Timber Frame
Reach out today to take your project further with ADKTC. Our team can engage with a you whether you have a full architectural plan set, or an idea that you want to see built. Our team brings together the client, timber framer, architect, and engineer from day one to ensure that the whole team is working smoothly to get your project from concept to raised timber.
New timber frames begin with design. Our team can work well with you and your builder & architect, or we are happy to welcome you into our mix. Design work is done in Cad and is easily shared with industry professionals and with you via 2d sheet sets and 3d online model viewers. We can limit our work to full timber plan sets, or provide architectural and fully stamped engineered drawings. Our team integrates well with the leading SIPS manufacturers to ensure that your project is sucsessful past the raising of the timber frame.
Have a Historical restoration project? Reach out today to set up a phone call and site visit to asses the current state of the structure and understand your future dreams.
A benifit of working with ADKTC is that Jack, the owner, is intergrated fully with every project and decision. When a question needs an answer, Jack will speak for the timber framer's perspective. If there is an issue that comes up, Jack will deal with it directly. Having the one on one connection with the owner allows for both piece of mind and effecency in solving problems.
New timber frames begin with design. Our team can work well with you and your builder & architect, or we are happy to welcome you into our mix. Design work is done in Cad and is easily shared with industry professionals and with you via 2d sheet sets and 3d online model viewers. We can limit our work to full timber plan sets, or provide architectural and fully stamped engineered drawings. Our team integrates well with the leading SIPS manufacturers to ensure that your project is sucsessful past the raising of the timber frame.
Have a Historical restoration project? Reach out today to set up a phone call and site visit to asses the current state of the structure and understand your future dreams.
A benifit of working with ADKTC is that Jack, the owner, is intergrated fully with every project and decision. When a question needs an answer, Jack will speak for the timber framer's perspective. If there is an issue that comes up, Jack will deal with it directly. Having the one on one connection with the owner allows for both piece of mind and effecency in solving problems.
Services
Design
Our team can take your concept and turn it into a timber frame or begin with your existing plan set and integrate our work within it. All ADKTC projects, with limited exceptions, are stamped by an engineer of record. We work with the premier engneeering firm for timber frame construction and have the ability to stamp in 49 out of the 50 states and 5 Canadian provinces. Our team can design your home from scratch and we often will issue full plan sets from the foundation up to ensure that the timber frame is accounted for at all stages of the project.
A timber frame home/cabin/barn/shed/carport/addition/etc all begins with design. Fine craftsmenship and fine design work go hand in hand. When the tools come out to the timbers we are no longer drafting joinery, we are cutting wood.
A timber frame home/cabin/barn/shed/carport/addition/etc all begins with design. Fine craftsmenship and fine design work go hand in hand. When the tools come out to the timbers we are no longer drafting joinery, we are cutting wood.
Timber Frame
ADKTC takes over a decade of timber cutting experience to craft hand cut joinery on timbers to create your building. We utilise the most up to date timber specific power tools and the sharpest chisels to finish every joint by hand to ensure quality and efficiency in the shop.
After design work has finished, timbers are ordered, shop drawings drafted, and work in the shop begins. All joinery is cut indoors and finished timbers are oiled and stored under cover until raising day.
Raising the frame is an exciting time. ADKTC's team and often the local GC (and client!?) all meet with a crane to raise the frame. Often it is the case that design & cutting labor accounts for 90-95% of the time working, and the frames are raised in the remainder.
If ADKTC has been part of the conversation surrounding the procurement and install of the SIPS (structural insulated panels) then ADKTC remains onsite to ensure that they are installed to safetly and to spec.
After design work has finished, timbers are ordered, shop drawings drafted, and work in the shop begins. All joinery is cut indoors and finished timbers are oiled and stored under cover until raising day.
Raising the frame is an exciting time. ADKTC's team and often the local GC (and client!?) all meet with a crane to raise the frame. Often it is the case that design & cutting labor accounts for 90-95% of the time working, and the frames are raised in the remainder.
If ADKTC has been part of the conversation surrounding the procurement and install of the SIPS (structural insulated panels) then ADKTC remains onsite to ensure that they are installed to safetly and to spec.
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“Jack renovated our barn with historic sensitivity and skill that would have made the original builders proud. On careful inspection of the repairs and joinery, it’s clearly the work of a master craftsman. And it was so fun! Jacks’ boundless enthusiasm and energy is infectious. I was amazed at what he got done in a day. Absolutely precise and careful work, finished on time and on budget. We’re grateful to Jack and recommend him wholeheartedly. It’s such a beautiful space now, and we did our part for history.”
"For 33 years I searched for someone who would be interested in saving my old dilapidated barn. One look and the other contractors and builders said “ no.” Jack, on the other hand, spent time looking at the old barn and taking notes- a precursor display of his keen interest and dedication to working with old wood beams and timber. His vision and ability to work through COVID bumps in the road moved the project along. He astounded us with his passion for wood and his talent especially considering the size and weight of the old wood pegged timbers. We could never have imagined that the old barn restored would keep the integrity of the history while looking like art sculpture."
About Jack
Jack grew up in Elizabethtown and the surrounding mountains. An artist and worker, Jack is a craftsman. Jack is always learning and has had many mentors including, but not limited to, timber framers, carpenters, furniture makers, scientists, and potters. Jack enjoys timber framing as it is the culmination of artistic perfection that he sees as mindful, hard work. To Jack, timber framing is simple at its surface- "measure, cut, fit" -but relies on years of experience and dedication to the craft to execute well.
Jack enjoys bringing napkin sketches provided by clients to new timber frame structures. He also enjoys knocking apart 200 year old barns with large hammers and scarfing in new material. Jack likes to direct the assembled team towards building the client's dream structure with locally sourced timbers and time honored techniques. Jack utilizes the latest in design software to think through processes and communicate successfully.
When thousands of board feet of new timber is delivered, Jack gets excited - it is time to directly apply planning to timber.
Jack enjoys bringing napkin sketches provided by clients to new timber frame structures. He also enjoys knocking apart 200 year old barns with large hammers and scarfing in new material. Jack likes to direct the assembled team towards building the client's dream structure with locally sourced timbers and time honored techniques. Jack utilizes the latest in design software to think through processes and communicate successfully.
When thousands of board feet of new timber is delivered, Jack gets excited - it is time to directly apply planning to timber.