TECHNICAL FEATURES

HERITAGE'S THRU-BOLT SYSTEM
THE LATEST IN LOG HOME JOINERY

Our Self-Tightening, Maintenance-Free Thru-Bolt Assembly Featuring Our Patented Anchoring System

No other log home fastening system provides the settlement control, strength, and ease of construction our system achieves.

What does this mean for you?

• No more worries about air-infiltration.

• No concern about your logs fitting and staying tight throughout the life of your log home.

• No concerns about your logs expanding or contracting properly with fluctuations in humidity and moisture levels.

• No worries about the RIGHT way to join logs together - This is it.

Heritage Log Homes has successfully incorporated an engineering innovation into our log wall construction process. The idea of Thru Bolting itself is not new, just difficult to incorporate into an existing system. This advanced system won't work on just any log home. If a company hasn't invested in the necessary time, money, and quality control measures, major problems can occur. Just trying to get the pre-drilled holes to line up on all the logs can in fact prove very difficult.

At Heritage, we use the latest engineering technologies available to improve the original log homes that our country's settlers relied on. These advanced homes have set the standard for log wall construction.

Our latest improvement involves the way individual logs are linked together to form the log wall. In the past, logs were spiked or lag bolted (threaded screws) together to erect log walls. Heritage has developed and implemented a new technique; a spring loaded, self-tightening, maintenance free thru bolt system with our new patented anchoring system. This method replaces spikes and lag bolts with a spring-loaded continuous threaded-rod running through the entire log wall. This forms a very strong log wall, and keeps the log wall very tight as it settles over time.

Benefits of our self-tightening, maintenance-free thru bolt system:

• Faster to build and less labor intensive than old-fashioned spike and lag bolt systems. There is no need to pound several 8", 10", 12", or even longer spikes into every log. Just start stacking.
• Structural strength is significantly improved. Thru Bolts lock the log wall together. It becomes a solid unit instead of several logs nailed together. Thru Bolting helps maintain uniform settling over the entire log wall system.
• Studies backed by independent research have proven the thru bolt (or through bolt) process is vastly superior to spiking or lag bolting the logs together.
• Thru-Bolts are without a doubt THE greatest engineering advancement in the log home industry.

With our improved self-tightening, maintenance-free version with our patented anchoring system... we just set the standard even higher.

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