Table of Content
- Step 3. Building the Foundation
- DIY Chainsaw Mill Projects to Make Your Own Lumber
- Experience the Hochstetler Log Home Difference
- Step 5. Log Cabin Exterior and Maintenance
- We are passionate about building log cabins that bring nostalgia and coziness of a simpler lifestyle to your home.
- Dovetail Notches
- Log Cabin Kits
Over 1,100 SQF, we offer many log home kit floor plans to choose from. Our experienced drafting department can take any plan and customize it to meet your specifications. Many of our customers come to us because they want the highest quality oak log cabin kit. We are happy to consult with you on what kits we have for your build-out so you can do it yourself. Our designers have drawn floor plans for all tastes and preferences. Depending on your family’s needs, plot size, and budget, we will find the floor plan that best matches your expectations.
Then, take your caulk and, using a trowel, apply it along the length of the joints in your logs. Moisture in humid climates and dampness in cold climates can very quickly cause your log home to rot if left unfinished. If you do opt to use a traditional saddle notch, when scribing ensure you use a downwards facing notch in high rainfall areas. So, you’ve probably spent what feels like a long time and not seen much visible progress… lots of planning, preparation and groundwork.
Step 3. Building the Foundation
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The end result is a log home that displays astonishing wood artistry and optimal organic living—as attested by our awards. Our experienced crew will reassemble the logs on your foundation/subfloor in a surprisingly short amount of time. We begin the process of peeling, cutting, and handcrafting the logs into your log home at our yard. Log homes display astonishing durability because they are built out of logs, without voids in-between.
DIY Chainsaw Mill Projects to Make Your Own Lumber
Notches are scribed into logs and join the corners of your log home. Start by reading log cabin notches for beginners, before choosing the notch for your cabin. The easiest, cheapest and fastest way to get logs for your log cabin is to buy land with suitable trees already there.
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Experience the Hochstetler Log Home Difference
We have many floor plans to choose from, or we can custom design your dream home using your ideas to create a home that fits your lifestyle. From a simple one-room cottage to an elaborate home, your imagination is the key to your home design. When your design is complete, we custom cut your logs to fit your plans.
Here at Frontier Log Homes, we have developed log cabin kits to help you build your log home in no time. Our log home kit includes all the logs you will need for the walls and roof structure. Our log cabin kits allow for expansive customizations and integrations. Beautifully incorporate drywall, paint, timbers, round logs, tile, stone, and more for your own unique look and feel. You can’t beat the quality and value of our log homes—there is nothing else like it!
Installing the Floor
Notch your sill (i.e. sleeper) logs so you can insert the floor joists. Laying the sill logs is mostly a question of strength and lifting as opposed to craftsmanship. These logs are very heavy and it’s better to be patient, spending time to work precisely, and getting them in place.
Nothing from the tree goes to waste when building an Alaska style cabin. This beautiful log home in Aspen, Colorado is the dream vacation home of Annie and Michael Katz and started as a sketch made while sitting at the kitchen table. The design of this three-bedroom cabin pays special attention to how natural light washes through the home. In a turn-key project, Frontier Log Homes is your general contractor managing all phases of construction from excavation to the final walk through. And provide the labor and materials for everything from kit to dry-in to finishes.
Complete with covered front porch and plenty of interior loft space for sleeping or storage space. If you have used a butt and pass notch technique you will absolutely need to seal your cabin. Caulking is the sealant for your logs to prevent air and moisture infiltration.
So every 14” on each sill log create a notch to receive a floor joist. Your log cabin’s size and complexity are the two most significant factors that will drive cost. A simple square or rectangle log cabin with the same square footage will be much cheaper than a “new” or “alternative” L design log home.
Under 1,100 SQF, our small log cabin kits are ideal as hunting or vacation log cabins. Do you dream of waking up in the morning with your cup of coffee stepping out on your wraparound porch surrounded by trees and the crisp midwestern air? Do you envision a life away from the craziness of the city in a log home so finely crafted that you can pass it down from generation to generation? This is what many of our customers imagine for their future when they come to us to learn more about building their dream log home.
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