On the inside of the home usually 1×6 tongue and groove pine or cedar is utilized.
With a framed gable there's customarily not plenty of room for the framed wall and the full half log siding. Though Swedish Cope logs do look beautiful, one other drawback to the solid log to the pinnacle of the top is shrinkage. As the logs climb higher, the slight shrinkage of the log is magnified when it is twenty-two feet tall rather than nine feet tall. So to save some headache, it can be wise to buy your logs and your log siding from the same place. Therefore your house remains tighter in the gables and more insect and weather proof. what if you do not live in a flood plain and arent needed to get flood insurance by your mortgage lender? Here's where it can be hard. It wont cover the replacement price of the items.