Sometimes you have to do it the hard way: installing timbers when the roof is already in place. Whether you call it retrofitting timber or the hard way to build a timber frame, the idea is similar to building a ship in a bottle–only harder. For starters, you’ve got to figure out how to budge […]
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Schuylerville NY Timber Framers Guild Community Building Project
Once or twice a year, something extraordinary happens. The Timber Framers Guild partners with a local non-profit or community to build a timber frame. Timber framers and volunteers come together to help raise the frame, the local community feeds the volunteers, and almost always, something magical happens: communities get stronger, friendships develop, and a bond […]
Commercial Timber Frame: River Ridge Meats
Building a commercial timber frame can be good for business, and we hope that’ll be the case for the timber frame porch we’re crafting for River Ridge Meats new processing facility in Grayson County, VA. 5 Questions for Brantley Ivey (River Ridge Manager) Why are you building this facility? It’s a big step toward vertically […]
Repurposed Timber Frame Barn Becomes Family’s NC Mountain Home
The idea? Repurpose a great old timber frame barn by designing a new home around it. Design by Platt Architecture, PA http://www.plattarchitecture.com
A Peak Inside Carolina Timberworks’ Shop
Watch what its like to be in our shop as we scribe, assemble, and fit a timber frame roof for a repurposed timber frame barn. To watch the installation of this work, watch the next video…
Reclaimed Beams in Charlotte: Google Fiber
Where Google Fiber chose to put their Charlotte offices was a surprise: they re-imagined the typical high-tech office space by remodeling a more than 100-year-old historic post and beam building. Guess who was chosen to restore the historic reclaimed beams?
What does a timber framer’s own home look like?
Eric Morley and his wife build a hybrid timber frame home on the New River in Virginia…
Reclaimed Wood Timber Frame in New York’s Finger Lakes Region
Guaranteed way to beat the heat this summer: Spend 3 minutes following our crew as they build structural timber frame trusses from reclaimed wood in our North Carolina shop, and then erect them on the shore of one of the Finger Lakes in New York…in January…