Information About Vermont Timber Works:
Timber Frame and Post & Beam Design Services for Architects: We work with builders, home owners, builders and their architects to design high quality custom timber frames and post & beam frames for individual house, home and commercial projects. We rarely cut the same frame twice, although we often build on ideas that our clients like from previous timber framing projects. Our in-house structural engineer evaluates all our frames to make sure they meet all local and national building codes. Located in New England, we are experts in designing for heavy snow loads.
Architects: We pride ourselves in working with architects to make their timber framing design ideas work. We don’t do cookie cutter frames. As heavy timber manufacturers, we enjoy aesthetic and structural challenges that unique post and beam projects bring. Almost any floor plan and elevation design will work for us - as long as we can make the structural engineering work.
Structural Engineers Designing Timber Frames and Post & Beam Projects: With 20 years of experience designing complex residential and commercial heavy timber projects, our company is an excellent resource for structural engineers looking for timber design solutions. Often we can help find simple solutions for complex design problems, and are happy to help. Many times, joints that appear to require steel gusset plates can be done with traditional timber joinery. Or, an architect, builder or owner will prefer metal plate connections, that we are happy to help design. Please give us a call or send us an e-mail.
Heavy Timber Trusses – Division 06130: We design, pre-engineer and manufacture heavy timber commercial trusses that range from the very simple to the most elegant spanning from sixteen to sixty feet. Traditional wood joinery as well as metal plated connections are used. Common truss designs include: king post trusses, queen post trusses, hammer beam trusses, scissor trusses, modified trusses, and girder trusses. Click here to see typical truss designs.
Churches, Chapels and Monasteries: We love to timber frame churches and have worked on many church and monastery projects over the years. Often, we can value engineer beautiful frames ranging from simple king post truss designs with curved knee braces to complex scissor truss or hammer beam designs for the most elegant sanctuaries.
Horse Barns & Stables: Post and beam framing is perfect for the spans needed in horse barns and stables. Most barn designs are based on a 10’x12’ or 12’x12’ stall grid with a 10 foot or 12 foot center aisle. We have manufactured rustic frames out of native hemlock for country barns; and elegant stable frames out of smooth and highly finished Douglas fir wood beams. Hemlock and Douglas fir are the best choices for woods species as they are less prone to rotting and because the horses don’t like to curb on them (horses eat native white pine like candy).
Pre-finish: Most heavy timber framing is done with green timbers before the wood has a chance to dry, twist and crack – it is the best way. Once a frame is put together, the wood and/or steel plate joinery will hold the timbers in place. Checking is minimized by a coat of pre-finish or sealer applied to all surfaces including the insides of the mortise and tenon joints. Over the years, we have found that two coats of finish are even better, and now we offer a second coat of finish as an option. Please click here to find out more information on wood finishes.
Interior Designs: More and more, interior home designers and builders are turning to wood beams to add special touches to their house design projects. Beams can be rough and rustic, have a French country look, blend into a southwestern adobe house, or fit perfectly into an elegant English manor home. An interior design doesn’t have to encompass an entire house or building. Often, we will fabricate custom trusses and ceiling beams for a single room, porch, entry or Porte Cochere. Sometimes an indoor swimming pool is perfect with natural timber beams above it, and sometimes a few posts and beams make a simple living room into a home's ‘great room’. Why use faux ceiling beams when you can have the real thing?
Wood Finishes: We pride ourselves on finishing our timbers with the right color stain or paint color for an individual project. We work hard to send out samples and match our clients’ desired finish. Of course, there are natural variations in all beams, which is one of the beauties of timber design. With the right finish, timber beams can be made to look like they came straight from an antique New England barn.
Dining Halls, Pavilions, State Parks and Camper Cabins: Post and Beam timber framing is great for picnic pavilions, dining halls, camper cabins, boat houses, company gathering areas and state parks.
Wood Ceiling Beams: Using real natural wood ceiling beams is a great and inexpensive way to dress up living rooms, dining rooms, entryways, foyers, great rooms and more. We are happy to supply wood accents for any house, home or project. Why use faux wood beams when you can have the real thing?
Heavy Timber Supplier: From time to time, our clients need some beams for their projects that they plan to fabricate and install themselves. We are happy to help. Our network of timber suppliers can provide us with custom wood beam orders of Douglas Fir, Western Red Cedar, Port Orford Cedar, Native Hemlock, Native White Pine, Red Oak, White Oak, Southern Yellow Pine, Custom Curved Glue-lam Beams and more. All the timber we ship is green, S4S or rough sawn. Sizes range from 4x6’s, 6x8’s, 8x10’s, 8x12’s, and up. Please give our sales team a call for more information, and keep in mind that all our orders are custom so please allow for 4-6 weeks delivery time. A completely pre-fabricated timber frame will take 10 to 12 weeks to deliver after shop drawings have been approved.
Log Homes & Timber Trusses: Timber trusses add great accents to log homes, log houses, log cabins and log buildings. Timber trusses can span over 40 feet, and look great in luxury log homes with natural log walls. Timber Framing the roof trusses can really dress up the great room of a log house.
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