Log Home Plumbing

April 21, 2010

Installing plumbing in a log home is pretty much the same as a conventionally built home. If you have interior framed walls your plumber will run all required plumbing there. If you have all log home interior walls the contractor will have to build a chase-way in one of the rooms on your first level. [...]

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Moisture Content & Log Homes

April 21, 2010

Bound cell water in the fiber of a tree is your worst enemy. Logs will only shrink in diameter not in length. This is due to fibers that run the length (longitudinal) in a tree. These fibers are like straws the pull nutrients up from the base to feed the tree and hold moisture during [...]

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Log home Packages

April 21, 2010

Traditionally there are 2 log home packages available. 1) Log Walls 2) Log Shell Packages Log Wall Packages are just the main level log walls generally to eight feet in height. Most manufacturers allow customers to add additional logs for higher walls. You must ask each log home manufacturer what comes in their package, is [...]

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Log Home Electrical

April 21, 2010

People wonder how you set the electrical outlets and light switches in the walls of your log home, very simple…drill a hole. You have 3 options on how you would like to have your electrical installed. 1)  In the log wall 2)  Floor mounted 3)  Baseboard with box channel To install electrical in the log [...]

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Cost Estimation of a Log Home

April 21, 2010

One of the toughest questions that consumers ask is “how much”? Well it would be like asking, how long is a piece of string? Unless you give some kind or parameters to work from everything would be only a guess. There are so many variables that go into the equation and no one can tell [...]

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R-Values or Thermal-mass in log homes

April 21, 2010

In 1982 the North American Log Homes Council, part of the National Association of Log Home Builders preformed a study on “Energy Efficiency of log buildings”. The National Bureau of Standards technicians conducting this test built 2 structures 20’ x 20’, one out of 7” log and the second conventionally framed with 2” x 4” [...]

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Kiln drying vs. Air drying logs

April 21, 2010

Kiln drying is a very ambiguous term used in the log home industry as well as in the dimensional lumber industry. Kiln dried means “Surface Dried”. In the log home industry kiln dried standards are only 1 inch in to the log at 19% moisture content or less. Moisture is not regulated past the 1 [...]

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Log Home Contracts

April 21, 2010

Contracts can be scary. Log home manufacturers that have multiple page (10 or more) contracts are the ones to watch out for. The reason they make them so large and confusing is that it gives them the opportunity to hide things with terminology you do not understand. Then you get tired of reading and go [...]

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Milled Log Homes

April 21, 2010

When it comes down to selecting between a milled log home or a handcrafted log home it is like vanilla or chocolate ice cream. Either you want one or the other depending on what you vision for the final look. Milled logs make up around 90% of all log home construction in the United States. [...]

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Log Home Mills in the United States

April 21, 2010

Only a few log   home manufacturer’s actually harvest their own logs from the forests here in the United States. There are only a couple of manufacturers that have full functioning mills where they harvest their own trees and process them from the forest to your home. Of these few only a couple harvest green trees [...]

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