Building Log Homes with Swedish Cope Logs

Building Flexibility

Not only do Swedish Cope logs provide you with an amazing log home look, they offer many real advantages during construction. The unique oly screws used during the stacking process are self tapping. This self tapping screw means no pre-drilling is required, and if a mistake is made you can simply back the oly screw out and make your correction. This flexibility during construction saves you time, money, and peace of mind. The Swedish Cope log profile a full weight-bearing between each log, running the entire length and exactly matching the arc of the log below. This produces weight-bearing the full length of the log, not just the ends. The interlocking corners tie your walls together giving you amazing shear strength in the walls, and that means greater strength and stability in you structure as a whole. The Swedish Cop log structure surpasses the strength of a standard stick framed wall by more then 20%.

Weather Tight Homes

Building log homes with Swedish Cope logs are more weather tight than other log home construction methods. The overlapping design prevents moisture from entering at the seam since moisture would have to travel up hill to penetrate the inside. A special log adhesive used during stacking on the logs is also used to seal the exterior and interior seams to create a tripe seal along the seams in the log wall. This triple seal ensures a tight seal on your log home. This simple and effective design keeps heat in during the winter and out during the summer, making your log home more efficient and cost effective to maintain your preferred climate.

Log Home Energy-Efficiency

Log homes have an advantage when it come to energy-efficiency, they use both the solid wood as an insulator the give it some R-Value and a log uses thermal mass. In a solid 7 inch log wall it might be indicated as a steady-state R-Value of R-9. In a stick framed home you may have an R13 (or even R-15 in some areas), but because of the thermal mass of a log home it will out perform the stick frame home by 2.5% to over 15% more energy efficient. To learn more view an article on The Energy Performance of Log Home produced by the Log home Council, Building Systems Council, and National Association of Home Builders.