Lee Conlon’s determination to build himself a log home in Co Monaghan shows just what can be done when you know exactly what you want.
Site size: 4 acres
House size: 2,100 sqft
Total cost including kit, fit-out and furnishings: €296,000
Construction: 230mm thick patented engineered logs, warm roof with natural slates
Insulation: exposed logs on walls, on floor 3x75mm rigid polyurethane boards, on roof 175mm recycled newspaper pumped between rafters and 50mm sheep’s wool between battens supporting 75mm timber panel
U-values: log walls 0.54 W/m2K, floor 0.18 W/m2K
Windows: argon filled, double glazed, U-value 1.1 W/m2K