Patent ID: 8387338

Claim:
A method for providing reinforced concrete façade logs for attachment to an exterior wall of a building, said method comprising the steps of: a) supplying sections of reinforced concrete façade logs of such size and weight as to eliminate need of a mechanical lift for moving said sections, wherein said reinforced concrete façade logs further comprise pluralities of lengthwise sections and pluralities of dovetail corner sections, wherein each of said dovetail corner sections is capable of interlocking with another of said dovetail corner sections and comprises an outermost cast of greater width than a width of said cast's adjacent lengthwise section; and wherein said step of supplying sections of reinforced concrete façade logs further comprises the additional steps of: i) procuring a plurality of antique hewn wood logs, formerly a part of an antique log cabin, wherein said antique hewn wood logs were exposed to weather for at least one-hundred and fifty years; ii) creating flexible molds by using one or more of said plurality of antique hewn wood logs as forms for said flexible molds; iii) inserting a preselected molding block into at least one of said flexible molds, wherein said preselected molding block causes molding of said dovetail corner section of at least some of said reinforced concrete façade logs; or causing at least one of said created flexible molds to have a first molded end for molding said dovetail corner section of at least some of said reinforced concrete façade logs; iv) placing reinforcing means into said flexible molds; v) pouring said concrete and allowing said concrete to cure, such that after removal from said flexible molds, said cured reinforced concrete façade logs have outwardly exposed surfaces resembling said antique hewn wood logs including decay associated said antique hewn wood logs, wherein said cured reinforced concrete façade logs are segregated into modular lengthwise sections and modular dovetail corner sections; b) attaching at least some of said modular lengthwise sections to at least part of a frame of said building, wherein each of said modular lengthwise sections is generally horizontal; c) extending horizontally one of said modular dovetail corner sections from a corresponding one of said modular lengthwise sections; d) interlocking adjacent modular dovetail corners to create a corner; and e) optionally, filling in any chink with materials acceptable in the art; and f) optionally, staining said modular sections to be hued similar to said plurality of antique hewn wood logs.