George W. Snow played a big impact in the world when he came up with the idea of the balloon frame housing. It allows people to have the ability to build things that could be twice as big and twice as fast doing it. Snow plays a big role in the construction side of life than anything else. In our world today people are building stuff on every piece of ground and you see the same lay out on every house and that is the structure of the house. In figure 13.23 you can see all that goes into a house when building it. It shows all the wood that makes up the house and how it is laid out when the contractor builds it. When building the balloon framing house it is really just held up by nails that are shot in the concrete with a gun that shoots with a cab that pushes the nail through the wood into the concrete. With the use of nails it made it easier to put the wood together to have an abundance of them. Snow had the idea of using wood because it was cheaper than other materiel and that it would hold up longer. Snow also made it possible to build a house with multiple stories to live on. In figure 13.23 you can see the other floors in the house and how …show more content…
In figure 13.23 you can see the cut outs in the wood where the windows and door will be at in the house. A contractor will just frame around where the windows and door will be by going off the blue print. When Snow came up with balloon framing it also allowed the idea for pitch roofs. In figure 13.23 you can see how the wood is going up and it gives the house a pitch-slope roof. You can also tell how fast the building process goes by looking at how many houses are going up at one time which means it’s faster than any other building process. Using the wood its makes it fast due to the fact that you can just nail the wood together with a nail gun which puts the boards together faster and holds them from coming