TIMBER SUPPLY



With the ever increasing interest in timber framed buildings, there is a demand for green oak that cannot be satisfied by the UK forestry industry. There have been years of under investment in UK hard woods. To compound problems there is also a skills shortage. Unless timber framers, architects and self builders specify UK timber where at all possible, there will be continued deterioration in our hardwood forests.

The import of European oak provides for quality and quantity. But this cannot be a sustainable or environmentally responsible way to work for the future of our hard wood forests.

We therefore try to buy English oak whenever possible. This is available from sawmills who buy standing timber from local estates. We also buy from individual sawyers using mobile saws to convert single wind blown trees and small groups of trees that would otherwise not be commercially viable to retrieve and transport to a large sawmill.


Timber arriving in the framing yard