How we do it: Carpentry

Carpentry

While the timber is being prepared by our suppliers, we issue the workshop construction drawings to and brief our carpentry team. Depending on the timber materials being used, the frame and structural panel carpentry is normally carried out in the workshop. The timbers will be laid out, marked, cut and often pre-assembled as trusses, cross-frames, wall-frames, floor frames and roofs. In traditional post and beam carpentry, every joint will have been assembled at least once before the frame is transported to site and erected. Traditional carpenter’s marks are usually carved in each member to aid installation, but we can omit these, if you prefer.

When CLT panels are used as part or all of the construction, these will be designed and specified by TFCo, manufactured overseas and ideally delivered straight to site where they are assembled in situ.

We are building with a greater variety of timber materials, all of which require a high standard of carpentry skills. Most of these are transferable, particularly on site where lifting operations and material logistics are crucial to both traditional and contemporary installation. As often as possible, the carpentry team that prepares the frames in the workshop will install them on site.