Our Guide to Oak Framing encapsulates much of our twenty-year experience in building some of the UK’s finest oak frame buildings. Although it’s detailed, it’s also written in an approachable, understandable way – but if you have any further questions about your oak frame project, please call. We’ll be happy to help.

Building an oak frame home is, for most people, a once-in-a-lifetime project. Our free Guide to Oak Framing can help – by providing essential, detailed information about oak frame designs and building methods.

Our Guide to Oak Framing embodies our expertise as the producer of more bespoke, hand-crafted oak frames than any other UK company – we’ve been featured no fewer than three times on Channel 4’s Grand Designs, for our oak framed homes. Our guide is designed to give you the information needed to make a success of commissioning and building a timber framed home.

Download the free Guide to Oak Framing (PDF document 1.4MB)

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Oak framing – help with your project, by experts in timber frames

Our Guide to Oak Framing will provide the answers to many common issues which arise when embarking on an oak frame project, including:

• how to find the most suitable oak framing company.
• how oak frames are manufactured – the pros and cons of different oak  framing methods.
• selecting timber (usually oak, but can be other woods such as larch and birch) for your timber frame home.
• whether your oak frame home will need an architect or project manager – and how to select these.
• why Carpenter Oak & Woodland builds its frames by hand.
• ensuring that the oak framer you choose has adequate insurance.
• the environmental issues and benefits of an oak frame.
• places where oak framed homes can be erected.
• what the costs of building an oak frame home will be.
• the value an oak frame can add to a house.
• how long an oak frame can be expected to last.
• the maintenance of an oak frame.
• how an oak frame is held together.
• getting an NHBC certificate for an oak frame house.
• different oak frame designs (such as traditional and contemporary).
• whether oak framed timber houses need special foundations.
• can oak frames be built on sloping ground?
• whether the oak frame needs treating in any way.

…and much, much more.

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Whatever your oak frame project

Whatever the nature of your oak frame project, our guide is here to help, whether you are building:

• an oak frame house/home.
• an oak frame extension to an existing house/home.
• an oak frame conservatory or garden room.
• an oak frame for an indoor swimming pool.
• an oak frame golf club house.
• oak frame offices or work premises.
• any kind of oak frame public building such as a school, church or mosque.
• an oak frame visitor centre.

Download the free Guide to Timber Framing (PDF document, 1.4MB)