Post and Beam Construction for Residential Projects...Enjoy!

Post and Beam Construction for Residential Projects by Vermont Timber Works. Enjoy our slide show and call us to discuss your Post and Beam Home. We custom design and hand craft each timber frame...always!

Vermont Timber Works, Inc.
802-886-1917

Lets go GREEN with your Post and Beam or Timber Frame Building.

Interested in going green with your timber frame? Vermont Timber Works can help and is happy to help.

Some choices for your consideration are:

1. FSC Certified Timbers. Timbers from mills and forests that have been approved by the Forest Stewardship Council. (because forests matter) Our Katonah Bathhouse Project has Douglas Fir # 1 Better FSC Timbers. (Thanks Disdero Lumber Co.) Take a look at those LONGS!

2. Standing Dead Timbers. This is a great option for LEED points.

3. Reclaimed, Recycled or Salvaged Timbers. Resawing is an option, leave as is for the most rustic look. Reclaimed White Oak pictured below is courtesy of James and Company.

4. Location, location, location. Vermont Timber Works can work with a timber mill that is with in 500 miles of your project. That can earn LEED points.

5. Finish Options...Going with a sealer or stain that has low emissions is a good thing.

Post and Beam and Turned Columns by Vermont Timber Works

Post and Beam Construction underway for the Katonah Bathhouse in Katonah, New York. This design incorporates douglas fir heavy timber trusses with 4 douglas fir turned columns at the entry. Here is our shop drawing showing the overall design. See where our turned columns are going?

The Douglas Fir Log shown below was beautifully turned by Dave @ the Lock Deck Plant and coordinated through Dan @ Disdero Lumber Company.

Here are a few more photos of this gorgeous turned column...great job Dave and thank you Starfire Lumber Company.

Vermont Timber Works, Inc. offers fully custom post and beam construction, no ifs ands or buts!
Progress shot below, thank you Fred @ Peter Camilli & Sons!

A Post & Beam Pool House by Vermont Timber Works

Post & beam construction is great for many types of buildings. How about a post & beam pool house? The Breed Estate, located in Southern Vermont, enjoys this beautiful douglas fir modified hammer beam design for their pool house.

Above is our post & beam pool house ready to raise, lets go! Raising your timber frame can be quite exciting. At Vermont Timber Works, we do raise many of our frames, but not all of them. Interested in post & beam construction? Give us a call to find out more, 802-886-1917.

Post and Beam Constuction & MORE Tools of our Trade.

At Vermont Timber Works, we still hand craft all of our timber frames using classic timber framing tools. For example, an adze, framing chisel, mortising machines, beam saws, band saws, peg drills, slicks and more.

Doug and Peter design using Data CAD and develop detailed shop drawings which are then approved by the project architect and/or engineer. One approved, these shop drawings hit the shop floor and the fabrication begins. Need a professional engineer's stamp? Not a problem, right PJZ?
OH, and you gotta have one of these on hand at all times! A Boxer DOG.

OK, well, not really...Sorry Ruby!

Tools of our Heavy Timber Trade, Meet Lil & Hercules.

Meet Lil, she's our Lull. Lil comes in real handy for all sorts of things. Maneuvering the heavy timbers can be a challenge do to the weight and length of the beams. Lil works like a fork lift and has a nice reach also. Here Kellin is at the helm as we load fully assembled douglas fir trusses for our Spruce Peak Lodge Project in Stowe, VT. Mike is helping with Hercules, our fork truck.

Hercules and Lil make a great team... Great job Vermont Timber Works!


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Which wood timber is your favorite for Post & Beam Construction?

From the most rustic rough sawn hemlock and hand hewn pine to the more finished planed & chamfered douglas fir timbers, Vermont Timber Works does it all.

Custom Post and Beam and LEAD time...

Custom designs, traditional joinery, hand crafted timbers to the highest quality...That's what Vermont Timber Works is all about. Don't forget that these things take time. Please allow 12-14 weeks for an average size timber framing project. Planning ahead is key when choosing the custom route, whether it be custom cabinetry, custom tile arrangements or our custom designed and hand crafted post and beam timber frames. You won't find hand hewn white oak timbers like this sitting on a shelf somewhere! Isn't that beautiful? And certainly worth the wait. How about reclaimed timber? That is a tough one sometimes for lead time...as we are reminded right now.
Authentic hand hewn white oak, reclaimed from the above barn will be key to our Davis Project and we are waiting patiently (well not really patiently)...