Timber frame raising and the possibility of a ‘dry run’.

Although we manufacture all our oak timber frames in the comfort of our capacious and comfortable workshop, for the most part we never get to see the frame in it’s 3 dimensional glory until the day of the raising. This is why we get as excited as the clients as the structure takes shape.

We may have laid out and assembled a whole crossframe on trestles, but we can’t stand it upright for obvious reasons!

Occasionally with smaller frames however, it is possible to “dry run” the assembly in the workshop, especially if in doing so, it enables us to work out trickier aspects of the roofing joinery that would normally be left until we are on site.

I don’t know about you, but I’d rather solve a problem in the warm and dry than at the end of a long hard day, under the pouring rain with the client looking on!