Building a Log Cabin - What's the Best Way?

Building a log cabin is no tiny task, to say the very least. You have to have a good, solid plot of land, you'll need to work with the best and most accurate set of building plans, and having those two most important of first things, you then move on to the selection of your materials and the construction itself. Now, from here, you can go one of two major ways to accomplish this gargantuan task. There is one way which is quite costly, eats up loads of time, is the more dangerous route to take, and can be fraught with delay after delay. The other way has construction move on at an exceedingly quickened pace, there's much less danger involved, is a better quality build, and costs much less money. Interested? Let's examine this further...

When your building a log cabin the "old" way, you have a truckload of logs delivered, take them down, measure out each one a log at a time, cut them each a log at a time, notch them each a log at a time, and fit them in succession, a single log at a time in order to conform to the contours and shapes of the logs laid down previously before them. Cumbersome logs being cut and shaped on site are heavy, and can be quite dangerous to work with - accidents can, and will happen, rest assured. During such a time-consuming effort, with the span of time it takes towards completion, there arise countless opportunities for delays of all types; accidents, needed design changes due to the "personality" of some logs, ordering more supplies as needed, bad weather, and the list goes on. It may take more than a year to be able to move into your new home, realistically speaking.

But if you decide to take on building a log cabin the way that most are built today, through the use of log homes kits, almost all of the work has been done for you. Each individual log gets pre-shaped in a factory setting. Working with pre-milled logs is a lot less dangerous because there is no cutting required, and all is packaged in a special way; at the factory, the structure is pre-built to ensure a perfect, precise fit all around, and then disassembled. When the package arrives, everything is found to be numbered - all of the parts - in construction order, so that fitting everything together is a simple breeze that takes a mere matter of weeks. What's more is that due to the fact of all of the logs and other parts have been pre-shaped in the factory in assembly line fashion, this creates a brilliant situation of an exceedingly low per-log cost... it truly is the most inexpensive, best quality build, super fast constructing way to go about log home ownership.

The beauty of a log home is something that must be experienced first-hand - the beauty of rustic nature that can be observed in a log cabin built from a pre-cut log home kit is something that really must be seen to be appreciated. If you'd like to find more information on log cabin building, check out all of the information to be had at http://www.junctionloghomes.ca.

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