Timberline Log Homes Company
427 Orondo Avenue • Wenatchee, Washington 98801
Office: 509-662-8789 • Fax: 509-663-0186
IF IT CAN BE IMAGINED, WE CAN CREATE IT
Log Homes - Log Cabins - Log Lodges
Packages - Kits - Designs - Plans
Serving - Washington, Alaska, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico,
Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri,
British Columbia, Alberta, and all regions of the United States and Canada
Whether you are considering log homes, log cabins, or log lodges, Timberline can provide a log package that meets your needs. Choose from a selection of more than 150 plans, modify as desired, or a complete custom design can be provided. Options include a Basic Log Package to Complete Materials Packages customized to your needs.
From log cabin kits erected as 'do-it-yourself' projects, to grand log homes and log lodges, Timberline has a reputation of quality and value. Choose 6-inch to 16-inch, Swedish coped logs, or D-profile logs, harvested from dead stands of timber in either standard or cabin grades. Or, you can elect to conventionally frame the structure and apply saddle-notched log siding to make it appear to be built with full logs from the outside.
Timberline log homes are well designed. Precision notching makes log shells fit together tightly. Because Timberline's milled logs are in a naturally dry state ideal for log construction, settling and shrinking are minimal. The result is a log home that fits together well without having to deal with problems sometimes associated with other log construction.
Look through the informative Timberline website, send us your questions, and, if desired, specify the log cabin, log home, or log lodge you want on the Pre-plan Estimate page and we will email back preliminary prices based on current costs. You can depend on unsurpassed value with Timberline log homes.
Important considerations while planning for a log home
If you haven't already purchased land for your log home or cabin, then prepare to spend somewhere between 25% and 40% (or more) of the construction costs on a 'piece of dirt.' Because the building site plays an important role in determining log home design elements, the first step is to secure land before investing too much time and energy into the specifics of design. It isn't wise to put the cart before the horse.
Once you've found and purchased terra firma for a log home or cabin, a location in a rural area may mean that engineering evaluations will need to be performed including septic perc tests and design, soil characteristics and compaction assessments, addressing environmental concerns as well as the drawing of a site plan. Be prepared to spend $8,000 to $30,000 on a septic system if one is necessary. A well may also need to be dug in many cases. Once drawings are completed keeping boundary setbacks and terrain in mind, then engineering of the design to the building site location is usually required in most states. If the lot is heavily wooded, then trees may have to be removed in order to prepare the building site as well as to create space for machinery and materials.
After drawings are completed and stamped by a state licensed engineer, then they're submitted to the local building department for approval and issuance of a building permit. In the meantime, specific log takeoffs, cutting and notching at the mill and assembly of the materials package are completed. At this time, site preparation usually commences with road construction or improvements, preliminary grading and excavation. Once the building permit is issued, then foundation work begins followed by the delivery of the log home package and erection of the log shell.
It may seem like a lot to accomplish, but it really isn't any more than what would be required on the same site if conventionally 'stick' building the structure. The timeline for design & engineering, site prep, permitting and construction if building with logs usually extends twenty to sixty weeks depending on the complexity of design elements, size of the structure, permitting load of the planning department, schedules of builders and subcontractors, and specific location of the building site.
It's important to be realistic when entering into having a log home or cabin built. It will take some time to complete, and don't expect otherwise. But don't forget that a Timberline log structure often turns a rather ordinary piece of land into something quite special, and a spectacular site into something absolutely incredible. Either way, a Timberline log home package becomes an investment to appreciate.
