Prime Oak Buildings Limited - Wombourne - Staffordshire

<body bgcolor="#634417" text="#FFFF80" link="#00FFFF" vlink="#FFFFFF" alink="#00CC33"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top"><font face="Verdana"> <p align="center">This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.<font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"> <p align="center"><b><font color="#ffff80" size="3">Oak Framed Garages, </font><font color="#ffff80">Outbuildings and Complete Houses in New & Old Oak</font> <p align="center"><font color="#ffff80"><font face="Tempus Sans ITC,Arial" size="4">Stables </font><font face="Symbol" size="4">¨</font><font face="Tempus Sans ITC,Arial" size="4"> Garden Rooms </font><font face="Symbol" size="4">¨</font><font face="Tempus Sans ITC,Arial" size="4"> Conservatories </font><font face="Symbol" size="4">¨</font><font face="Tempus Sans ITC,Arial" size="4"> Home Offices</font></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#ffff80"><font face="Tempus Sans ITC,Arial" size="4">Summer Houses </font><font face="Symbol" size="4">¨</font><font face="Tempus Sans ITC,Arial" size="4"> Barns </font><font face="Symbol" size="4">¨</font><font face="Tempus Sans ITC,Arial" size="4"> Garages </font><font face="Symbol" size="4">¨</font><font face="Tempus Sans ITC,Arial" size="4"> Gazebos </font><font face="Symbol" size="4">¨</font><font face="Tempus Sans ITC,Arial" size="4"> Pergolas</font></font></p> </b> <p><b><font color="#ffff80">English Oak has been used in construction as far back as the middle ages. The tradition of building in oak, one of the most enduring materials gives England a unique architectural heritage. The 1500's gave us the Tudor Period and then later in the 1700's came the Elizabethan Period. Since then the methods of constructing oak frames has not been surpassed, as many towns and villages throughout the country have oak buildings 300 years old that stand in good condition.</font></b></p> <p><b><font face="Arial" color="#ffff80">At Prime Oak we build quality, traditional mortice and tenon pegged joint frames, in the time honoured way. We carefully select the right grade of oak to produce high quality oak framing at its best. We design, manufacture and construct authentic oak framed buildings to suit our clients' needs.</font></b></p> <p>The value of Oak has created a special place for the timber in the hearts and minds of British people. The wood has been most favoured over centuries of use by shipbuilders, cabinetmakers and for basic tasks such as roof supports and more elaborate decorative use. The qualities of Oak are cited in poetry and prose. </p> <font face="Monotype Corsiva,verdana,arial" size="5"> <p align="center">"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall,</p> <p align="center">but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze."</p> </font><font face="Arial" size="2"> <p align="right">Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1881</p> </font> <p>Above all, the importance of Oak for shelter and for the security of the nation has imbued the material with qualities over and above the simply practical. At the time of Henry VIII about a third of England and Wales was covered in Oak Trees.</p> <p>Without Oak England would have had no Navy. </p> <p>By the time of the Restoration, John Evelyn, in his work "Sylva" was warning that Britain's stock of Oak trees was dangerously depleted. Charles II, who was then Monarch, and who had his own reasons for admiring the Oak, set about a large scale replanting programme. This was to stand the nation in good stead so that by Nelson's day, a poet would write of the Navy: ''With thunders from her native Oak, she quells the flood below". As we enter the millennium, the qualities of Oak are still admired and put to use. Perhaps not quite in the way that "gave the shipwright the highly powerful brackets and anglepieces that held a 74 gun ship together" but in more peaceable - but no less efficient - applications. </p> <p> At Prime Oak you will find Oak Beams and products in a modern setting. The only historical note is perhaps our old fashioned sense of service and attention to detail. </p> <p align="center">Types of Oak Tree</p> <p>The two Oaks most commonly found in the United Kingdom are Quercus Robus, the Common Oak, also known as the English or Pedunculate Oak and Quercus Petraea, the Durmast or Sessile Oak. The branches of the Sessile Oak are straighter than those of the Common Oak and the main trunk is less branched. The Common Oak has stalked Acorns whereas the Sessile Oak has no stalks.</p> <p> </p> </font> <p> </font></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><font face="Verdana"></font></td></tr></table></body>