Quarter log pine siding is your best choice for a tight budget and ease of installation. Whether you are building a new home, cabin, cottage, retail store, or converting a house to a log home, this product is a winner. Read on for some great money-saving ideas.

What Is Pine Log Siding?

Pine log siding is a milled wood product attached to standard interior and exterior wall framing. It gives a house or building the rustic appearance of a full-log cabin without the high cost, heavy weight, or long-term settling of full log walls.

  • Milling Process: Manufacturers cut the rounded outer edges (“D-shaped” profiles) from a pine log and remove the center core to use for other lumber products.
  • Profiles and Styles: The boards are milled with flat backs to mount easily against flat walls. Surfaces are available in smooth, hand-hewn, unfinished, or pre-finished options. Quarter log siding is available in 2×6 and 2×8 sizes.
  • Connection System: Quality pine log siding features a tongue-and-groove and end-matched design, allowing pieces to lock tightly together on or between wall studs.
  • Type of Wood: The preferred choice of wood is red pine, also called Norway pine.
  • Availability: Pine log siding is available year-round and is a standard-stocked item in a suppliers’ warehouse. Your orders can typically be promptly filled and shipped.

Pine Log Siding’s Advantages

Pine log siding with the quarter log profile has many advantages over other profiles, full logs, and hardwoods. This product is lighter weight than other styles and wood species, not as thick, and is easier to handle when installing on walls. One person, such as a carpenter or homeowner with wood working knowledge and skills, can save a lot of time measuring and sawing with quarter log siding.

For the best results, use siding with the tongue and groove, end-matched design. It is easier and faster to install and is an eco-friendly, virtually no-waste product. Installers use the cut-off pieces to start the next row which saves sending many pieces to the landfill. Our siding experts will help you determine the correct amount of siding for your project.

This product has the environment in mind because pine trees are harvested from natural forests and tree farms where seedlings are planted often for future supplies of wood. Only part of a log is used to make a D-shaped piece of siding instead of using a full log. Saving trees creates a smaller carbon footprint for your property.

“Whether you are building a new home, cabin, cottage, or retail store, this product is a winner.”

Pine Log Siding Corner Systems

Pine log siding corner systems tie two corners together and simulate full log home corners. The best corners are milled to exacting dimensions for correct fit, kiln-dried for correct moisture content and staining, and hand-inspected for defect-free products. These are the three favorite styles for quarter log siding:

Vertical Log Corner

Butt-N-Pass Log Corner

Saddle Notch Log Corner
  • Vertical Log Corners: The most economical and beginner-friendly option that works well with quarter log siding. These are vertical corner posts (usually 6″ or 8″ wide) that your siding butts up against. They come in smooth or hand-hewn finishes in 8’, 10’, 12’, and 16’ lengths.
  • Butt-N-Pass: These mimic the look of real interlocking, stacked logs. They consist of staggered left and right corner pieces that overlap, providing a highly authentic, traditional cabin look.
  • Saddle Notch Corners: This option creates an unmistakable full log look. It is the “cream of the crop” and is available to match all siding profiles.
  • Caulking: Caulk around all these corner joints and any gaps that might create air leaks.

Pine Log Siding Exterior And Interior Trims

Your quarter log siding home needs pine door and window trims that are affordable. 2×6 and 3×4 D-trims are popular sizes that blend well with quarter log siding. These products and corner systems are available from your log siding supplier. Some homeowners stain them the same color as the siding, while others stain them with a contrasting color.

2×6 Pine Log Trims

3×4 Pine Log Trims

 

Log siding, corner systems, and trims are secured tightly to wall framing with weather-proof Oly screws. Our craftspeople can make custom affordable pine-arched trims sized to your window and door specifications as shown here:

Measure the linear distances around all your windows and doors and add them up for an accurate estimate of the materials needed (add a few more feet to be safe). You will also need stain to create the color for the siding, corners, and trims. Many colors are available to meet your preferences.

The WoodWorkers Shoppe and its online store, The Log Home Shoppe, have the pine log siding, corner system, and log trims you need to create a gorgeous home, cabin, or business building. We also manufacture these complementary pine wood products:

  • Knotty pine and cedar paneling
  • Cedar log siding (call for availability)
  • Knotty pine flooring
  • Interior trims for paneling and drywall
  • Step and stairway systems
  • Stain, caulking, and chinking
  • Peeled posts, and log trusses
  • Pine beam covers and exposed rafters

Let us know your log home needs, and we will do our best to fill them.

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