Timber Framers Guild Forums General Straw Bales & Other Enclosure Systems A Proposed Simple Timber Frame Wall System

If you plaster flush to the inside of the timbers, won't your corner posts completely disappear? And the braces and girts will be buried in the wall?

I like that wall as well, and will be building a variation of it this spring. I would also add foam over the sheathing for a number of reasons.

When I've done walls with infill framing, I've used two methods to deal with the plaster/timber interface. You can just plaster or flat tape to the timber or you can use zip strip for a reveal. If you're using old timbers, or if you're working on your own house and you wait 5 years to finish it (who me?) there's very little timber shrinkage and movement.

The other option is what we call zip strip, I think it's actually called trim tex tear-away bead. It's usually spray adhesived over the sheetrock, and then skimmed over with plaster or mud. It makes a very clean even reveal. It probably could stick to a basecoat of lime plaster, and then be skimmed over. Or maybe could make your own version with a beveled wooden ground?

I will be putting 3 coat lime plaster on the walls of my house in a few weeks. I'll let you know how it goes.

Gabel, sounds like you need to build.

Oh yeah, hadn't thought about corner posts...if you held the plaster back 3/4" from the face of the frame you'd have a funny little triangular column of wood in each corner. Maybe run a lamb's tongue chamfer on the edge of each corner post for a point of interest?

For braces I like Gabel's idea of orienting them to the inside face of the frame. Any reasons - structurally speaking - why this would be less ideal than centering braces or holding them to the exterior face as usual?

Miles