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September 11, 2018
Technical Info
Donna Moxley
Using Reclaimed Timbers for Your Project

One of the reasons that building a timber frame building is an environmentally responsible construction method is that the timbers can be reused in the future to build a new building.

Using Reclaimed Timbers for Your Project
September 11, 2018
Technical Info
Donna Moxley
Hidden Steel

Some projects require special techniques to address special engineering requirements while still maintaining the traditional look of a post and beam structure.

 Hidden Steel
September 11, 2018
Technical Info
Donna Moxley
What Species of Wood to Use in a Timber Frame?

There are many species of wood that may be used in a timber frame building, though the choice of wood to use for your project is not always simple when you're trying to stay on a budget.

What Species of Wood to Use in a Timber Frame?
March 10, 2018
Technical Info
Wookie Jones
SIP Panels & R-Values

When we discuss our timber frame packages with potential customers, we often get questions about the structural insulated panels (SIPs).  Probably the most common question is, “What is the R-value of your wall and roof panels?”

SIP Panels & R-Values
November 20, 2015
Donna Moxley
New Home or Existing?

Why should you consider building a new home when there are so many reasonably priced existing homes on the market?  This is a good question and not as easy to answer as you would think. 

New Home or Existing?
Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Technical Info

Using Reclaimed Timbers for Your Project

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Technical Info
Using Reclaimed Timbers for Your Project

One of the reasons that building a timber frame building is an environmentally responsible construction method is that the timbers can be reused in the future to build a new building.

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Technical Info

Hidden Steel

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Technical Info
 Hidden Steel

Some projects require special techniques to address special engineering requirements while still maintaining the traditional look of a post and beam structure.

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Technical Info

What Species of Wood to Use in a Timber Frame?

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Technical Info
What Species of Wood to Use in a Timber Frame?

There are many species of wood that may be used in a timber frame building, though the choice of wood to use for your project is not always simple when you're trying to stay on a budget.

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People

Meet Paul Freeman

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People
Meet Paul Freeman

Paul Freeman and S.P. Brooks founder Phil Brooks found each other in the simultaneous pursuit of technological improvements for the work they loved: building beautiful, practical timber frame structures.

Tagged: Paul Freeman

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People

Meet Phil & Ginny Brooks

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People
Meet Phil & Ginny Brooks

Phil and Ginny live and work high on a hill in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, in a 1750s home they’ve transformed from a fixer-upper into a classic beauty surrounded by woodland, pasture and thriving gardens.

Tagged: Phil & Ginny Brooks

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People

Meet Mark Bersen

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People
Meet Mark Bersen

Mark is living in a Brooks Post & Beam home that he designed and sited himself.

“I have a great appreciation for the amount of thought that goes into house design and its location on the landscape,” he says.

Tagged: Mark Bersen

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People

Meet Joe Coleman

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People
Meet Joe Coleman

It was just Joe, Phil, and one other worker putting up between 10 and 12 frames a year back in the early ’80s, with no computer system and no crane.

Tagged: Joe Coleman

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People

Meet Peter (Piotr) Chadzynski

Donna Moxley
September 11, 2018
Our People
Meet Peter (Piotr) Chadzynski

Piotr’s first work in timber framing was with a company in Massachusetts that restored 18th- and 19th-century post and beam homes, barns and outbuildings. It was the beginning of a special relationship with this historic form of building.

Tagged: Peter Chadzynski

Donna Moxley
September 10, 2018
Our People

Meet Karen Eckilson

Donna Moxley
September 10, 2018
Our People
Meet Karen Eckilson

A couple days each week, a Renaissance woman drives up from her home in Peterborough and settles in at Brooks. Though she could do any of these things, she’s not here to paint, she’s not (usually) tending cattle, and she’s not taking care of a sick family member.

Tagged: Karen Eckilson

Donna Moxley
September 7, 2018
Customer Story

The Kokal Family

Donna Moxley
September 7, 2018
Customer Story
The Kokal Family

God and family. That's what the Kokals are really about. Well, and horses. They are seriously into horses. Education's huge, too.

And then there's their home.

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