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| This week, after a long break, Glenn got back to work building
our house. The foundation was poured last spring, but the summer
and fall were so busy, Glenn didn’t have time to work on it. That
is one reason we are considering selling some cows.
The house will be a log house. Glenn will make it full-scribe,
a method used by log-builders in Finland and Sweden, and by some builders
in the U.S. Many log homes that you see are “chinkers,” which are
built with spaces between the logs that are filled in with chinking.
Full-scribed logs are nestled into each other as the house is built, without
any spaces between. Full-scribed homes are harder to build, requiring
more time to carefully craft the logs together, but require less building
materials. Because chinking is very expensive, we decided to use
the full-scribe method.
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Ecological Consulting
Each wall will require 12 logs to stack up to the correct height.
The design of the house is a rectangle. How many logs do we need?
That answer seems simple, but you actually need about 20% less than that
to do the walls (Any ideas why? Can you figure the correct amount of logs
needed for the walls?). Now, you also need to add the logs required
for the floor joists that hold up the floor. Logs need to be spaced
on 18 inch centers (with the middle of each log 18 inches from the next
log), and the space to be filled is 42 feet by 30 feet, with the logs running
end to end across the short span. How many floor joist logs do you
need?
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