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SolidLox is designed to use solid Green Oak, Douglas Fir, Redwood, engineered Glulam, or other timbers
The SolidLox system is designed around larger than normal 100 x 220 beams and 150 x 150 posts.
Proprietary metal connections fix beams to posts. These are set on 120mm to 160mm adjustable height metal base plates to facilitate adjustment for any small discrepancies in levels.
Standard Posts are 2.4m long, giving a slab (or pad) to top of post height of 2.5m, adjustable upwards by 40mm. This means a standard garage / car port entry height of 2.28m can be achieved. Lower posts can be used, as for example for log store extensions, and longer (higher) posts up to 3.4m long for greater entrance clearance, or balcony heights.
The following examples show how to use the solidlox system to design your own structure.
Design Example Plan 1
You can download these instructions here as a PDF and print it off to make it easier to follow
In this example there are:
Design Example Plan 2
You can download these instructions here as a PDF and print it off to make it easier to follow
Imagine you want to design a garage or car port that is a bit more complicated, say by adding a room in the roof and a lean-to store for garden equipment and logs to the plan on side “c”
First Floor(room in roof)
Over the Office & Garage only, 9m x 5.7m = 51.3 square metres (51.3m2) (The floor joists and floor deck will cover the whole area)
In this example there are:
Now for the Elevations
this shows that there is no beam between the low ‘lean-to’ on elevation ‘C’ and the main post and beam b. The posts along elevation ‘C’ will be only 1.5m high underneath the 220mm deep beam.
We can now see that there will be:-
An additional beauty of designing your oak framed garage or car port using the SolidLox system is that, where walls are required, all you have to do is draw a line and note what cladding you want to be seen on the outside.
If you want this cladding to run over the posts and beams, rather than expose these as a design feature, you simply need to add another note to this effect.
SolidLox will then produce walls using its standard specification of 50 x 75 braced softwood framework, with the cladding you choose on the outside.
The inside of the walls will expose this framework to be seen as part of your creative design.
However, if you want to line the inside of these walls, for example to create a room in the roof, ground floor office, store or workroom, just note this on your sketch or other drawing.
Likewise, you can specify the space between the studs to be filled with insulation if you wish. Most commonly used for this is Kingspan or Celotex, but other materials may suit your needs better. All can be supplied.
When drawing a garage or other building, you will need some form of external cladding for the walls. Even a car port will need cladding for the gable ends above the eaves line, unless you are planning to have a hipped roof all round your oak frame.
Whether you choose green oak post and beams, or some other solid timber, you can also select from a range of different timber or other wall claddings. These don’t need to be the same timber, but natural Larch, Oak, Cedar, and Douglas Fir are quite popular.
These claddings can be feather edge, shiplap, square edge, wany edge, or moulded. You can design for horizontal, vertical, or diagonal boarding architectural effects.
If you wish you can also design for tile or slate hanging, render, brick or stone slip cladding.
Send us your enquiry and we’ll answer just as soon as we can. Alternatively call us on +44 (0)1291 437 055 and one of our friendly team will help you