Hunting, Vacation, Lake, Colorado Timber Frame Cabin

Have you ever wanted to build a beautiful timber frame cabin in the woods, lake, or mountains? How about a Colorado Mountain Cabin or a hunting cabin in the Pennsylvania?

At Davis Frame, we're pleased to announce that our Classic Cabin series of timber frames makes this an easy and affordable possibility.

Our Classic Cabin series are ideal for hunters, hikers, campers, or simply those who want to get away from it all and enjoy Thoreau-like simplicity at its finest. Ranging from 260 up to 1800 square feet, these timber frame cabins can be a beautiful and simple solution to your vacation home needs, guest house accommodation, or even a tea house or studio.

• Select from either eastern white pine or Douglas fir.

• Common rafter system timber frame, or ridge beam common rafter depending on the style.

Call now for prices and be ready to enjoy your new timber frame cabin for the first mayfly hatch of the season!

Energy Star Timber Frame Home in Vermont

Davis Frame timber frame company is proud to announce that one of our client’s timber frame homes qualified for an Energy Star rating. The client home in Central, Vermont was Energy Star rated five star plus which nearly exceeds perfection. The home is a 4407 square foot home is a hybrid home which incorporates both timber framing as well as a conventionally built system.

The timbers in the home are Douglas fir and is insulated with structural insulated panels, 4-1/2 wall panels (R21) and 10-1/4 EPS roof panels (R38).

In order to become an Energy Star home the Vermont couple had a blower door test which measures the air tightness of the home. To help create a more energy efficient home, high energy efficient doors, windows and appliances were incorporated into the home.

How we can help build your Energy Star Timber Frame Home

Davis Frame Company's timber frames ensure that your timber frame home contains extremely high-quality craftsmanship combined with energy-efficient structural insulated panels (SIPs) in the wall and roof system to create an extremely energy efficient green house by design. With the use of passive solar into the design of your new timber frame home, energy efficient windows, and SIPs, a highly energy efficient home can be built that can be far superior than a typical log or conventional "stick-built" home.

Our in house design team has a wealth of knowledge in Green Building Design, which fits in perfectly with our company's goal of providing energy efficient homes. We can help your home or commercial buildings meet Energy Star standards.

More on Energy Star

There are many benefits for getting an Energy Star rating for your new timber frame home which include a federal tax break as well a significant saving in energy costs. There are some quick and easy solutions to make your current home more energy efficient such as the following:

• Energy Star appliances
• Qualified programmable thermostat
• Compact fluorescent light bulbs
• New highly efficient windows and doors
• Do it yourself sealing of air leakage
• Use ceiling fans
• Adding more insulation to your attic could help reduce energy costs since a lot of heat is lost through this space
• Replace your old HVAC heating and cooling system with an Energy Star rated system
• Use Energy Star rated AC window units

Please visit Energy Star or SIPA for more on blower door tests.

About Davis Frame Company: Davis Frame Company's mission is to provide customers with the finest timber frame homes. Learning, growing and adapting over time has meant incorporating the latest advances in design and production, integrating more efficient building systems into home designs, and embracing new materials and technologies.

“The energy efficiency of our timber frame home is an unanticipated benefit which we are now appreciating. We’re very happy with our choice!”- Joan and Brian

Building a Green Timber Frame Home in Vermont

There is nothing quite as rewarding for a timber frame company to build a completely off-the-grid green timber frame home. Davis Frame Company, along with our partners, was more than happy to take on this challenge presented by one of our clients.

Off-site solar panels and collectors.

The timber frame home was designed by Sam Sherrill and overseen by our president, Jeff Davis. With a thick portfolio of building our timber frame homes, builder Dave Dutton, from Dutton Construction, Killington, VT, served as the timber frame assembler and builder.

This 3014 square foot modified Salt Box home, located on 80 acres in Central Vermont, incorporated the following into the design and plan:

• Passive Solar in design taking advantage of south facing lot to receive maximum sun exposure for the winter months.
• Reclaimed Douglas Fir timbers.
• Principal Common Rafter timber frame system.
• Insulated with Structural Insulated Panels (R-26 walls; R-40 ceiling)
• Loewen windows for maximum energy efficiency.
• Rogue Valley doors.
• Trim is inland cedar by Potlatch which is FSC certified cedar.
• Use of solar panels.
• Geothermal heat pump.
• Grid-tied photovoltaics.
• Masonry stove (used to store heat) - Tulikivi.
• Use of Energy Star appliances.
• Uses minimum to none VOC paints.
• Uses compact florescent bulbs (CFB) which are proven to be the most energy efficient.

Davis Frame and our partners designed this dream timber frame home and with green building techniques that served to to exceed passive solar design and energy efficiency standards. The home owner was concerned with green elements and designed his home in such a way to be self-sufficient and completely off the grid.

If you have any additional questions on this timber frame project or would like to learn more about building your green timber frame home or building, please feel to contact Davis Frame Company today!

Want a Green Home? Build a Timber Frame!

In an article from realtor.org, 15 eco-friendly home trends and must-know terminology are outlined. Included in this list are the benefits of timber frame homes:

"Timber framing: Timber framing requires significantly less lumber than the traditional “stick-built” housing and almost always incorporates superior insulating panels (SIPS), which keeps heat and air conditioning from escaping the house. There’s less waste when large timbers are used, compared with conventional construction that produces sawdust and waste every time a 2-by-4 stud is planed, says Frank Baker, president of Insulspan and Riverbend Framing, part of PFB Corp. in Calgary, Canada. In addition, less energy is needed to power machines and kiln dry wood because timber framing uses freshly cut wood, he says. Timbers are prefabricated and arrive at the building site ready to be assembled, paring construction waste. Costs vary according to finishes selected, just as they do with stick-built housing."

The energy efficiency of a timber frame is exceptional. In our timber frame homes and buildings we use SIPs (structural insulated panels), which have become widely recognized as being far superior to other methods for sealing and insulating buildings. When Davis Frame builds a home and then helps you apply for an Energy Star Rating, your new timber frame home is automatically exempt from the blower door test because of the incredibly high performance of our building process.

To complement our use of SIPs, we've incorporated BioBased insulation which uses soy-based technology to replace petroleum-based fill that is commonly used in SIP construction. We're extremely proud of this decision and have invested in a new building that enables us to custom make our own panels. Due to this process, a Davis Frame timber frame home can help reduce our country's dependency on foreign oil, utilize the renewable resources of soybeans grown by 681,000 American farmers, while at the same time creating a superior product!For more information on eco-friendly construction, please visit our "Green Building" link on the Davis Frame website. We also urge you to order our timber frame CD and brochure today!
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