Log home builders often come to my company with questions about using insulated panels for the roof. Well, if you're a log home builder, we have answers to questions you might not even think of asking. Maybe you have a structural system already designed or even built, and you're thinking of foam panels as an insulation component. But we'd like to take you a little farther than that. Structural insulated panels are a self-sufficient building system, but they're also a versatile component that you can call on to handle specific tasks within another building system.
Roofs are a great example.
All those systems can handle wall construction, but need help when it comes to the roof. Well of course we can, using just a nail-base panel like the ones used in commercial flat roofs. It has just one top skin, for attaching roofing. This works great for insulation, and in commercial construction it's quite popular. But remember, commercial roofs are mostly low-slope roofs.