Whether you need a set of trusses for a small cabin or a full timber frame home,
MoreSun can help you achieve the results you want.
A typical series of steps that occur during the timber framing process:
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- Initial client meeting
- Architectural floor plans drafted
- Elevations and conceptual timber frame design
- Budgeting value engineering (if needed)
- Structural engineering and shop drawings
- Order timber
- Layout and cutting of each timber
- Test fit frame and drill peg holes
- Finishing, usually sanding and oiling
- Delivery to site
- Assembly and raising
- Celebration!!!
- Enclosure of frame (either by MoreSun or others)
- Remainder of the home is completed by local General Contractor
A glimpse of MoreSun's part of the timber framing process:
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Measuring a forked timber
![](https://moresuntimberframes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/timber-wrench.jpg)
Laying out measurements on timbers
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Cleaning a mortise joint
![timber frame raising day](https://moresuntimberframes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/test-fit-in-shop-lg-email.jpg)
Test fitting a timber frame in the shop
![timber frame raising day](https://moresuntimberframes.com/wp-content/uploads/ngg_featured/longhallh-assortment-of-cut-timbers-ready-to-raise8.jpg)
Timbers assembled on site and ready for raising
![timber frame raising day](https://moresuntimberframes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/yy-Ben-using-the-timber-wrench-while-Carlton-fits-knee-brace-in-place.jpg)
Raising a timber frame on site
![timber frame raising day](https://moresuntimberframes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/the-wetting-tree.jpg)
Attaching whetting bush after raising
![timber frame raising day](https://moresuntimberframes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/zzzz-men-and-frame-lg-email.jpg)
Crew after long days of raising a timber frame
![timber frame raising day](https://moresuntimberframes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/roofing.jpg)
Roofing a new barn timber frame