Come and learn the requisite skills of traditional,1500 year old craft of building with logs, and build that cabin with your own logs! You've been wanting to and have talked about it for a long time. Our students tell us they nearly all have said the same thing - "Some Day"! And, for the Spring 2010 Class Schedule - 12 week students recieve a NEW 346 Husquavarna Chainsaw Free!!
To further insure a well rounded learning experience - we've picked out a plan for a 16 x 24 log cabin and will build two "shells" of them simultaneously from start to finish.
It means that we have passed all the requirements to provide viable training and education in the construction trades - specifically in the area of building with logs.
We teach handcrafted log onstruction in several s tyles for application in both residential and commecial projects with these time honored traditional skills. Students learn how to build in the traditional 1500 year old Scandinavian full-scribe-to-fit method - chinked and chinkless, they will learn how to build the traditional hewn log with dovetail syle of construction, Post 'en Sill Log Post & Beam construction. Log floor support systems, log truss and purlin roof support systems, door and window opening preparation to allow for settling and installation of the doors and windows. Our graduates will learn and understand layout practices for log joinery in a variety of applications. Our approach to teaching allows any skilllevel to quickly pick up and keep up with the hands-on experience enjoyed by all students - no one is left behind. With over 20 years of teaching the traditional craft of building with logs, we have developed an easy-to-learn step by step hands-on approach. Log building blue print reading, design, site selection, estimating, log yard /project management are all covered
In addition, we also teach Log Home Care, Maintenance & Restoration practices. The requiste skills to build with logs from scratch are also required to tackle a wide variety of log replacement tasks. Some logs need complete replacement while others need onlu the exterior third of a log replaced. - we'll show you how to locate the bad logs and asess the costs to the homeowner. Students will have an extensive understanding of a family of products used in log home care, maintenance and restoration work. The Permachink Systems Family of products is what we use. Our graduates will be able to build log post and beam porches with locking self-draining joinery - assuring that it is solid, strongly built and going to last - we also go into assessing the causes of log deterioration and how to make improvements so that it is no longer an issue in the future.
Across America, log replacement is needed. It must be detected and stopped. To protect their greatest investment, home owners try to fix their own homes and all to often, make matters worse because they don't know how to work with the logs and the kinds of breathable finishes it requires to clean, protect and preserve the log structure. The demand is so high, there are Log Home Services Providers traveling across the US towing an RV and all their tools and equipment -literally picking their jobs - and naming their price too. There is little or no competition and most of them are just painters and handiman service providers. Start your own Log Home Services business with this training and you should be busy all the time. This is specialized work and a great deal of your success will be attributed to your training, extensive product knowledge and desire to have a service oriented business providing a service that is high in demand.
Here at the Lasko School of Log Building we are constantly looking at how we can best serve the students in the teaching of traditional log building techniques. 2010 marks our twentieth year of successfully scheduling and training log builders all across the US and Canada! For 2010, we have selected a blueprint for a 16 by 24 log cabin and will set out to build two of them in each of three 12 week log Builder Training sessions! Our job is to instill the confidense in you that you can learn to build with logs and do it well! This new format insures you will learn the Scandinavian full-scribe-to-fit method in both "chinked" and "chinkless" construction, Hewn Log with Half Dovetail construction and Log & Timber Post & Beam construction from the ground up.
Our training includes Heavy Log & Timber Roof Systems - log truss & purlin roof support systems - no one else does this! Most available training classes are geared towards the fundementals, a week or two in duration, and leave out too much of what you MUST KNOW! A log cabin or log home without a heavy timber roof system is like a new car you've always dreamed of getting - without a paint job! If you want to learn how to use these skills to begin making aliving now - let us show you how. While we're at it, we'll show you how to plan, estimate, procure logs and build from scratch. You're going to know how to properly install any door or window, hang cabinets, build interior frame partition walls and other features to allow for settling. You will know how to build log stairs, railings and post & beam porches with logs - it takes time to cover all of these aspects of building with logs and even more time to actually do them yet it is the best way to learn and build your confidense!
All students are encouraged and shown how to begin devising a 3 to 5 year personal plan to build debt-free - as a mind-set. Built-in security in your search for a new skill set and career is to understand how debt can dash years of hard work or hold you back from doing what you enjoy. Log Home Care Services - maintenance, restoration AND log replacement have been a part of every class but
now we put much more emphasis on it. In any economy, some businesses do better than others and then when the economy changes again, this will be true in the opposite. When interest rates are low and buying new is easy - new homes are built and financed while businesses that do remodeling and additions have a tougher time. When money is tight and the economy is down - they do better and better. Log building follows this as well - and right now, the demand for those trained with log home service skills we teach are in high demand. Log home owners want to protect their investments and we want to show you why it is particularily important that they not procrastinate in getting the needs of their log home taken care of. The same skills and product knowledge required to be a custom log home builder are used in providing log home services. Let us show you how to estimate and quote log home services - from book keeping, pricing of services and marketing to developing relationships that will help when the economy changes again and the demand for cutom log building returns.
Having sought obtained recognition at state and federal levels of government, we are now classified as a Vocational School and have undertaken strides to find ways for funding students, including federally funded training grants that pay for your tools, tuition and more as well as getting approved to particiapte in GI Bill Education Benefits for veterans, their families and survivors. In short, no one does more to ensure your success in the traditional craft of building with logs, than Lasko School of Log Building!
