The exterior log walls, wood porch deck floors, porch steps, and railings need to be stained to preserve their color and give years and possibly centuries of life to the log home. The log homes can be erected more quickly than most other construction styles, resulting in labor cost savings. Using these modern building materials with the wide surface contact area of flat on flat log house construction creates one of the tightest, most energy-efficient log homes possible. This exceptional stability allows Meadowlark Log Homes to easily build log walls up the gable ends to the peak log.Īll of the log homes have 100 percent logs on an exterior wall. They can therefore handle greater point loads and extreme forces from wind or earthquake. Compared to other log walls, where only the outside edges of the scribed log contact the log below it or chink style where the chinking provides the support, flat on flat log walls provide the best shear and buckling resistance available in a log house. The logs are air-dried before use, so shrinkage is minimized, and since there is less settling of logs, the overall shrinkage of the log house wall is greatly reduced. The log house walls are pre-drilled for 5/8 inch by 10-inch steel rebar pins, and the loft joists and roof purlins are drilled to accept wood dowels and are flattened, ready for tongue and groove lumber. Meadowlark Amish Log Homes are handcrafted and are a completely pre-assembled log cabin package, with exterior log walls and interior log walls where shown on floor plans, and with log walls up to the peaks including log gables, and fully pre-assembled loft joist and roof beam/purlin system.

Amish log cabin floor plans