The latest trends in home construction are modular building blocks that enable you to build your house like playing with LEGOs. The oldest known methods of building use blocks, so a modern take on a proven method is natural. There are half a dozen new products on the market today that offer wood block homes, and Lincoln Block is a great choice that stacks up tall compared to them. Here are the advantages Lincoln Block makes available to you for your wood block house.
Lincoln Block’s stacking block system that uses foam, glue, and nails is not highly labor intensive. The wood blocks are small and light weight which makes them easily maneuverable by hand. The fasteners just require a nail gun, the glue is installed with a caulking gun, and the spray foam comes in a portable kit. All the important features of stacking each block come naturally for any handy craftsman type worker.
Since before the invention of Lincoln Block, our founder’s goal was to find a way to have everybody in a house despite the horrors of the housing market crash. We have discovered a way to build a premium quality house for a fraction of what’s on the market today. Lumber is expensive, but by rethinking its structural capabilities, a house can be built that has higher strength, requires less labor, is more affordable, and that exceeds energy efficiency requires of today’s standards.
A good way to look at this is comparing it to brick or jointed wood panels. With Lincoln Block, each course can be installed slightly out of alignment, with the end result still being well within tolerances. This means you don’t have to meticulously follow a line like in brickwork, and there are no super-tight wood joints to fight with a hammer. The glue takes up space between courses, the nails lock each block into place, and the spray foam bonds to the wood to create a single insulated panel.
One Lincoln Block consists of four or more joined pieces of wood that form a single building block. A lot of other products also recognize that this is the superior method because it emulates the oldest techniques for construction that use stones with a mortar in between. The advantage Lincoln Block has is the weight. Most people would struggle to hold a single cinder block with one hand, but Lincoln Blocks up to five feet long can be easily lifted with one hand, and cedar Lincoln Blocks are even lighter.
Lincoln Blocks are mathematically proven to have the ability to build up to four stories high, while maintaining the same basic block design throughout the exterior walls. The system offers an all-inclusive shear wall with no additional materials, thanks in part to the use of polyurethane spray foam that occupies the hollow wall cavity.
Because the polyurethane spray foam fills every tiny gap inside the wall as it expands within just a few minutes upon application, the chimney effect cannot take hold of the building. This means in the event of a fire, it cannot spread inside the wall which otherwise is a big problem with traditional construction, which is why you see new homes using spray foam instead of fiberglass insulation. It also offers a thermal break that reduces climate control costs.
Straight from the sawmill, the pieces that make up each individual Lincoln Block are untreated until you get them on the job and stain / seal them to protect the wood. This means the inside of your building will always have the medicinal properties that wood offers, and the exterior will require very little maintenance.
The wood block house trend is gaining serious traction, but only Lincoln Block, which is made and patented in the USA, is truly attainable for all walks of life. Use our cost calculator today to get an estimate for your house. This handy tool lets you see that Lincoln Block is always more affordable than other methods, and hopefully after reading this post and more like it on our blog you will understand why.