The Chisholm House — materials
Every stick packed into the standard lengths — 8 to 24 ft in 2 ft steps — by nominal size; board feet at the nominal size, as lumber is sold (a balloon frame of full-sawn lumber: each size ordered at the next whole inch). A piece 5 ft or longer is bought at the next standard length; the short ones — blocks, cripples, bridging — are cut from 8 to 16 ft sticks. The house is nailed: no pegs.
| Size | 8 ft | 10 ft | 12 ft | 14 ft | 16 ft | 18 ft | 20 ft | 22 ft | 24 ft | Sticks | Board feet | For |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6x8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 144 | porch sill on the piers | |||||||
| 6x6 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 192 | post under the girder · porch post | |||||||
| 4x8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 149 | porch beam across the front · porch beam along a side | ||||||
| 4x6 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 196 | sill · header below a dormer in the end slope · header above a dormer in the end slope · header across a chimney's foot in the end slope | |||||
| 2x10 | 22 | 3 | 37 | 25 | 67 | 154 | 4190 | plate beam over the bay's side · plate beam over the room's side · first-floor joist · second-floor joist · girder ply · stair carriage … | ||||
| 2x8 | 5 | 2 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 96 | 1893 | double header over an opening · attic floor joist · porch floor joist · porch hip rafter · firestop between the stair stringers · hanger block under the well's header … | ||||
| 2x6 | 46 | 23 | 20 | 8 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 146 | 1792 | double header over an opening · porch floor ledger spiked to the house's sill and studs · porch rafter · porch roof ledger on the house's studs · common rafter · valley jack … | |
| 1x12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 64 | finished tread · wall stringer | |||||||
| 2x4 | 53 | 48 | 25 | 38 | 10 | 26 | 90 | 290 | 2931 | corner post · stud beside an opening · stud · cripple stud · header · rough sill nailed between the studs … | ||
| 1x8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 23 | riser · ridge board | ||||||
| 1x6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 22 | ribbon |
11,596 board feet of framing lumber in 722 sticks.
Longer than 24 ft, a special order (or spliced): 1 × 4x6 34 ft (sill, long wall); 2 × 4x6 32 ft (sill, end wall); 1 × 1x6 34 ft (ribbon, let into the studs' inner faces (a10-11)); 1 × 2x4 34 ft (plate, flat on the stud heads, spiked); 1 × 2x4 34 ft (plate, end wall under a hipped end, flat on the stud heads between the long walls' plates); 1 × 2x4 26 ft (plate, end wall under a hipped end, flat on the stud heads between the long walls' plates); 3 × 2x8 28 ft (hip rafter (26.1°), plate corner to the ridge's end).
Boards (1 in nominal): rough floors 2,035 sq ft ≈ 2,035 board feet; roof boards 1,402 sq ft ≈ 1,402 board feet (plus waste).
Not in this list: masonry, the iron stirrups and anchor bolts, sheathing and siding, trim, windows and doors, roofing, nails.
Sizes follow the model, which is proportioned from the 1929 framing plans with estimated heights, not engineered. Nothing here is priced.