Why Timber Frame Builds Go Up Faster – And What That Means for Your Budget 

The moment that work starts on a timber frame site – after groundworks have finished – it’s startling. Just as soon as the team arrives, you can see the transformation of the land over just a few days, as the walls and structure of your new house rise out of what was often just an empty plot of land at the start of the week. It’s this that makes people look twice, especially as they compare it to the seemingly glacial pace of traditional masonry construction.

So why does a timber frame build so fast? Well, it isn’t magic – in reality, it’s all about taking advantage of a factory environment to manufacture panels precisely engineered for your project. These panels are fabricated off-site and sent via lorry to your yard, where they then become more of an assembly job than a construction one. The heavy lifting has already happened back in the factory. For Timber Frame Construction, contact merlintimberframe.co.uk/ 

And, as any builder will tell you, time is money in the construction industry. Every extra week a project spends being built on site is a week of extra scaffolding hire, site management, preliminaries and, more generally, the overhead of having a live project going on. This means that for every week you can shave off a building programme, there is real money – real savings – for self-builders trying to eke out their budget and developers balancing sales and returns against finance costs.

And then there’s the weathertight argument. Getting a building weathertight as early as possible helps protect it from the vagaries of our often testing British weather during the vulnerable early stages. This, all on its own, is priceless.