Thanks Tim!!

I think...all in all...you and I are thinking the same thoughts and are going in the same directions...

Stress Skin Panels (I know the industry disagrees with me...I get emails all the time about that!! ha, ha) is a dead end for timber frames...I don't even like them for "prefab houses."

There are way more "cons" to SIP than there are "pros" when it comes to "actual real world applications." They may be profitable and fast for GC only considering "speed and profit" but the absolutely do not create "better architecture." I know that from watching, and tearing them apart forensically over the past thirty years...

SIPs suffer from so many "ills" I can't even begin to list them all...but heck, what do I know, that's just my experience and opinion...

Blessings,

j