Log Home Tips & News
Common Log Home Questions Answered: Log Cabin Maintenance
Following our earlier post on ‘Log Home Restoration’, part two of the series ‘Common Log Home Questions Answered’ tackles popular questions on maintaining and protecting your log cabin. Log home owners have a lot of queries and doubts about the maintenance and care...
Surprising Facts About Log Cabins
People have been long been struck by cabin fever from way back around 3500 B.C. to the current times. Log cabins have seen many changes through history and have gone from being simple wood- structure shelters to luxurious and sprawling log homes for the rich and...
Designing Ceilings For Log Homes
Log cabin interiors should exude a sense of luxury and a state-of-the-art finish ceiling can help it do just that. A unique and original ceiling design can give your living room or the dining area, the kitchen or the bedroom an individual character to impress one and...
5 Essential Log Home Maintenance Tasks For The Fall
As the crisp air announces the start of fall, it is the perfect time to make sure your log home stands solid and is all primed up and ready for winter. We at Performance Log Homes have put together a quick and helpful routine maintenance guide to walk you through the...
How To Manage Settling Problems In Log Homes
Settling from wood shrinkage is a natural characteristic that you should be prepared for in a log building. In fact, anticipating it and building for it during construction can help homeowners or builders tackle it well. Most wood shrinkage and settlement around...
Difference Between Air Dried and Kiln Dried Logs
Irrespective of the wood species you select to build your log home with, it starts with a freshly cut tree that contain high moisture content. Freshly sawn ‘Green’ logs look and feel wet. For wood to be ready to be used, it needs time to dry out so that it is stable...
