Our Guide to Oak Timber Framing encapsulates much of our twenty-year experience in building some of the UK’s finest oak timber-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 timber frame project, please call. We’ll be happy to help.

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

Our Guide to Oak Timber Framing embodies our expertise as the producer of more bespoke, hand-crafted oak timber frames than any other UK company – we’ve been featured no fewer than three times on Channel 4’s Grand Designs, for our oak timber 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 Timber Framing (PDF document 1.4MB)

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

Our Guide to Oak Timber 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 timber framing company.
• how oak timber 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 timber-framer you choose has adequate insurance.
• the environmental issues and benefits of an oak timber frame.
• places where oak framed homes can be erected.
• what the costs of building an oak timber frame home will be.
• the value an oak frame can add to a house.
• how long an oak timber frame can be expected to last.
• the maintenance of an oak timber frame.
• how an oak timber frame is held together.
• getting an NHBC certificate for an oak timber frame house.
• different oak timber-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 timber frame needs treating in any way.

…and much, much more.

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Whatever your timber frame project

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

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

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