Closing Bell: Grand Avenue Haunted House Losing Its Skin
This should make any of you going through a renovation right now feel better…The old woodframe house at 432 Grand Avenue is undergoing a Landmarks-compliant overhaul right now. Interior demolition began in December and by the end of last week the entire facade of the house (which is slated to be a two-family) had been…
This should make any of you going through a renovation right now feel better…The old woodframe house at 432 Grand Avenue is undergoing a Landmarks-compliant overhaul right now. Interior demolition began in December and by the end of last week the entire facade of the house (which is slated to be a two-family) had been ripped off. It’s pretty interesting to get this kind of glimpse at how this kind of house is constructed. Let’s hope it ends up looking as good as its twin next door.
Gutting Begins at the Grand Avenue Haunted House [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark
Inside the Grand Avenue Haunted House [Brownstoner]
building a frame house and then filling in the gaps with some kind of masonry or plaster is one of the oldest western building traditions. The fact that the brick may have provided a little insulation and a little strength was almost secondary. The important thing was that it tapped into a way of building that spanned back centuries. It was tradition. stuffing bricks between wall studs really makes little construction sense just as carving big notches out of square timber beams makes little sense, but it was the way it done until somebody invented a better system.
The older frame homes typically do.
AClintonHillLady
Not every “frame house” has fill between the studs.
a lot of people pull out the bricks, re-insulate with a nice r-value fiberglass, screw up plywood (for rigidity), and then cover the ply with 1/2 to 1″ foam board, then they re-side. frame houses don’t need the brick infil, i believe it was first put in there as a fire retardant, but that was when siding options were wood only.
VINCENT
CHASE
EFFECT!!!!!!!!
This house will be worthless when Entourage gets canceled.
Meanwhile, did y’all see in the Daily News gossip pages the other day that Adrian was overheard bragging to some model in a nightclub that he lives in a “green” house in Brooklyn insulated with “blue jeans and dandruff”? Wonder if he got laid? (Bet he did.)
The Vinnie Chase Impact.
The brick was intended to provide fire proofing, insulation and mass. Wonder if they will take all the brick out (some is there and some is gone) and what they’ll fill it with.
All frame houses have fill between the studs. Just a question of whether it’s rubble or brick.
This here folks is the infamous “BRICK-FILLED FRAME”. Look at it. Remember it. If the question ever comes up again on here, refer them to this pic. If they still don’t get it, tell them that “‘brick-filled frame’ means a frame house filled with brick afterward in between the studs”–DUH. As for the reason, I think it was a cheaper construction (wood-frame and crappy ugly bricks) that could act as a better fire-retardant than a just a frame house where flames travel up those gaps between the studs. Anyone else with input on this?