The beams of the three or four hundred year old house are now confiscated???? Approximate how much

In the countryside, it is common to see hawkers who specialize in buying the beams, doors and windows of old houses, what is this used for?

A few days ago, my mother called ** and told me that someone wanted to spend 30,000 yuan to buy the beams of my old house, she was worried that it was**, so let me go home and see, I was still a little confused after listening, is a beam worth so much money? In my eyes, it's just an old piece of wood, and I know that there are still people who often buy the doors, windows, and beams of old houses.

However, before I went back to my hometown, I still asked someone to inquire, and I learned that many of the beams are still quite valuable now, so don't throw them away or burn them as firewood. Most of the beams we see now are made of reinforced concrete, and most of the beams used to build houses in the countryside are elm and solid wood, and even some are rosewood, which are more precious wood, in the eyes of ancient furniture merchants, these are treasures!

In addition, people used to build houses for the beams of the house is still more particular, are carefully selected, especially the beams of some old houses, the selection of some good wood, even after such a year has not rotted, and some of the beams will be carved on some patterns, people in the city have never seen, usually this type of beams are more valuable.

Nowadays, many hawkers buy house beams in the countryside and sell them to furniture factories to make high-end furniture. Because Chinese style is very popular now, and some rich people are particularly keen on collecting solid wood furniture, the original dilapidated wooden beam has been doubled several times at once, and it is simply a big profit, so there will be people who want to spend 30,000 yuan to buy a beam of my house.

My family has a beam of more than 100 years, does anyone collect it?

The beams of a 100-year-old house cost more than 100 yuan. Uses of old house beams:

1. Make furniture raw materials.

Peeling off the skin on the outside of the old wood, the patterns on the inside of the wood are beautiful, and the texture is natural and clear, which is a high-quality raw material for making solid wood furniture. Therefore, a good old house beam, the role is very large, can make a lot of good quality furniture, but the purchase price is low, is the raw material that many furniture merchants are willing to use.

2. It is used for the repair of ancient buildings.

Some ancient buildings that need to be maintained are made of wooden materials, and in order to maintain them, sometimes, some wood is broken and needs to be replaced, and the old beams are a good replacement material, because the old beams are old, and the original building materials are also in line with the original building materials.

3. Used for handicrafts.

Some of the old beams can no longer be used for the whole section, but there are still some places that are intact, and such old beams can be used to make some handicrafts that do not require a large section of wood, such as beads, small ornaments, etc.

Beams in ancient buildings:

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, due to the regular arrangement of columns, the beams were mostly symmetrical. In the Tang and Song dynasties, where there is a ceiling in the building (Pingqi), the upper part of the beam is a grass oak, and the lower part is a bright oak. The indoor beams without ceilings (flat) are all made of Mingyu.

In the Yuan Dynasty building, whether there is a ceiling or not, it is mostly done according to the grass oak method. The Ming and Qing dynasties were the opposite of the Yuan Dynasty, regardless of whether there was a ceiling or not, they were all according to the Ming Dynasty.

Throughout the history of architecture, the beam section has a tendency to develop from "thin" to "fat". In the Tang Dynasty, the ratio of height to width of the Liang Fang section was mostly 2:1, and the Song Dynasty stipulated that it was 3:

2. The beam section in the Jinyuan building is mostly irregular and circular, and the beam section in the Ming and Qing dynasties is mostly 10:8 or 12:10, which is approximately square.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, due to the regular arrangement of columns, the beams were mostly symmetrical.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia - House Beam.