tenon repair Gibson Timber Frames is Eastern Ontario's timber frame specialist, taking pride in the trade and applying it when employed to stabilize, preserve, or rehabilitate antique timber barns and buildings. Working with the client to determine the current state of the building, the best and most feasible preservation route to take, and then proceed to go about the work in an efficient and skilled manner.

The work may take several forms:
  • Stabilization: Generally this involves trying to straighten and brace the barn with cables, posts, or the like, until further work can be done.
  • In-situ repairs: This is the most common route. Replacing braces, structural repairs, replacing siding and/or doors, and resecuring roofing, etc.

  • Dismantle and reconstruction: This involves dismantling the frame, repairing and replacing pieces on the ground, foundation stabilization, and then raise the barn anew for another lifetime.
Sill beam repair
Whether the approached is historical restoration or structural repair, Gibson Timber Frames has the knowledge, skill, understanding, and passion to help keep your timber frame barn a part of the rural landscape that has served generations of harvests and memories.

Putting a bent in place The frame without rafters Putting on rafters Finished barn
We took down, repaired, and then raised on a new foundation, this barn on Amherst Island.
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Tenon repair Assembling a bent Interesting brace design Full frame
We repaired and then raised this frame north of Toronto.
Note the middle bent section with the interesting brace design.

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