09/17/2026
A day of up and downs…
Three rows set and fitted at noon, two rows all secured and permanently in place at the end of the day.
Just like the foundation being critical to the integrity of your building, the first row of your log home is critical. It determines if your walls and roof will be square and level.
So, today we made sure our home will be perfect. The time we put in today will save us over the coarse of the build, by not having to make adjustments and fixes along the way.
I’ve received a lot of questions about how we put the structure together and what do we use to hold the walls up? I’ve labeled pictures of the different steps of the process. Starting on the floor level and moving to the second row of logs.
The same technique repeats itself, up the walls. With 2-3 large log bolts, screwed between the log screws (every 16 inches) in each log.
Needless to say A Lot of screws and Log Caulk are used in the process of building a log home.