Timber Frame House (Breathable)

Viking Timber Frame Passive houses are manufactured off-site in our Irish Timber Frame factory to high quality control standards. The Timber frame house walls arrive on site pre insulated with Cellulose Insulation, with triple glazed Passive House windows fitted and with electric conduits in the walls. The Timber frame house walls are pre-finished internally with Fermacell boards, so no wet trades are required to finish the Timber frame walls. Finishing the Timber Frame house in the factory has many advantages over the traditional methods and the quality of our finished Timber Frame house in terms of performance is second to none. From our Irish base we are now delivering to the market, Guaranteed Irish Passive Timber Frame houses.

We use taped OSB on the inside of our timber frame houses to make them airtight. This allows the timber frames to breathe/dry out to the outside. We’ve achieved excellent Air tightness results as low as 0.4 air changes/hr @50Kp with this method, easily achieving the Passive Haus standard. One of our latest developments is a timber frame house twin-wall build system that totally eliminates Cold Bridging.

Our standard 300mm Timber Frame house twin-wall is insulated with dense Cellulose insulation (65kg/m2) and 50mm Wood fibreboard wind-breaking insulation externally. This gives an overall wall thickness of 350mm. Our wall build up has achieved a U-value of 0.102 from the Passive House Institute and is Cold Bridge free.

Our Timber Frame house walls have a Decrement Degree of over 12 hours giving the house a high thermal mass and excellent heat retention.

This Timber Frame wall-build up is designed to hold onto heat for a long time when you turn off the heat and to minimise daily temperature fluctuation, Fermacell absorbs noise, regulates humidity internally and is impact resistant.