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As you can appreciate a lot of timber in historic buildings was hand hewn, so to replace this with a sawn piece of timber would not necessarily be the correct replacement. Sawn timber is not as strong as cleft or hewn timber. Sawing cuts through the grains of wood. Cleaving and hewing follows the natural grains of the wood leaving the natural strength in the timber. This is why the Carpenters of old selected trees from the forest for each part of the frame and hewed the timber to get the natural strength in the structure.

Parts of rotten frames can be scarfed some parts need replacing fully.

If you just want to put some character back into a badly restored property then we can provide solutions for this whether it be a new beam for your inglenook fire place, hand hewn or milled or mock timber frame on your internal or external walls, ceiling joists and beams or a unique piece of sculptural functional furniture to enhance the feel of the property. We can source suitable timber, hand hew it or cut it on the Mill here at The Riverside Project to fit the brief we agree together. Why not come and help with producing your solution, whilst supporting our work at

The Riverside Project