   
Welcome to Grizzly Log Builders website! This site is designed to provide information and education about purchasing and building log homes. 
We offer our customers all the look and feel of a full-stacked log home at an affordable log home price, without the full-log problems. Let us share with you the Whisper Creek difference. We also offer Log and Timber products. http://www.grizzlylogbuilders.com/Timber_and_Log_products/page_699616.html 
We are Independent, California Log Home Dealers. We also serve Nevada and Utah and nation wide sales, construction and log home products with, Whisper Creek Log Homes Building "well insulated" craftsmen style timber and log homes is our business. 
We have been helping family's build their dreams, one log home at a time! Grizzly Log Builders, Contractor services and design development. Thank you for your interest in our quality log homes, contact us at 530 386 6225 
There is a huge difference in the quality, price and services provided with log home products. You need to know the difference before you buy. Give us a call and we will give you honest answers for all of your questions about building your log home. 
We offer superbly crafted Timber Frame homes. We can tailor our log home packages to fit your needs, supplying anything from basic log cabin shells to the turn-key completion of luxury log homes ready for your family to enjoy. 
Come see one of our log homes, just call for an appointment. 530 386 6225 Stop Dreaming, and let us help you start planning designing your log home! 
As a rule of thumb log packages, and shell assembly added, will cost between $45/sqft and $85/sqft, depending upon the plan location and type of model and options. A full turn-key job can start at $160/sqft depending upon model, location and amenity. Custom projects can go to well over $250/sqft. with high quality amenities. 
We build quality craftmen style post and beam Timber homes, like this one. 
Started in September, and here is how it looks just 4 months later! 
We use re-sawn timbers as the structural components to support our craftsmen style timber homes. You can choose between our square style 10" and 14"rustic timber package. 
For a Post and Beam style timber construction. Do you know that we build our homes using recovered forest products, for a sustainable Green Building solution. 
And for our log homes constructed with 12"and 15" logs, for the hand crafted log home.  .
Our timber products are controled from the timber harvest program, to our log and timber milling process all the way to the finished products, timber packages and log home kits ! 
With our unique building process we can assemble your exterior walls and structural frame in a very short time. 
Do you like the fact that our log homes typically go up in a few days or weeks! Not by stacking one log or timber at a time. We set all our pre built walls on delivery day! 
We have developed an energy efficent high quality building system that has the look of the old style stacked-log homes, without the solid log wall problems. Our structural packages can be assembled to dry-in phase in 5 to 20 days depending on the model and assembly supervision. This is unlike stacked logs walls that can take typically 90 days or more to set the exterior walls. To start, we work with you to develope your vision into plans with our models and your ideas we will build your log home and provide you with one of the best complete timber or log home kits. 
Here is how our progress looks after only the 2nd, 8 hour day of assembly on this Eagle River lofted 2640 sqft model. We had already set all of the log and timber structure, as well as all of the exterior finished walls with supervision by Grizzly Log Builders. The 2640 sqft. Eagle River model log home package is priced in the $130,000's for a Signature Series log home kit, complete with this front entry system and two peak dormers. 
You probably want a well built insulated home Right! Our product its one of the best building system on the market. Building an energy efficent log home will pay off for you, year after year! For pricing and financing go to the following link; http://www.grizzlylogbuilders.com/Pricing_on_Log_Home_packages/page_669319.html Contact us and we will help you get started choosing from our many log home models and options to fit your familys needs! Call one of our knowledgeable log home dealers @ 530 386 6225 or click this link below! http://www.grizzlylogbuilders.com/Contact_Us_about_Log_Homes/page_669321.html 
With our consulting services and onsite assembly assistence, we will achieve quality results for you! - Where do you want to build your family's log home?
Do you want your home turn-key finished or just dryed in? Is energy efficency and high insulation value important? We can achieve R-24 value walls and R-40 or better cielings! Are you ready to get the process going this year? We can have your engineered plans ready in 15 to 30 days?
Have a look at photos of all many of our models, by just click on the links below! http://picasaweb.google.com/WhisperCreekLH 
We offer complete turn-key construction, using only licensed contractors. Custom kitchen cabinets by Craftsmaid and wide plank hardwood flooring are also products we offer to our customers at great package pricing. http://www.wideplankflooring.com/  What most home buyers want to know is "WHAT IS MY HOME REALLY GOING TO COST? If you would like us to estimate a turn-key price for your home, contact us. Typically your investment can start as low as $140/sqft for a single story cabin, with entry level finishes up to $190 a sq ft for moderate finishes. High end projects can go to well over $300 a sq ft. The photos above and below reflect a $190 to $240/sqft range of quality finishes. 
As for the initial construction process, after just three day of assembling this Eagle River model, we had set all of the ridge beams, with the rafter hangers installed. 
And finally we set the valley timbers to end the 3rd day. On the 4th & 5th days we will be setting the pre-cut roof rafters set into the rafter hangers. This is how our roof framing system's go together! 
Would'nt you like these kind of results to happen on your project? They can by using our log home system built kits! We would love to be building your California Log Home. Would'nt you enjoy watching your state of the art, well thought out log home packages being built on your property? 
Structural packages come complete with all precut timbers, 12" loft floor support logs, all hardware & fasteners, roof and porch systems, Pella windows pre-set in place, timber stair case and hand crafted quality log railing and percision wood work. 
Throughout the log home industry, our unique log home building system and assembly process stands alone.    
We provide structural handcrafted log home kits that can be assembled quickly with precision and consistent quality. Contractors and owner builders can quickly finish out our log home structural shells with the subcontractors.
We are the only log home company that has been fire tested in accordance with the new Urban wildfire SFM code standards, and approved for California. Our contracting services are available in all areas. Ask us about references for California and local South lake Tahoe, Truckee Portola and Reno NV. area's, we have very satisfied clients. 
Do you want to incorporate passive solar window walls for thermal gain and green building sustainable solutions into your new home? Review our green building, passive solar link below! http://www.grizzlylogbuilders.com/Green_BuildingPassive_Solar_designDwell_pre-bui/page_728016.html To see floor plans, and models, just click on the links below! http://www.wclh.com/floorplans.html  For the exterior window we only use Pella thermastar and trim all of the openings out with roughsawn 4"x 6" timbers. Pella Pro upgrades are available. We offer three exterior options seen below. Log, Timber or Hardie board siding. Our Log exterior is hand crafted and comes chinked or chinkless at customers request. 
Our rustic 12" Timber plank siding is re-sawn. 
HARDIE BOARD, a fire resistent siding with low maintainence is integrated with all of our craftsmen style timber & log homes. http://lowes.jameshardie.com/map/default.htm 
Contact us, we can help to make your building experience go smoothly and quickly and get you into your new home in less than a year. http://www.grizzlylogbuilders.com/Contact_Us_about_Log_Homes/page_ 669321.html 
Norm Clover. 530 386 6225 nclover@wclh.com California log cabin kits have many options to choose from. For example adding peak dormers can open up the upper level floorplan and really change the look of your log home. We have a front entry system and balcony as well as other option to upgrade the look of your log home kit. 
Our pre built log home kits arrive ready for fast assembly with the exterior walls pre-built, sided, stained and chinked with the window installed at the manufacturing facility before being delivered. That adds up to hundreds of man hours of workmenship already proformed before your home is delivered! California labor costs being so high this makes our log home kits very affordable when compaired with the costs associated with stacked round log homes. 
The pre built panelized walls are designed to accept high R-value insulation to be added, creating energy efficiency while retaining the beauty of handcrafted log home. 
Fast assembly with our pre built walls, save time and money for the log home owner and builder. Our panelized log home kits, will reduce costs with time and labor savings. To see the comperison of this panelized log home building system, to the full stacked, round log home package delivered to your building site, well here it is. What do you want delivered to your home site? Ours, as shown above, or "the other guys", shown below! 
Building a full-stacked, log home is slow and labor intensive. LABOR IS EXPENSAVE! Now this homebuilders just needs to hire skilled craftsmen to turn there pile of logs into a "un-insulated" log home! In the long run the inconvenience of inferior log home products are difficult to live with, hard to forget and costly to overcome. 
Yes full stacked log homes once made since in centuries past. We however have made a lot of improvments to our building system. Here is how we have put together many of the Big Horn model log home kits in a five day work week! The pre built log home assembly process is so simple that any builder can do it! We sell log home packages as WCLH dealers and provide building development and contractor services for our clients independently from WCLH, in California, Nevada and Utah. |