Michigan Timber Frames is a small owner operated and run company of craftspeople located in Brooklyn, Michigan. The obvious quality of our frames will remain our best advertisement in the years to come. Members of the Home Builders Association of Jackson and the Timber Framers Guild of North America are fully insured and all of our work is done with the security of a written contract. We work with and for you and will go anywhere to erect a frame. Home builder and contractor inquires are welcome.
Designing your new home is one of the most important steps in the building process. It involves carefully looking at your needs, tastes, living style, building site and economics. We enjoy the fact that each house we build is unique and offers the challenging opportunity to problem solve and find the best solution for you. Providing design services to you, or to work with either your drawings or your architects in constructing your home.
Our frames are cut at our shop in Brooklyn, Michigan and trucked to your site for bent assembly and raising. A frame typically will take three to five weeks to cut depending on its size and complexity and one week to assemble and raise. All of our frames are raised with a crane to insure safety. We will need your site to be accessible to trucks, a crane, your foundation to be in and back filled and your first floor decking installed according to specifications we provide.
All of our frames are designed and cut using traditional joinery methods. Our joints are full housed and shouldered and we use interlocking joints and pegs to hold the frame together.
Our frames are typically constructed of oak, although other wood species are available. Our posts are typically 8" x 8" timbers and our floor joist and purlin are 6" x 8" though these may vary depending on your frame. We plane, chamfer and oil timbers to bring out the grain and their character.
For full details please visit the Michigan Timber Frames Web site. Telephone: 1-800-369-3284.
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