Introduction To Sms Timber Frame

Introduction to SMS Timber Frame.

Sms Timber Frame are a family run business and have been involved in timber frame for 30 years. Experience and quality has been key to our success.

Here at Sms Timber Frame we can take a clients project at planning stage and offer a fixed price based on the architects drawing / sketch provided. We provide all our customers with a full scope of works and a step by step specification explaining in full what our quotation covers. Once the order is confirmed Sms Timber Frame liaise with both the architect and client and finalise the design of the project. Design of the timber frame super structure can now begin.

Prior to manufacturing the timber frame kit, Sms Timber Frame carry out a site survey, whereby we check both the access and the slab to ensure that our frame will make it to the site and that it will fit. If, for any reasons there is an issue with either the access or the slab size, the kit can then be altered at design level ( i.e. using a smaller panel format ).

The design is then sent to our specially built factory for manufacture. Here at Sms Timber Frame we DO NOT use an automated panel making system, we employ two highly skilled panel makers who manufacture our panels to tolerances of around 2mm over a three metre area. We believe that the quality of an end product highly depends on the manufacture step, therefore, we make the effort to build in more manufacture time to ensure your timber frame kit is perfect for the site erect.

Here at Sms Timber Frame we offer a range of solutions for your timber frame project. As standard we offer  “Eco” pressed web joists which are manufactured in house by Sms Timber Frame ( posi-joists) and we manufacture them to 50% of permitted deflection leaving our client with a solid floor with extremely easy access for services but primarily, a very speedy erect. We also offer an engineered stud system, whereby we can manufacture panels up to 400mm deep and provide a panel completely free of cold bridging through studs. We strongly believed that this, coupled with ICYNENE foam expanding insulation we can provide a panel with a U Value better than any other on the market without using SIP or Closed panel systems ( which take a long time in manufacture and are inconvenient at site level.

Here at Sms Timber Frame we pride ourselves on having both the on-site knowledge and the ability to be able to design your project around this knowledge to ensure the project runs as smoothly as possible at site level, but also we have the ability to combine new products and create whole new systems that are not used in the construction industry by anyone else, and can be tailored specifically to your job.

Thank you for reading our blog and we hope it gave you an insight into Sms Timber Frame as a company and how we function.

Thomas Smith

Design / Marketing Manager

Sms Timber Frame

www.smstimberframe.co.uk

01484 609900

design@smstimberframe.co.uk