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Log Homes - Different Priced Kits by Different Manufacturers
Fri 29 Aug 2008 - 08:51
Log Homes - Different Priced Kits by Different Manufacturers
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Mike_Peter_Davidson]Mike Peter Davidson
A log home kit is a package/collection of all the already cut, made and finished logs that are essentially required to build the basic structure of a log home. Different manufacturers have different ways of putting up the materials together and there is no definite explanation to the fullness of a log home kit. That's why there have always been comparisons among various manufacturers' need and understandability regarding a kit. Moreover, the precise quality and the kinds of materials also differ and thus the making out of a difference between one manufacture's kits to the other gets even more difficult.
For instance you have two log home kits kept in front of you which have been made by two different manufacturers. Now if the price of one kit is lesser than the other one, then there must be some reason behind it. The quality of the materials used to make a log home come into play here. It could have been cheap log and poor quality window panes that are making a difference.
Moreover, it is a general practice that manufacturers of log homes brings variations in packages and have till now come up with three broad kits:
Log and timber package (LTP),
Weather-tight shell (WTS), and
A complete turn-key materials package (TKP)
The very first one, LTP is a kit that suits perfectly builders and general/wholesale contractors. These are people who have to themselves build log homes. The kit usually has precut, fitted and numbered logs. Except for basic bigger structure, usually for external walls only, the other minute things are not a part of LTP. Even f you are buying LTP, still the cost of all the materials together can be very high.
For the first timers, Weather-tight shell package is the most famous. As is clear from the name, the materials are such that a person can prepare the outside shield with this package and later with own convenience can work on inside structure. For a log home by WTS, provision of exterior doors, roofing, internal framing, second floor joists and sub flooring and decking material. A builder can have more than half the log home constructed with this.
Each and everything to build up a log home is included in the Turn-Key Packages (TKP) but they are the costliest also. By going for this option, you can save money by a purchase from the same vendor and not collecting materials from different sources. The bigger companies acquainting customers with a huge volume of materials also have discounts offered on non-log materials.
Finally, it is in your own hands to go for materials and kits that suit for your choice and your budgets. Log home is going to yours, so the decisions of building it has to be yours.
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