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The New Charlestown Package Store will be beautiful and green –  with a dramatic interior framed by Douglas Fir timbers, a highly efficient envelope built out of Climate-Block panels, a geothermal heating-cooling-dehumidification system, and very cool lighting.

Dramatic and cool, YES.  Easy to run electric wires, NO!  All of the wires are run in either the chases built into the wall panels, under the concrete floor in conduit, or in channels cut in the exterior of the roof panels.   All of this requires a lot of thought and often it’s best to get together at the construction site and go over the plan.  Below our lighting designer, Evelyn Audet, and electrician, Len Capizzano of Century Electric, meet to work out the details.

For a quick history of the project scroll down to go back through Older Entries.

The new store is located at 4625 Old Post Road (right next to the existing store).

Take a look!   Five days of beautiful weather and teamwork and the timber frame is up. Brother and sister owners, Jon Maldon and Jane Gross, watch as Todd Bissell, of South County Post and Beam, gets ready to lift the last beam.

We love the simple elegance of the timber frame and part of us wishes that we could leave the frame exposed.   But…Monday morning the Climate-Block panels arrive and we begin to close in the building.

If you drive by and notice parts of the foundation with no framing, don’t think that we ran out of lumber.   The areas without a timber frame are the wine storage room and beer cooler and they will be built entirely of Climate-Block panels.

The frame stands in the afternoon light.

For a quick history of the project scroll down to go back through Older Entries.

The new store is located at 4625 Old Post Road (right next to the existing store).

After months of planning and preparation we are raising the timber frame for the Charlestown Package Store.   South County Post and Beam cut the frame and is raising the structure.  The mortise and tenon frame is made from Douglas Fir and is held together by oak splines and pegs.   The structure is about 1/3 complete and we are scheduled to finish the timber frame by the end of the week.