Timber joinery

Types
Lengthening joints
Widening joints
 Framing – angle joints
• Joints used to form angles and/or junctions can
• be divided into the following groups:
● housing,
● halving,
● mortise and tenon,
● bridle,
● dowelled,
● notched and cogged,
● dovetail,
● mitre and scribe.
Splices

Splice connection: doweled steel plate 

Splice connection: epoxy dowels
Splice joint: bolt and shear connector 
Splice joint: butt joined with block 
Splice joint: half housed 

Splice joint: lapped and nailed

 Splice joint: nail plates 

Splice joint: nailed gusset plates

Splice joint: slotted metal plate and dowels

Splice joint: spliced and bolted 

Splice joint: wrap around nail plates

 Bolted ridge connection 

Ridge joint: bolted pin 

Ridge joint: concealed fin plate 

 Ridge joint: metal plates and
bolts

Ridge joint: nail plated 

Ridge joint: nailed gusset plate

 Truss apex with strap 

Truss joint: doweled fin plate 

Truss joint: doweled gusset plate 

Truss joint: bolted and shear connectors 
 Truss joint: bolted and shear connectors 

Truss joint: compression block and tie rod

Truss joint: fabricated plates and bulb 
 Truss joint: nail plate 

Truss joint: nailed gusset plate 

Rafter connection: double pinned hinge 
Rafter connection: double epoxy dowel
Rafter to column nailed 
Beam to post joint: fabricated shoe
Beam to post: fabricated shoe 
 Beam to post: housed

Beam to post: recessed plate 

Beam to post: shear block 
Beam support: bolted plates

Beam support: corbel and epoxy dowel

Beam support: dowel connection

Beam support: fabricate shoe and dowels 

 Beam support: shear block and bolts 

Beam support: shear block and bolts

Beam to wall: concealed anchors
Beam to wall: wall plate and fixing block 
 Beam to wall: wall plate and metal hanger 

Beam to wall: wall plate with ledger

 Joist to beam: ledger plate 

Joist to beam: metal hangar

Joist to beam: stacked and tied
Purlin connection: metal hangar

Purlin connection: angle fixing 

Purlin connection: extended block
Purlin connection: fabricated shoe 
Purlin connection: housed and strapped 

Purlin connection: nailing block

Purlin connection: nailing plate

Purlin connection: purlin tie

Purlin connection: housed and strapped 

Purlin connection: folded strap fixing

 Rafter support: fixing block

Rafter support: nailed angle

 Rafter support: nailed sheet metal
connector 

Rafter support: nailed strap

Purlin connection: fixing block
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