Oakmasters Company Profile
Oakmasters is a specialist company providing and designing oak beams, oak frames and oak framed buildings with services available internationally. The company’s client list includes both commercial and private customers across the UK and overseas for both contemporary and traditional oak designs. With twenty years of experience Oakmasters produces and installs a range of beautiful oak structures at affordable prices.
Products and Services:
- Oak Frame Buildings: Oakmasters produces decorative oak beams, garages and fully integrated oak framed buildings. All of these projects come with a full concept to completion package
- Oak Framed Garages and Outbuildings: Oakmasters works with the client every step of the way to advise the design of each individual structure commissioned. This initial concept design consultation is free of charge and ensures that the building is tailored to fit the client's requirements. The assembly of each oak frame is executed on site along with associated building works such as groundwork and rooting
- Oak Roofs and Trusses: Oakmasters install a range of trusses, namely: integrated trusses, plates, purlins, rafters, ridges and sarking boards. Both King and Queen posts are also available, as well as Raised Collar Trusses as pre-constructed triangular components that are lifted into place on site
An additional service offered by Oakmasters is a free CAD drawing of the trusses within the context of the building’s overall design.
- Oak Beam Casings: These are produced using Character Kiln Dried English Oak, with small knots and splits and assembled on site by a team of experts, these attractive features are ideal for concealing unwanted structures. (Available in two, three and four sided casings.)
- Oak Beams Ceiling Layouts: Oakmasters can work to specific architectural designs or collaborate closely with a client's requests to install traditional layouts and frames in both period and modern properties. These can blend with existing oak features or form a new feature and that can serve as both decorative enhancement and structural support.
- Oak Tudor Cladding: Oakmasters produces authentic Tudor Cladding from photographs or specific structural designs suited to both external and internal installation.
- Oak Fireplace Beams: The company's flexible construction methods result in the possibility of a large variety of fireplace beams, mantle shelves and corbels. These are available in traditional worn and rustic wood, to sleek and modern designs, ensuring that there is a style to fulfil every client's requirement. (All include Hand Wrought and Fumed Finish.)
An adaptable variety of tones and textures are available, including a natural fuming process to add a warmer tone to the wood, as well as brushing and charring to chamfers and mouldings.
Notable projects completed by Oakmasters are Berringford Hall in 2002 which involved both cosmetic and structural reworking and the three year-long, Keepers Mead project; a fifteenth century country house to install rustic fireplace beams and ceiling beam layouts throughout the property.
Oak detailing and features can not only recapture the traditional oak beam structures famous in British architecture, but also add value and a level of style to a building. Oakmasters provides a service that uses all the traditional methods of construction with the efficiency and economical benefits of the present day. Many clients return to Oakmasters, valuing the superior quality and specialised approach to every project.