Up Go the Walls
Without question, log raising day is the most exciting part of building a log home. And it all happens so fast!
Unlike traditional construction, which starts with a skeleton of 2-by-6s and seems to take forever until it looks like a house, a log structure looks like a home right away. This almostinstant gratification is fun, but it’s also serious business, and you’d be smart to understand how this special wall system comes together to create a comfortable, weather-tight home.
In conventional construction, a structure’s weight
