What to pay attention to when renovating a half-timbered house?
The use of traditional materials such as loam, lime and linseed oil is important. The beams are treated with linseed oil. The half-timbered fields will be plastered with loam and lime. Gaps in the half-timbered fields will be filled with light clay blocks or plastered the old substance with loam.
The separation between half-timbered fields and timber truss beams is particularly important. So that water can penetrate and evaporate again, a trowel cut must be made. There won't be any mold formation.
You should not putty or fill in the wooden beams, this can lead to rot formation. An alternative to this is wood-in-wood works, this is also called wedging out.
Wood preservation is also important, that means wide roof overhangs and the plinth edge should have a reasonable rain run-off edge
half timbered field filling: light clay blocks
plaster: loam and pure lime plaster (own mixture)
paint: lime or mineral paints, open to vapour diffusion