A hand-crafted log porch or post-and-beam timber pavilion extends the authentic rustic charm of your mountain cabin while providing sheltered outdoor living. Our timber framers design custom peeled-log entry porticos, covered wrap-around log porches, and heavy structural timber additions that integrate harmoniously with your cabin's original log courses and rooflines.
We craft massive 8-inch to 12-inch diameter porch posts from naturally durable Eastern white pine and aromatic red cedar. Each post is hand-drawknifed to reveal unique knots and grain character, then treated with penetrating borates and seated on raised steel anchor bases.
We engineer monumental king-post and queen-post log trusses using mortise-and-tenon joinery and concealed steel structural fasteners. These load-bearing trusses support steep-pitch cathedral porch roofs designed to carry heavy winter mountain snowpack effortlessly.
Complete your mountain cabin aesthetic with custom peeled-log guardrails. We turn mortised top and bottom log rails to accept hand-coped vertical balusters spaced to strict building code safety standards, eliminating wobbly railings while providing dependable porch boundary protection.
Full log porches settle differently than stick-framed houses. We install heavy-duty threaded steel settling screw jacks beneath log porch posts, allowing easy periodic micro-adjustments that keep porch roofs level and prevent binding against house gables over time.
We never set wooden log posts directly onto concrete or stone. We install heavy-gauge galvanized steel post bases with a 1-inch standoff elevation that prevents wood wicking ground moisture.
Yes. Our timber framers frequently build post-and-beam log porches, cedar porticos, and timber entryways on standard frame, stone, and log-siding residences.
Settling jacks feature high-tensile threaded steel rods beneath posts. As natural timber courses shrink slightly during the first few heating seasons, turning a nut with an adjustable wrench lowers the post to keep rooflines perfectly level.