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Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) YORK
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The YORK, a log cabin kit from Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia), is published at $91,195 to $131,100 for the kit and covers 549 square feet.
Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) does not publish a wind rating or a snow load for this model, so 56 percent of the fields we score are blank.
None of that tells you whether it works on your land. Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance are site specific engineering, so the only useful answer comes from running this kit against your address.
Completeness
44 percent of the fields we score are backed by something Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) published. Why completeness is never part of the grade.
The thing nobody else will tell you
This kit cannot be scored on its own. Nothing on this page tells you whether it works on your land.
Wind, snow, seismic and flood performance come from your address, not from this kit. Put in an address and the gates run against the real requirement at that point.
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The Kit Home Finder Grade
| Buyability weight 25 | Not rated Not enough published to rate ordering. We need to know whether you can place an order, plus at least two of the price, the lead time and where they deliver. |
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| Cost honesty weight 25 | 91 publishes a price, publishes a range rather than one misleading number, itemises 6 of 14 build stages, states plainly what the price excludes |
| Materials and carbon tier weight 15 | 100 timber frame or mass timber, once biogenic storage is counted, a lower embodied carbon class |
Rubric v1.0, August 2026. Site fit is not in this grade, because it depends on your land rather than on the kit. Every weight, and what we refuse to grade.
What the maker publishes
Everything here came off Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia)'s own pages, cited at the bottom. A blank is a blank: we never fill one in.
| Build type | Log cabin |
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| Structural system | Structurally certified rectangular or square GluLam (glue-laminated) solid timber logs; Australian version uses solid GluLam logs with a minimum thickness of 92mm |
| Finished size | 549 sq ft |
| Bedrooms | 1 |
| Bathrooms | 1 |
| Wall R value | Not published |
| Roof R value | Not published |
| Foundation types | Not published |
| Lead time | Not published |
| Delivers to | Not published |
| Country | Australia |
| Build difficulty | A small crew, no crane Panels or timbers are lifted into place. Most people hire help, but it is not specialist work. Read from the construction method. |
What the maker says it resists
Design capability as published. Not a certification, not a rating of your house, and not proof against anything.
| Engineered wind speed | Not published |
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| Roof snow capability | Not published |
| Seismic | Not published |
| Fire | Fire page (https://logcabinsaustralia.com.au/fire/) publishes a char rate figure: 'Engineered pine solid wood walls have a char rate of 0.6mm per minute', and links PDFs on fire performance of timber log walls and performance of solid timber walls under simulated bushfire conditions. No BAL rating is published. |
Price
$91,195 to $131,100
This is the number the maker publishes. What it covers is in the line below, and it is almost never the finished cost of a house.
| What that number covers | Price is quoted 'Ex European Factory incl. GST (tbc)'. Includes the external wall insulation kit (now included with all residential cabins), double glazed windows and solid pine core doors, and internal timber log walls pre-drilled floor-to-ceiling for electrical leads. Explicitly NOT included: Colorbond roofing, roof insulation/sisalation, and the supplied softwood floorboards should be replaced with StructaFloor/TermiFloor particle board for Australian conditions. |
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What else we found
YORK: total 51.0 m2 including deck (=549 sq ft, converted by me at 10.7639); internal floor area is stated separately as 39.8 m2 plus deck (=428 sq ft); decking 11.2 m2; living/dining 22.2 m2; bedroom 12.7 m2; bathroom 4.9 m2. The four prices correspond to four log sizes: 88x135mm rectangle $91,195; 134x180mm rectangle $101,364; 180x190mm square $119,352; 210x250mm square $131,100. The site describes the company as an importer of European log cabin kits, and marks YORK as 'suitable as a secondary building (Granny Flat)' rather than a primary dwelling. Trading entity: Timber Log Buildings Australia P/L, ACN 631 692 647. 'incl. GST (tbc)' means the GST treatment is itself flagged as to-be-confirmed on their page - verify before quoting.
Questions to send this maker
Generated from what they left blank. Every one of these is a thing they could answer today and have chosen not to publish. Copy them into an email. If they answer, tell us and we will update this page with the citation.
- What design wind speed is this model engineered to, in miles per hour, and at what Risk Category and Exposure Category?
- What ground snow load can the roof carry, in pounds per square foot, and is that the ground load or the roof load?
- What Seismic Design Category will you engineer this model to, and is that included or a paid upgrade?
- Which foundation types does this kit support, and can it sit on piers above a base flood elevation?
- What is the wall R value, and is that nominal insulation or a tested whole assembly value including thermal bridging?
- What is the roof R value, and is it nominal or whole assembly?
- What is the lead time in weeks from deposit to delivery, right now?
- Which states will you deliver to, and which will you not?
Across the whole Index, the average kit publishes about a quarter of what a buyer needs. This maker is at 44 percent.
Questions people ask about the Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) YORK
Answered from what Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) publishes, including the answers that are "they do not say".
How much does the Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) YORK cost?
Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) publishes $91,195 to $131,100. Price is quoted 'Ex European Factory incl. GST (tbc)'. Includes the external wall insulation kit (now included with all residential cabins), double glazed windows and solid pine core doors, and internal timber log walls pre-drilled floor-to-ceiling for electrical leads. Explicitly NOT included: Colorbond roofing, roof insulation/sisalation, and the supplied softwood floorboards should be replaced with StructaFloor/TermiFloor particle board for Australian conditions.
What wind speed is the Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) YORK engineered to?
Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) does not publish a design wind speed for this model. Only about one kit maker in ten publishes one. Note that "hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, so a page using that phrase without a number has told you nothing.
What snow load can the Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) YORK roof take?
Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) does not publish a snow load for this model. Around one maker in twenty does.
Can you actually buy the Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) YORK?
Yes. Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) takes orders for this model today.
What foundation does the Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) YORK need?
Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) does not publish foundation options for this model. That matters more than it sounds: in a FEMA A or V flood zone the finished floor has to sit above the base flood elevation, and a kit offered on a slab only cannot get there.
How well does the Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) YORK stand up to a hurricane or a wildfire?
The honest answer is what it resists, and under what conditions. No kit home is proof against either, and any page telling you otherwise is selling. "Hurricane rated" has no legal definition in the United States, no house can be tornado rated, and whole building certifications like LEED, Passive House and HERS all require a built, sited, inspected home and cannot be attached to a model from a spec sheet. What a maker can honestly tell you is what the design resists and under what conditions. For this model, they publish nothing at all.
Will the Timber Log Buildings Australia (Log Cabins Australia) YORK work on my land?
Nothing on any spec sheet can answer that, including this one. Wind, snow, seismic, flood and soil requirements come from your address, not from the kit. The Kit Home Finder runs every kit in the Index against the published hazard data for your point and shows you what survives and why the rest did not. It is free.
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How it compares
It documents more than the average log cabin kit, 44 percent against 24, and more than 40 of the other 44 we hold. Makers in Australia publish something about fire far more often than the Index as a whole, 24 percent of the 17 we hold there, usually because their building rules ask for it.
Computed across all 514 kit homes in the Index, 45 of them log cabin. Recomputed on every build.
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| Where these values came from | https://logcabinsaustralia.com.au/cabins/york-51-sqm/ |
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| Maker's site | https://logcabinsaustralia.com.au/ |
| Last checked | 13 August 2026 |
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