A timber frame erection specialist is championing West Fraser’s SterlingOSB Zero
The firm, based in Glasgow, but working across the entire country, has been sharing posts with its many followers on social media that show how West Fraser’s high performance panel products fill many roles on its often distinctive and technically challenging projects.
CJC Timberframe Ltd was set up three years ago by Kevin Clinton with the support of his wife Natalie and specialises in carrying out the erection of site specific, factory manufactured, mainly closed panel systems, for self-builders and other individual customers. He and his
team of half a dozen fully trained erectors install everything from the wall plates to the roof trusses and – North of the Border – the sarking: taking the project through to the point where the envelope is fully weatherproof. And given the frequency of wet and windy days over the past 12 months, the resilience of the manufacturer’s SterlingOSB Zero and CaberDek have proved invaluable in enabling progress to be made.
Kevin Clinton comments: “Back when I left school, I knew I wanted to be involved in the building trade and have had over 20 years’ experience of timber frame erection. Then in 2021 I had the opportunity to set up my own timber frame erection company of which my wife Natalie is also a director, and we have put all our efforts into it. Since then we’ve worked right across Scotland as well as in places like Worcester and Plymouth. Mainly we work on behalf of self-builders and are contracted to put up individual, architect design homes: generally using kits from Scotframe, Norframe and Rob Roy Homes, who I often recommend to potential customers – as well as other trusted fit-out trades we have experience of working with.
“While quite a number of the properties feature habitable loft rooms, a lot of the builds include roof trusses and floor cassettes from Pasquill who have production sites across the UK, and they also use SterlingOSB Zero in their fabrication processes. The OSB boards are a very high quality – very good to cut and fit – and for jobs in Scotland we will normally be fitting them as a sarking over the trusses to take counter-battens and then the slates. Also, on a lot of projects, even if the weather is too bad to be getting the roof on, we will install the upstairs floor using CaberDek. It gives us a slip resistant working platform which also keeps the rain off the floor below, and of course West Fraser guarantees it for six weeks exposure. After which you are able to peel off the top membrane and have a really good surface.”
All West Fraser panel products produced in the UK are net carbon negative and manufactured in mills that have obtained the coveted environmental ISO14001 accreditation. Responsibly sourced, the panels are FSC certified ® (C012533) and created from locally grown timber, cutting embodied carbon from transportation.
