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Behr makes an exterior sealant and uv protection coating that works great. We did the outside of our place in that over a year ago and it hasn't faded or anything and we have gotten ALOT of snow and...

We are going to build a second home and have learned quite a bit from doing the first one.
To start off, we will use bigger logs on the second house. They just have a better feel to them and you...

Now I really feel like a slow poke. How did he do a 30x30 in 3 months?????
Its taken us a year and a half and ours still isn't liveable.

Houses with any kind of wood siding have to be restained every few years. It can cost thousands of dollars to do it professionally or you can buy your own stain for a few hundred dollars and take a...

I completely understand your concerns about taking the class. My husband and I had all of the same thoughts and I researched many many classes. I also did some extensive research on kit homes because...

I can answer one part of your questions. My husband and I have no experience with any type of construction but we are currently building a log home. We even logged the trees out ourselves and...

The forest service charged us $100 for about 140 logs.
The cost that went into getting them included equipment needed, labor, vehicle maintanance and of course transporting.
My husband cut down...

The logs that we are getting the 2x6 boards from came from the hayman burn area here. We had alot of fires here a couple of years ago and one of them burned over 150k acres.
The trees are totally...

If I was able to move anywhere, I think I would go where you didn't have to deal with the county much when building. I'm in colorado and my whole family is here so I don't plan on going anywhere but...

We accidentally stumbled upon a mill near us and the guy that runs it is willing to tongue and groove our 2x6 boards for a reasonable price. We cut down our own logs so we plan on using everything we...