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Here we discuss the inspection and diagnosis of rot and leak damage on older log homes and other log structures that used vertical logs to form the building walls. This series of articles provides information on the inspection and diagnosis of damage to new and older log homes and includes description of log home insulation values and alternatives, and also a description of the characteristics of slab-sided log homes. Our page top photo shows an older vertical-log walled log home along the Susquehanna river in Pennsylvania. © Copyright 2009 - 1991 Daniel Friedman, All Rights Reserved. Information Accuracy & Bias Pledge is at below-left. Use links at the left of each page to navigate this document or to view other topics at this website. Green links show where you are in our document or website. Guide to Vertical Log Wall Homes - the Original Green Cabin
Thanks to the wisdom of the owners who at least kept a decent roof on the cabin, the log building endured for many decades. But it was in rough condition by the turn of the century, needing floor structure, roof, wall, and window repairs. The vertical placement of most of the logs on this building permitted the original builders to use local cedar logs cut on this point of land extending into lake Superior even though the logs varied widely in diameter. There was no problem of mating logs of different sizes at the building corners when this approach was used, yet the building corners and structure remained intact, even absent the structural tie of overlapping log ends. The original log structure was not chinked nor well-sealed but inside the builders nailed furring strips between vertical logs, in some instances using oakum or newspaper as a chinking material behind the furring. In comments and photographs below we illustrate the types of damage and log home failures that occurred in this structure.
The principal causes of rot and carpenter ant damage we found at this Minnesota log cabin were
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