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Welcome to The Log Home Neighborhood! We're glad you stopped by.

Feel free to introduce yourself here, or, create a profile and start uploading photos and videos, start blogging, join groups and take advantage of all the best resources the The Log Home Neighborhood has to offer.

Oh, and by the way, I'm the Neighborhood Host - so let me know if you have any questions, comments or concerns and I'll be more than happy to accommodate you!

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Permalink Reply by Susan on July 7, 2008 at 12:22pm

Photos of our progress
http://s166.photobucket.com/albums/u87/rickabuddy/

The most recent pictures are from April 08 - hope to have new ones downloaded soon.

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Permalink Reply by Adrienne on July 10, 2008 at 6:55pm

Hi everyone. I'm new to the site. Please visit My Page in the Community Members tab for photos of my log home in North Eastern PA.

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Permalink Reply by Terry & Shelley S on July 10, 2008 at 8:49pm

Wow! What a great idea! For the past hour & 1/2, I've been enjoying your comments and pictures. I am new to this site and to be quite honest, I'm new to this blogging thing too. But I just couldn't help myself. My husband and I are not yet log home owners but are planning to begin building early 2010. We're waiting for our last of three sons to graduate from college. Just today we ordered our preliminary plans! We're so excited!

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Permalink Reply by Carl Goveia on July 27, 2008 at 8:20pm

Hi All: I am new to the neighborhood. We built our log home in New Hampshire in 2005 as a vacation home. Believe me, I wish I were there 24/7. This was a life long dream come true. It's nothing spectacular at 1,300 sq ft but even our teenagers love going there with & without their friends. It's really great family time (no computers or cable). The kids snow board and my son is anxious to get an ATV to keep there as we are located on a major ATV trail. Nice and quiet area on a river in a small town in the White Mountains. Even though we don't live there I think about the place daily and look forward to our next visit. After talking to other log home owners and reading magazine articles and it does seem that we all share this passion for log home living. At first I thought it was just me. My only wish is that the tv networks would come up with the "Log Home Channel" as they seem to have a tv channel for everything else. Carl

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Permalink Reply by Shane and Dawn Harvey on September 2, 2008 at 4:35pm

Hello everyone,

My name is Shane and my wifes name is Dawn. We are beginning to plan and purchase supplies for our new log home that we are beginning to build in the spring of 2009. I am extremely excited about building this home, because I have been waiting for nearly 22 years to build it. Over the years I have owned a fixer upper and a mini home neither of those projects were very exciting, both were rather messy and stressful. ( Drywall dust, paint splatter, re-plumbing etc etc etc.... I am sure most of you have been through it. Anyhow I am a Carpenter/Cabinetmaker with most of my experience in the shop end of the business. I only have minimal experience with concrete work, and I have the same experience with roof systems. Those are my week spots and I hope I can get all the information I can concerning those two areas. I have lots of experience in the finishing end ( Cabinets, doors, staircases etc... ) so if I can be of any help to anyone in those areas, feel free to ask. Enough about that, I do have a question concerning foundations.

Question; We live in New Brunswick, Canada. were we have some pretty cold winters. The frost is at approximately 3-3.5 ft down, we are going to put a footing at 4ft deep. Then we are going to bring the frost wall to grade level, here is were my predicament begins, I want to use red/orange/grey granite for my visual wall from grade to 12 - 16 " tall by 10" thick. how wide and deep should the footing be, how wide should the wall be and how do you waterproof the granite and mortar.

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Permalink Reply by Marla on September 2, 2008 at 9:41pm

Hi Shane and Dawn,

My husband and I live in northern Alberta and we are building our log home now. Our footings are 4 ft. down and they are a continuous 24" x 10" concrete footing. We used Nudura styrofoam forms and poured an 8" thick foundation wall. Hope this helps.

Marla

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Permalink Reply by Ray Mazza on September 5, 2008 at 7:45am

Hi,
My name is Ray M. I am in the final building stages of my log home. I am ready to start power washing the exterior logs, I have heard and read that you show use a bleach cleaner and then oxalic acid secondly power wash off, rebug, and then stain. Does this even sound close?

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Reed on September 12, 2008 at 9:16pm

Hi All,

Just wanted to say Hi. We're in the process of finishing a log home that is ~75% complete, and are completely naive to the realities of log home living, but what a great project!!

Looking forward to chatting with you all about experiences and the process.

-Jer.

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Permalink Reply by Ohio Log Home Restoration on September 29, 2008 at 1:46pm

Hello my name is Matt Jaworski owner of Ohio Log Home Restoration and Jaworski Coatings, Inc a log home refinishing company. Just want to say hello to everyone and i'm glad to be a part of any log home ciscussions or topics. If anyone has any questions regarding refinishing and or restoration please let me know, I'd be glad to help if I can.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Barclay on July 23, 2010 at 6:29pm

Hello Matt, I know this is an old topic but I thought I'd try. I think I saw some pics of your work at lightening up the interior of a log home with fantastic results. Is this a strip and restain project or a recoating to make the logs and interior look new and light and glossy from that really dark finish. It is something I'm interested in doing here in upstate NY. I've never seen it done around here.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Murphy on October 6, 2008 at 10:19pm

Hey everybody,

I own a log home building company and love log homes. Just found this site and have been reading for hours. Great to see so many people taking the time to do the proper preparation when purchasing their dream home. Hope to spend much more time here and contribute where I can!

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Permalink Reply by Stelin on October 9, 2008 at 5:32pm

Hello Neighbors,
We started our log home in northern Minnesota on a lake a few miles from the BWCA in the Spring of 2006 by putting in a foundation with a walkout, capping and insulating it and installing infloor heat, a well and septic and finishing a bathroom and bedroom to be used while we worked on the upper floors. The spring of 2007 they put up the log shell, wired and installed infloor radiant heat on the main level. The home has an 1100 sq. ft. foundation with the same on the main floor and a 600 sq. ft. loft. We have hired contractors to do the majority of the construction, but have done much of the finishing ourselves including all of the outside staining and inside sanding, sealing and trim work. We have some trim work left to do before we begin installing the flooring and ordering the kitchen cabinets. We went with 10" full logs and are so happy we chose a log home instead of a regular stick-built. We were able to justify the extra cost of a log home by not having to put up insulation, sheetrock and/or tongue and groove on all of the outside walls. Believe me, it really does hold the heat in the winter and keep the heat out in the summer. We hope to evenually use our log home year round, but until retirement we have only been driving the 5 hours about twice a month. It is well worth the drive as we can't wait to get there and hate to leave. Somehow working there with the scent of pine and sounds of nature doesn't really seem like work.