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Originally Posted by leeelmer
Hi Guys,
We my wife and I have decided that we are going to sell our mobile(I know terrible time to sell anything)
And we are looking at building a Timber Frame home. We are building it ourselfs, my father built log homes for many years, and he is going to help.
10"x10" white pine timbers, everything on the house except the roof will be wood.
Does anyone on here own a timber frame?
Things to look for? to do? Not to do?
I will be doing all the joint work in Mortise and Tendon joints with oak pins.
32' wide by 40feet long, with a half loft, 10'walls, and 14' from top of the wall to the ridge.
I have a local saw mill that has some great wood to mill all my lumber and my beams. So that part is taken care of.
Thanks
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We built a Timber Frame inn 05-06, all Douglas fir posts a 10x10, beams are 10x12. Exterior is stucco with steel roof. Roof pitch is the only change I would make, it is12/12 I wanter 8/12 but architect thought it would be more spectacular. I should have listened to my self. All the material had laid for three years before being milled and we still had a few beams check, as wide as an inch.