Log Homes, Log Siding, Beveled Siding at Summit Log Products

NATURAL WOOD LOG SIDING
Natural wood log siding has long been sought for its timeless beauty, color, and texture. Channel Back™ log siding is a unique high profile log siding developed for application on conventional frame built structures where a real log appearance is desired. Channel Back™ log siding can be applied to new or existing conventional frame built structures, log home gables and log home daylight basement areas with minimal construction experience.

Our log siding applied to garages and out buildings is a great way to compliment your log home or your home built with log siding. Channel Back™ log siding is available in tongue and groove and ship lap profiles. The Channel Back™ in our log siding serves two main purposes. During the drying process it prevents checking and cracking of the log siding and log siding installers like our log siding because it is lighter and easier to handle during construction.

Hunting Lodge with Channel Back™ 3 x 8 log siding, vertical log siding corner option, log trusses, and log railing.

This home shows our 4 x 10 log siding with the vertical log siding corner option, log accent false purlins (log stick-outs), a log truss and a false log truss along with our log railing and log stairs.

THE LOG SIDING TRUE LOG HOME APPEARANCE
Channel Back™ log siding is a solid wood log siding with a high profile pattern for a true round log appearance. Our log siding is produced in a variety of wood species to fit individual tastes. The tongue and groove pattern of Channel Back™ log siding allows the log siding to be blind nailed or screwed thus hiding unsightly nail or screw heads. Channel Back™ log siding is an economical product to install verses actual logs and half log siding. Summit Log Products also produces half log siding for applications that require larger log siding than our 12" Channel Back™ log siding.

LOG SIDING CORNER OPTIONS
A variety of log siding corner styles can be used with Channel Back™ log siding. True Log siding corner extensions have been developed to match Channel Back™ log siding so that when applied everything fits into place. Full round and rough cut vertical log siding corners can also be used when applying Channel Back™ log siding. Our half log siding has two log siding corner options; the full round log siding corner and the pac man vertical log siding corner.

(Corner Options VERY IMPORTANT!!!)

Swedish cope log siding corner option 10" log siding only Flat on Flat fits 3 x 8 and 4 x 12 only

BUILT YOUR WAY WITH OUR LOG SIDING
If you are remodeling an existing home or constructing a new home Channel Back™ log siding can make your dreams of owning a log home come true. Channel Back™ log siding is an effective way to make your home look like a true log home. Channel Back™ log siding is also beautiful when used as décor accent with stone. Another popular use for Channel Back™ log siding is on the interior of the home for accent walls or entire rooms of log siding rooms.

Log siding remodel of office building shows our 4 x 10 log siding with the full round log siding corner option on the front corners and the vertical log siding corner option on the rear corners.

UNMATCHED QUALITY IN CHANNEL BACK™ LOG SIDING
Channel Back™ log siding is manufactured with strict quality control standards. Channel Back™ log siding starts with high quality wood roughed down to within about a half inch of the desired log siding profile. The log siding cant is then run through the planer to create the "Channel Back" or the curve cut out of the backside of the log siding.

The log siding is then placed in our controlled temperature, slow dry kiln. The channel that has been planed out of the log siding minimizes or prevents checking and cracking on the face of the log siding as it dries. After the drying process is finished, the cants are inspected for twist, cracks, and checks. Some cants are culled, but most are straight and solid. These log siding cants are then sent back to the planer for the final finish log siding profile.

All log siding is then stickered, banded with protective corners, and wrapped in specialty log wrap to preserve the integrity of the product during storage and shipping. The channel in the back of the log siding serves several purposes in the manufacture and application of the log siding. During the drying process the channel helps reduce checking on the face of the log siding. The channel also makes the log siding lighter for easier handling during application.

Before and after of a conventional built garage shows our 4 x 10 log siding with the full round log siding corner option and false purlins or stick outs that create the look of a true log roof system.

HALF LOG SIDING
Summit Log Products produces a unique half log siding. We select premium and select logs to start. The logs are roughed down through a lathe to within one half inch if the final log siding profile.

The log then goes through our boring machine that bores a hole all the way through the center of the log. The size of the bored hole depends on the size of the log but a three or four inch hole is usually required. This boring process gives it the same characteristic as our Channel Back™ log siding. The bored hole prevents checking and cracking on the face of the log during the kiln drying process. Boring also makes the finished log siding lighter and easier to handle for installation.

After the rough log siding is dried down it is sent back through the lathe for a final finished profile. From there, the log is sawn down the middle creating two uniform pieces of half log siding.

This siding costs a little more, but it is there for anyone that wants a larger than 12” log siding and can be matched for profile and stack height to existing log homes.

Pictured here is a building constructed with 10" logs on the first floor and finished out to the roof line with our 10" half log siding.

BEVELED SIDING INSTEAD OF LOG SIDING
If you prefer a flat look log siding or the D log look instead of the traditional round log siding, Summit Log Products can provide you with whatever you desire. Beveled siding has a flat faced surface and can be produced with a smooth, rough sawn or hewn face. This product is a great imitation of the square log and the D log profile. This natural wood siding can be installed with a rough cut vertical log siding corner, round log siding corner, or butted at the corners with no log siding corner.

Pictured here is 2x12 beveled siding without tongue and groove and before chink is applied.