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House was begun in 1981 and worked on, off and on, for over a decade until late 1993.
Arrangement is fairly conventional 2 story, with a finished loft that is basically one large room upstairs with a huge walkin closet and loft over, that gets lots of light from a south-facing largely glass end-wall, two very large triangular windows at the peak and 3 big skylights in the roof, and several smaller, darker rooms downstairs.

Built post-on-pier, mostly out of local fir studs and cedar T-1-11 plywood from the PennTech plywood mill in Port Angeles.

    Construction was quite unconventional at the time, but used methods that were normal in boatbuilding. Many of these techniques are now very common in commercial construction, two decades later. I was fascinated with the concept of wood as an engineering material and the possibility of manufacturing components for kit-houses that could be quickly erected on site but were not ugly, uncomfortable or toxic. The development of this house addressed those issues in the following manner:
  1. Floor joists and rafters are engineered full-span 3 X 12 beams made from plywood and very high grade solid Douglas Fir. Beams and joists were fabricated on precise jigs using waterproof glue and kiln dried.
  2. Laminated stringers are let-in to the joists and rafters to form a frame.
  3. Subfloor and skin are both glued and screwed or stapled to the frame.
  4. Roof is insulated inside with 1 inch FR-stamped polystyrene T&G foam boards (blue)
  5. after a 3 inch air-gap, the roof is further insulated with continuous rolls of R-19 pink fiberglass between the rafters.
  6. Plywood skin is covered with roofing felt and then corrugated metal roofing.
  7. Downstairs floor is a plywood-pink FR foam-plywood sandwich on joists with solid shear-webs between the foam.
  8. Windows are all thermopane. Most windows use standard 34 X 76 sliding-door blanks, because in the early '80's, Sci-Fi author Frank Herbert, who used to live in Port Townsend and once owned this property, bought something like 5,000 window blanks from Belknap Glass for a very good price and then traded thermopane windows to local craftsmen for whatever he wanted. You can see them all over town.


House is situated on 7 acres of timbered land perimeter defined by 3 roads - an island of trees. House is located only 2 miles from Port Townsend, Washington City limits. Not in the mill plume. Includes 2400 sq ft metal building on slab, which has Underlying zoning for the area is rural residential, current use is manufacturing.