UAF offers log building workshop in Palmer
March 25, 2015
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The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service will hold a hands-on class in building an energy-efficient, fully scribed log structure May 6-29 in Palmer.
The workshop will be taught by Robert Chambers, an authority on handcrafted log home construction. The classes are facilitated by Valerie Barber, a Palmer-based assistant professor in the UAF School of Natural Resources and Extension.
Building an energy-efficient log home requires the highest level of craftsmanship to meet modern standards for airtightness, indoor air quality, safety, comfort and durability.
During the class, basic procedures and techniques will be described and practiced to help even the novice get started with a project. Instruction will cover being safe, using a chain saw, cutting, making notches, ripping and scribing logs, building roof trusses and maintaining the building. The final product will be a log shell with roof trusses.
Chambers has been building log homes since 1983 and teaching log construction since 1988. He is the author of the bestselling log home construction textbook and DVD, "Log Construction Manual," and the inventor of log construction methods, products and machinery. He holds U.S. and foreign patents for log construction inventions.
The workshop costs $2,000, and registration is available at http://bit.ly/aklogcabin.
The workshop will be held at the Matanuska Experiment Farm, 1509 S. Georgeson Drive. For more information, contact Barber at 907-746-9466 or vabarber@alaska.edu.
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