Message from @Marlow
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yeah you're right
dude I've studied almost every method on log home building
most are crap
many of them just seem stupid to me
the most aesthetic I've seen is probably Robert Chambers' method but it's incredibly labor intensive
a regular wall is lets say 6 inches thick...maybe a little bit less over the actual floor and a log home would be something like 15 inches thick...you are literally losing about 10 inches on the perimeter of the house....its probably like a 15 percent loss on the total floor plan
and the potential for moistrue infiltration worries me
yeah airsealing is super important thats why i dont like log contruction
yup... and the more you seal it the more it ruins the look
i can build a stick frame wall in maybe 45 minutes from materials i can carry in my truck and lift with one hand
the chambers method, you're literally carving natural logs to fit like a glove on top of each other
logs would be literally an order of magnitude off from that simplicity and time
yeah his method is really complex
logs also deteriorate at the same rate if im not mistaken
but it ends up looking like a work of art... like the trees grew together into a house
they do when they touch and capture water in between the nooks and crannies
another point against log construction
Sometimes I get larpy tho... and I think about what kind of house you could build if you didn't have access to all these modern materials... like if it's just the individual craftsmen in the village working on it
if you really love wood and trees i dont believe in cutting a ton of them down for a house ...i dont really know about log construction at all but new methods are so easy and sustainable and habitable it makes me proud of my ignorance
and there's also the aesthetics of it
aesthetics to me really arent a virtue
but you cant build timber frame with out SIPS and they arent local made
well then it's just a question of what you value
I've been researching how one might be able to build it without sips
it can be done
our ancestors did it for hundreds of years
we have better methods and materials for the in-fill these days
yeah exactly i value practicality...a stick frame your children could build at 15 ...a log home well maybe after a decades of learning they could pull one off half assed
and lime plaster and lath is more labor intensive, but it produces beautiful, durable results
any surface finish wont matter if its not airsealed etc. plaster can turn to shit really fast
yeah I don't want to live in a bland box that's insulated with fiberglass batting
but that's just my own personal taste
well do you live in one now
haha touche
yes I do
im curious because where does this distaste come from
I don't really like it though
im not mad you dont see it the way i do
i really dont care there are more of you on the board than of me
oh I'm not mad either... it doesn't have to be a flame war