Lovely frame pt 1 of the Lustliegh project

PISSING DOWN

It's days like this that a normal person would long to be back in a big, dry workshop. 

The novelty hasn't warn off of me yet. What helps is being plugged in to Simon an Garfunkle . 

With a back drop of El Condor Passo, it's sunny in my head. 

I ve just finished putting this video together. you should recognise the build.

Sunroom

Did some snagging on the sunroom that I built in the summer. It's great to go back and see a job that's finished and being lived in. 

Why build with wood?

Why should you pay me to build you a timber frame house?

Apart from the fact that i am brilliantly talented, Artistically gifted, very experienced, terrible at spelling and unbelievably modest.

The other reason is that wood is brilliant.

Wood does grow on trees and whilst trees are worth money, trees will continue to be planted and farmed. 

Most of the oak we timber framers use is only about 50 years old. Woodlands benefit from being regularly cut and thinned out. 

Many people think of oak trees as being the big, knarly, old timers, standing alone in a field. Bit when they grow in a woodland surrounded by trees they grow nice and strait. Most of the oak we use is only about 50 yrs old.

 If you don't work a woodland it chokes itself. Woods really benefit from being regularly thinned out. 

 In a world where most things are mass produced , waste-full and environmentally unsound. The building of traditional timber frames is prodominatly the opposite.  

I can't speak for all the framers but I know a lot of the British companys and a couple of the American ones and we defiantly have the same ethos when it comes to producing quality work that is clean and environmentily sound. It's defiantly better than concrete.

 The methods I use are pretty much the same as some dood in a floppy hat and tights would have used in the medeval times, the only difference is that my saw and drill are electric and my hat is a little less floppy. 

Employing a traditional framer like me, you put money and work in the hands of some very cool, local craftsmen. From the foresters to the sawers then to me and then hopefully to some other builders ( builders are craftsmen, they are seriously undervalued, extremely skilled hard workers. It's a shame everyone assumes that they spend all their time drinking strong tea, jeans showing their ass crack, whistling at woman.)

Not only is that reson enough but living in a heavy wooden house is lovely. 

What are you waiting for?