Timber frame building

Find over 150+ timber frame joints and joinery examples, including, mortise and tenon, post and beam, roof joinery, compound joinery, knee braces, and foundation details.

People often ask us how a timber frame home differs from a conventional, stick built home. In this post, we’ll address some of the primary ways a timber frame home differs from a conventional stick built home.

Placing a wetting bush is the timber framing tradition to show the raise a frame process is complete.

How Much Does a Timber Frame Cost? Read more about pricing on the VTW's Blog.

Timber Framing is a Very Old Building Tradition Timber Framing is an ancient building method that goes back hundreds if not thousands of years. The building method was developed as a way to build strong and secure buildings out of large pieces of wood, without metal nails, which were expensive and labor intensive to produce.

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What could be better? Learn the basics of timber-framing and get an outbuilding in the process.

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