Rural Gardening: Timber Homes, 1 by podster

podster wrote:
Another thought, when log homes are built, they usually have a porch totally surrounding the log home. The reason is, it prevents rot like the first workshop had developed.

After DH was done with that, he built a garage because the old one was damaged from the fire also. On one end of it, he built a greenhouse and used landscape timbers for the lower walls.

It works well and is attractive. Again, the landscape timbers are 'green'. They treat them but the timber is green before treating and banded when selling. You usually do not have a chance to sort thru the landscape timbers so will be stuck with warped and twisted ones.

These were toenailed in on the framework rather than screwed together as they are not load bearing. Because they were green, they needed even more caulking as they have dried. This is a photo of the greenhouse if you are interested.