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Menter Mônarfon timber

video · 2024 · Anglesey

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Arfon Timber Frames is the small-batch Welsh-larch timber-frame business run by Mark Chapman on Anglesey. The way Mark talks about it, building a house out of timber on this scale — a two-storey gable, scaffolding around all four sides, OSB-airtight membrane wrapped and taped at every junction — is closer to boat-building than to volume housebuilding. Each frame designed and cut for the site it's going on.

Menter Môn commissioned this short film as part of their wider series on community organisations across north-west Wales. We worked with Mark and his crew on an active build — interviews on site with the gable as the backdrop, scaffolding-level detail of airtight tape on green-coated OSB, the quiet competence of the craftsmen in branded Arfon Timber Frames hi-vis, and a border collie keeping watch on the grass.

The film was delivered bilingually with full Welsh and English subtitles, ready for Menter Môn's social channels and partner network.

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Mark Chapman, founder of Arfon Timber Frames, interviewed in front of an active timber-frame build for Menter Môn community film.
Mark Chapman gesturing towards the timber-frame gable mid-build, explaining Arfon Timber Frames' airtight Welsh-larch construction system.
Detail of airtight tape being applied to green-coated OSB by an Arfon Timber Frames craftsman — low-energy build technique, Anglesey.
Arfon Timber Frames craftsman in branded hi-vis jacket inspecting an airtight window junction inside a timber-frame build.
Border collie sitting in tall grass in front of an Arfon Timber Frames build site — Welsh-larch timber-frame house, Anglesey.