So, $28 plus $25 yields $53 per square foot. For the dryin materials let’s budget $25 per square foot (half way between $20 and $30 per square foot). The log shell about cost $28 per square foot. Theses dryin materials include things like exterior doors, windows, roofing, roof framing, soffit, fascia, first floor sub floor, exterior door and window trim, interior framing lumber, and 1×6 pine tongue and groove for the soffits and ceilings. Log Home Packagesįor a dryin log home package you take the log shell plus $20 to $30 per square foot for the other dryin materials. Let’s take it one step further and examine the log home package times our variables above once more. Honestly, this is a much more accurate ballpark to expect a log home builder in Montana to charge you. If you multiply $175 per square foot for a full turnkey times the 2,040 square feet you have $357,000. So, if you multiply $165 per square foot for a full turnkey times the 2,040 square feet you have $336,600. Instead, realistically, a 2,040 ranch log home with a log shell price of $56,500 would require a turnkey log home budget of about $165 to $175 per square foot here in Montana based on a contractor built solution. Let me tell you first hand that there is no way to get this home built for a turnkey of $113,000 to $169,500 by a contractor. If you multiply $56,500 for the log shell times 3 you get $169,500. If you multiply $56,500 for the log shell times 2 you get $113,000. A log shell in the 8 inch log size for the 2,040 ranch plan on our website is about $56,500. Instead companies are assuming you are taking the cost of the full dryin package, not the log shell, and multiplying it against that for the full turnkey. This equation is not even remotely accurate if you are talking the log shell only. The package they were referring to is a full dryin package, not a log shell only package. What is left out of this ‘rule of thumb’ is you must specify what the package includes. (These estimates are based on today’s turnkey prices we are seeing from log home builders in Montana (including ourselves Cowboy Log Homes), Wyoming, and Wisconsin.) Multiplying The Package Cost Times 2, 3, 4, or ?īack in the 90’s the practice of multiplying the cost of the ‘package’ times a multiple such as 2, 3, or 4 was introduced into the log home world. So let me explain where some poor cost estimates originated and what some reasonable turnkey estimates. I will warn you up front: there are many inaccurate ways people try to estimate the turnkey cost of a log home. Once you begin to formulate a target date of when you would like to start building your new log home, turnkey log home prices become very important. As you move forward with the planning of your new log home you are transitioning from the ‘dreaming of a log home someday’ phase to ‘now I’m ready build!’ phase.
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