Mary,
I am very intrigued by these issues. Our firm is mostly engineers
(structural and mechanical) and fair number of architects too. We have
designed sprung floors for damping a dance studio floor. Also, since you
mention turnbuckles, I want to make sure you were not talking about a
trussed beam floor. We have worked on both.
We also have mechanical engineers doing a lot of work in more
sustainable technologies. I was wondering if anyone has considered
geo-thermal heating? I wonder how radiant heat in the floor would affect
the sprung floor?
We would be interested in discussing these issues.
Eric Hammarberg, Assoc. AIA
Vice President
Thornton Tomasetti
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Subject: [BP] To the congress of adepts
Maybe this could be the beginning of an ode-- to x and etc. But it's
not.
It's a few questions with the last one
being the most interesting.
Background: I was talking with a member of the Machias, Maine Grange
who's also a member of the Beehive Collective. I have to given them a
lot of credit for bringing back into service a moribund building and
doing it right and in a manner that has been respectful of the
community.
Anyway, she said they were thinking about weatherizing the windows. I
hope she is now a member of the religion that keeps the old and thinks
about a good way to make storm windows. That's the first question.
The second has to do with her idea to install radiant heat in the floors
( it's a bear to heat in downeast winters-- they usually close it for
the coldest months). I gave her the lowdown as much as I could re: the
maintenance requirements for a hit water system in that climate and the
need for more thermal mass than the wood material provides.
The third and most interesting question has to do with the spring floor.
It's not quite floating. It's somehow loosenable/tightenable via a
couple of sets of turnbuckles. I recommended she not crank on them at
all until they find someone who really knows about such things. I
suggested there might be an oldtimer around there and that I'd fly this
by you folks.
I suppose the answers to rise questions are multi-faceted (and probably
have nothing to do with ducks --- oh. How about "duckworks"
for that glossary?
I am hoping to get some wisdom from you that I can pass on to the
Grangers. Maybe there's work there for anybody bullamanka-pinheaded on
any of these questions. They don't have much money (of course, that's
what they all say). Anyway -- if interested, I can put you in touch with
each other. Let's hope they check all these out thoroughly first.
And, please, post what you know about spring floors (this one's old).
I am curious and am guessing that the knowledge is in this group.
---Mary
Tegel Design + Planning
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