LOGS 101

Log Profiles:

4"x6" LOG WALL PROFILES (Single Tongue & Groove) 6"x6" and 8"x6" LOG WALL PROFILES (Double Tongue & Groove) 6"x8" LOG WALL PROFILES (Triple Tongue & Groove) 8"x8" and 8"x10" LOG WALL PROFILES (Triple Tongue & Groove) HAND-PEELED OR HAND-HEWN "Rustic Cabin Logs" (Available with all logs and log sidings) 2"x6" and 2"x8" LOG SIDINGS (Available with milled surface, hand-peeled and hand-hewn surfaces) Our Log Sidings can be used as an exterior for our panelized/pre-cut homes to give the appearance of a log home.

From the great northeastern forests of New York, New England and Canada come the top quality Northern White Pine and Cedar logs chosen for French Mountain Log Homes. Each log is inspected at the mill for quality of its wood and its shape. When the log is acceptable, it is specially cut. Each log is shaped in accordance with the customer selection, taken from the French Mountain Log Homes "Chart of Log Profiles." The logs are precision cut, end trimmed and shaped on machinery especially designed for this purpose. Each 8" log carries the triple tongue and groove on the top and bottom surfaces. This tongue and groove system provides for a tight fit, insuring strength and a weather tight seal.

Solid log walls are known for natural structural strength and energy conservation. A log wall constructed from our logs provides a heat holding capacity of over 3-1/2 times that of a 2 x 4 wall with 3-1/2 inches of fiberglass insulation.* With our solid wall construction, insulation, studding, framing, siding, and paneling are unnecessary, therefore, resulting in fast, economical construction compared to conventional methods.

Log wall construction provides natural insulating features. Wood contains millions of airspaces within its cellular structure and air is one of the best known insulators. Because of this factor, wood insulates six times better than brick, fifteen times better than aluminum. It would take a concrete wall 5' thick to equal the insulating quality of just 4" of wood. Because wood proves to be insulation efficient, it is very economical. A log wall can be adapted to any type of building design. It provides for economy, easy maintenance and quick erection. Log construction is the answer to quality construction at low cost. We can provide top quality pine logs for your construction needs, insuring you the best built structure in the industry. Not only will your building be attractive but solid and economical. By providing the best product to work with the end result can only be the best!

French Mountain Log Homes are available as a kit that can be assembled by any do-it-yourselfer with a minimum of carpentry experience and basic tools, and at the most affordable cost in the building industry today. The homes are also available as a shell-erected or turnkey log home on your site.

*Reference: Building a log house in Alaska, Cooperative Extension Service, P-50A, 1977

Standard milling choices:
Interior & exterior cabin log surfaces (specify both):

Milled wood products:
Standard lengths up to 16 ft. long available by special order-surcharge will apply.

Upgrades & options:
Additional fees apply

Wood species:
Eastern white cedar or western red cedar

Log sizes:
(HXW) 6X4 /6X6 /6X8 standard 6X10 /8X6 /8X8 /8X10

Hand worked surfaces: Cabin logs
Hand hewn:
Logs are milled and then draw knifed by hand.  This produces a textured, hand worked finish on uniformly sized & grooved logs.  Available in all species and sizes, you must specify which surfaces are to be hewn; interior, exterior, or both.

Hand peeled:
Logs have all the outer and most of the inner bark removed by hand using a drawknife prior to milling in tongued & grooves.  This process produces uniformly tongued & grooved logs, with the most rustic appearance and natural variations in size.  Available in White pine only, in all sizes, you must specify which surfaces are to be peeled; interior, exterior, or both.