A solid oak fireplace is a fantastic feature for your home and the possibilities are virtually endless. However, there are some common pitfalls which can mean your fireplace beam doesn’t match up to your expectations. So we’ve put together this handy guide to help ensure your feature fireplace stands out for the right reasons. What […]
Fireplace Beams
Ever wondered what goes into making a solid oak dining table? Here’s how we do it. Oak is more than just a building material. It can be a statement feature in your home. When one of our former customers wanted a solid oak dining table to match their TradOak extension frame they came straight to […]
Tables
Building a house from scratch is a fantastic way to get everything you want in your new home. But did you know you can combine the benefits of a new build with the appearance of a traditional oak frame? ‘Plant ons’ are a great way to give your home character, particularly if you want to […]
Oak Frames
A satisfied customer has shared his experience of creating an oak-framed build with Tradoak. Robert Crofton chose Tradoak to create the oak frame for his residential Old Off Licence build in November, 2017. “We were impressed with the workmanship on other jobs Neil showed to us,” he said. Robert visited our East Sussex yard to select […]
At Tradoak our skills and materials mean we are often called upon to help restore historic buildings. Earlier this year, we fabricated roof trusses after a restaurant was severely damaged by fire. Cote brasserie, in East Street, Horsham, caught fire in September last year. The building had previously been Ye Olde Kings Head Hotel. Built […]
Restoration
We created this oak framed porch for a client who was looking to add extra storage space to the front of his modern home to hold all those things; wellies, dog toys and soggy umbrellas; that aren’t wanted inside the main property. The porch needed to be in keeping with the rest of the property, […]
This large oak framed sun room was designed and fabricated in air dried oak to give a beautiful rustic appearance, but also give the frame the stability to be able to encapsulate glazing directly into the oak components. Read on to see how we achieve this. We were asked to design the frame based on the architects drawings, but also asked what […]
Here at Traditional Oak and Timber Co we construct oak frames and oak trusses and carry out framing in many sizes and dimensions. We are also able to make oak trusses to order in a kit form or supply as a whole truss. We were asked to design and supply the materials for a set of large trusses going into a very […]
Tradoak were commissioned to make a 3 bay car port for a very good customer through Jason Buck at Urban Bespoke. We have worked closely with Jason and his team before on other oak beam structures and were looking forward to another project together. The decision was made to have the frame semi open and made […]
This reclaimed oak door was from a 300 year old farm building and was in a bit of disrepair. We used reclaimed oak flooring to repair and bring back to its former glory. The flooring was cut to size and gently prepared, the poor parts of the door were then removed and replaced with the […]
