News Archive 2016
Make sure you also go to our Videos section, where you can view a mini-documentary about the process of designing and fabricating an English Oak Buildings frame, as well as a fascinating time lapse film recording the raising of one of our largest frames to date.
Support In Malawi – Helping The One Foundation, Part Three.
In the third and final part of our diary recounting the recent trip to Malawi with the One Foundation, Heather and Rory visit communities where lives have been saved from the addition of fresh water pumps. The population of Malawi in 2016 is nearly 18 million - an...
Support in Malawi – helping The One Foundation, part two.
Homes with no roofs; children who are desperate to have their photo taken so they know what they look like; a tiny girl in a princess Elsa fancy dress - her only dress; a small boy (Isaac’s age) wearing a pair of shorts with his bottom hanging out… These are my first...
The One Foundation – charity of choice for English Oak Buildings
In the first of three diary blogs, we follow Heather and Rory as they travel to Malawi to volunteer with The One Foundation – an organization that aims to bring drinking water to those in the world most in need of it. The One Foundation does incredible work through...
English Oak Frames – Keeping Your Energy Bills Low In Winter
Some people might consider the differences between an oak frame and a brick home, and assume that the latter is more likely to keep the heat in winter, and indeed save on energy costs. After all, stone walls are known to hold warmth in colder environments, and keep...
Cliff Cottage – an oak extension to be proud of
The latest project for English Oak Buildings is the addition of a large oak extension to an older cottage in Walton-in-Gordano, a village and civil parish in North Somerset. The property lies on the coast between Clevedon and Portishead, and as such the new oak...
Our largest frame yet… is an 9-bay oval garage!
For the past few months we’ve been working on a massive project in Sandwich, Kent, that would daunt a lot of timber framers – in fact, this is the most complicated frame we’ve ever made. The client wanted a nine bay barn/garage that wrapped around an oval-shaped,...
Home-Improvement trends for 2016: Porches and Verandas
The next blog in our series of top trends for 2016 focuses on how a classic addition to a home can be updated to stay modern and fresh. We turned to Homebuilding and Renovating Magazine for inspiration. Porches and Verandas “A key staple of traditional architecture,...
Home-Improvement trends for 2016: Transparent Spaces
Continuing our series of blogs about top trends for 2016, we’ve been turning to Homebuilding and Renovating Magazine to discover ways in which your timer framed property can be improved. Transparent Spaces “This has obvious benefits when it comes to introducing light...
What is Glulam and why do we use it?
In a few of our posts you may have heard us mention Glulam, and wondered what it actually means. Well, we thought we'd explain what it is and why exactly we use it. What does it mean? Glulam is short for Glued Laminated Timber, and it is created by bonding together...
Latest Project: An Oak Oval Garage
It's not unusual for us to be presented with a tricky and challenging project here at English Oak Buildings - and we like to think we rise to the occasion when it comes to designing unique oak frames. This is exactly how we'd describe a recent job we've been working...
