What is Timber Frame?

• It is versatile, efficient AND looks the same as any other house in your street.
• Timber Frame is economical, quick to build, warm, durable, comfortable, green, sustainable and BEAUTIFUL.
• Inside they have plastered walls and painted woodwork. Outside they are clad in brick, stone, render – whatever you want. Take a look at our photogaphs on our Micro Living and Timber Clad Bulding pages - all these structures are built using a timber frame structural envelope.
• Think of a conventional cavity wall in a masonry home: it usually consists of an outer-leaf of brick work separated from an inner-leaf of concrete blocks by a 50mm (2 inch) cavity. In a timber frame house the same configuration applies except the inner-leaf concrete blocks are replaced with an engineered, factory produced timber wall panel. The wall panel consists of vertical timber studs onto which is fixed a plywood or composite sheet material and between which is filled with high-tech insulation. Plasterboard is then fitted after the services have been installed to give you a plaster wall like any other home.

Timber Frame is the way our ancestors built their homes, their barns, their workplaces. Timber has been used by man for putting a roof over his head since he climbed down from the trees it grows on.