Successful Log Homes

SUBTITLED : ` Planning & Building, Renovating & Repairing '. LEARN more about : de-limbing, loadi bearing, step proportions, balusters, stringers, clustering, snowfall, Clifford Hale, air-flow, solar, ridge insulation, and girder plate. Text assisted by b/w `how-to' drawings. Also by b/w photographs. A few colour photos of finished houses are shown. Cond : Paper wrapper is yellow-brown in colour with white lettering. Cover photo is a montage of four - one shows construction and one a rustic interior. Colours bright. Volume clean and square. Tight in binding. No names, no tears. Excellent reference, Quote (p. 101) : " A few years back Houston architect Carroll Tharp and his wife bought a 20-foot square log house builrt in the mid-1850's; they carefully dismantled the structure, hauled it more than 100 miles and rebuilt it. The house, called the `Crane House', had eight-foot porches at the front and rear, and is one of the older ._._._. ." Size: 4to.