Benefits of Timber Frames

Why Choose Timber Frames?

There are many good reasons to choose timber frames for your construction over other alternatives. For example - Timber frames enable you to move from the construction phase to a fully finished home in weeks. Your timber frame structure can be delivered to your building site, erected and roofed within days allowing other tradesmen to complete your new home in weeks rather than months.

FIRE RESISTANCE

Well built timber frames perform well even in a blazing fire. Timber frames do not flake, melt, explode or buckles when there is a fire.

Timber burns at a predictable, steady, heat which explains why firefighters prefer to enter a timber framed building as they can estimate fairly accurately how long they can safely remain in the building.

SOUND PROOFING

Timber Framed homes provide a good level of sound insulation along with thermal performance and acoustic performance.

HIGHLY ENERGY EFFICIENT

Stress graded softwood timber from sustainably managed forests in Scandinavia. The processing of timber to the finished state uses over 25% less energy than that required for other construction materials. Timber frame homes can deliver savings in heating costs of up to 40%.

With the use of breathable foil or additional insulation timber frames easily meet and exceed current u values including the new part L regulations introduced in April 06.

SUSTAINABILITY

Timber is a renewable building material unlike other building materials. Most of the main timber supplying countries have policies in place to ensure any timber that is felled is replaced and in some cases the policy is to re-grow more than is felled making it a very sustainable building material.