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If you have chosen this site it suggests that you have an interest in a Timberframe or Post and Beam type home. What do the two have in common?
They both are a semi-rustic style between a log structure and a conventional stick built house. Both have a heavy timber support system which is exposed on the inside of the building and provides a very pleasing aesthetic interior.
Both apply the interior paneling, insulation, and exterior siding to the outside of the frame. What is the differance between the two?
The Post and Beam system is a butt and pass system. The joints often have to be held together with iron plates to give the system structual integrity.
The Timberframe system involves more joinery ( wood working techniques to join two or more pieces of wood) and uses mortise and tenons with oak pegs to hold the building together. This is the technique the old time craftsman used to build their homes 200 years or more ago.
Don French and Sons strive to bring the old time charme of a Timberframe building and blend it with today's style of living. To accomplish this we use a blend of modern and antique tools. The use of an adz to shape a curved plane on a piece of wood is one example. It takes time and a practiced eye to develop the ability to operate and use an adz correctly.
The mortise and tenon system allows the joints of two timbers being joined together to be pulled and held tight to each other when an oak peg is driven through the off set holes in both the mortise and tenon. The pegs can be cut off flush with the timbers or allowed to stick out as part of the structure.
Let Don French and Sons help you design a custome house that will fit your dreams. It takes time but the results will be spectacular.
Steps in Building
Cellar Hole
Foundation
"Cap" or "Deck on foundation
The Raising
Insulation
Windows
Siding
Interior petitions
Wiring/Plumbing/heating
Interior finish
Glossary of Terms
Insulation
Styrofoam
Rigid ( isocyanurate )
Fiberglass
Joinery
Mortise-and-Tenon
Shouldered Mortise-and-Tenon
Scarf Joint, Scarfing
Windbrace
Anchor-Beam Joint
Pegs
Building types
Colonial
Gambrial
Ranch
Salt-box