About company owner

Who I am

My name is David Lyman, C.E.O. owner and hands-on builder.I am the first to hold the statute of Professional Artisan in the Province of Quebec ,Canada and helped to write the criteria for new membership ,which is a Globally recognized License. With 45 years of experience in repairing Ancestral homes and Timber Frame barns in Pontiac County and surrounding area,which once had the largest concentration of Hand- hewn Dovetail Log homes in the world. I Capitalized on understanding the weak points of Architectural design that caused premature rotting of outer Log walls and failure of roof systems. I have developed innovative , lightweight Cape Cod Timber Frame structures with hidden hardware for strategic pressure points making my structures “Bullet Proof” against extreme Canadian winters.

I remember working with him on weekends, evenings and summer holidays, salvaging lumber and turn of the century logs re-sawing and re-building new structures. Although this was not my Father`s main stay, but certainly it was something he enjoyed doing. Therefore I learned to pull nails and stack lumber at very young age and helped him build 2 houses, cottage, garage and several other buildings.

I traveled out West in 1978 and worked for different Construction companies as a Carpenter, when I heard of a course that was being given in Log Home construction in Prince George B.C at the College of New Caledonia, I took the course and found my Life`s Passion.

In 1984 I returned home to Gatineau Quebec and started to work for a local Pulp & Paper mill in Masson Quebec as a Seasonal worker 4 months per year. I had plenty of free time, which I used to Educate myself in Architectural Drafting, Structural Engineering of Timber Homes, Shop Drawings, General Log construction in all of the different techniques, Repairs of Period Log Home Structures. I bought, read and Studied every book that was available on the Market written by Masters of the different Techniques over a period of nine seasons that I worked for Maclaren`s Pulp and Paper Mill, and the rest of the eight months in the year I worked on Log and Timber Projects. The rest is History, told by the photographs of projects over the last thirty five years.

- David Lyman