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Boy, the horror stories on here about log cabins.

The wall logs rot? What?





Here is my log palace up in the NC mountains. I have lived here for 20 years and trust me, no wall logs have rotted.

Y'all boys have had cabins built by someone who didn't know what they were doing.
We don't have red cedar up here, just simple white pine.
IF you have big roof overhangs at the gable ends, 4 feet for my house, and if you have porches on the long sides, mine has porches with 14 foot roofs, the wall logs cannot rot.
Of course you keep the house at least 2 feet off the ground. Keep bushes away from the logs, that is common sense.

I have seen log cabins that are 200 years old and still are in good shape.
Like I said above there is no annual maintanence on one of my houses, I have stained it one time in 20 years and it is no where near needing re staining.



Here is the addition that I just built onto my house last year.

Sorry y'all boys had a bad experience with log cabins but, it is like someone saying "I bought a used Yugo and it blew up in 6 months. Cars are not good, get a horse and buggy or else a bicycle."

There are good log cabins and there are, evidently, bad log cabins.