Maneki Neko
03-13-2003, 06:49 PM
Originally posted by William Lasko on the old LHOTI
What would it be worth to you to understand 3 approaches to installing a door or window in a solid log wall, "kit" or "handcrafted", to allow for settling and shrinkage? If you could be shown, first-hand, how to select your next log to ensure good structural soundness when passing over the doors and windows, would that be helpful?
Would hands-on use of various tools and shown by a skilled handcrafter various cutting a shaping techniques be helpful when establishing a log floor joist system, or interior framed wall or installation of cabinets and wiring come in handy?
How about planning a log truss and purlin roof system and building it for your own log home? A lot of people discount the meaningfulness of obtaining the requisite skills and knowledge needed to build with solid logs - whether milled or not. I save the log home magazines and look for the covers with serious building blunders - even the editors and photgraghers fail to see.
Unawares owner/builders can take that as meaning it is good craftsmanship. Don't laugh, people do feel if its pominently in print it "must be alright" ... fooooy! When a cover ad costs in excess of 10 to 15 k - its about colorful, attractive sales and bou coupe $$$$$$$ appealing to the emotional appeal of the "log cabin in the woods".
For the discerning owner/builder, there is help available. Hands-on Log Building Workshops are available and the costs are saved in errors and delays many many many times over! You don't need to rely on a company representative to "educate" you or even know the answers her/himself. We cover, land searches, site planning, foundations, sub-contractors, floor systems, log joinery, installation of doors and windows, cabinets and interior fram walls, finding logs, log truss roof systems and a lot more.
We introduce the idea of developing a 3 to 5 year plan to build and have your log home free from debt or to seriously limit the amount of debt and owner/builder financing for log homes - the growing niche in the home financing sector. Go ahead and love log homes - we do! But learn about them before seriously entertaining a purchas agreement. For those who would know they might well like a handcrafted log home, but not build it themselves - they will be very able to contract a builder and be on the same page all the way!
Our Host Program and Class Projects Purchasing Program are excellant ways we reach out and help and support owner/builders through their projects - for more information you can call and request it at 1 800 292-8043
to visit our web site,
http://www.LaskoSchoolofLogBuilding.com/
What would it be worth to you to understand 3 approaches to installing a door or window in a solid log wall, "kit" or "handcrafted", to allow for settling and shrinkage? If you could be shown, first-hand, how to select your next log to ensure good structural soundness when passing over the doors and windows, would that be helpful?
Would hands-on use of various tools and shown by a skilled handcrafter various cutting a shaping techniques be helpful when establishing a log floor joist system, or interior framed wall or installation of cabinets and wiring come in handy?
How about planning a log truss and purlin roof system and building it for your own log home? A lot of people discount the meaningfulness of obtaining the requisite skills and knowledge needed to build with solid logs - whether milled or not. I save the log home magazines and look for the covers with serious building blunders - even the editors and photgraghers fail to see.
Unawares owner/builders can take that as meaning it is good craftsmanship. Don't laugh, people do feel if its pominently in print it "must be alright" ... fooooy! When a cover ad costs in excess of 10 to 15 k - its about colorful, attractive sales and bou coupe $$$$$$$ appealing to the emotional appeal of the "log cabin in the woods".
For the discerning owner/builder, there is help available. Hands-on Log Building Workshops are available and the costs are saved in errors and delays many many many times over! You don't need to rely on a company representative to "educate" you or even know the answers her/himself. We cover, land searches, site planning, foundations, sub-contractors, floor systems, log joinery, installation of doors and windows, cabinets and interior fram walls, finding logs, log truss roof systems and a lot more.
We introduce the idea of developing a 3 to 5 year plan to build and have your log home free from debt or to seriously limit the amount of debt and owner/builder financing for log homes - the growing niche in the home financing sector. Go ahead and love log homes - we do! But learn about them before seriously entertaining a purchas agreement. For those who would know they might well like a handcrafted log home, but not build it themselves - they will be very able to contract a builder and be on the same page all the way!
Our Host Program and Class Projects Purchasing Program are excellant ways we reach out and help and support owner/builders through their projects - for more information you can call and request it at 1 800 292-8043
to visit our web site,
http://www.LaskoSchoolofLogBuilding.com/