Traditional styles of architecture often favor warm colors like reds, yellows, oranges, and browns, while modern styles lean towards cooler tones like greens, blues, purples, and grays. Framing is crucial for home stability, and Radiusa pine or Douglas fir timber must be treated to hazard class H1.2. Conservation areas often have specific rules regarding front framing. Structural drawings are a series of pages that explain and illustrate the structural framing of a building or structure, including its strength, member size, and color scheme.
Color schemes can make a house look larger by painting the entire exterior, including siding, trim, window frames, and the front door the same color. This monochromatic color scheme exposes the structural frame, which is fundamental to architecture, to view and incorporate it into the design. When applying a color scheme, the color doesn’t cover the structural beams placed at that level.
Cold-formed metal framing (CFMF) sizes and identifying cold-formed steel material thickness in the field are essential for a cohesive color scheme. Metal stud gauge colors and thickness vary, with some houses having bright pink stain or color in the vertical studs. Frames don’t look aesthetically pleasing, but they can be weathered as long as they aren’t warped or twisted. Pink, in its versatile shades, is a hot garden color trend, and design ideas can help your garden bloom with pink exterior paint.
Additionally, color fill categories for beams (structural framing) can be used to colorize beam and beam systems properties similar to how duct and pipe systems can be colored.
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📹 Why is New Zealand Timber Pink???
Why is timber pink? It’s something you might wanna know. It’s not just for looks. Watch and find out. If you like this content and …
My parents first house was brand new when they moved in. A new area. The local animal farmer was selling off parts of his land. Further in, there were still sheep. The local trees were cut up to build the houses. The house and surrounding ones are still standing today – 50+ years later.. The timber was rough cut and the sap could be smelt for years.
In the US, we have a similar grading system, except that treated timber is generally referred to as “pressure treated” lumber. Sometimes, we’ll use the the specific grade designation like marine grade. The other difference is the color. All of our lumber that is the equivalent to your H2 is green in color. Borate treatments are usually done after framing is completed. A team will use hand sprayers to treat the bottom two feet of the exterior walls inside and out with termite solutions.
Here in New England, the studs we use to frame walls, even exterior walls, are usually kiln-dried, but not chemically treated. The termites we have in this area only eat wet wood; same for the molds and funguses we have in this area. So, as long as the builder laps the flashing and housewrap correctly, one can expect the framing to last indefinitely. Of course, that doesn’t always happen; we have our share of sloppy builders, But, if they follow the codes correctly, untreated wood works fine here.
Not fully correct around the treatment process. Firstly the timber is steamed to open the pours (remembering that pine has very open pour and grain pattern) secondally CCA treatment is one of the safest treatments around in the around that is used per board. The treatment generally any penetrats around 20mm into the timber. It is then heated again to lock the treatment into the cell walls. Treatment won’t leach that often now days. Because of the processes used around the treatment and heating process.
My theory is the H3 offcuts could be chipped and added as a supplement to the production of particle board. Much in the same way as scrap steel is added into the production process of new steel. The hard part would be organising a collection system for the offcuts. I guess there could be a bin at the local landfill.
Kia Ora Josh, this article is really helpful thank you for producing this for us all to learn from. Question if the joists can be made from H1.2 how close can your subfloor be to the ground for it to change to a higher treated wood? For example I’m building a sub floor that’s 60cm from the ground should I use H3.2? Instead of H1.2? 🙂
In Canada, at the present time, our treatment grades are untreated, outdoor treatment and constant ground contact treatment. I still have small piles of treated offcuts. Our waste path here for treated wood is essentially “trash.” And of course, special fasteners. Today’s treatments will dissolve the wrong screw. I’m just now framing a small garden house on my property with what we call “SPF” (spruce/pine/fir) and interior framing is not treated at all in Canada. One “benefit” of the tundra over the tropics I suppose… 🤷🏻♂️
Great to hear a professional acknowledge the CCA issue. New Zealand is quite unusual still building houses full of toxic Arsenic and Chromium. CCA wood treatments were banned in the US 20 years ago, as they are in Europe and Australia. NZ Govt’s actual official advice is to dump it all into landfill.
Having watched the article, I still don’t know why it is pink. I liked the little pump animation of it shaking whilst pumping the CCA pressure cycles though, thanks. I mixed borax, pyrethrum and antifreeze, just for good measure and doused my rimu 😢floor boards prior to sealing. They didn’t turn pink.
Fun fact: H6 treated wood is done with a chemical called chromated copper arsenate (CCA) which, as the name might suggest, contains chromium and arsenic. In places like docks or wharfs theres of course little public health concern HOWEVER, it was also commonly used for decks and childrens playsets until around 2004. So if you have a wooden structure or deck made of unknown wood, built before 2004, its v possible, even likely that its CCA.
I live in Douglas County Oregon known as the ‘Timber Capital of the World.’ Here treated material is called just that. All 2 by material is called structural building material. Timbers here is what’s 4 by material and up and we call glulam beams just that. Our building codes here are very strict and the Building inspector better be on his toes here because we don’t put up with their SH!T. Even if they stray from what they are there to expect, we let them know. It’s what our Commercial, Residential licens e pays for. I’m a retired Residential/Commercial Building Contractor. We used to use Pentaphenyl products but stopped because they do kill animals, especially say a dog is laying out on the deck during a hot day causes the fumes to rise poisoning the animals.
Looks exactly like eco building fire resistant and bug resistant chemical injection I lost 7000.00 investing in them can’t remember the CEO but he had a home Depot contract to sell his products. He financed expansion from the West Coast to the east coast in USA lost home Depot contract and closed shop etc etc.
I worked in a warehouse/timber shop where we applied this fuckin garbage spray. That shit will make your skin itch so bad and kinda burns. Ours weren’t pink though so maybe a different chemical mix, or just diff dye. Ours was blue or a greeny blue. Stuff sucked to work with in general. Certainly when cutting the long ass planks we had to get different sized ones for shipping out to work sites. Man i hate that stuff so much. Ask anyone who has worked with it its a pain in the butt.
In case your wondering where the pink color comes from They throw hundreds of flamingoes through a wood chipper and that’s where the pink color comes from makes the wood look kooler during the building process like A beach vibe to keep tempers down during construction phase . It’s a lot of flamingoes but balances things out less people getting hit over the head with 2x4s 😂
The known cancer causing agents (formaldehydes) used in the preservation of timber mean that you should not touch it without gloves – let alone inhaling the vapours from cutting it… Also saying P. radiata is sustainable is like missing the point that its an invasive species & destroys biodiversity.
Thanks for the answers….. In US to best of my knowledge we only had pressure treated (anything that touches concrete or exposed) & non pressure treated for the rest of the home…… Although new construction these days are using heaps of LVL ‘engineered materials & the ZIP System for the side & roof sheathing.
Just seems like an overpriced product. How is it I can far superior timber in the UK from Eastern Europe at a cheaper price than builders in NZ can get that weed radiata? EU regs on treatment means the timber is safe for use with raised beds, and it doesn’t need to be silly coloured just like how it used to be in NZ.
In the US our pine lumber for framing houses is also heat treated and chemically treated but its certainly not pink… I find it really odd and fascinating how pink your lumber is. We do have lumber for sill plates and for wet locations that’s treated for termites and fungus’s but its green. like dark green. The ground rated stuff is treated with with something that turns it a reddish brown.
Another question is why are the houses shown being built into the bush, on obviously wet ground with bare earth banks right next to them? Looks like a recipe for dampness and runoff… I’m guessing it’s the same reason most new houses are fitted for bottled gas hot water heating, despite NZ beginning to run out of natural gas. Cheaper for someone but not the eventual owner or tenant.
Here in the US and Canada we have blue timber which has been tinted by the fungus which killed the tree in the first place! The fungus gets into the tree on the horns of the Mountain Pine Beetle. I’m pretty shocked to see @5:32 structural timbers (H3.2) in direct contact with soil. I don’t think code allows direct contact at all in the US. We recently, finally, got a way to build a code-compliant fence, a steel bracket from Simpson that holds a fencepost with a tiny airgap above the concrete footing that supports it, and can support the moments that fences see.
Yeah….I’m not sure if there have been any studies that have found treated timbers leaching harmful levels of chemicals into the soil….I have seen a couple of tests (mind you this is going back to the 90’s in Canada) where by there was no significant leaching of any chemicals into soils from treated timber…..and they were deemed safe for use for raised food bearing garden beds……There is a myth out there that treated timber does leach…but like I have said…I (personally) have not seen any studies proving this.
I figured it was pressure treated wood, though it’s interesting to know that the pink is an intentional dye. IME in NA, pressure treated wood is tinged green due to a side effect of the copper & arsenic used. Boron is definitely a bit better than copper and arsenic for the environment and builders who have to handle and cut it.
wow, here in the us we dont have any treatment on interior boards other than the sill plates that touch the ground which would be standard cca (basic pressure treated int/ext. Exterior boards (mostly decks and fence posts) either regular cca, or ground contact cca. Anything more than that would be special order, i’ve never heard of what those ratings even are or where you would even get them. 28 years in construction.