OUR SERVICES

 
Custom strawbale home with off-white Kaolin Clay Plaster

Custom strawbale home with off-white Kaolin Clay Plaster

SERVICES

Consultation/planning

Whether you wish to have a home, a cottage, an outbuilding, furniture, renovations or property planning for resilience and abundance, you have many material and design options. These choices can be overwhelming and confusing. When choosing conventional materials and systems, there are many easily accessed resources. When selecting the best choice for natural or ecological options, you can’t generally find this information at the hardware store or by asking your local contractor, let alone the local building department. You’ll mostly be limited to Google and a somewhat limited and confusing array of online resources.

We are here to help simplify this process: to assist in material selection, design, building process, and connecting specialists (contractors, engineers, etc.) to help you realize your ecological building dreams. We can assist owner-builders, contractors looking to add new skills and materials to their arsenal, or homeowners seeking assistance envisioning and planning their dream projects.

We also offer Permaculture design services; Jacques’ PDC is from Earth Activist Training with Starhawk. He brings in other Permaculture design professionals when appropriate.

Any of our building services can be offered in a ‘workshop’ setting: ask about how we can arrange this.

Rates for consultation are $50/hr.

Contact @ timber.trowel@gmail.com

BUILDING/PROJECT MANAGEMENT

We offer contracting services/project management/material sourcing for Ecological Renovations/ New Builds

PLEASE NOTE: For house building: we currently work with residential building clients through a few approaches as we are not registered as certified home builders in BC:

  1. You sign up for home owner-builder process, and we act as your main contractors and consultants

  2. You hire another certified home builder and we consult and perform the specific aspects of the build relative to natural building

  3. In appropriate locations, we work without permits— and can do all the specialized work and help you hire other subcontractors wherever necessary ( electrician, plumber for example)— don’t be afraid to ask us about this option!

We offer these services

  • traditional timber-framing/hybrid timber-framing through our fully equipped Timber Frame shop in Lillooet BC ( click to see our previous projects)

  • Ecological wall systems- Hempcrete, Light Straw Clay, Cob, Strawbale

  • installation of ecological prefabricated materials like wood-fibre/wool, ecological cladding like sustainably sourced lumber and reclaimed materials.

  • Lime and clay plaster finishing for natural wall systems/ clay plaster application on conventional wall systems ( drywall, etc )

  • cob ovens

  • round wood post and beam, as well as milled timber post and beam

  • conventional framing with a focus on localized material sourcing

  • Custom milled lumber and timber.

  • soon to be offering renewable energy based kiln dried lumber products

  • Soon offering Earthaus as well as American Clay prepackaged clay and lime plasters!

    Contact us for rates or estimates for specific projects and services @ timber.trowel@gmail.com