Wall construction idea

[cheesehead]

I have no plans for a perm house yet but I do have an idea.

Structural insulated panels for wall construction. using water based contact cement or polyurethane glue laminate 1.5" of extruded foam insulation between two layers of lauan plywood. run a 1x2 furring strip along the top and bottom to provide a fastening surface for the frame and roof. The foam itself has 25 psi compression strength so coupled with the plywood it should be more than strong enough to support any kind of roof load we could ever place on it. the weight savings would come from no studs and headers being needed.

Tell me what you think.

[love to hunt]

I like it. Sounds pretty labor intensive but could be worth it if it turns out.

[EDT]

I saw a house at Game Fair a couple of years ago that was constructed similar to that.

The insulation was fantastic, and a 6-4x12 was light enough that I could pick up one end of it myself.

[TeddyBoy]

Sounds very time-consuming but to each their own...I saw a shack that used scratch-and-dent type flush insulated garage door panels. The panels were very light and prefinished metal on both sides. Even the roof was made with them. If a person can find them used or lightly damaged, I think this would be a good option too.

[CatManLee]

When I worked in construction, we made houses out of them. I don't know where, but ours were ordered from someplace pre-made. If you had them pre-made...It's a peice of cake to build a house. Some of our houses, even had the roof areas made/built with these. You could have the walls, and roof up in a day EASY!!!

[nytelyter]

i live right next to a sip wall factory here in lester prairie its called poly foam i hope i can say their name as i do not work or have any other affilaltions with them. ... paul

[Farley]

My uncle builds commercial refridgerators and coolers, the kind you drive forklifts in, and he built a fish house with some two inch panels, I think it's 6.5 X 12. You just mount some channel to the frame to hold the panels. The panels are tounge and groove, you just run a bead of caulk along that and they slide together. Cut 45's for the corners and use the trim to hold them together. The panels are just 2" of foam and a piece of small guage sheetmetal on each side. Expensive though. He put it on an alum. frame he had built and that thing is light as a feather.

[Gadgetman]

There is a place in Onamia called Northstar Outback, across from the Holiday station. He has truck loads of lightly damaged insulated garage door panels for sale. He has sold a lot of them for fish houses and hunting shacks. Looks like they work pretty nice

[fishinalot]

I'm not sure about this, but I think he went out of business this summer.