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Quality Log Siding For Sale

Dream Home

quality log sidingWe here at Quality Log Siding aim to provide you with the best materials possible to allow your dream home to come to life. Our every service is tailored to you and your home. Rather than provide set packages, we always ensure that our services are catered to you. You provide the plans for your home (with measurements in square footage) and we can provide you with materials, for any conventional stick built home interiors and/or exteriors. We pride ourselves on our ability to bring warmth and beauty to your home through our range of wood products, from the rich cedar to the traditional knotty pine. See our picture gallery for examples of the beautiful appearance of our wood in homes.

Tips for Installation

Screws and Nails

  • When installing exterior quarter log siding, we recommend using galvanized siding nails (8 penny ring shank framing nail).
  • When installing exterior half log siding, we recommend using 3-inch galvanized decking screws or galvanized siding nails (14 penny ring shank framing nail).
  • For interior wood products such as Cedar Paneling, any 16 gauge 1¾-inch finish nails or brads would be appropriate.

Exterior Finish

There is a huge range of exterior finishes to choose from, and it may be confusing trying to determine the best finish for your home.  However, over the years we have tried and tested several brands of finish and have a couple of recommendations. Sikkens Exterior Wood Finishes are very reliable, and perform the best out of all the exterior finishes that we have tested on our products. We particularly endorse their Cetol Log and Siding products. If you prefer water-borne finishes, we carry several different types. We have many of Perma-chink’s Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 finishes, which we find to be extremely effective. Perma-chink’s Ultra 2 comes with a 5-year warranty, which is amazing for a water-borne finish. Once you apply two coats of exterior finish to your siding or other log product, you can expect to reapply every 3 to 6 years depending on the environmental conditions that your home is subject to.

Different Types of Log Siding

Quarter Log Siding

Quarter log siding is rounded and delicate, only protruding to 1½ inches. It has the appearance of a quarter log, and is the subtlest of our range. It is a more modern take on the traditional log siding, and is most appropriate for contemporary style houses. It provides gentle lines, perfect for making a statement as well as maintaining the modern sleek look of your house.

Half Log Siding

Half log siding protrudes to 2½ inches and it has the appearance of a half log. It is a medium thickness for a versatile log style house. It perfectly balances the delicacy of well-rounded logs with the rugged nature of the raw wood.

Premier Log Siding

The deepest log of the range, Premier log siding is 3 inches thick and is always hand-hewn. It conveys the traditional rustic feel of the early settler houses, and is the most rugged of our range. It has the most character of all our log sidings, creating the full log effect that is undoubtedly American.

Savings

quality_ log_sidingOur products are always the lowest prices around. How do we maintain such high quality log siding with the incredibly low prices? Here’s how:

  • We provide our wood to you directly from the factory. We remove the middleman and cut the sales costs, travel costs and more.
  • We are efficient in proving transportation. We have our own trucks and use common carriers so often that we get discount prices.
  • Our end-match design provides massive savings on materials and labor, because we don’t need to cut and measure every board that falls on a stud. We measure and cut only once per row, and the piece you cut off is the starter piece on the next row. This method prevents wastage of good wood, and saves us from having to purchase extra material for waste.
  • Furthermore, we cut out any defects in the wood and use the remaining good wood as ‘random pieces’ to help break up the joint pattern on the wall and/or ceiling. These random pieces are also easier to install than longer pieces, and are straighter and have less variance. This helps to create superior quality log siding as well as saving us money.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, just send us a message and we will get back to you as soon as possible. We pride ourselves on providing the most friendly and useful service imaginable. We can provide you with information about installation, home types or answers to any other queries that you may have. You can also contact us for a free quote today. See how our quality log siding for sale can make your house beautiful.

Quality Log Siding

Why Choose Log Siding?

quality log sidingLog siding provides an elegant and traditional finish to homes. By choosing the classic style of log siding, you are ensuring that your house will remain in fashion throughout time. The rustic effect of log siding alludes to the houses of early settlers, subtly incorporating history into your home design. However, log siding is versatile enough to be used on any home, and can provide a classical, unique touch to cabins and mansions alike. Our quality log siding and our other wood products will help to make your dream home come to life, no matter what style of house you choose. ‘Any home can be a log home.’

Finest Quality Log Siding For Sale

Premium Wood

The wood that we provide is 100% natural, solid un-treated wood. When you buy our log sidings or other products, you know that you are helping the environment and receiving the best quality product available. The majority of our wood comes from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, which is internationally renowned for producing the best quality wood in the world. By using the picturesque forests of northern Michigan to create our products, we can assure you that the beauty and quality of the logs, knotty pine panels or cedar panels you receive is second to none.

Controlled Product

Furthermore, our wood products are all kiln-dried to an ideal moisture content to prevent shrinkage and cracking. We never cut corners, and always ensure that our products are going to last beautifully over time. Each piece of wood is thoroughly inspected for defects, and any inferior material is discarded immediately so that you are only provided with the finest wood possible. Unlike other companies, our wood is meticulously monitored at every stage of the milling process, from the sawing of the log to the drying, inspection and milling to ensure that the products we make are of the highest quality. By controlling our products during every stage of their production, we are able to guarantee that our wood is always a premium product.

Eco-Friendly

quality_log_sidingNot only do we safeguard the first-rate quality of our products, but we also ensure that our wood is friendly to the environment. We minimize wastage by creating ‘random length pieces’ with the wood that isn’t large enough to form normal products. These pieces strengthen our normal length siding as well as preventing wastefulness. This helps to maintain the efficiency of our production, and indirectly allows our products to maintain their low price. Additionally, we never treat our wood with plastics, synthetics or veneer. We retain the natural beauty of the wood by keeping it solid and un-treated, which also helps to minimize negative impacts on the environment. We always provide wood to you as nature intended, replicating the traditional log effect of the homes of early settlers.

Factory Direct

Our wood comes to you directly from the factory. Cut out the middleman and you receive a product that is better quality, as we are able to carefully control every aspect of its production and transportation. Buying directly from the factory means that the product is cheaper, saving you money that you can be spending perfecting other aspects of your dream home! Buying from the factory also means that every product can be expertly tailored to your individual needs. We have dealers across northern Michigan, and our own trucks that can transport across the nation. However, we can arrange inexpensive, reliable transportation to almost anywhere in the world! We can use common carriers to get your wood across the nation at a discount price, or dependable international boat carriers if you live overseas. See our shipping policy.

Services Tailored to Your Needs

Rather than have set plans or packages, we allow dream homes to come to life by providing wood sizes to suit each individual. You simply provide us with the measurements (height multiplied by length of a wall, subtracting the area of a window or door) and we will provide you with the log materials to complete your ideal home. This service is designed to cater to you and your needs, because we know that everybody’s dream home is different. Not only do we provide quality log siding for sale, but we also have a range of other products to finish your home. This includes log trims, log corners, paneling, log stairs and railing, log posts and trusses and log mantles. These products ensure that your house can look as beautiful and unique as you want it to be.

Contact Us Today

Whether you are certain that you want our products or if you want to see how cheap our prices really are, contact us any time and we will give you a free quote. Don’t wait, request a quote today! Click here for more information