In addition to timber framing, we offer our wood products for sale to the general public, and to our customers to complement their timber frame home. Whenever feasible, we recycle timbers from old structures and salvage trees blown down in violent storms Lumber price list is available upon request Conservation and Longevity Conservation is required in building houses, as well as the forest products industry. Until the demand on forest resources is reduced, no management plan can cope with the over harvesting of our forests. Today's building industry, which uses large amounts of wood products in new structures with short life spans, is part of the problem. Replacing wood with other materials such as steel or structural plastics, which consume large amounts of energy in the raw material and manufacturing stages, is not the answer.
Trees are a valuable renewable resource, if managed properly.
Timber framing is one way of accomplishing conservation of timber by construction methods that allow the structure to have a longer life span. The amount of timber used is relative to the life span of a building. This method allows the use of many small pieces of structural wood to be fastened together with great quantities of nails and metal plates to build one floor at a time. Heavy timber framing concentrates the loads on a structure to a few large, mortise and tenon joined and secured timbers that are point loaded, rather than platform loaded. An economic advantage of light framing over timber framing is that it can be mass produced.