Log Homes
Log home inspection.
A log home fails differently from a stick-built one, and a generalist inspector will read it wrong. We inspect log and timber homes across the Upper Peninsula, Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota as a routine part of the work rather than as an oddity.
- Settling and checking
- Chinking and sealant
- Sill log rot
- Roof and overhangs
- Moisture content
- Insect damage
2–3Hours on site
48Hours to your report
2004Inspecting since
3States covered
Why it is different
Logs move. That is the whole problem.
A log wall settles for years after it goes up, and everything fixed to it — windows, doors, interior partitions, plumbing stacks — has to be built to allow for that movement. Where it was not, you get binding doors, cracked drywall and split trim, and the cause is structural rather than cosmetic.
The other half of the job is water. Logs shed it well until a detail fails: a short roof overhang, a deck ledger cut into the wall, failed chinking, or ground contact at the sill. Rot starts where the water stops moving.
What you get
Three things this buys you.
Two to three hours on site for a typical property, and the report within 48 hours. If the utilities are off we bring propane and a generator and power the building up rather than reporting it as unverified.
We know the failure points
Sill rot, chinking failure and binding openings are the three that come up again and again. We know where to look for each.
Moisture, measured
Meter readings on the logs rather than a guess from the surface.
Written for a log contractor
Log repair is a trade of its own. The report is specific enough for one to quote from.
Where we draw the line
We inspect. We do not repair.
Our code of ethics forbids our inspectors from performing repairs, or from estimating repair costs, on a property they have inspected. An inspector who can profit from the problems he finds has a reason to find them.
You get a plain account of what is wrong and how serious it is. A licensed contractor prices and fixes it, and we will come back and re-inspect the work at a minimal fee.
Often booked with this
- Home inspection
- Pre-listing inspection
- Well testing
- Septic system testing
- Radon testing
- Infrared scan
Log Homes
Book the inspection.
Monday to Friday 8am–6pm, Saturday 9am–2pm. Give us the address and we will scope the right inspection for the property.