Large Structural Framing Timbers

As the supplier of choice to local timber frame builders, we are used to working with large dimension timbers. Your profession requires we use only the best grade of wood for the job and so at our sawmill that’s all we buy and thus all that we supply.

Our sawmill team have undergone a training and auditing process and are therefore also able to visually grade structural timbers to UKCA certification standards. A declaration of conformity can be issued for such timbers upon request – please enquire for further details if this is of relevance to your project.

We’re able to cut and supply some of the biggest graded timber in the industry. We generally cut our timber from naturally durable larch and douglas fir, sourced from sustainably managed woodlands within North Wales.

Large, custom cut structural timber posts and beams are commonly needed for renovation projects, timber framed new builds and extensions, replacement mantle pieces in inglenooks and in many other situations where heavy sections are visually and physically appropriate. We’re able to cut timbers up to 7.2m long and up to 700mm wide at our sawmill in Caernarfon, North Wales.

Large section timbers are sold at lengths of 1.8m, 2.4m, 3.6m, 4.8m, 6.1m and 7.2m, subject to log availability.

Douglas Fir and larch are classic structural timbers, chosen for their natural durability and their attractive colour and grain pattern. Douglas fir particularly is famed for the flame grain appearance of some boards cut from the butt ends of logs.

When fresh sawn Douglas fir heartwood has a pink hue, which settles with sun exposure to an orange brown. Conversely larch heartwood, when freshly from the mill has a golden brown heart; once your cladding is installed this colour deepens becoming a rich orange-brown. Depending on exposure to sun and rain, these species of timber will gently turn the classic silver-grey associated with wood cladding.

None of our timber is treated, the reasons for this are manifold: We don’t believe that the benefits of the current, legally allowed treatment are sufficient to balance the environmental impact of use of poisonous chemicals. Most coniferous species accept treatment very poorly, this is well known in the timber industry, but not widely acknowledged. It is a simple matter to cut a piece of treated timber and see that the “protection” there is barely skin deep. Because of these factors we only buy and supply naturally durable species; like spruce they too accept treatment poorly, so instead of wasting resources on a thing we know not to work – we simply supply the right timber for the right job.