Recycled logs make ‘very solid’ log homes
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This article was published 13/03/2005 (7585 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
LOVING Log Homes: Where some people might see the discarded wood planks strewn about construction sites as refuse, Bill Smith sees log houses.
Smith has been re-manufacturing wood since 1983, but for the past few years he’s turned his attention toward creating log homes out of laminated and finger-jointed material to form flat or rounded logs for new-home construction.
The engineered logs are made of finger-jointed lumber end-cuts, sandwiched around a dense foam insulation core.
Karen Swaysland was one of the first to try Smith’s ‘Logsmith’ homes.
“I love the warmth,” says Swaysland of her 2,000 square-foot, three-storey engineered-log home. “Heating costs are low, and there are no drafts. It’s very solid.”
For more information, log onto www.logsmithhomes.com.
–CanWest News Service