Jul 30, 20264 min
All Mass Timber Is Not the Same: A Beginner’s Guide to Species, Grades and Bonding
A May 2026 review shows why “mass timber” describes a family of products, not one interchangeable material.
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Jul 30, 20265 min
Does CLT Always Sound Hollow? What New Listening Tests Found
A 2026 listening study turns simulated footsteps and jumps into design evidence for quieter cross-laminated timber floors.
Jul 30, 20263 min
Rain Does Not Stop at the Surface: CAT Scans Show How CLT Gets Wet
New CAT-scan research maps moisture paths inside rain-exposed CLT and explains why surface readings are not the whole story.
Jul 30, 20263 min1
The Big Viking Wood Puzzle
How Vikings invented timber framing—with no nails, just stubbornness, mead, and the mighty mortise-and-tenon.
Dec 9, 20256 min1
How I Started Building a House and Ended Up Building Software.
The story of how a gold-flake-water-drinking architect's useless napkin sketch drove a DIYer to build his own browser-based timber frame design software from scratch.
Dec 9, 202510 min
The Perfect Tool Kit for a Timberframe-Style Pergola (Imperial + Metric)
Build a real timberframe-style pergola in one weekend using modern tools and hardware. This complete imperial + metric tool list covers layout, cutting, assembly, and finishing—no fantasy tools, only what actually works on site.
Nov 28, 20255 min
When Our Ancestors Started Notching Logs: The Story of a 476,000-Year-Old Wooden Structure
Archaeologists discovered a notched wooden structure dated to 476,000 years ago — proving early hominins built the earliest known timber framing long before Homo sapiens existed.
Oct 13, 20255 min2
I Thought a Tape Measure Was Optional… Until My Shed Looked Like It Was Doing the Samba
A hilariously true tale of DIY timber framing gone wrong—and the tools that saved my shed (and my marriage).