Trussed

Trussed

A timber house frame standing on a bare plot in open farmland, seen from above at sunset.

Five of us · cut in the shed all winter · raised in one week

Your house cut to the millimetre in our shed, and standing on your plot five days later

See how the week goes
Drawn · Cut in the shed · Delivered on two lorries · Raised in a week · Weathertight · Drawn · Cut in the shed · Delivered on two lorries · Raised in a week · Weathertight ·
A pale timber wall frame with a window opening, roof trusses above it against a blue sky.

01 — raised April 2025

The farmhouse that was a barn

A new frame inside an old stone shell. The walls stayed, the rotten roof didn't, and the frame had to be carried in through a doorway 1.9 metres wide.

210 m² · spruce and larch · 5 days to raise · 1 beam recut on site

A row of timber roof trusses fixed along the top of a new house, sky showing through.

02 — raised May 2024

Two storeys, one crane

A family house on a narrow plot where the crane could only stand in the lane. Every panel was numbered in the order it came off the lorry.

164 m² · open-panel walls · 4 days · weathertight on day 6

A long attic room under exposed timber rafters, a wide wooden floor lit from above.

03 — raised March 2024

The room in the roof

Scissor trusses instead of ordinary ones, so the whole top floor is one room with the timber left showing. It cost a week more in the shed and nothing more on site.

120 m² · exposed rafters · 5 days · no plasterboard upstairs

Tall timber studs and diagonal braces of a new frame, seen from below against a deep blue sky.

04 — in the shed now

The one on the hill

Everything has to go up a track the lorry can't climb, so this frame is being cut in pieces two people can carry. Raising is booked for the second week of April.

98 m² · hand-carried panels · 6 days planned

A carpenter smiling as he planes a board at a bench, stacks of timber leaning behind him.

Raising week

What is standing at the end of each day, on an ordinary house of about 150 m². Weather moves it by a day at most; wind is the only thing that stops the crane.

  1. Freshly felled logs stacked at the edge of a forest.

    Monday

    Two lorries arrive at eight. Sole plates down on the slab, first walls by four.

  2. Two builders in high-vis guiding a timber wall panel with a window opening into place beside scaffolding.

    Tuesday

    All ground-floor walls up and braced. The house has rooms by lunch.

  3. Hands shaping a notch in a round log with a drawknife, pale shavings curling off.

    Wednesday

    Floor joists and deck. Anyone who wants to can walk upstairs.

  4. A hand marking a line in pencil on a pale board, sawdust on the bench.

    Thursday

    First-floor walls, then the gables. The last mark is checked against the drawing.

  5. A new frame and its scaffolding in silhouette against an orange evening sky.

    Friday

    Trusses on, membrane over, and a sandwich for everyone on the scaffold.

What it costs

Site visit and a written opinion£300

Frame drawings and engineerfrom £3,800

Frame, cut and delivered£260 per m²

Raising week, crew of five£6,500

Crane, per dayat cost

Exposed or oak detailsquoted per beam

Membrane and battens£38 per m²

Returning to check after winterfree

Floor area is measured on the drawings, both storeys. Foundations, windows, roofing and everything after the membrane are your builder's; we'll give you three names.

How to book a winter slot
A long curved building of timber posts and blue-painted beams under construction, clouds behind.

Before you ring

Eight frames a year
The shed holds two at a time and the winter holds four rounds of cutting. We book from the September before.
Planning first
We cut nothing until you have permission and building-control approval. We'll help with the drawings; we won't cut on a hope.
A flat slab
Level to within five millimetres over the whole house. Your groundworker gets our tolerances in writing a month before.
Access
Two 12-metre lorries and a crane need to reach the plot, or we cut smaller panels and carry them, which adds a day.
Visiting the shed
Saturday mornings in winter. You can see your own house in pieces, and most people bring their children.
Paying
A third when cutting starts, a third on delivery, a third on the Friday of raising week. Nothing before planning.