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The type of wood depends upon the final piece, including function, style, and quality. Where parts of the frame are visible afterward, wood grades and species may be mixed. Hardwood destined for upholstery frames is primarily air-dried. [2] Hardwood frames for high-end furniture are often constructed from kiln-dried mixed hardwoods.
Frame and panel construction at its most basic consists of five members: the panel and the four members which make up the frame. The vertical members of the frame are called stiles while the horizontal members are known as rails. A basic frame and panel item consists of a top rail, a bottom rail, two stiles, and a panel.
Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.
Free plan, in the architecture world, refers to the ability to have a floor plan with non-load bearing walls and floors by creating a structural system that holds the weight of the building by ways of an interior skeleton of load bearing columns. The building system carries only its columns, or skeleton, and each corresponding ceiling.
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The primary purpose of blocking is to brace longer frame members to help resist buckling under vertical compression. The intervals for the blocks are specified in the building code or as calculated by a structural engineer. Blocking also resists the rotational movement, or twisting, of floor joists as they deflect under load.
In British English this assembly is called a "cross frame". The term bent is probably an archaic past tense of the verb to bind , referring to the way the timbers of a bent are joined together. The Dutch word is bint (past participle gebint ), [ 1 ] the West Frisian is bynt , and the German is bind .