The Timber Wall

Traditional Framing:

If you ever have a chance to walk around an old barn or see the bones of a really old homestead shelter you’ll notice that those massive posts and beams don’t land straight on the foundation but on even larger timbers, the sills. Our forebearers built this way based on centuries of practical experience. Those sills lock in the box, as we say, making the entire frame ridged and allowed the frame to ride like a boat on top of the foundation. Today’s timber frame industry has done away with timbered sills and we feel that this is a great loss and will generally shorten the life span of the frames. (more…)

Following is an explanation of our pricing as listed on Model, Pre-Cut and For Sale structures. That little price tag you’ll see. This is also how we go about pricing our custom work, on the labour and material end of projects. (more…)

This is the brief run down of stuff you need to know about working with us and owning a timber frame or log building. There is a lot more we can and will tell you about timber frames, this is just to get the ball rolling. (more…)

How can we build better? How can we build cleaner? How can we build equitably?

By making a deal!

The deal is this: that we build healthy shelters using natural resources that nature can replenish in less time than the service life of these shelters and that we do this without regard for any factor other than that every human has the basic right to shelter. We can do the first two right now, it’s rather simple. It’s that equitably part that I have not figured out yet. Hence the ’s in, Let’s Make A Deal! (more…)