Your price is determined by a number of factors that include:

• Square footage
• Type of wood chosen
• Accessibility to the building site
• Additional features requested to meet your requirements

Give us a call and come on in for a consult so that a better estimate can be given.

Depending on our schedule most log home shells can be pre-fitted at our facilities in 6 to 8 weeks.  The log shell is carefully disassembled and tagged prior to shipping to your build site.

Once there a log home shell can be erected in as little as a week.

Our construction crew builds log cabins and timber frame homes in all parts of Ontario.

We recommend a review of your build site to make the best recommendations to help extend the life of your log cabin.

There are a number of different species of wood that are stable enough to use to build a log home.  Our common species is Northern White Pine due to its stability, long lengths, large diameter (16 inch), and its ease of making the tight-fitting notches to make your home tight and stable.

We stand behind our work and using the ILBA guidelines in our log homes when maintained properly last several decades.

Yes, timber frame homes account for 50% of our requests.

We partner with Canadian Log Home Supply who carries and recommends the best products and maintenance schedules for your log home.

For milled log homes use Stack-n-Seal between the logs during construction when stacking the logs. For sealing existing milled log homes or providing a chinked log appearance on new milled log homes use Energy Seal. For chinking square or round log chink style homes use Perma-Chink chinking.

In cases of very excessive log movement or application error (applied too thin or too narrow), even Perma-Chink chinking can split. Most small separations can be fixed easily by applying a bead to fill the split, then using the bottom of a spoon or small putty knife to level out the bead, being careful to work the new material tightly against the existing chinking or wood. Then dip a small paintbrush in a cup of water and “feather” out the new chinking material and blend it into the original chinking. In rare cases of excessive log movement, fill the gap with backer rod or insulation, then rechink the entire chinking gap or proceed as above.

First some definitions are appropriate. At Perma-Chink Systems, we are careful about our use of terms. To us:

1. Preservatives are wood treatments that control wood destroying organisms. They are applied to bare wood for the control or prevention of fungus or insects. Shell-Guard is our most popular preservative. This is a one-time treatment in wood that is properly protected. (Contrast this definition to stains, which are frequently called “preservatives”.)
2. Stains are wood finishes that protect the wood from weathering and also stabilize the color. Stains and finishes seal the wood surface to prevent water penetration and add color to stabilize long-term appearance. Good quality stains highlight the wood grain and character to provide long-lasting beauty. Lifeline Ultra-2, Lifeline Exterior, Lifeline Advance, Lifeline Interior are our most popular stain/finish products. (Samples are available upon request to determine the color that you prefer.)
3. Sealants are applied to your log walls to stop water intrusion, air infiltration (leaks) and to prevent insects from nesting in small crevices. You use sealants to prevent leaks in your walls. Log home designs employ many kinds of sealing systems, including gaskets, chinking, caulking and check sealers. Our most popular sealants are Perma-Chink log home chinking, Energy-Seal chinkless log home sealant, Stack-N-Seal internal sealant and CheckMate check sealer.

With these definitions in mind the materials have been presented in the order in which they should be applied to your log home: first, internal Sealants; secondly, Preservatives; then, Stain & Top-coat; and finally, external Sealants.

We recommend and use Canadian Log Home Supply.  Their information is found below and their website can be found at this link.  

Canadian Log Home Supply

• R.R.2, (21 Sand Rd.)
  Eganville, ON, Canada
  K0J 1T0
• Email: info@canadianloghomesupply.com
• Phone: 613-628-9574 / 1-800-746-7773
• Fax: 613-628-2372

We have worked with some of the more famous log home designers but they are not local to this area.  We use and do recommend JDS (Johns Drafting Services) here in London, Ontario.