Preliminary drawings are an essential first step in the process of designing and building a log or timber home. They offer an accurate, scaled representation of each project, illustrating overall layout, as well as providing an excellent tool for establishing an accurate budget.

After developing a preliminary set of drawings, changes to the initial design can be made without affecting construction time or adding significant costs to the budget. Once any changes to the preliminary drawings have been completed, Log Knowledge is able to create construction drawings ready for building permit submittal.

LOG SELECTION
Log Knowledge carefully selects its logs from the finest Rocky Mountain trees, ensuring that each project is built with the highest quality, most beautiful logs available. Log Knowledge has built with logs as large as 48 inches in diameter, and can build with logs of any size. Standard house logs selected for projects average 10 to 12 inches in diameter. Log work is done primarily with naturally tapered Lodgepole Pine, Engelmann Spruce and Douglas Fir/Larch timber.

FABRICATION
In order to reveal the individual, natural character and beauty of each log, the craftsmen at Log Knowledge select and hand-peel each log for every project. Connections between logs are hand-scribed and notched to match the unique contour of the adjacent logs in the structure.

Each log shell or structure is handcrafted and pre-assembled at the Log Knowledge facility in Northern Colorado. Handcrafting each log structure at one central location ensures quality control, allows Log Knowledge craftsmen to have a virtually unlimited supply of logs to select from as they build, and provides the most cost efficient means for supplying equipment and labor.