Build your own low-cost log home (Garden Way publishing classic) - Softcover

Hard, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088266400X ISBN 13: 9780882664002

Publisher: Storey Communications, 1985

Synopsis

If you're considering building your own log house, whether from your own logs or from a kit, this comprehensive guide has all the information you need. Roger Hard covers everything from choosing a site to planning the foundation and driveway, shaping logs, making corner joints, erecting walls, fitting joists, adding decks or porches, adding chimneys, and much more. Step-by-step illustrated instructions make the process clear and foolproof, whether you want a basic one-story structure or a more complex multi-level building.

About this title

From the Back Cover

You'll learn:

-- How to shape logs, make corner joints, erect walls, fit joists, add decks and porches, and much more.

-- How manufacturers' kit homes differ, illustrated by many photographs and detailed drawings.

-- How to pick the best site for a house and plan your foundation, driveway and landscaping.

-- What the manufacturer of a kit log house can do for you -- and how to be sure you get what you want.

-- The secrets of how to save the most on building your log home -- what you can do best yourself and when to get professional help.

-- Tools you'll need and ways to simplify hard jobs like raising logs and planning for chimneys.

 

This is the basic book for the log house builder, with those special tips that come only with experience.

About the Author

Roger Hard wrote and took many of the photographs for his book, Build Your Own Low-Cost Log Home.

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey Communications
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088266400X
• ISBN 13: 9780882664002
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196