Timberbuilt’s timber & panel package
Our timber frame services include home design, engineering, production and assembly of your timbers and SIPs (Structural Insulated Panels) anywhere in North America
What We Do
By hiring Timberbuilt, you’re committing to a collaboration in building your home. The extent of your involvement is up to you.
Whether you act as your own general contractor, perform a full DIY timber frame build, or hire a general contractor — make no mistake: we are only a piece of the building team. Timberbuilt is your architect, your engineer and your timber framing workforce built into one but our process relies on your local tradesmen to shingle the roof, install the siding, the drywall, and all of the finishings and mechanicals.
We handle the design, engineering, and the production and assembly of your timbers, along with your wall and roof panels.
By sticking to what we’re best at, we can offer our services to anyone across North America. We’ve found that combining Timberbuilt with local tradesmen is the most cost-effective option for you to receive the highest quality of workmanship throughout your home.
When you sign a timber & panel package with Timberbuilt the four core services you will receive include,
- House design
- Engineering (construction drawings)
- Timber & SIP production
- Erecting the shell
1. HOUSE DESIGN
We complete the design work in-house. As a Timberbuilt client you will work one-on-one with our design team to customize your home’s layout until you have the perfect floor plan, one that fits your lifestyle and your property.
Most of our clients take one of our signature designs and modify it as needed (all of our designs can be customized). This is the most cost-effective option, and also the one with the quickest turnaround time. A start from scratch custom home is possible, however, this typically adds time & cost to the design phase.
By the time the design process is finished our team will have created a 3D model of your future home. We will build the model with colors & materials of your choice, so that you can see what your house will look like once it’s complete.
2. ENGINEERING & ENERGY ANALYSIS
We’ll ensure your project is compliant with building codes and specifically engineered for your particular property and climate. We facilitate the mechanical and structural engineering necessary for your timber and panel home, including fully engineered plans (stamped construction drawings).
We also work with Trautman Engineering to provide 3-D energy modeling and real time weather simulations to calibrate the exact requirements for your climate control systems.
3. TIMBER & SIP PRODUCTION
Pre-finished, edge-routered, custom stained interior and exterior timbers with hand-crafted mortise and tenon joinery. We use either white pine or Douglas fir for the interior. Exterior timbers will be cedar or Douglas fir.
Our jointers test fit your home’s frame in the shop before we send the timbers to the job site. This guarantees a perfect fit so that there aren’t any unexpected delays as we raise your home.
Walls and roof are precision cut Insulspan SIPs with expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation core and exterior skins of oriented strand board (OSB). Our standard wall panel is 6.5″ thick and our standard roof panel is 10.25″. The SIPS offer a near airtight envelope and outstanding energy efficiency.
4. ONSITE CONSTRUCTION
Our field team travels to your site and builds your timber frame (onsite construction is available anywhere in North America).
We assemble the timber frame using walnut pegs to interlock the joinery. With our hybrid style of building, the SIPs make up a structural part of the home.
Once the shell is finished we seal the panels at the seams with spray foam insulation. Here’s what a Timberbuilt house looks like once the shell is up.
Pricing
Final timber and panel package pricing includes all costs for our field team, shipment of your timbers and panels, and any heavy equipment rentals needed for construction (on most job sites we’ll use a telehandler from a local rental company).
Because we build all over the United States Timberbuilt’s pricing is determined on a case by case basis. Please contact us to learn more about how much our package costs.
