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From: vze2k6pb@verizon.net (v)
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair,misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: Very old balloon constuction + blown insulation
Message-ID: <4006e745.11124672@news.verizon.net>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:29:57 GMT
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:25:12 GMT, someone wrote:
>I have balloon construction home built around c.1790-1820.
>
??? 1790-1820 is extraordinarily early to have actual balloon framing.
Houses from that era more usually had heavier framing, more like
timbers than studs. Since they were faced with wooden lath and
plaster, spacing was not critical (no 4 foot manufactured sheetrock to
support). Balloon framing uses long but thin studs and lots of nails
to fasten the sides of the joists to the sides of the studs. Are you
sure that is what you have? The heavier timber framing usually had
bearing support for the joists. I beleive nails were still relatively
expensive in 1790, used but not as casually as today.
A true balloon house should be easy to blow into. Their problem was
not enough horizontal breaks for firestopping, a first floor fire
inside the wall immediately spread to the second floor and attic. But
an additional problem with the earlier pre-balloon framing is that
sometimes there are odd horizontal pieces in unexpected places in the
wall framing also (I have gut rehabbed some houses from that period or
slightly later.)
All this can potentially be seen with infrared equipment if the
insulation contractor is so equipped. Can a 1790 house really be
baloon? Usually not all the framing was even square, let alone
dimensioned closely enough for balloon.
-v.
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