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View over 20 standard elevations that can be downloaded and printed on your home printer
if you desire.
Getting Started:
Typically our customers will provide us with drawings or pictures or marked-up company plans that will become the basis for beginning the plan process. This process typically takes from two to six weeks or more to complete. Therefore, it is important that the plan process be started at the earliest practical date so that the customer has time to carefully review and make the required changes/ corrections and so that the log, log integrated or log frame package can be produced and delivered at the scheduled time to begin the erection of the package.
Preliminary Estimate:
After initial discussions relating to the design, the kind and size of the logs or timbers and the estimated square footage of the proposed home, we will provide our customer with an initial (rough) estimate for the cost of the log/timber package and an estimate for the cost of designing the home.
Plan Deposit:
At this time we require our customer make a plan deposit based on a per square foot cost for the projected square footage of the home as outlined in the Preliminary Estimate.
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The Preliminary Plan Process
The quality and professionalism of the plan design process is one of the most important factors a prospective log or integrated log home customer should fully understand before selecting a log home supplier. Often, prospective purchasers do not know or understand how critical the design process is in achieving their design objectives and in controlling building costs within their projected budget.
Typically, most customers will either modify an existing plan or request we design their custom home from scratch. In some cases, when a customer is building a very large or complex log home, the customer may ask that we work directly with an architect they know or that we recommend an architect who has extensive experience designing the type of log structure they desire which might be an all log, integrated log, or timber frame home.
All of our designers have a minimum of 10 years experience designing log homes and we believe that it is absolutely essential that your home be designed by a highly experienced log home designer or architect who specializes in log, integrated log or timber frame homes.
Customer Provided Information:
Usually customers will also provide other basic information relating to porches, preliminary wall elevations or others areas of interest . . . often with pictures they provide or from other rough plans which they have drawn.
Basic Floor Plans:
After carefully reviewing customer input and usually after extensive conversations with our customer, we draw the initial basic floor plans for each level of the home. We then provide two sets of these scaled drawings for review by our customer. Our customer then marks-up both sets of plans and returns one of the marked-up sets for us to re-draw customer changes or corrections. If the changes/ corrections are minor, customers often call us with the changes. When we have drawn the changes, we will again return two scaled sets to our customer. Usually it takes two or three passes to modify the floor plans to meet our customers design objectives.
Elevations:
Our customer will then receive two sets of floor plan elevations to carefully review and then, as before, make any required corrections and return one of the sets. This phase of the process usually takes a couple of passes.
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