FR2494749A1 - Construction of house walls - has panels installed between posts placed around periphery of floor - Google Patents

Abstract

The walls of a building are constructed by placing vertical posts around the periphery of a floor. The vertical posts are narrower towards the interior of the building, forming stepped portions into which panels locate. The external surfaces of the panels receive a coating of mortar and the internal surfaces are covered by insulating material and a subsequent layer of plaster. The panels are retained against the stepped portions in the space between adjacent posts by wooden laths nailed to the internal faces of the posts.

Description

 The present invention relates to the manufacture of half-timbered building walls.

 In certain regions, and more particularly in Normandy, we realize the traditional half-timbered house, that is to say that on the floor we climb to the periphery of the vertical beams between which we insert a filling, then on the latter, the on the outside, a plaster is made between the beams, while the inside receives an insulating coating, a lining and an interior plaster.

 In old houses, the filling was carried out with a cob generally made of clay kneaded with straw, hay, wood residues, etc. This procedure has been abandoned for many years and replaced by the use of brick.

 Currently, the filling between these beams is therefore carried out by a brick construction, which is a long, expensive job, and requires highly qualified labor.

 The present invention relates to a construction method intended to simplify, in a very large proportion, the production of half-timbered building walls.

 The method according to the invention consists in placing vertical beams on a floor at the periphery of a building to be produced, inserting a filling in the intervals between two adjacent beams, plastering the surface of the filling facing outwards of the building and between the beams, and to place on the surface of the walls facing the interior of the building an insulating lining to receive plastering, and is characterized in that it consists in practicing on the faces of the beams turned opposite from each other and from the side facing the interior of the rebate building, to place in each housing determined by the rebates of two adjacent beams a panel formed from wood and cement residues, and to fix said panels.

Thanks to this arrangement, the filling between the beams is quick, simple, inexpensive and does not require specialized labor. In addition, such panels are very advantageous, because they allow a very good grip of the plaster.
According to a particular procedure, the panels are fixed with slats of bowls nailed inside the building on the beams.

 Finally, according to a last characteristic, the panels are fixed with panels nailed inside the building and comprising at least one thickness of wood and cement residues and at least one thickness of an insulating material, thus it is achieved market, and very quickly an interior insulating lining particularly suitable for receiving plaster.

The invention will now be described in more detail, with reference to particular embodiments given by way of example only, and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a sectional view through a horizontal plane of a wall part of a half-timbered building produced according to the method of the invention.

 Fig. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1 of an alternative embodiment.

 In Figure 1, there is shown a portion of wall 1 comprising a series of wooden beams 2, 2a ... standing vertically from the floor and at the periphery of the building.

 In each beam 2, 2a ..., before its installation are made rebates 3 and 3a, the rebate 3 of the beam 2 being turned opposite the rebate 3a of the beam 2a.

 In the intervals delimited by the bottom of the rebates 3 and 3a of two adjacent beams, a panel 4 cut to the desired dimensions is placed, this panel consisting of wood shavings embedded in cement to form open cells. Such panels are easy to cut, inexpensive and thanks to their open cells and the cement which constitutes them they form a very effective support for receiving plastering.

 It is understood that the installation of the panels 4 is simple, quick and practical and that the labor for installing them does not necessarily have to be qualified as when one makes a traditional filling with bricks.

 To hold the panels 4, wooden slats 5 are nailed to the beams 2 and 2a on the internal side.

When the panels 4 have all been installed, the exterior plastering 6 is carried out between the beams 2, 2a ... then a traditional interior lining, for example with a glass wool mattress 7 a wall 8 and an interior plastering 9
In Figure 2 there is shown an alternative embodiment of the invention. In this embodiment, the beams 10, 10a of the half-timbering are provided with rebates 11 and 11a intended to receive panels 13, these being like those of FIG. 1, made of wood and cement shavings.

 The panels 13 are fixed using other panels 14 nailed into the beams formed with a central thickness 15 of an insulating material, such as expanded polystyrene, inserted between two thicknesses 17 and 18 of wood chips and cement, the thickness 18 constituting the support for an interior plastering 19.

 This embodiment is rapid and it allows inexpensive to produce an interior lining with very good qualities of thermal and acoustic insulation.

 On the face of the panels 13 facing outwards from the building, between the beams 10 - 10a .., a traditional plaster 20 is produced.

It is understood that the method according to the invention makes it possible to reduce the cost price of a half-timbered construction while retaining the traditional appearance of this construction
Of course, the invention is not limited to the modes of implementation which have just been described and shown, it is possible to make numerous modifications of details without thereby departing from the scope of the invention.

Claims (3)

R E V E N D I C A T I O N S  10 - Method for constructing walls of half-timbered buildings consisting of placing vertical beams on a floor on the periphery of a building to be produced, inserting a filling in the intervals between two adjacent beams, plastering the surface of the turned filling towards the outside of the building and between the beams and to place on the surface of the walls facing the inside of the building an insulating lining to receive plastering, characterized in that it consists in practicing on the faces of the beams turned in look at each other and on the side facing the interior of the building rebates (3 - 3a) to be placed in each housing determined by the rebates (3 - 3a) of two adjacent beams (2 - 2a) a panel (4) formed of wood and cement residue, and to fix said panels.  20 - Method -of construction of half-timbered building walls according to claim 1, characterized in that the panels (4) are fixed with wooden slats (5) nailed inside the building on the beams.  30 - Method for constructing walls of half-timbered buildings according to claim 1, characterized in that the panels (13) are fixed with panels (14) nailed inside the building and comprising at least one thickness of residue of wood and cement (18) and at least one thickness of an insulating material (15)