Almost all the houses are made with a lot of wood. Wood is very porous and reacts to temperature and climate. Humidity, heat and cold can affect wood. The change in temperature causes the wood to expand and contract throughout the day.
When this happens, the wood creates a sudden creak. This is one of the most common reasons houses creak. Thanks for the question. We also saw a video of the problem you sent us (although it doesn't show what is being done to cause the noise or if there is a lot of movement).
The noise is quite loud and not what you would normally expect from a modern timber-framed house. In order to comment correctly, a site visit would be necessary and the floor would have to be lifted and then inspected by an expert in wooden frame houses. I suggest you fix it as soon as possible. Creaking floors are usually the result of nailing, not screwing, the floorboards down and not using glue.
That said, wooden structures are heavy and extremely solid, and much more resistant to the effects of earthquakes, high winds or heavy snowfall. They are also slightly more resistant to fire damage than common cane frames. Solid wood is very stable at high temperatures and creates its own insulation when in contact with fire. The woods dry quite slowly, at a rate of about an inch thick per year, so a 10 by 10 wood will dry completely in about 5 years.
The only problem when it comes to mortgage lenders is that if you have a timber-framed house, you CANNOT add extra insulation to the cavity. To use conventional frames in a wooden house, the walls are constructed and raised and installed around the wooden structure. Let's be clear that this is not a problem inherent in the wooden structure: a poorly constructed structure is poorly constructed, whether in wood or masonry. They rot: The wood used in modern timber frame house designs is pressure treated with preservative.
However, it is possible to use more expensive discontinued construction methods or to add insulating or sound dampening materials to the wooden structure to stop sound transmission. If you want to build a house that will last for many years, timber framing is the only answer to long-lasting framed buildings. If you're a meticulous person with an eye for detail, you'll appreciate the intricate process of building wooden frames. Therefore, moving from the outside inward, a wooden frame wall section comprises an outer sheet of masonry, a 50 mm cavity, a ventilation membrane (attached to the wooden structure).
The lease is not the fact that it is easier to get a really low u value from the wooden structure without significantly increasing the wall thickness, but more on this below. I don't think they're trying to explain or defend bad practices in the construction of wooden structures (if that's what happened here), quite the contrary, I think. They are bolted to ceiling and wall joists and can be used in areas that do not have a wooden frame instead of conventional framed wall and ceiling systems. They're too light: People often say that timber-framed houses don't feel “solid” like traditional cavity construction.
Almost always, the walls of the structure are placed on the outside of the wooden structure, leaving the beams exposed for a visual effect.
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