Green oak porch, cut and pegged on site
A green oak gable porch framed and pegged on site, sat on carved padstones, with a reclaimed brick path laid up to the door.
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Oak porches
The frame is green oak, cut and pegged rather than bolted together from a kit. Posts, tie beam, curved braces and rafters, sat on stone padstones and roofed to match the pitch of the house.
The path and threshold were laid in reclaimed brick. The padstone on the right is carved with the year, which adds very little to the job and is the thing every visitor notices.
Green oak moves as it dries, so the frame will shake and check over the first couple of years and the pegs will take up as it shrinks. Left alone it silvers off to grey.
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