What is it that allows the Butt and Pass method not to settle?

[Timberwolf]

WOW!!!... What a quote!!!

Fuzzy, you oughta claim that one as your tag line before it enters the public domain where someone can steal it. It has heart, soul, and brevity, while retaining accuracy.

Indeed.

Done.

[LBolton2008]

Timberwolf,

WOW! WOW! WOW~! If I wasn't sold on the classes a couple of hours ago, I am now after viewing your photos. The step-by-step of each stage was amazingly helpful for me to envision the whole thing! I new believe that we can DO THIS! As soon as I can get my husband and me into the class, I will be there. I may bring both my grown sons too.

I've never really liked the look of the chinking ( I guess that's what you call the bright white material between the logs). Does it have to be so bright and VIVID? I didn't see this part of the process in your photos, and I'm guessing that this is a messy process?

I am PSYCHED! We can do this!

Thanks so much for your encouragement! Do you have any more photos of your completed house? The last photos I saw were of the staining and chinking. I'm not even sure I saw the windows and doors go in, or any of the interior going in. I can't thank you enough. It just all seemed to 'click' as I viewed your step-by-step photos.

L

[LBolton2008]

Sorry, I must have posted this in the wrong spot! Oops!

[LBolton2008]

I'm trying to respond to Timberwolf's post. Let me try again. I did earlier and it seemed to go to some other location. Here goes!

Timberwolf,

WOW! WOW! WOW~! If I wasn't sold on the classes a couple of hours ago, I am now after viewing your photos. The step-by-step of each stage was amazingly helpful for me to envision the whole thing! I new believe that we can DO THIS! As soon as I can get my husband and me into the class, I will be there. I may bring both my grown sons too.

I've never really liked the look of the chinking ( I guess that's what you call the bright white material between the logs). Does it have to be so bright and VIVID? I didn't see this part of the process in your photos, and I'm guessing that this is a messy process?

I am PSYCHED! We can do this!

Thanks so much for your encouragement! Do you have any more photos of your completed house? The last photos I saw were of the staining and chinking. I'm not even sure I saw the windows and doors go in, or any of the interior going in. I can't thank you enough. It just all seemed to 'click' as I viewed your step-by-step photos.

L

[AkChas]

........WOW! WOW! WOW~! If I wasn't sold on the classes a couple of hours ago, I am now after viewing your photos. The step-by-step of each stage was amazingly helpful for me to envision the whole thing! I new believe that we can DO THIS! As soon as I can get my husband and me into the class, I will be there. I may bring both my grown sons too.

I've never really liked the look of the chinking ( I guess that's what you call the bright white material between the logs). Does it have to be so bright and VIVID? .......
I am PSYCHED! We can do this!L

Hehehe... Zzzzzeeeeeeeeeeee (Another one hooked!). You'll find other members have links to their builds as well, links often found below their signature on posts -- RockLock for one, RckClmbr for another, various others with excellent photo / video documentation.
The chinking can be about any color/shade you want it to be -- a matter of personal preference -- you'll learn that in class too.
Speaking of which -- in case you didn't see the post on your "Newbie" thread -- the Memorial Day weekend class is now open and available to purchase. Best to jump on it! (They sell out Faaast).

Cheers and Welcome to the clan

[Timberwolf]

I'm trying to respond to Timberwolf's post. Let me try again. I did earlier and it seemed to go to some other location. Here goes!

Timberwolf,

WOW! WOW! WOW~! If I wasn't sold on the classes a couple of hours ago, I am now after viewing your photos. The step-by-step of each stage was amazingly helpful for me to envision the whole thing! I new believe that we can DO THIS! As soon as I can get my husband and me into the class, I will be there. I may bring both my grown sons too.

I've never really liked the look of the chinking ( I guess that's what you call the bright white material between the logs). Does it have to be so bright and VIVID? I didn't see this part of the process in your photos, and I'm guessing that this is a messy process?

I am PSYCHED! We can do this!

Thanks so much for your encouragement! Do you have any more photos of your completed house? The last photos I saw were of the staining and chinking. I'm not even sure I saw the windows and doors go in, or any of the interior going in. I can't thank you enough. It just all seemed to 'click' as I viewed your step-by-step photos.

L

Awww. Thanks L. I'm flattered.

I wasn't a big fan of chinking either. And for whatever reason, it seems that so many people dread the process to death.

For me, it was one of the best and easiest part of the process. There aren't many pictures because I did that part without help. Just me and the mixer and the buckets and the trowels and the scaffold. Mix, lug, trowel, repeat. 2 tons worth. Suddenly, it looks like a log home.

Mine is bright and white because I didn't want grey (note, you can pretty much have ANY colour you want, if you want it bad enough) I wanted something bright. And all the log buildings I grew up around had white lime chinking, so for me, it just worked.

There are some photos of the house with all the windows and doors installed in another album on the same site, feel free to look, they aren't hidden, I was just maxing out the practical limit for number of photos in one album.

BTW, that house, 95% of it at least was me and a buddy, or just me. You and your husband and 2 sons can DO this. You just have to want to.

[AkChas]

Short answer to this question -- and MANY others that you may not even be aware of yet -- Take the LHBA class!
It will open your eyes....and possibly make your Jaw Drop! (Mine did -- still does sometimes : )

[rocklock]

I have over 900 23" rebar pins in my log home... It does not and has not settled...

I suggest you try a little experiment. Get a scrap piece of rebar that is 1/2 inch in dia... Then drill a 1/2 hole in a green log or a tree if your short a log... pound in the rebar about 4 inches. It should be very easy... Then try to take it out... Do not try to take it out with something expensive like your pickup... you might break something...
After you try this experiment, then you will understand...

I have a wall that has had drywall (to form the bathroom) up to a horizontal log that crosses my log home. If my wall shrank, the drywall would crumble or some how show the effects of shrinkage... It doesn't. Hence my log have not shrank. Period...

About your design. You have a lot of walls vs your interior area... You have 10 segments... Lets say each is 15 foot long... Then you have 4 times 225 sqft or 900 sqft... for a log wall that is 150 feet long...

My log home is 900 sqft with a wall length of 120 ft... Then I have a free basement, another 900 sqft, and then I have 16 foot wall which allowed a second floor... or a total sqft of about 2550 sqft...

But different strokes for different folks...

good luck

[StressMan79]

thoner,

without giving away the whole system, while one rebar is not strong in compression, 16 or so are very strong. I will wager that you are not perfect either, so the bar will not be in a perfect line, so you won't be able to buckle that system...

There are very good reasons not to predrill your bottom log (although, it is likely not the end of the world if you start to -- I used an 18' auger on 15" logs, with a 1 inch gap between them, and so started a pocket on many of the bottom logs. I too am noticing no settling.

the verts (we call them RPSL) are fastened to the side of the logs... and may or my not be to the cement... that is up to the engineer in charge.

Take the durn class... you can have all of your questions answered by professionals, rather than just some log aficionados...

-Peter

[thoner7]

Stressman - I am hoping to take the class sooner rather than later, in the meantime, thanks for the help! Much appreciated.