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New Pukall Log Homes Design Center in Woodruff
Pukall Lumber opens its log home design center in Woodruff.
Pukall
Lumber Co. recently built and opened a log home showroom and design center
on Highway 51 in Woodruff, on the north side of Citizens Bank. The building
features milled white pine 8” by 8” logs, which are dried
and milled at Pukall’s manufacturing facility in Arbor Vitae.
“We have offered log home packages for years,” said Susan Pukall. “But frankly they have been difficult to market without the ability for our contractors to show their prospective clients an example of what our milled log homes look like.”
The log home packages are affordable and energy-efficient. Kiln drying the logs minimizes shrinkage and settling, to ensure a weather-tight fit. We also offers 6” x 8” and 6” by 6” milled logs for smaller cabin designs.
“We are excited about making this a responsible project,” Pukall
said. “Our plant underwent Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) chain-of-custody certification last year,
which means that the wood is certified to have come from well-managed forests
and is tracked through our manufacturing process.”
The building showcases many of the products Pukall Lumber manufactures including wood flooring and paneling, log siding, and pressure-treating decking, as well as other products we sell such as doors and windows, cabinetry and countertops, closet systems, Ipe decking, railing systems and roofing.
The work on the Log Home Design Center was done by several construction companies that are experienced in building log homes in the region. “Pukall Lumber is not in the construction business, we will leave that to our customers,” she said. Rather, the purpose of the showroom is to allow builders to show their clients many different product options.
Contact us for more information about Pukall Log home packages.
Log Home Design Plans and Packages
Click to see our slide show presentation of log home designs and plans of over 15 log homes, including more photos and the plans of our Woodruff, WI Log Homes Design Center.
Forest Stewardship Council Certified Lumber
Pukall Lumber Co. is proud to announce its Arbor Vitae sawmill has earned Forest Stewardship Council certification.
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification is a voluntary, market-based system that allows companies to promote their products as deriving from well-managed forests. By holding an FSC Chain of Custody (CoC) certificate, companies earn the right to market and sell products as being FSC Certified and to affiliate themselves with the Forest Stewardship Council.
Pukall Lumber is a local manufacturer and supplier of FSC-certified lumber; FSC-certified lumber is available on request. We are committed to helping our customers maximize their Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credits as developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, and would be pleased to work with you on your project.
Our FSC Chain of Custody certificate code is SCS-COC-002831 and Controlled Wood certificate code is SCS-CW-002831
Pukall Lumber co. is committed to complying with the values of FSC as
defined in the “Policy for the Association of Organizations with
FSC” (FSC-POL-01-004, initially approved in July 2009
Pukall Lumber Co. is not directly or indirectly involved in the following
activities:
a) illegal logging or the trade in illegal wood or forest products
b) violation of traditional and human rights in forestry opertions
c) destruction of high conservation values in forestry operations
d) significant conversion of forests to plantations or non-forest use
e) introduction of genetically modified organisms in forestry operations.
Pukall’s publicly available written policy commitment, endorsed by senior management, to implement its best efforts to avoid trading and sourcing wood or wood fiber from unacceptable sources can be viewed at the following link. Pukall Public Statement
Environmental Statement
Wood Products—Nature's Renewable Resource
Wood products have so many cost and construction advantages over other building materials that it’s easy to forget what an environmental asset it is to use wood. We sometimes forget that wood is naturally reusable, recyclable and biodegradable. It is also the best insulator of all structural building materials: a home built with wood requires less energy to heat and cool, thus conserving finite fossil fuels and coal. It also takes far less energy to transform trees into wood products than it does to manufacture steel, aluminum, masonry or plastic products with less pollution of the air and water, too.
Wood is a renewable resource. In fact, more trees are grown each year in the U.S. than are harvested or lost to disease, insects and fire. One third of America is covered with trees today, more than 70 years ago. In Wisconsin, forest land increased 4% between 1983 and 1996, and now covers 46% of the total land area of the state. A growing forest removes the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, while giving off life-sustaining oxygen. But forests that aren't managed and selectively harvested fall prey to insects, disease and forest fire.
As world populations increase, the demand for wood and wood products continues to increase. To meet this growing demand, responsible forest management in Wisconsin forests has the potential to take some of the pressure off more at-risk forests in other areas. Forest products resposible produced in Wisconsin are a good substitute for products made from wood harvested in tropical or boreal forests, where sustainable harvest is more difficult to maintain.
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