Patriot builds for new Log home company in the UP

Patriot Log Home Builders erect 12 x 4 pine dove tail chinking log cabin/lodge in Upper Michigan 

      Warm, inviting, tradional log home kit buildt by Patriot Log Home builders. This is Patriots current project. Pariot has been subcontracted by a new company which offers something very unquie from other companies if it is the taste you are looking for. More old fashioned as these logs have the grooves cut in them for chinking. 
     What is chinking? Chinking is the broad white band you see inbetween  logs in the log stack. I gues you could say the walls look kinda striped.  Historically, chinking was used on  a log home to protect  wind  and icy cold from howling in between the spaces of the  logs. 

As the snow clouds roll in and evening approachs roof felting is finshed up

     Chinking has come a long ways since the inception of log homes. Modern chinking is designed to look like the old time mortar but is much more elastic.  For the most part you should have a Professional chinking contractor do this work as it is not easy and requires skill.

Back of house ! Impressive with walk out basement. deck will wrap around the whole house, the only way to go in my opinion...

This is the proch roof on the back, how lovely! great design... T & G wood makes a great place for sitting under on a rainy afternoon on your deck. This overlooks a great peice of land

This is the front of the house which at this stage does not really look at that impressive and really is deceiving in regards to its size. You need to see the back with its deck, which will extend around to the front...we are working on this project right now and expect it to be complete in a few more days

this is a lovely site to build a log home in the UP...the back is landscaped with large boulders

FIRST days , we scope the site...amazing that after 8 days we almost have a log home up!

Here is some of the shipment of the logs. Again these are 12 inches tall! with chinking grooves...what is chinking?  It is how the old fashioned log homes were made... for a modern distributor Click here

lets talk about the importance of a fork lift! don't let a log home company tell you that you don't need one to build your log home...which is commonly done with Sales people to take off a few dollars in your project. They are imperative to the crews safety and protect your logs.

 DOVE TAILS ~ GREAT OLD FASHIONED LOOK

Log home builder creates decorative great room ceiling beams!

This was a custom project down around the Milwaukee lakes area, I set these large beams in the interior and exterior. Just take a look at that fireplace, this is full lime stone. This could have cost up wards for just the chimney work, of $30,000.00.   Wow what a job that was. We used scaffolding and allot of hard effort to lift and custom fit these. We did not build this home, but were called in to do the custom work  that you see here.

This is very specialized work that requires skill and gumption. This home was in the million dollar plus range and had the feel of a small castle. The view from these windows was charming .

We made these large half timbers into window mullion's.They were put up with long screws, scaffolding

These large logs were hand custom fitted using chain, skill saws, chisels and saw-zaw, built in Wisconsin by

PATRIOT LOG HOME BUILDERS

Extreme Makeover-Home Edition...I was invited to help build in 2007.

A Katahdin Cedar Log Home was built in Maine by EXTREME HOME MAKE OVER

 



What a mansion of a log home!

 This is the home that I helped to build on Extreme Makeover-Home Edition. Believe it or not, it only took seven days!! I was invited to consult from Katadhin cedar log homes,  flown out of my home state of Wisconsin, to Maine, where all my expenses were paid. It was a great experience.

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About Katahdin Cedar Log Homes : Extreme Makeover
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September 29, 2005
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A Knock, Then Gift as Big as a House 
September 28, 2005
Portland Press Herald
Author: Ray Routhier




Ty Pennington From Extreme Home Makeover

Very bad photo quality but you can still make out that's me and Ty!I was one of the few men who had the guts to grab him and insite on a photograph! I remember the men calling out "Hey Wisconsin, what you doing?"

 

Yep fellows, even Paige  Hemmis signed my shirt, when she was writing on my back I said

" Dont write your phone number down because I wont call you" She had a good chuckle and I received a big heart with her signature. I am special!

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this is the shirt they gave us, look close and you can see that I had it signed by the lead T.V. Personalizes !

Front page of print for extreme home make over where Mike HOmpertz log home builder participated