Ultimate Log and Custom Homes does a complete layout and cut sheet for each home produced. Because of this preparation, each log home that we produce will arrive on your job site with every log squared on the ends, cut to exact length, and notched at the corners. This will save the builder hours of construction time.

 

Ultimate Log and Custom Homes has just introduced Insulspan Panels into it’s Kit Package options, for roof and floor systems. Insulspan structural panels are high quality foam core panels. They can be utilized in commercial and residential settings as walls, floors and roofs. According to Insulspan, “Each panel is made of an expanded Polystyrene (EPS) core bonded between two layers of rugged Oriental Strand Board (OSB).” The benefit of Insulspan panels are their cost effectiveness, increased energy efficiency to the already efficient log structure, and the shorter construction time due to the ease of set-up for the panels versus the conventional building methods.

Ultimate Log and Custom Homes achieves a snug fit between logs by milling a concave surface on the bottom round log that rests atop the round surface of the log below it in the wall. This concave-over-round profile is a machined version of the Swedish Cope Log. The most familiar overlapping corner is the saddle-notch, so called because the end of the corner log is cut out so it fits over the round log beneath. As logs are stacked horizontally, their milled features fit together. Fasteners hold them together so that the logs act as a unit to provide support and stability.