Reinforced wooden wall

Claim 1

An improved wall for a wood frame building structure, the building structure having a foundation with a multiplicity of threaded anchor bolts projecting vertically upwards from a top surface thereof, a multiplicity of vertical, channel-free wood studs and a multiplicity of horizontal wood beams laying atop at least some of said multiplicity of channel-free, vertical wood studs, the multiplicity of horizontal wood beams having a multiplicity of channels therethrough, the improvement comprising: a multiplicity of rigid metal tie rods, each of said rods having a first end and a second end, and a body between the first end and the second end, the first end having walls defining threaded sockets dimensioned to accept the threaded anchor bolts of the foundation of the wood frame building structure and the second end having threads thereon, said multiplicity of rigid metal tie rods spaced apart from and not enclosed by the vertical wood studs; a multiplicity of tie rod end washers and fasteners, dimensioned for receipt over the second ends of said rigid metal tie rods, the washer exceeding the diameter of the channels wherein said tie rod end washers and fasteners are engaged to the rigid metal tie rod second ends such that they meet the top of the walls defining the channel of said horizontal beams in flush relation; and wherein at least a portion of the bodies of each of said multiplicity of rigid metal tie rods is not enclosed by channels.