Online Course FAQ

The course will be hosted online on this specific website, and is accessible with an account you create when you purchase. There are no downloads or large files to deal with, and it is all neatly organized chapter-by-lesson on the website for you to view. Of course, you will need an internet connection to access the content, but it is viewable at your own pace, and as many times as you like. Didn’t quite understand something the first time? No Problem, watch it as many times as you need to. The videos do not expire etc.

Alumni of both our in-person Purely Post & Beam class and our Design Build class receive a 50% discount for this online course! Email us at [email protected] with the following info, and we’ll send you your custom discount code:

1. First/Last Name

2. Year/Month Class Taken

3. Email Address

We get it, YouTube is a treasure trove of free information. But that comes with a different price: thousands of videos to look through and no guarantee that the person you're watching actually knows what they're doing. Plus, who has the time to watch all those videos to find the one solution you're looking for anyway? We promise there's no fluff in our online course. It's the best bang-for-your-buck online timber framing education you'll find!

Yes! After going through the online course, you may decide that you would like to come to our campus in Maine and experience our in-person, hands-on, Purely Post And Beam course. If you have purchased this online course, we offer a $300 discount off tuition of our in-person Purely Post and Beam course. This discount applies only to the in-person Purely Post and Beam course, and not to our in-person Design Build Course.

Yes! It's all the same content from our famous in-person courses. These are no simple selfie videos - our video content has been professionally filmed and edited, and we’ve drilled deep into each topic.

Slides, figures, photos, and diagrams from the lecture portions of the online course that you can reference to accurately follow-along as you watch the online course videos. PDF is downloadable and printable.

We carry all the best tools, books, and other timber framing equipment in our online and on-site tool store, and with the purchase of this online course, you will get a lifetime 10% discount at Shelter Tools.

You can't put a price tag on the value of community. Connect with other Purely Post-And-Beam alumni from around the world, as well as our Instructors. Share your timber frame project progress, and ask any of your timber framing questions.

In the Purely Post & Beam course, we use a 24' x 24’ Timber Frame to teach you all the basic joints you will need to build your own timber frame structure. Creating a custom cut sheet package for a similar structure normally costs $1500, but we’ve included these PDF cut sheets for free! Think of these as similar to the set of directions you get with a Lego set. They are available in both U.S. and Metric systems of measurement.

Yes! If you are hard of hearing or just want to watch the videos in a busy place, all of the course videos have English captions so you can read along as you watch.