ABOUT OAK FRAMED BUILDINGS

Oak framed buildings are made from green oak, which is not weathered. It shifts with time changes in humidity, and this must be taken account in the structure and joints, which are normally fixed with oak pegs.

Oak framed buildings may be used for complete dwellings, or for garages and outhouses. They have enormous character, which increases with age.

The leading suppliers of oak framed buildings, listed after the panel of sponsored links below, have informative websites, with information on oak structures and cladding, and on the design, installation and maintenance of oak framed buildings.

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LEADING UK OAK BUILDING SUPPLIERS

Brookwood Barn Company: Oak Buildings. Brookwood Barn Company is based in Winchester, Hampshire. It obtains its oak from local sources registered with the Forestry Stewardship Council, ensuring all oak is from English sustainable forests. Brookwood Barn Company machines all its own oak posts, oak tie beams, eave plates, top plates, sole plates, studwork, and knee braces. Natural bends in the timer are used to give rigidity and resilience to the wind and roof braces and the tie beams. Ledge and braced oak doors are finished using handmade rosehead nails.

English Heritage Buildings: Oak Buildings. English Heritage Buildings supplies oak framed buildings throughout the UK. It offers a complete service, including survey, design, manufacture, and construction. To complete the traditional appearance of its oak buildings, it offers a range of heritage elements, such as narrow bricks, and hand forged door furniture. All the oak frames are joined by dowelled mortice and tenon joints. Windows and doors may be in oak or softwood.

Prime Oak: Oak Buildings. Prime Oak supplies oak framed buildings. These are mostly as garages, stables, or conservatories. Prime Oak continues the historic tradition of building oak buildings with heavy frames, where the shaped ends of the oak structural members are connected with dowels. The buildings are constructed and assembled offsite, and are dismantled for transport to the client's location.

Rookery Barns: Oak Buildings. Rookery Barns, based in Oakhanger, Hampshire, is a maker of traditionally constructed timber framed garages and outbuildings. Everything seen from outside is made from oak, including the posts, heads, curved corner braces, securing pegs, and cladding. Treated and graded Scandinavian pine is used for the stud walls and roof timbers. No further treatment of the timber is needed other than repainting softwood joinery items such as doors and window frames every five years or so.

Click here for an easy-to-use listing of leading UK suppliers of oak buildings, provided by Archbone.

Other useful links relevant to oak buildings and suppliers:

Modular & Portable Building Association

Timber Research & Development Association

DETAILED INFORMATION RESOURCES ON OAK BUILDINGS

We recommend the following professional construction directories, which include manufacturers' specifications and CAD details: Barbour Compendium at www.barbourcompendium.co.uk, RIBA Product Selector Plus at ww.productselector.co.uk, ASC Bricsnet at www.ascinfo.co.uk, Building Products Index at www.bpindex.co.uk, British Board of Agrément at www.bbacerts.co.uk, British Standards Online at www.bsonline.bsi-global.com.

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Other recommended portals: Archbone, Building Design, Homeone Australia, Lighting Directory, Sapling, Stone Network.

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