Old Log Cabin Insights... Handmade House TV

[@gomertube]

Noah, I have admired this particular cabin since I first saw it all those years ago! I even took several screen shots of it for study. The dimensions, proportions, materials, and of course your signature flair, are all just perfect. It’s the way a log home is supposed to look and feel. Thank you for sharing the details!

[@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley]

You are welcome Gomertube. This one is definitely captivating!

[@dannywilsher4165]

Thanks Mr.Bradley, love what you do!!!

[@bobpeterson4930]

Thanks Noah! Awesome restoration and insight. Keep a good thought! Bob

[@frankpohl4377]

Love and greetings from Hamburg in Germany. I love your style and content! I am a facility manager and building expert. I love wood clay and bricks as traditionell building material! Wood and air- the best isolation for a log home or a cabin. In Germany and other country’s we have log homes or wood houses in cold areas that are older than 500 years. Also thousands of “only wood houses” like the one from Albert Einstein. One of my “Building engineer-mentors” a professional in restauration of old castles and old homes (stone or wood) told me, that a had inspection of real old homes that never had a problem with moisture, fungi, or rotten parts- when they were right build in the beginning. (Konrad Fischer Info that is his name) For example: The house from Albert Einstein had a wood structure with 10 centimeter X10 centimeter planking’s (or call them logs) and then for protection from the outside another pin wood that protected from rain. Always an overhang of the roof and mostly a rain gutter wood because this is also a good protection. A rain gutter is a “must have”! So, first the structure of the house, then 2X4 outside and then on that the pine- horizontal assembled so that the rain could flow faster and will be not come behind the pine. There, where the pin touches each other must be nail a wooden slat to cover this. Wood will expand and wood is a living thing that expand in rain time and in heat summer time it can shrink and if a house is in a real wet forest- it keeps much more humidity than a house in the desert where the air is dry. Hard wood very seldom shrinks,(its hard for the humidity to come in the fiber we use oak for windows or mahogany or beech) but others wood can that has a bigger wood fiber and bigger air parts. Only air circulation/barrier between inside and outside was the “isolation” Wood breathes and wood regulates the moisture in the house. 10 centimeter log is enough for a real winter cabin, but as thicker the wood or the log, as better is the isolation power. Keep the heat in winter inside, and the cold outside. Some build their homes with cellulose as isolation between the 2 different wood- arts- Cellulose also “breath” it can soak moisture and give it away later. Others use wood ships in different sizes. Again, the air between the pieces are the isolation and it also breathes! Danger of “fake-isolation” in wooden houses? Yes, health problems-lunge infections- allergies and fungi and rotten problems in the house. Mineral wool (glass or stone) or other synthetic Isolations are “fake isolations” Mineral wool is often wrong uses and from “nonprofessional misunderstand” many customers are manipulated by the PR and marketing of the building and isolations-industry. Many tread this stuff like “a wool from a sheep” but they don’t know that there is no function in the mineral itself. It’s the dry air INSIDE the wool that isolates. And if the mineral wool has contact with rain or moisture then it soaks this and keeps it like a stalactite cave. After some months the moisture in the wool starts to rotten and produce a danger cancer producing fungi. If it is wet or had it soak moisture, it had lost its isolation capability. And once in the wool it never goes out. NEVER. So that is a reason not to use it between real wood logs or beams because wood always has moisture inside and this moisture will go in the mineral wool and then the mineral wool starts to rotten and then the wood starts to rotten. Paper barrier? Can bring destruction to the house. 1: We must consider the constant humidity from the forest, the rain. This is called “Umgebungsfeuchte” in German surrounding-humidity! This humidity sticks on everything from the outside and goes into the wood that is breathing. 2: We must consider the humidity that is produced when people live in the house- in summer and in winter. Everyone is breathing how much liter water in an hour? Cooking inside? Not a clever thing in a cab that is not used 7/24. Better building an outdoor kitchen bear secure or wolve secure. Keep the cooking moisture outside. A “airflow barrier” is contra because it don’t allow the natural air flow of an house to bring the moisture out of the wood/ clothes) bed/ furniture/ the logs the walls and out of the house. Often “opening the windows and doors for air circulation” will also help to dry the house winter and summer. Remember: heat binds water in the air and wind flow must bring that package out. A barrier is wrong. A wood house must not be sealed. The sealing of a wood house is dry wood and air between the inside and outside. Styrofoam is also a bad isolation in the “wooden house”. It shrinks through heat and it becomes porous after some times and then it loses contact with the “walls” and then cold bridges can lead to fungi. The best was and is to build traditional. Only wood and air as an isolation! So “don’t give moisture a chance!” Take a look at some of the teaching videos from NORTHEM traditional building. I belive the best way would be- an wood lath outside but horizontal- then the inside with another wood blank and fill the space with fine your air dried wood dust from the saw! Or by it from someone else. 1: The wood ships or dust can breathe. In times of much humidity from inside is soaks it and later when the climax inside and outside is changed it dry’s automatically. A mineral wool with a barrier can’t do it. Whenever a mineral wool “is open and in touch with wood” the moisture goes in and never dry’s. Such wood ships as isolation can be used for floor roof and walls. And they don’t need or like barriers. Respect the laws of “nature” and the physic of naturel building material and you will have much fun with a house!

[@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley]

Thank you for your comment Frank Pohl!

[@TJ-ot2je]

How funny. I just watched this video of Noah's and then watched another KZbinr channel that you commented on 8 months ago. We have great taste in what we watch obviously!!!!!!! LOL . Country View Acres was the other video. About Ariat boots.

[@frankpohl4377]

@@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley you are Willkommen! (Wellcome)

[@frankpohl4377]

@@TJ-ot2je yes, there are many YTubers but not many with technical quality. I love quality because YTubers can teach but often can lead to a wrong "work" Country View is not more my canal. Guildbrook Farm I love also.Its a big dream to have a pice of land (rent or buy) and building a small traditionell cabin. But in Germany space and land is much more expensive then in the US and the regulations are 1000 times bigger. We have a form of ökological maxist dictatorship. In urban citys the GOV dictates the building style and the insulation and so on. And in forrest? the green parties also hate off gridd cabins hunters and people how would ike to have a cabin...

[@TJ-ot2je]

@@frankpohl4377 So sorry to hear the limitations put upon you in your country. When dreams cannot become a reality especially if you have the resources or skill it is devastating. For those seeking quality of life in their own homestead. I for one detest living immediately beside my neighbors . I wish you well you your endeavors!!!!! Happy Tube watching!!!!!!!!

[@shanek6582]

Could you go over flooring options in some future video? Thanks Noah, there’s nobody with better taste in cabins than you.

[@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley]

Thank you Shane K! I hope to do that one day when the time comes!

[@613kc]

Noah, Beautiful! Proven building practices done right. Did you hand bend the copper pans on site; from a roll? That color! Perfect. Thx hp

[@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley]

Honestly, I don't recall that particular roof... each one was different. My last two projects that had copper on them were entirely hand seamed... as was Moriah. But a lot of them had a machine which would create the pans on site... and often those same folks would have a machine that would run down the pans once they were in place to seam them together... but I don't recall ever having a metal roof put on where there wasn't a great deal of banging going on.

[@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley]

And also, thank you for the comment and kind words!

[@courtneyclark995]

I would love to have a log cabin like this amazingly beautiful cabin.

[@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley]

Yes, it certainly is! Thank you for your comment Courtney!

[@courtneyclark995]

Thank you sir.

[@bosse641]

Would not it have been better to build the stone chimney within the structure rather than outside, so the fire warming the stones and then that warmth would be helping in keeping the cabin warm ?

[@hommedetowne4253]

Hello, thanks for this wonderful video. I'm curious what were the dimensions of this log cabin and how was the interior Space divided up? That's something that always fascinates me. In today's tiny house craze it's interesting to see how our ancestors made use of smaller yet entirely functional Living spaces...

[@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley]

Rougly 16x20. The downstairs cabin portion is one room, as is the upstairs portion of the cabin.

[@hommedetowne4253]

@@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley thanks so much!

[@BonsaiJCan]

Awesome job, what a difference👍

[@johnb2005]

Awesome 🇺🇸

[@kristin352]

I have a log cabin similar to this and it is covered with aluminum siding outside and wood panels then plaster then lattice. I want to rip the paneling, plaster and lattice off and replace with drywall. Should I insulate them inside or outside with new siding?

[@RoryVanucchi]

Great

[@happycritters941]

I have red oak, yellow pine and poplar what is the best choice for a log cabin? Thanks

[@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley]

Those are all solid choices for beautiful cabin. There is no one best wood, just woods with their pros and cons.

[@woodlandharvesthoneycompanyllc]

Are poplar logs considered as hard and durable as oak or Walnut?

[@LogHewer]

In my area, old growth poplar logs full of yellow/green heart will last as long as anything. Newer growth with less heartwood, not so much.

[@HandmadeHouseswithNoahBradley]

They can be quite durable as William G. states.

[@realrandom7666]

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