How and what can we learn about log homes to know we’re selecting the right log home manufacturer?
Just like you, we had lots of questions when we first thought about living in a log home. Here are some of the questions our clients ask us. The first job you have is to find a floor plan and the style of log home you want. Next look at the leading most reputable log home manufactures and select one that has been in business for a long time, a leader in the log industry and has a distributor near your building site.
Send your special questions to us at Ken@eMountainLogHomes.com. We are here to help you realize the enjoyment of living in a Rocky Mountain Log Home.
We found that log home packages vary between companies. Here is the reason why Rocky Mountain Log Homes is the best and the choice for our personal home.
Rocky gives you the choice of three log packages. The base package has the basic essentials, log walls, railings and stairs. The Shell package adds the decking, heavy timber logs for gables/dormers, and heavy timbers for roof system.
The most complete package is the Rocky package. This package contains all of the items of the first two and in addition contains everything needed to give you that exclusive Rocky weather lock log home, including low E windows, interior and exterior solid pine doors and wood finish material.
What is the Rocky Mountain Log Home “Advantage”?
The key to our superior log homes lies in the material we use and their origin. We use only the best naturally seasoned dry-standing, not green, Western timber, as our exclusive source for log material. Only 1 log out of 10 will make the grade. Rocky is one of the few companies that manages the entire transformation for the standing timber to the home itself. Our full time, licensed forester, along with third party inspection, ensures that only the strongest timber finds it’s way into your Rocky Mountain Log Home.
The Rocky assembly technique has characterized our position as an industry leader. Before the first log is put in place, our robotic machinery has made it precise and true with the most efficient milling method available. With our exclusive Weather-Lock system every course of precision milled logs is assembled with a protective spline and gasket system. When joined to jour exacting standards, ensuring remarkable protection and strength. Weather-lock is a Rocky invention and still the industry’s most reliable log stacking system, impervious to the harshest conditions.
How difficult is it to finance a Rocky Mountain Log Home?
Financing your Rocky Mountain Log home is easy. By IndyMac Bank Home Construction Lending and Rocky Mountain Log Homes working together you can obtain a construction loan program that will make living in your Rock Log Home a reality. IndyMac Bank’s Construction-to-permanent loan eliminates the need for multiple loans. Many financial institutions now have a better understanding of the log construction process and its quality. Financing for a log home is no different than financing a conventionally-built home. All financial institutions will require that you hire a General Contractor or produce a budget/project plan to develop the amount of funds needed to build your home.
Other Questions to consider:
- When we decide to build a Rocky Mountain Log Home, what do you as a Rocky mountain Log Home distributor, do for us?
- How difficult is it to obtain insurance coverage for a log home?
- We are interested about the energy efficiency of a log home. What's the typical "R" value of your log packages?
- Why is the Rocky Package the best value?
- What comprises the Rocky Package?
- How does Rocky Mountain Log Homes control the shrinkage of their logs, and how much shrinkage and settling can I expect to see?
- I plan to have a contractor weather-tight my Rocky Mountain Log Home. I want to complete the interior myself. How long would it take the contractor to complete the weather tight process?
- How flexible is Rocky Mountain Log Homes if I want to modify one of their floor plans? Those I see in the plan book don’t quite have what I want.
- I already have land. Will Rocky Mountain Log Homes help me select a floor plan that fits my land?
- Can I build on a walkout basement?
- Does Rocky Mountain Log Homes build the houses or just design them?
- Since the logs in a Rocky Mountain Log Home are solid, how do you run the electric wiring and plumbing in the walls?
- What must be done to protect the exterior of a Rocky Mountain Log Home? Is more exterior maintenance required on a log home compared to a wood framed structure?
- Other than log homes what other projects has Rocky Mountain Log Homes designed and manufactured?
The answer to these questions and to get additional information about YOUR Rocky Mountain Log Home contact us at Ken@eMountainLogHomes.com or 719-783-3260. |
