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The Timber Frame Goes Up

Triassic

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The Timber Frame company arrived on site on a very wet mid-January morning. Very quickly wagon loads of components started to arrive and before long every space around the slab and up the drive was dotted with Ikea style flat packs, assorted timber and steelwork.

 

The first job was to floor out over the basement to form a flat working platform for the main house erection. The original specification called for pre-stressed concrete floor panels, these were changed to Posi-joist, as this gave us space within the joist to locate services, ducting, electrics and waste etc.

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With the basement floor in place, the sole plate was positioned, levelled and fixed ready to attach the wall panels. With every panel, piece of timber, beam and noggin precut in the factory and numbered and with a full set of drawings, the house started to take shape quickly.

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Four weeks later and the roof timbers were in place and the next job is to fit the roof.

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Redoctober

Congratulations on getting to this stage. An exciting time and things will change fairly rapidly from this point on. Good luck with the build and look forward to seeing / reading about it as it unfolds.

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Triassic
2 hours ago, Nickfromwales said:

Makes all that digging worthwhile. :) 

Basements rule!!! 

I was at a 'Do' at the village hall at the weekend, I was introduced as "the bloke who made at that noise last winter".

 

Apparently, as an incomer, I need to live in the village for at least 3 generations before I'm from round here!

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Onoff
31 minutes ago, Triassic said:

I was at a 'Do' at the village hall at the weekend, I was introduced as "the bloke who made at that noise last winter".

 

Apparently, as an incomer, I need to live in the village for at least 3 generations before I'm from round here!

 

Could be worse, you could be known as "that bloke who's fitted upskirt glass". Eh, @pocster? :)

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