Should this be the case, you have the greatest flexibility in choosing your windows and doors. Now if you were lucky and had plenty of long logs, you may have a log rectangle with perhaps only a door openingno window openings, at all. Flexibility saves money and is one reason we only use temporary window framing tacked into the logs as we do the rough building. Can’t find a 36 by 60-inch horizontal sliding window? Well, how about this great 38 by 60-inch window? Yep, we can do that. In this way, we have a larger choice of possible selections that will work in a wall. As we don’t always get the exact sizes in these bargain windows, we usually opt to make our window openings smaller than we figure we can find a window to fit. You’ll have to do some detective work here, but you can find good buys and still use quality windows that will last for years and help energy costs in the bargain. Ask your large building supply dealer and local large contractors where rejected windows go. Look in large-city phone books for such a warehouse, under windows or building materials. New log home came from a builder’s warehouse of rejects. Does $50 or $200 each sound like a great deal to you? We thought so, seeing he bought name brands, like Marvin and Pella.Īll the windows in Bill Spaulding’s (Jackie’s son) Bill bought all the windows for his new log home, including a pretty set of French doors, for less than most folks pay for one large window. But they end up warehoused and sold for very little. Perhaps they were the wrong size, the wrong brand, not picked up, had gone out of stock or whatever. These windows are new, ordered for jobs, and were rejected. Now you can go down to the local window dealer or large building supply and pay upwards onto $1,000 or more for each window, as many people do, or you can be frugal, as my son, Bill, just did, and seek out a builder’s warehouse where “returned” windows end up. And, as most “holes” in your new home are window openings, let’s get these in first.īoth my husband and I have some Scotch blood, so perhaps that’s why we hate to pay full price for anything, including windows. WindowsĪs moisture will warp and discolor wood in your new home, you’ll want to get it dried-in as soon as possible. And when you finish, you’ll have a home that is economical, easy to heat, and nourishing to the soul.Īs we left our log home project last issue, we had the roofing material on and the log building looking like a home. Never get discouraged when sarcastic people who only color within the lines put down your dream. In the last two issues of Backwoods Home Magazine, we carried this series on building your own log home from the beginning planning stage, through actual stacking of logs, to finally roofing that great log home in the peaceful woodsour lifelong dream.Īs you read, keep in mind that hundreds of thousands of plain, common folk, often with very little building experience, have built their own log home. The first two parts appeared in issues 70 and 71. This is the third part of a three-part series. (Photos by Bill Spaulding and Jackie Clay)
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