure, shell, and folded structure. If you are decorating your interiors, lightweight framings like space grids, braced vaults, domes, and arched structures are the top choices.
What Is Wood Framing?
Wood framing or light frame constructions is the art of engineering the lumber, where you regularly space the lumber with nails to create floors, walls, and roof assemblies. Modern light-frame structures generally gain strength from rigid plywood-like strand boards that are fixed as a part of the wall section of the building.
Why Is Wood Framing Popular?
Wood frame construction is one of the famous building techniques in the US and Europe. Light wood framing constructions are always preferred in residential homes, luxury resorts, local cafeterias, and corporate buildings. Furthermore, engineered light wood structures are famous because wood offers a higher thermal resistivity than other framing materials. Therefore, a wooden structure is always more energy efficient for buildings, and it provides excellent support for the structure. As far as wood as a building material is concerned, it has multiple advantages, like innovative design, cost, environment friendliness, and resource efficiency. In addition, it is simple, sustainable, highly durable, and has insulation qualities.
Now that wood framing has more merits over demerits, let's discuss the top 4 light wood structures.
Light Framing
Light framing is used in barracks, bathhouses, and administered buildings. We generally choose light frame engineering for wood openings, braces, and splices. Much of the light framing is covered in the staging areas, whereas squaring and floor framing are done separately.
Western Framing
Western framing or platform frame is extensively used in military construction. It is similar to the braced frame but has boxed sill construction on each floor. Cross bridging between the joints and solid bridging between the studs are the patterns that are usually found in western framing.
Balloon Framing
Balloon framing is the widely used light wood framing. This designed frame differs from the other frame structures in many ways. The significant difference between a balloon and braced framing in a multistory building is that the studs run the entire length from sill to rafters in balloon structures.
Braced Framing
A braced frame is much more rigid than a balloon frame. In this construction pattern, the exterior studs extend between floors and are topped by girths that form a sill for the succeeding floors. Girths are usually 4*6 inches, and except for studs, braced frame members are usually heavier than those in balloon framing. In addition, unlike the studs and the corner posts that extend from sill to plate, knee braces are placed diagonally against each side of the corner posts. However, interior studying for braced frames is similar to balloon frame construction.
I hope you have an overview of the different wood frames, and you know what makes these four framing patterns so unique to one another.