Berkeley - Chatsworth | Eco Log Home & Timber Frame. We were contracted to come be a part of this Eco Log Home build. The home owner had taken on this project himself and contracted us to build his timber frame porches and complete the roof assembly.
4” x 10” roof trusses all set @ 4’-0” on centre. This is covered with 1” x 6” Hemlock boards to complete the interior ceiling. The ceiling boards are then covered with a synthetic roofing membrane ready for the insulation layers to go on.
John Bender cutting mortises on site with our chain mortiser for the assembly of the post and beams to build the porches
Cleaning up the sub floor to allow for the install of Blueskin flashing tape and aluminum flashing prior to installing the porch deck frames.
Rolling out Bluesking Flashing Tape to waterproof the rim joist around the home.
Jude Bender
Fine tuning the mortises by hand to fit perfectly into the tenons we cut.
Driving the tenons on the posts and knee braces into the mortises of the beams.
Red oak dowels used to peg the mortise and tenons together.
Drilling holed through the assembled mortise and tenons to receive the red oak dowel pegs.
Adjusting a tenon to fit perfectly into the mortises with a 10” beam saw.
First snow of the season.
8” x 8” Hemlock knee brace with tenon.
Porch post with tenon on top and mortise for knee brace on the side.
Scarf joint to make the beam pieces long enough to support the porch deck assembly.
Steel plates are screwed to the bottom of the posts which will sit on top of a threaded bold and nut allowing for adjustment as the log home wall shrink with time.
Using a Genie Zoom Boom to lift the post and beam assemblies into their final place to support the porch roofs.
All the hemlock ceiling boards on and covered with synthetic roof membrane. Porches completed. Ready for dormers to go on the home and insulation board.
