Yes, I also like what I see of the Japanese architecture you post. I think this house is beautiful but I have a problem with this use of plywood. It is so difficult to join properly that it has got to be an expensive way to go, I don't see any way around it - the additional time for installation or the cost of a master craftsman who can do it quickly is going to jack the budget up. For that reason I think I prefer sheet-rock or traditional wood siding and flooring. I guess if you can afford plywood, wtf, knock yourself out, but that runs contrary to a big part what modernism is about.
Huh. I didn't know that about plywood. Interesting.
One of the great benefits of boards for flooring and siding is that they puzzle around things easily, if you make a bad cut you have only messed up a small amount of wood and usually that board can be salvaged and used somewhere else. The tongue and groove allows them to interlock. A 4X8' sheet of plywood does not interlock with other sheets, is pretty heavy and cumbersome and can easily damage finished areas as you wrestle it around corners etc. The most difficult part is measuring, cutting, mitering and compound mitering all the jogs around doorways, alcove walls, stairways etc. And if a wall isn't perfectly plumb then making the join at the corner requires scribing, cutting along that line with a skill saw and guide, or ripping diagonal cuts on a table saw. Total pain in the ass. I believe only the most skilled carpenters can make it look good.
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Yes, I also like what I see of the Japanese architecture you post. I think this house is beautiful but I have a problem with this use of plywood. It is so difficult to join properly that it has got to be an expensive way to go, I don't see any way around it - the additional time for installation or the cost of a master craftsman who can do it quickly is going to jack the budget up. For that reason I think I prefer sheet-rock or traditional wood siding and flooring. I guess if you can afford plywood, wtf, knock yourself out, but that runs contrary to a big part what modernism is about.
- steve 9-08-2013 11:27 pm
Huh. I didn't know that about plywood. Interesting.
- jim 9-09-2013 12:13 pm [add a comment]
One of the great benefits of boards for flooring and siding is that they puzzle around things easily, if you make a bad cut you have only messed up a small amount of wood and usually that board can be salvaged and used somewhere else. The tongue and groove allows them to interlock. A 4X8' sheet of plywood does not interlock with other sheets, is pretty heavy and cumbersome and can easily damage finished areas as you wrestle it around corners etc. The most difficult part is measuring, cutting, mitering and compound mitering all the jogs around doorways, alcove walls, stairways etc. And if a wall isn't perfectly plumb then making the join at the corner requires scribing, cutting along that line with a skill saw and guide, or ripping diagonal cuts on a table saw. Total pain in the ass. I believe only the most skilled carpenters can make it look good.
- steve 9-10-2013 4:50 am [add a comment]