Featured Log Home Floor Plan Northwoods

The Northwoods ll offers comfortable living with well-designed separation of space. The first floor includes an open living/dining/kitchen area that makes entertaining simple. The master bedroom is located on the main floor as well, including an ensuite bathroom and walk-in closet. A generously sized utility room can also serve as a mudroom with backyard access. The second story has two more bedroom, another bathroom and a bonus loft area for a reading nook, entertainment center, computer area or library. Go to the floor plan tab to see the layouts for all of our homes.

Thermal Mass – Benefits Recognized

The Tahoe model

One of the first questions we are asked when someone visits us at a show is “what’s the 'R' value of your logs?" We then spend many minutes explaining the method by which the energy of the log is measured in thermal mass and not 'R' values per say. I would like to share some of this information and give you references that you can delve deeper into the subject with.

' R' value measures a material’s resistance to the transfer of heat from one side to the other. Logs have a relatively low resistance to heat transfer, and they actually absorb and store heat in their cellular structure. Thus taking a longer period of time to transfer through the material.
Thermal Mass is a material’s capacity to absorb, store and slowly release heat over time.

Back in the early 90’s the Log Home Council (LHC) set out to prove two things. First, logs have a thermal mass because of their cellular structure, bulk and thickness. Second, this thermal mass provides significant energy saving benefits because it releases heat back into the house when temperatures drop. The first study focused on heat loss through the log wall compared to a conventional framed wall. The finding was that leakage occurred in the same places as a framed house, at peak of cathedral ceilings, around window door frames and at tops of walls. It concluded that the leakage was not due to the log walls. The second study concluded that the thermal mass of log walls does significantly reduce energy use for heating in cold climates.

Therefore after 13 years the Nation’s Model Energy Code finally recognized the energy conservation benefits of thermal mass. The recognition was the goal of the LHC a part of the Building Systems Councils of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
The above is a summary of the studies carried out as interpreted by CNW Log Homes Inc; more information is available on the Internet or the NAHB’s research center.

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Gold Valley Log Homes Delivers First Big Foot Log Home in the United States

Tom Kakuda (President, Big Foot Manufacturing), Hank Schaffeld (Owner, Gold Valley Log Homes) and Wayne Brown (VP Production, Big Foot Manufacturing)

Gold Valley Log Homes recently received an award from Big Foot Manufacturing, Inc., in honor of Gold Valley's delivery of the first log home from Big Foot in the United States. Big Foot Manufacturing has a long history of providing quality log homes to markets in Canada, Asia and Europe. Big Foot's dealer sales network is expanding, and Big Foot is offering log home dealership opportunities in Canada, Europe and Asia. Big Foot products are proudly sold in the United States solely through CNW Log Homes of America Inc.’s national network of independent log home dealers. Dealer opportunities also are available in the United States through CNW Log Homes of America Inc. Visit us at http://www.cnwloghomes.com/.

CNW Log Homes of America Partners with Big Foot Manufacturing

CNW Log Homes has partnered with Big Foot Manufacturing (http://www.bigfootloghomes.com/) located in British Columbia, Canada to offer milled log, handcrafted and timber frame home packages. For more than 20 years Big Foot Manufacturing has sold quality homes in Canada, United States, Europe and Asia. “We are excited about the alliance with Big Foot Manufacturing and honored to be the exclusive dealer representative for the United States of America,” said Chuck Clark, President of CNW. We are impressed with Big Foot’s commitment to excellence and their product quality, which is demonstrated by their ISO 9001 and 14001 certified mill operations.

“A tidy work place is a safe work place” a phrase you will often hear, the mill at Big Foot is just that and as such creates a clean and tidy environment in which to mill their logs. After visiting the Big Foot mill we found people who work there from the management to the mill workers clearly enjoy what they do, nothing was too much trouble and no question went unanswered.