What’s Happening with Connext

What’s Happening - February/March 2023

Connext introduces Beam Boss Slotter

The Beam Boss is a high quality tool designed for cutting slots faster and easier. This new Slotter has been in development for 18 months and you will love it!

The Beam Boss Slotter is offered for $299 along with the following advantages:

No need to screw the Slotter to the beam
A hole is not required to be drilled in the chainsaw bar
Cuts slots for diagonal or standard
Self-centering Spacers included to work with beam sizes 5.5”-8”
Simple adjustments can be made for 3.5” with enclosed washers

Here are Tooling Instructions for the new Beam Boss. Be sure to click the pdf on the Slotter page that compares the (3) different Slotters!

Wedding Venue in NC

Here’s another angle for wedding venues…pergolas to enjoy the open air! Billy Holton and his long time friends own Holevas & Holton, a construction company in NC building high end homes. On a farm recently purchased in New Salem, he and his family decided to frame with post and beam instead for five themed structures, three of them varied sizes of Lakeville Gazebo. The Legacy of Gregory Downs, a Family Farm and Events venue, was created around them and is run by the family.

It’s refreshing to watch how customers frame gazebos with the Connext system to create amazing uses for outdoor living and cooking, functional parking, combination shop areas and dreamy spaces for wedding and events.

Smaller Structures

Sometimes smaller is better! Look at the detail…no wonder Dan Ryno’s business in RI is thriving with buildings requiring less space (and easier permitting).

Connext standard plans for small barns begin with the 10” x 16” Granby and progress upward to the 18” x 22” Deer Lodge.

Often customers build a smaller building first to introduce themselves to the Connext system.

Dwell and ArchDaily

Architects ack Becker and Andrew Linn of BLDS designed a unique structure recently included in a fascinating Dwell magazine article and pictured also in the Arch Daily website for architects. Connectors were used post to base.