When a timber frame is covered with SIP panels and fire-rated drywall, and the SIP panels are attached with hundreds of screws into the timbers, the resulting structure is extraordinarily strong, hurricane-resistant, and earthquake-resistant because the system acts as two houses held together.

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Pat Henan

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if this timber frame is covered with sip panels it's extraordinarily strong it's hurricane resistant it's earthquake resistant...the sips are screwed in with hundreds of screws that go into all of these Timbers so that where we almost have two houses together extraordinarily strong construction

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Timber Frame vs Conventional Stick FrameShelter Institute
Created: 8/13/2026, 9:52:18 AM

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