What is Timber Creek?
Timber Creek's office and production facility is located in North Clarendon, a scenic rural area in southern Vermont. We are a small group of craftsman dedicated to designing, cutting, raising, and enclosing timber framed homes, barns and outbuildings. As hands-on owners, we pride ourselves in delivering to our clients the highest level of commitment and quality. As a small sized company, we are able to schedule a limited number of homes and barns each year. We are not a high production, punch out the product, outfit. Yet at the same time, we want our homes to be affordable to the average middle income family, in line with custom stick framed houses. Our philosophy is that we can deliver to you the finest value in a timber frame and enclosure system, dollar for dollar, on the market.

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Does Timber Creek build anywhere else besides Vermont?
Yes, we are able to ship anywhere in the Northeast. As an additional service, we can provide a crew to raise the frame, enclose the frame, or simply send a representative for guidance thru the project.  In our past experiences, being flexible is an added bonus to our clients.

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What do you provide?
Not everyone has the same criteria project to project. With this in mind, again, flexibility is key Therefore we provide several different levels of service to meet a clients needs. For barns and outbuildings we may only provide the timber frame and a crew to raise it.  Other folks have their timber frame and enclosure system drop shipped to the site with a general contractor providing most of the labor along with technical assistance by us.  Still others would like us to enclose the entire structure.

As a standard to our home packages, we provide complete design and blueprint service, Eastern White Pine Timber Frame, 1 x 8 premium tongue and groove pine for interior roof finish, 2 x 8 premium tongue & groove pine for between floors and lofts, R-23 wall system, R-32 fully vented roof system (extremely important feature!!) all fasteners, and shipped to the jobsite.

Most of our clients opt for the above package although we certainly will entertain other options. Please call our office to speak with an owner or representative (802-775-6591) for any questions. We also can send you a brochure with more information, photos, detailed package specifications, etc

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Can we talk with other Timber Creek homeowners and General Contractors?
Yes, most definitely! Our best sales people are past clients. We encourage new clients to contact folks from our reference list that is available upon request. Discuss how their experience went, what made them decide on Timber Creek, have a few questions ready that are important to you. Also available is a reference list of general contractors who have been involved with our projects. You may ask, for instance, how we communicated and worked together on the site, what they thought of our insulation and enclosure system. Would they build another Timber Creek home for a client? We strongly believe our company, with extensive background in general residential construction, is very builder friendly. Certainly not all subcontractors, including carpenters, electricians, and plumbers to name a few, are familiar with timber framing, and may approach the project with apprehension. We are sensitive to that issue and will work side by side for solutions to any problem or question that may arise. After all, everyone involved wants the best possible finished home for you with the least amount of headaches.

Can you send me a plan book for ideas?
Since we aren't a high production shop, we don't offer a plan book, although we certainty get quite a few requests. Over the years we've encountered a wide variety of customers, each with their special ideas, needs, and requirements in a home, whether it's a 900 square foot bungalow or a 4800 square foot retirement home. In the design process, there are a number or issues that must be considered. A few of these are budgets (of course!), lifestyles. the site on which the home will sit, certain views, exterior looks, how the floor plan works with the individual's needs, personal tastes, and the list goes on. All this information is examined closely by our designer and then the process begins, your new house begins to take shape, a one of a kind home tailored to your specific tastes and needs. We have many sketches, elevations, and floor plans from past clients to use as a starting point, however. In short we can design just about anything.

What is the cost of a Timber Creek home?
This is often a confusing aspect to folks beginning to look at timber frame homes. Since we offer different levels of services, pricing has to reflect those levels. Here's a fact of life in the building industry...construction costs vary greatly from region to region. This is the reason it may be difficult for us to exactly nail down finished costs on a home. Also, we find there are varying degrees of what people perceive as standards of living. Many exterior features such as garages, covered porches, decks, etc., all contribute to a home without adding any additional heated square footage, thus driving square foot costs upward. We have been involved with clients who are able to instill a lot of sweat and equity into their home to help lower costs. Other Timber Creek homeowners want an extremely high level of finishes, and have the budgets to allow for those amenities. We've seen our homes come in as low as $90.00 and as high as $400.00 per square foot of living space. Basically, we can offer a range of prices where the majority of our homes fall into. Many Timber Creek frame and shell packages generally range from $28.00 to $36.00 per square foot. Labor for our crew to assemble the frame and/or insulation package is additional. In our region here in Vermont, many of our homes are in the $120.00 to $150.00 per square foot range.

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Can we see a Timber Creek home?
You bet! We have homes all around New England and former customers usually will gladly open their doors to new candidates. Here in Vermont near our headquarters, we have several homes to take clients through to determine if our style is right for you. At our office we can discuss your project , view finished homes on slides or web photo album, look over floor plans, answer questions, and kick ideas around.

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All this square foot stuff is really confusing.  Why does it have to be that way?
Each project is unique in design, the site itself, different areas of the country where it's built, the amenities each client would like to see in their homes. One person likes hardwood floors and imported tile, another gets by with carpet and vinyl. Some people wish for a monster Great Room with a huge granite fireplace, others a simple brick hearth to accommodate a wood stove. I like stacks of windows to catch a view, you may have close neighbors and require more privacy, maybe more modest windows. So you see where these differences can come from. All these finishes can and do affect the overall budget. As folks send for information from various companies, they will find every company has a system and every one will provide certain materials, services and degree of finishes. The more info they get, the more convoluted the big picture gets, and it' s difficult to sort out all that information.  As you may have read earlier, we feel we have the best value for a timber frame and enclosure system, and a pretty good handle on how to get that value to you.

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We live in an area where we may need a structural engineering stamp. 
Can the be done with a timber frame?
Yes. Not all areas in New England require stamped drawings. Should that service be required in your state, county, or town, our frames can be stamped. Usually the fee ranges from $1200.00 to $2,000.00 depending on the complexity of the timber frame.

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If you have questions that aren't answered here, please feel free to contact us.