Trillium Dell Timberworks Events Calendar

Trillium Dell Timberworks Events Calendar - Spring / Summer 2008

Hybrid Timber Frame Home, Libertyville, IL – We will be installing a Douglas fir frame for a local architect’s home. Faux hewing will be applied to the great room and dining room timbers adding a rustic touch to this hybrid home. Raising date: week of April 21, please call 309.289.7921 to confirm.

African themed lodge - Glen Oak Zoo, Peoria, IL – Our crew is in the midst of fabrication for the lodge using 150 yellow pine logs up to 48’ in length. The lodge is part of a $32 million expansion for the zoo, including new space for animals, classrooms, conferences and other events. Please see: www.glenoakzoo.org/africa!.htm for more information on the zoo’s new exhibit.

Cabin Restoration – Wildlife Prairie Park, Peoria, IL – Our crew selectively replaced and matched the existing coped joinery of termite damaged logs on a cabin currently available for overnight lodging. In addition to the restoration work, the entire cabin has been re-chinked. For more information on Wildlife Prairie Park, please see: http://www.wildlifeprairiestatepark.org

Barn Restoration, Annawan, IL – This 30” x 40” timber-frame bank barn most likely dates from the early 1900s, and was completely lifted off its foundation to remove supplemental basement support timbers and I-beams installed in two stages in the 1920s and 1940s at the same time a block wall foundation replaced the original limestone foundation. This supplemental support system was in danger of collapse. New piers were poured at the junction of the carrier and sommer beams where gunstock posts will carry the load.

Residential Timber Trusses, Palos Park, IL – We installed two barrel trusses in the kitchen as well as supplying the contractors with additional interior timber elements.

Historic Window Restoration, Pulaski County Court House, Mounds City, IL – We’ve completed fabrication of new sashes and the restoration of existing sashes. The exterior sides of the sashes have been painted, and the interior sides have received several coats of stain and a clear coat to match the dark and deep-luster of the existing sashes. All sashes have been kerfed to receive concealed weather stripping designed to achieve thermal performance equaling or exceeding those of modern thermal-paned windows when eventually coupled with low-profile aluminum storms windows.

Barn Restoration and Timber Framers Guild Event – Collinsville, IL – July 2008: look for updates in the weeks ahead about the reconstruction of the Gindler Barn for the Collinsville Area Recreation District. Partnering with the Timber Framers Guild (www.tfguild.org), we’ll be restoring this barn as a part of the Willoughby Farm campus (http://www.collinsvillerec.com/Farm.html).