| The home was several months from completion when they were forced
to move into it. While they were happy that their condo had
sold fairly easily, they had nowhere to go but inside their
almost-complete house. "It sort of got done bit by bit,"
Bruce says, "and a few months later it was all finished."
Despite
the fact that there was no dramatic end to their construction
process, the couple couldn't be happier with their timber
frame home. The only thing that surprised them after they
moved in was how the timbers naturally
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crack and split as they dry out. The splitting is minor, and
doesn't affect the timbers' strength, but it can be noisy. "Just
be aware that the frame will split, and make all sorts of alarming
cracking sounds," Bruce says with a laugh. "In the
middle of the night it can sound like an explosion. But that
is just part of the process." THI
RESOURCES
North Woods Joinery, www.nwjoinery.com
(802) 644-2400
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