Timber frame joints post and beam

Being an architect who designs heavy timber homes, I've found that there is a lot of confusion between timber frame vs. timber post and beam construction, even within the industry and among professionals.

The differences in the different kind of timber building, traditional joinery versus butt joints with bolted steel plates.

Timberhaven Log Homes is well-known in the industry for providing superior customer service and log homes that are built utilizing: Kiln-dried laminated and solid logs that are dried to an average moisture content of 9% (laminated) and 19% (solid). Graded and certified materials that ensure only the finest logs and timbers are used. Wood components

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.

A few photos of one of our recent installations. As part of an entire backyard installation, we created an outdoor room built into a small slope. The stone wall…

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A mix of modern and traditional methods of joinery and assembly creates an engineered timber frame that goes up fast.

A. We use the sliding dovetail with a 1" house for our drop in floor joists.

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