How to make your log home more Eco-friendly.

Eco-friendly building ideas for anyone who truly aspires to a more green lifestyle.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Recycled barn wood
• Natural wool insulation
• Tung oil
• European-style flush toilets
• high-velocity Heater system
• wood-heater
• indigenous plants

1. Start by building your log home up not out. A two or three story log cabin home heats more efficiently.
2. Use energy efficient windows. This will keep your log home warm in the winter, Cooler in the summer and in turn conserves energy.
3. Buy land that cannot be used for agriculture such as hillsides.
4. Recycle old barn wood and use them for beams, baseboards, and wide plank floors.
5. Use natural wool insulation between the logs and Roxul mineral wool batts, for the attic and frame walls on your log home.
6. Use tung oil with citrus oil on the interior logs and Penefin (Made from rosewood nuts) on the exterior.
7. Use European-style dual flush toilets, energy efficient shower heads, Energy saving water heaters also install a bathroom window in the shower to limit use of the bathroom fan.
8. Use High-velocity electric back-up heater system with return air fan.
9. Use indigenous plants to landscape hillside lots rather than a water-wasting lawn.
10. If you have decided to build your log home more Eco-friendly these steps will help you accomplish your dream and save money.

Tips & Warnings

• Eco-friendly log homes may cost more at first but in the long run you will save the environment as well as save money.