How to Build a Timber Frame House

In 5 days, 24 students design, cut, and raise a 24'x24' timber frame house using traditional hand tools and joinery. Shelter Institute offers this workshop 3 times each year in midcoast, Maine.

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[skyscraperjim]

Very nice. This should be the ONLY way to build wood-framed houses.

[henrod98]

Nice Work, and what a lost art true wood joints are.

[wpltreetv]

great video, close up of the chisel work is nice, and great to see the whole class working together is fitting and raising.

[funnystarchild]

I love log houses! It triggers something primitive in you. Its so warm and comfy. Humans belong out in nature. Im so sick of all this major city life and apartments.

[MrYamahaRaptor700]

Love it.

[Manu24e]

Great !!

[shelterinstitute]

@wboquist No worries -- I just wanted to clarify. We have seen timber framing companies oversize on purpose for aesthetics and that is something that we strive to avoid. But absolutely -- you often have o make a timber larger to accomodate the notching and the spans.

[shelterinstitute]

@wboquist

Sometimes timber framing members are oversized but we are an engineering firm so we're sizing our timbers to meet the structural needs of the building.

[shelterinstitute]

@stupidnamenoonecares

We sometimes incorporate the laminated lumber or even steel timbers in our frames, when designing a structure that exceeds the strength of a square-cut-timber.

[shelterinstitute]

@dogrey

No these are straight pegged.

[shelterinstitute]

@lejink The training is five days and you learn tool selection, design, joinery, engineer and tool maintenance. The VA and many corporations have sent people through this short class for job training purposes.

[shelterinstitute]

@Impresioniste

This is an interesting comment because a timber frame can be any size or shape and this particular design performs very well for extended periods of time (100 year time frame) because of the shape which sheds water away from the home.