Toms Timber Frames
Dansk

Timber frame houses

Full post and beam frames: houses, annexes, workshops and cabins. The frame is the building. Honest timber, visible joinery, no shortcuts.

  • Timber frame annex being raised, rafters up, frame standing on screw piles
    Raising day, garden annex with covered porch
  • Complete post and beam house frame standing in a forest clearing
    House frame, ready for closing in · Latvia
  • Two storey timber frame test fitted inside a large workshop barn
    Two storey frame, test fit in the workshop
  • Finished course frame with a topping out tree on the ridge, two border collies in front
    Course frame with the topping out tree

How a frame is made

  1. 01

    Layout

    Every frame starts on the layout floor. Each timber is measured and marked against the drawing before a single cut.

  2. 02

    Scribing and joinery

    I scribe joints to fit each timber as it actually is, not as the drawing wishes it were. Mortise and tenon, cut with chisels and saws, helped along by modern Mafell machines.

  3. 03

    Raising

    The frame is test fitted in the workshop, taken apart, and raised on site. A good raising day is quiet work: everything fits because the joinery was right.