MotorSeven
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We have a pretty good idea of the log home design but i haven't sat down to draw it yet. We also have a good idea of the location: the top of a ridge in mixed hardwoods. They don't even man the old fire towers in the county and locals can't remember the last "forest fire". I do not want to cut all the trees back away from the house, but i get this nagging feeling about fire. The house will have a steel roof and a concrete safe room w/a main entry & escape route. Log homes are hard to get burning, but once on fire....well . I plan on thinning the trees and leaving only the large ones near the house. What other desgn features do i need to consider? An emergency sprinkler system for the exterior?.....once power went down that would be useless without a back up. All the fires out west and i am suprised no one has come up with a thermal blanket for a house.
Anybody else living in the woods done anything about the fire threat?
RD
PS: I'm overloading my pea brain with all this "stuff"
Anybody else living in the woods done anything about the fire threat?
RD
PS: I'm overloading my pea brain with all this "stuff"