Advice on size

[Sea Change]

I think that’s why it doesn’t translate to Europe. Here, building with sticks is the far inferior option and usually we use bricks and blocks.

Except for viewers in Scotland.

 

[lustyd]

Except for viewers in Scotland.

Not sure what you mean? Scotland is also full of stone buildings and I can’t imagine wooden ones lasting a year!

 

[Sea Change]

Not sure what you mean? Scotland is also full of stone buildings and I can’t imagine wooden ones lasting a year!

Timber frame has been the standard for new builds in Scotland for the last fifty years or so. At least in my neck of the woods.
Usually clad in a blockwork rain screen, rendered and painted white. The underlying structure is timber though.
These days timber cladding is become very popular to replace the blockwork.

 

[lustyd]

In my neck of the woods we call that a shed.

 

[Momac]

Actually a timber framed house (in the UK) will typically have greater off site factory prefabrication compared to a more traditional loadbearing masonry (eg. brick and block) house construction.
So the ''stick built'' terminology as described earlier seems to me less appropriate for timber framed and more appropriate for loadbearing masonry construction.

 

[Sea Change]

In my neck of the woods we call that a shed.

Well that 'shed' is what funds my cruising life.

 

[Sea Change]

Actually a timber framed house (in the UK) will typically have greater off site factory prefabrication compared to a more traditional loadbearing masonry (eg. brick and block) house construction.
So the ''stick built'' terminology as described earlier seems to me less appropriate for timber framed and more appropriate for loadbearing masonry construction.

To get pedantic, a stick built house will have minimal prefabrication. Probably just the trusses, which is the same as for brick and block.
Once you start pre-fabbing whole panels, or even move to SIPS, it's no longer what would be called a stick build.

 

[Dockhead]

I think that’s why it doesn’t translate to Europe. Here, building with sticks is the far inferior option and usually we use bricks and blocks.

Sure, it doesn't relate well to European construction techniques (other than, to some extent, in the UK).

But it's quite accurate in relation to boat construction.

 

[Dockhead]

Actually a timber framed house (in the UK) will typically have greater off site factory prefabrication compared to a more traditional loadbearing masonry (eg. brick and block) house construction.
So the ''stick built'' terminology as described earlier seems to me less appropriate for timber framed and more appropriate for loadbearing masonry construction.

But it would be very appropriate for timber construction. That's where it comes from. Off site prefab panelized vs. built up on site from "sticks".

 

[Dockhead]

To get pedantic, a stick built house will have minimal prefabrication. Probably just the trusses, which is the same as for brick and block.
Once you start pre-fabbing whole panels, or even move to SIPS, it's no longer what would be called a stick build.

Exactly. And that is exactly the analogue to boat construction

 

[dunedin]

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But it's quite accurate in relation to boat construction.

We will agree to disagree then.
The term and usage really only works for certain types of land building construction (and not even most European at that).
Does not seem to be applicable or indeed used in terms of boat construction techniques.