Log Home Floor Joists

Exposed heavy timber or log joists can be very attractive in a log home.

Log home floor joists.

Common sense tells you that large floor joists can carry more load and spacing joists closer together also increases the load bearing capacity of a floor. Floor plans elevations standard foundation plans roof framing 2nd floor framing building section and standard detail sheet. Each system has some advantages. Floor joists installed on second or third or higher levels double as ceiling joists for the level below.

This size is no longer acceptable when framing a structure. All the log cabin building wrap protection to protect your log home materials during construction. Log cabin homes how to. Floor plans elevations standard foundation plans roof framing 2nd floor framing building section and standard detail sheet.

All the log cabin building wrap protection to protect your log home materials during construction up to 5 sets of auto cad designed blueprints final prints to include. In 1 1 2 or 2 story homes the second floor joist system can be made with heavy timbers logs or a combination of the two or dimensional lumber or floor trusses. Final prints to include. In the past 2x4s or 2x6s were sometimes used as floor joists.

Search our log home and cabin plans by square footage number of bedrooms or style. Available in an optional hand peeled finish. If you re concerned about the structural integrity of sagging cracked or twisted joists in your house first call in a structural engineer to inspect the floor and recommend strengthening measures that ll take out the sags and bring the framing up to code search online or for engineers structural in the yellow pages. We also got our water line and electric trenched into the base.

Custom designed log home floor plans since 1963. Three days of work on the framing our countrymark log home and we have our sub floor complete. Conveniently matching our full log rafters these naturally contoured full log joists complement any log style and add to the authenticity of your log home. Our most popular choice full log joists are part of our standard log home packages.

Available in an optional hand peeled finish. Up to 5 sets of auto cad designed blueprints. The extra two inches of vertical distance when a floor is framed with 2 x 10 joists rather than 2 x 12s can be quite important for example. Heavy timber or log joists.

Full log standard conveniently matching our full log rafters these naturally contoured full log joists complement any log style and add to the authenticity of your log home.