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Dwellings was contracted to supply the red oak timber frame truss roof system out of locally harvested timber. Three truss styles were used: king post with struts, live-edged scissor, and arched brace trusses, with purlins filling out the roof frame. The rest of the house includes strawbale construction, some earthen plastered walls, radiant heat floor, a real stone masonry heater with bake oven, wood, solar, and propane water heating, grid-tied solar power, a rain water catchment system, pine and cedar wrap-around porch with round cedar posts. |
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