Log home shell
Log home shell is one of major parts of whole home construction. Shell can consist of just wall logs as well include roof system made from logs also. Click on picture to see definitions of different logs used in log home construction.
There are many chinkless methods exist. Some of them are traditional i.e. “Flat on Flat”, “Concave over Round” (Swedish cope), “double-cut” groove. Others are result of modern wood milling technologies, so today log home kit mnufaturers offer: machined ripple tongue & groove, spline and some other types of interlock.
Builders tie logs together by driving hardwood tenons, pegs, dowels, through-bolts, or lag bolts, or pin them with rebar into predrilled holes through each round of logs to the rounds below. This is standard procedure used by probably all log home builders.
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