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Log homes in Canada are
rapidly gaining the respect
they inherently deserve
according to Doris Muir,
editor of Log Home Guide
for Builders and Buyers.

“With inflation and energy
conservation affecting the
housing market many people
are looking to log homes asa
sound investment,” she said.

Log homes often cost less
to build than conventional
houses, they require little
maintenance, they are
sturdy and have excellent
insulation qualities.

The Eastern Forest
Prodticts Laboratory in
Ottawa recently issued a
report that states that the
colder a white pine log wall
gets the better it insulates. It
also said a six-inch wall

made of pine is equal to

about an R12. insulation
value.
LESS WASTED HEAT

Most log walls are much
thicker than six inches,
resulting in substantial in-
sulation and less wasted
heat.

Muir keeps tabs on the log
home industry through her
annual publication Log
Home Guide and notes a
surge in consumer interest
for this form of living.

“Log house living fits in
with a society more aware of
energy conservation and
sound ecological practices.”

Covering the North
American market the guide
details many companics.
Building styles covered
include the Scandinavian
chinkless method through to
logs milled into kits.

Stories range from the
firmly established Pan
Abode system to a sur-
prisingly new concept of
mobile log homes. Ac-
cording to the guide, the
company uses logs selected
from dry standing timber.
They are then milled down
to nine inches and shaped
into concave/convex _fit-
tings.

NO CHINKING

The logs require no
chinking as the insulation
used between the logs
securely seals them together.

This rather un-
conventional use of logs for
building is getting a lot of
attention south of the
border. The structures look
like log houses, have the
same cnergy-saving qualities
of tog houses, yet are
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Log homes gaining in po

highway as are regular
mobile homes and can be set
on the same foundations as
regular mobilo-homes.

“We act as a clearing
house for a lot of new in-
formation concerning tools,
legislation, wood  preser-
vatives and much of the
ancillary equipment that
goes along with log home
life,” said Muir.

Log Home Guide contains
facts, figures and related
stories of interest to the
professional as well as the
novice log builder.

The Log Home Guide is
186 colorfully _ illustrated
pages of information on this
exciting phenomenon. It is
available for $7.50 postpaid
from Muir Publishing Co.
Lid., Box 100, Gardenvale,
Que. H9OK 1B0.

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