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Laverty Log Homes And Timber Frames

Build your dream with Laverty Log Homes & Timber Frames. Trust innovative design, quality timber, and handcrafted techniques by our small team of artisan builders. What are you waiting for? Earl's craftsmanship for log building is second to none, but equally as important, Earl took the time to understand our goals and needs to help give us advice along the way. Corey & Holly...

1867 Confederation Log and Timber Frame

All You Need to Get Started is a Dream A space for everyone to gather. The warmth of wood and the welcome of a vaulted ceiling. A place for you to get away from it all in peace and tranquility. Nestled in trees and rocks, near water. These are the dreams that inspire our log and timber frame homes. Whether you’re building a cottage or a year-round home…Confederation’s team of expert designers will work with you to turn dreams into plans and details into blueprints. We’ll then cut every white pine log by hand. We’ll craft every post, beam, or timber frame accent. Then we’ll deliver everything you need to build yo...

ABATRON- A division of U.C Coatings, LLC

The ABATRON product line includes a full complement of structural repair products for wood, concrete and metal, and more.  We specialize in safe and easy-to-use epoxy products, many of which are GreenGuard Certified. LiquidWood and WoodEpox have been used for over 40 years to make permanent, cost-effective repairs to wood.  These structural epoxy compounds are continually specified by industry professionals, even for the most challenging wood repairs.  They are also preferred by contractors and homeowners alike due to their ease-of-use, exceptional performance, and their capability to mimic the property of wood once cured. Our extens...

Angels Log Homes

Dave has been a carpenter for over thirty years, working in the log house industry for over sixteen years now. He is passionate about his work and his integrity. Our crew members are also Journeyman or Apprentice Logbuilders and Carpenters. We adhere to safety standards on job sites. We want our employees to feel safe at work. For that reason, we use the safety equipment provided for our industry, and our job sites are drug and alcohol free. ...

BC Log and Timber Building Industry Association

The BC Log & Timber Building Industry Association (LTBIA) is a self-funded organization dedicated to improving business opportunity, craftsmanship, and profitability for British Columbia’s log home and timber frame building industry. Since British Columbia's first pioneers, tradesmen from throughout the world have built a tradition of excellence in wood craftsmanship throughout the region. BC is home not only to vast renewable forests, but also a wealth of talented Timber Framers, Machine Profile Log Builders, and Handcrafted Log Builders. The log home and timber frame building industry is vital to the rural BC economy, and our go...

Back Country Log & Timber

Back Country Log & Timber, is located approximately 35 minutes from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in the very heartland of the Canadian Prairies. We are dedicated to providing all clients with homes and buildings of enduring quality, through exacting workmanship, quality materials, courtesy, and integrity....

British Columbia School of Log Building / Stonehouse Woodworks

Stonehouse Woodworks, located in beautiful Golden British Columbia, Canada, builds handcrafted log and timber homes as well as restores heritage log cabins and antique timber frame buildings. Exceptional craftsmanship and attention to detail are central to each of our striking custom log homes and log home restoration projects. The British Columbia School of Log Building is a division of Stonehouse Woodworks offering quality, and comprehensive log home and timber frame building courses. Learn to build a log or timber cabin in the beautiful mountain town of Golden, British Columbia, surrounded by Canada’s striking National Parks. Our h...

Canada’s Log & Wood Home Store

Log home supplies are our specialty.  We take pride in our knowledge and customer service and it shows in all we do. If you are restoring, maintaining or finishing your log or wood home we have the complete line up of supplies you will need. Stain, Preservatives, Chinking, Textured Log/Wood Caulking, Timber Screws, Cleaners, Strippers and more....

Colorful Concepts Painting

It is our intention to build lasting relationships with our clients.  We believe in building these relationships on trust, honesty, and quality service.  From project conception through touch-up we are True to the Finish. Colorful Concepts Painting is a full-service painting company that services both residential and commercial customers.  We specialize in wood restoration specifically, exterior wood coatings that are intended to preserve the natural beauty and integrity of logs and timbers.  This means we have experience working on log, timber frame and traditionally constructed homes.  As home-owners ourselves, we understand t...

Daizen Joinery

Daizen Joinery is guided and managed through the leadership of company founder Dai Yoshito Ona, whose experience in timber frame home building spans two continents and more than two decades. This knowledge is complimented by a keen understanding of materials, engineering and building design. Daizen’s team of designers, expert timber framers, woodworkers and finishing hand-crafters work closely with contractors, architects, engineers and homeowners to deliver superior materials and service in timber frame building. Our team members and partners each bring special skills and expertise to projects resulting in exceptional collective work...

Davidson Log & Timber Artisans Inc.

Davidson Log & Timber Artisans Inc., has been in business since 2000, when Matt Davidson and his young family settled in Washago Ontario to start their company from the ground up. A business that was built on strong will, determination to master the craft with his own style and love for the art of the trade, has now grown into the well-known brand that it is today ensured by both the quality of the homes and the client relationships built. Over the years, Davidson has built over 75 homes and delivered across Canada and internationally satisfying their customers with a luxury product built of Ontario white pine, by hand. Davidson Log...

Die Blockhausbauer GmbH

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Doralnic – Log Homes

We are a young team from Vatra Dornei, Romania, with extensive experience in log home construction, having completed projects both in Romania and abroad. Our skilled craftsmen never compromise on the quality of the wooden homes they build. Due to over 15 years of close collaboration with owners, architects, and contractors, the Doralnic team became an expert in round log home construction, barn cabins, log homes, and other wooden products. Our design process blends your needs and desires with appropriate architecture and our extensive knowledge and experience to produce a unique home that fits your lifestyle. Building wooden homes is an...

Efficient Log Cabins Ltd.

Efficient Log Cabins is a family owned and operated business that budded in 1981. Nestled remotely in the naturally beautiful Robson Valley of British Columbia, the Mom and Dad of the team decided to break the common housing trend. After learning some log building skills from the late renowned log builder, B. Allan Mackie, the Family Log Home was constructed, and a dream was born. Today, nearly 40 years and many building projects later, that first log home built, still continues to be the "Family Home’, and the passion for building with logs still beats in the heart of not only the Dad, but in the adult children, and spouses as well. ...

Fraserwood Industries Ltd

FraserWood Industries is a pioneering, full-service provider of fabricated solid sawn and glulam timber products. Founded in 1998, FraserWood is committed to extending the reach of natural timber. FraserWood combines a passion for problem solving, sophisticated manufacturing and in-depth knowledge of wood as a structural material empowering us to say “Yes we can” to your most demanding timber specifications. Fraserwood's RFDry Timbers and specialty GrainMatched and EdgeMatched glulam help to support log home and timber frame builders in their pursuit to design and construct commercial and residential buildings of exceptional beauty and st...

Frontier Builders, Inc. a/k/a/ Frontier Logcrafters, Inc.

Frontier Builders was established in Land O' Lakes, Wisconsin in 1982 by my father Jerry Wait.  At that time the revival in the handcrafted log home industry was just getting started. Today we are seeing  the third generation of log builders working in our industry, as myself and my son, Cameron are applying new technologies to the log home building industry. We are a family-owned company and bring that energy to our employees and customers who have worked with us over the past 40 years.   We value the relationships we have established we have created with our many customers as we have built their dream  log and timber homes.   ...

Great Lakes Log Building Consulting

Great Lakes Log Building Consulting - Ron Brodigan. Pre-purchase or Restoration Log Structure Assessments in US Midwest States Contact: courses@schooloflogbuilding.com...

Heritage Natural Finishes

We make all natural penetrating oil finishes for log and timber construction, furniture, siding, decks and earthen floors. Give us a call for free samples!...

Hobbiton

The mission of Hobbiton is to treasure craftsmanship in the construction of modern wooden houses. We consider ourselves one of the largest producers of handcrafted log houses in Europe. We began operating in the spring of 1997, and in our years of business, we have supplied more than 500 sets of handcrafted log houses of various sizes. The majority of our houses have been sold to Estonia, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and France. Our most exotic destinations include Russia, Spain, the United States, and the island of Martinique in the Caribbean....

International Log Home Shows

We Have History Our roots in Log Home & Timber Frame Shows date back to 1994 where we held our very first show in Kamloops BC. It was such a huge success, drawing folks and exhibitors from all over Canada and parts of the US. We quickly decided that we needed a much larger venue and so moved the following year to Abbotsford BC and as they say, the rest is history. We spent 28 years producing some of the largest, well attended, successful Log Home and Timber Frame shows, in North America attracting visitors from different parts of the world. Our goal is and always has been to find creative ways to expand our audiences and potentially ent...

Island School of Building Arts

The Island School of Building Arts (ISBA) has been teaching the art and craft of Log and Timber building to students from around the world since 1997. Located in the beautiful Gulf Islands on the West Coast of Canada, ISBA is the perfect place to learn to work with big wood. In both Spring and Fall, ISBA offers four-week courses in Log Building, Timber Frame Post and Beam, and Timber Frame Hammer Bents, as well as SketchUp for Timber Framers weekend workshops. Students learn the theory and practical skills required to work in industry or build their own structures, with 80% of class time spent in the shop and the yard, making sawdust and crea...

Log Home Restoration of California

We have designed and built nearly 250 log homes in the past 40 years. For the past 32 years we have been the best log home restoration company in California maintaining and restoring log homes back to their original beauty. The replacement of logs or the addition of porch’s or living areas is part of our services. Window change out, wall straightening and complete home inspection and evaluation we offer too. We inventory replacement logs and feature logs for your log home projects too. We provide insurance coverage and evaluations for full valuation of the replacement value of your log home. We have provided expert witness testimony f...

Log Homes Canada

Log Homes Canada® is Canada’s foremost domestic and international supplier of fine, handcrafted log homes, cabins, kits and plans and your builder-direct source. We use only the finest quality materials such as Western Red Cedar and Douglas Fir. If you’re looking to build a Premium Quality, Hand Crafted Home, while avoiding costly mistakes, you’ve come to the right place. We are the owners and actual builders (not a broker or an arms-length mass manufacturer) and are very pleased to be of service. We know how important building a new home can be, and, to make this exciting process easier and more rewarding, we work hard to provide sup...

Long Road Logistics Ltd

Long Road Logistics Ltd. is a family owned and operated transportation company. We have crafted and fostered a culture of high expectations and standards to offer the best possible service for our customers and clients. We offer services for LTL or FTL Freight, Flat and Step deck, Over-weight, Over-dimensional, etc. Specializing in log homes, post and beam, timber frame, etc. transportation. We are dependable, trustworthy, and detailed oriented, with a strong focus on customer service....

M & H Wood Specialties Ltd

M & H Wood Specialties has been in business for over 30 years with experience from literally thousands of job sites worldwide.  We are proud of our tradition of building dream log homes and our legacy of satisfying our customers.  Like the homes that we build, our client relationships have matured and grown to be of great value. Whether it is exterior refinishing, structural and aesthetic restoration, or assisting you to create your dream home built entirely from the ground up, our attention to detail and surpassing customer's expectations are a large part of our core values.  The foundation of our business is based on our extensive...

Magard Ventures Ltd

Have been in this business for 25+ years. Logbuilding tools and specialty chisels, bars, power tools.. view our website ....

Matt Smith – CPA & Amateur Log Builder

Experienced accounting & tax professional (CPA) and amateur Log Builder.  ...

Moose Mountain Log Home Inc

In business since 1978 and a member of the ILBA since 1979. We only do full scribe handcrafted log homes in our patented and warrantied joinery. We insist on picking every tree in the forest to delivering and setting up the log components of our handcrafted log homes. Experience makes all the difference in the end result....

Mountain Logworks, LLC

Mountain Logworks, LLC handcrafts log and timber structures that are created in the Scandinavian tradition: impeccably designed and built homes that are suited to the landscape and pass the test of time. We’ve built our reputation on precise joinery, attention to detail, and excellent client service. The majority of our homes are crafted from full-length Eastern White Pine logs, displaying their natural taper. Our hand-hewn homes are healthy, natural living environments with impressive R-values....

Murray Arnott Design

Murray Arnott Design is an award-winning log home design firm with over 35 years experience designing log homes. We work all over North America and internationally. Our philosophy, experience and process allow us to work closely with clients to produce exceptional one-of-a-kind log homes, timber frame homes and post and beam homes using principles of timeless sustainable design. We apply the same philosophy to luxury homes and small budget cabins. We carry it into all planning, from kitchen and bathroom design to bedrooms and laundry rooms. Murray Arnott’s commitment to the highest standards of quality and service began over thirty years ag...

Naturhaus Lanz

Are you looking for real experts in log house construction? Build on Naturhaus Lanz. Naturhaus Lanz is a medium-sized company based in Ofterdingen, Swabia (Germany). Since 2001, enthusiastic customers have relied on the passion and experience of owner and carpenter Olaf Lanz and his team around the natural material wood. Whether modern log house, traditional natural log house or a mixture of both: Naturhaus Lanz makes your dream of a fascinating custom-made wooden log house come true. We make sure that you can fulfill your longing for natural living with the scent of the Canadian forests. Of course, individually according to your ideas. If...

Nicolog

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Norse Log Homes Ltd.

Norse Log Homes builds high quality handcrafted log homes and structures designed to suit your needs. Our goal is to build you the best quality product for the best possible price, without sacrificing design or beauty. We also build post and beam, timber framing, and the latest in Structural Integrated Panel construction. John Dahle, founder, started building in 1975 in the British Columbia Interior and moved to Vancouver Island in 1984 to be at the source of the world’s best Douglas Fir and Western Red Cedar house logs. Since Norse's incorporation in 1984, the company has built hundreds of log homes all over the world and has passed ...

Open Hearth

We specialize in Log Home Inspection‘s and litigation work!...

Perma-Chink Systems

For over four decades, Perma-Chink Systems has been the log home industry's trusted partner for the tightest, greenest, and most impeccably finished log homes in the world. Although Perma-Chink Systems is the largest manufacturer of log home chinking and sealants, we make a complete line of quality wood care products. With nationwide offices and distribution warehouses, you can feel confident you'll get the quality support for your projects. ...

Pierre Paul Joly

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Pioneer Log Homes of British Columbia Ltd.

Pioneer Log Homes of British Columbia is a custom log home building company founded on the principles of honesty, hard work and superior customer relations. We provide many unique options for clients looking to realize their log home dreams – from handmade full log packages, to post and beam homes and more. Our team of incredible designers consistently exceed expectations while helping clients design their dream log homes, log cabins and resorts. To ensure the highest quality, we use the most prestigious building material available: Western Red Cedar. The homes we build with Western Red Cedar will far outlast our lifetimes, and will be unm...

RSM Drafting

We are a drafting Service that has specialized in log homes...

Roberts & Associates

We are a nationwide residential log home and timber frame insurance agency. We also write commercial insurance for loggers, builders and sawmills related to log home industry in 43 states....

Sansin Corporation

Sansin is the global leader in environmentally-friendly wood protection. Since 1986, we’ve been focused on creating the best performing, most beautiful water-borne wood finishes in the world. Our innovative research and development program has made us the leader in developing environmentally-friendly alternatives to traditional wood coatings and preservatives. With a growing network of dealers across Canada, the United States, Western Europe and Australasia, Sansin Enviro Stains are fast becoming the worldwide choice for customers who demand the absolute best in performance and beauty for both residential and commercial buildings. Sansi...

Sashco, Inc.

We’re Sashco: a Colorado family-owned manufacturing company that has been in business since 1936. We geek out over a better way to caulk and stain both log homes and conventional construction. Making a "Good, Better, Best" product range just doesn’t make us jump up and down. We’re passionate about making the highest performance log home finishing products and have innovation coursing in our blood. Our system of fully compatible stains, sealants, chinking, and cleaners - along with our Zero Failures training to back it up - helps you deliver a beautiful result every time. Check us out at...

Sperlich Log Construction Inc

Sperlich Log Construction Inc, manufacturer of CANADIAN PRIDE Log & Timber Products , has over 30 years of experience spanning 3 generations and are specialists in creating log and heavy timber structures worldwide.  A tradition of European attention to detail combined with our Canadian ingenuity with logs and timber, has earned us the respect of customers on 3 continents.  Our team has experience in a variety of styles: scribe fit, post and beam, timber frame, dovetail, glulam, and hybrids incorporating any of the styles together.  The CANADIAN PRIDE Log & Timber Products team is dedicated to providing a log and heavy timber build...

Tamarack Grove Engineering

Tamarack Grove's roots were planted in 2003 out of the opportunity to serve a need within the industry, and a desire to lead with purpose and just do things differently. Our client-centric approach to design and problem-solving along with the way we build authentic relationships results in a greater experience for our clients and for our people....

Teintures et Calfeutrants St-Tite

The specialist in finish and maintenance products for wooden houses in Quebec!” Why choose Teintures & Calfeutrants St-Tite? Because we have a strong experience in customer service and in the sale of products for wooden houses in Quebec. The owner, Ms. France Cossette, has more than 30 years of expertise in this field. We serve both individuals and contractors. From the beginning to the end of your project, we can support you with our best advice and offer you the right products. Teintures et Calfeutrants St-Tite offers eco-friendly stains and UV protectors that are made from linseed oil, tungsten oil and water. They will protect your woo...

The Log Home & Timber Frame Show

The Log Home & Timber Frame Shows are based on proven experience, from the inside out. With over 30 years and 250 shows under our belt, we know the log home and timber frame industries. We produce high-quality events that attract a focused, driven audience ready to tackle their dream home plans head-on!  Our exhibitors bring their awesome products and displays, industry experience, and knowledge, to create a one-of-kind experience in a first-class setting that only a face-to-face Log Home & Timber Frame Show can provide....

Timber Pro Coatings

Timber Pro Coatings (performance based, environmentally safe, naturally beautiful wood finishes for both interior and exterior). Timber Pro Coatings has been manufacturing green (eco-friendly) and sustainable wood finishes since 1996, years before the trend became a movement. Now, we have earned the right to call ourselves “pioneers” in the creation and promotion of environmentally safe building products. The growth and success of Timber Pro Coatings is proof that our environmentally safe wood finishes are preforming in the harsh Canadian environment. Our product line has many advantages;  there are 7 coatings and 2 wood preparation...

Tom Hahney

Retired builder, designer....

WeatherWize

WeatherWize is a Log Home Service Provider....

Woodsure Insurance Protection

WOODsure is the only Insurance Program in Canada dedicated to the industry since 2006. We are an underwriting facility that underwrites on behalf of major international insurance companies that are committed to the wood products and forestry space, including wood construction. We are champions of wood, priding ourselves on providing the most comprehensive insurance and risk management solutions for the wood industry....