While the Dietrich house has only 2,300 sq. ft. of living area, it possesses that rare quality craved by
so many homeowners - Distinction.
Bud and Pat know log homes. They had actually decided on a builder years before the final plans for
their home were drawn. On a 1982 trip through Canada promoting his Perma-Chink products, Bud
visited the 20 acre log yard of Timothy J. Bullock, a handcrafted log home builder in Creemore,
Ontario. Over the years, Bullock has developed a reputation for carefully engineered and
painstakingly crafted roof trusses.
"It acts as a compression ring and locks the walls down. As the house shrinks, you have the weight
and tie-in effect from the top of the house." Bullock and his right-hand worker, Eric Wiebe adapted
many of their truss designs from roof styles of churches, barns and public buildings of medieval
England."
"Today, we are very fortunate to have the luxuries of computers and engineering calculators to establish the analysis for dead loads, snow loads and wind loads."
