The Hinckley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10x10 | 17 | 1 | 18 | 1217 | porch column · porte-cochere column | |||||||
| 6x8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 96 | porch girder | |||||||
| 6x6 | 5 | 5 | 120 | post under the girder · cone centre post | ||||||||
| 4x6 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 20 | 472 | sill · bay sill · front gable sill · east gable sill · west gable sill · south range sill … | ||||
| 2x12 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 3 | 22 | 556 | turret sole segment · turret header · turret rough sill · turret top plate segment · porch beam · porte-cochere beam | ||||
| 2x10 | 6 | 18 | 47 | 70 | 54 | 195 | 4963 | first-floor joist · second-floor joist · turret first-floor joist past the east end · turret second-floor joist past the east end · front gable first-floor joist · front gable second-floor joist … | ||||
| 2x8 | 3 | 30 | 11 | 40 | 25 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 150 | 2899 | attic floor joist · turret attic joist past the east end · porch floor ledger on the front wall · porch floor joist · porch hip rafter · porte-cochere ledger on the porch's east beam … | |
| 2x6 | 53 | 39 | 44 | 54 | 28 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 1 | 257 | 3362 | cone rafter · cone rafter between · cone block between two rafters · sprocket at the cone's eave · canted bay ledger · canted bay joist … |
| 2x4 | 93 | 70 | 79 | 22 | 39 | 17 | 14 | 188 | 12 | 534 | 5556 | corner post · stud beside an opening · stud · cripple stud · header · rough sill nailed between the studs … |
| 1x8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 60 | pediment ridge board · ridge board · ridge board of the south range · ridge board of the front gable · front gable ridge board · east gable ridge board … | |||||
| 1x6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 45 | front gable ribbon · east gable ribbon · west gable ribbon · south range ribbon · west range ribbon |
19,346 board feet of framing lumber in 1220 sticks.
Longer than 24 ft, a special order (or spliced): 1 × 4x6 38 ft (sill, long wall); 1 × 4x6 32 ft (sill, long wall); 1 × 4x6 32 ft (sill, end wall); 1 × 1x6 38 ft (ribbon, let into the studs' inner faces (a10-11)); 1 × 2x4 38 ft (plate, flat on the stud heads, spiked); 1 × 1x6 32 ft (ribbon, let into the studs' inner faces (a10-11)); 1 × 2x4 32 ft (plate, flat on the stud heads, spiked); 1 × 2x4 32 ft (plate, end wall under a hipped end, flat on the stud heads between the long walls' plates); 3 × 2x10 36 ft (girder ply, spiked to the others (a10-08)); 1 × 6x8 40 ft (porch girder, outer, north, on stone piers); 1 × 6x8 34 ft (porch girder, outer, east, on stone piers); 1 × 2x8 26 ft (porch floor ledger on the east wall, spiked (a2-23)); 3 × 2x12 40 ft (porch beam, north, one of three 2x12s spiked together); 3 × 2x12 34 ft (porch beam, east, one of three 2x12s spiked together); 4 × 2x6 26 ft (rafter cut to a valley); 2 × 2x8 28 ft (hip rafter (36.2°), plate corner to the ridge's end); 1 × 2x4 26 ft (stud beside an opening (a10-29)); 1 × 2x4 28 ft (stud beside an opening (a10-29)); 2 × 2x4 26 ft (stud, sill to plate, the balloon frame's full length); 1 × 4x6 28 ft (south range sill, end wall); 1 × 2x4 28 ft (south range plate, end wall under a hipped end, flat on the stud heads between the long walls' plates).
Boards (1 in nominal): rough floors 3,730 sq ft ≈ 3,730 board feet; roof boards 3,156 sq ft ≈ 3,156 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.