Log houses are not made in the factory, but are still pure manual labor. Log after log is processed. And how ingenious. All logs of the supporting walls hold each other - solely by their own weight and the corner joints. As if they had grown together.
Master carpenter Andreas Egner from the Swabian town of Binsdorf builds these natural log houses. Each house is unique. Just as every log is unique.
Andreas Egner uses only the local silver fir. The forest is just twelve kilometers away. Short distances save resources and transport costs. The log house builder and his team use around 500 logs every year. Each log is processed individually. The shells are first built on the factory premises. This is because it takes time to assemble the logs. Only when everything fits is the log house disassembled and reassembled at its final destination. Natural log houses can be moved without any problems.
From planning to completion, a house takes a total of four months. Therefore, such natural log houses are not cheap. The price is comparable to a house built by hand. Manual work needs evenly time. In the process, such a log house is not, as is often claimed, a fad of crazy individualists. But to rediscover wood as a healthy building material, corresponds almost to a necessity.
