Do-It-Yourself Guidebook — Complete Guide to Building Log Homes

Over 800 illustrations and photographs take you through every phase of log home construction, including interior finishing. Contents Planning and Preliminaries: Planning, The Land, Tools and Labor Logs, Foundations and Building Sites: Timbers and Materials, The New Homestead, Building the Foundation House Raising and Finish Work: First Logs, Walls, Second Stories, Roof Framing, Roofing, Doors and Windows, Stairs, Finishing the Interior, Cabinetmaking and Millwork, Decks, Porches and Balconies Extraordinary Log Styles: Hewed and Square-Milled Log, Other Log Styles Heat and Utilities: Solar Heated Log Houses, Water and Septic Systems, Plumbing, Wiring and Lighting, Be Your Own Power Company, Heating with Wood Log Home Kits and Schools: Kit Built Houses, Building a Kit Home, Log Home Building Schools Sources for Materials and Information