/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1615353
>stone is a natural insulator.

stone isnt a good isolator, but has a big thermal mass that is why when warmed that house stays warm for long but there are some tricks with that Im not that familiar. Wood is far more straighforward in terms of temperature since high isolation.

>>1514820
>It would be risky if you did not take into account the expansion of the wood in your joinery choices

What joints would you recommend that would account for expansions? Dovetails are a bad choice I assume.

>>1514820
>green wood and did not take into account the shrinking of the wood as it dries, and yes even outdoor wooden objects made of green wood dry out, if they do not, they rot.

sounds like a dark art - so how and when (!) would you build a ski sled then? Winter with greenwood (stored in basemend in summer)?

how about pic rel? In summer but not entirely dried out? isnt that a kind of dovetail?

>>1511990
>You have any materal you recommend for additional reading?

look up Mike Haddock masonry on yt, fantastic guy and all around well knowledge, also dry stone/lime mortat supremacists as is every gentlemen.

>>1511920
>And that a hundred-year-with-regular-maintenance design life can be less expensive than a thousand-year-maintenance-free design life

It can be and it cannot be - cheap and shortlasting has its aplication, expensive and long lasting has its application, cheap and long lasting also.
You have to make some extreme mental games to convince me that an EXPENSIVE "modern" civil house that falls apart within 20 years from moisture is what people want and what is optimal.