A Timber Frame is cut to fit together like a puzzle through Mortise and Tenon joinery (which locks together and creates a tremendously strong frame) and held together with wooden pegs. No metal is involved in the framing.
Post and Beam frames are typically milled timbers with square-cut ends held together by steel plates and bolts.
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“Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen. It is the same with dreams.”
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