Rocky Top Log Homes :: Creators of Uniquely Designed Log Homes

Why a Log Home?
Cost
Insulation
Durability
Design

Why a Log Home?

Sales: Harold Miller

(423) 645-8592 - cell phone
(706) 657-5452 - office phone

info@rockytoploghomes.com

Strength: Interlocking logs screwed together with 10" or 14" screws ensures one of the strongest walls possible.

Cost: Log homes cost more initially than the average frame home. However, once the log home is dried-in, your the interior of the outside walls are finished, as well as your downstairs ceiling and beams. This can certainly save you money as you finish your home.
Insulation: Most log walls are about R-15 to R-22; most frame homes are R-11 to R-13. Log homes by Rocky Top Log Homes are designed with R-30 insulation overhead and all upstairs exterior walls are framed with 2x6s and can have R-19 insulation installed.
Durability: Properly TREATED and maintained, our homes and log will last well into the future. One can obtain a 10-year warranty that will insure most everything in your new home including electrical, plumbing, appliances, etc... All of our homes' foundations are pretreated for termites
Design: After 35 years of building and designing over 300 homes, our work is anything but ordinary. We can design a home of any size, large or small. Log homes are good starter homes. We can design a smaller, starter home that can be added onto later and allow one to still enjoy the benefits of home ownership earlier in life. Log homes are great for this! ; Starting out small can help one avoid owing one's soul to a mortgage company!
Insurance: No problem - Don't just take our word - call your insurance agent. One very good aspect of a log home is that the kindling temperature of a 6" or 8" log is about three times greater than that of an average frame home. Even a brick home is still framed with 2x4 walls and has a lower kindling temperature. In layman's terms, the fire must be three times hotter to burn the log.