Animals
Cold, sunny days are great for construction. If we could just hold the precipitation off until the end of January, the shell of our log home would be complete and under roof.
This week the logs for the first floor are finished. On Friday, after New Years Day, a crane will arrive to lift the beams into place. These beams will hold up the second floor loft.....and the main beams are HUGE! You can see the cut outs on the top logs for the ceiling beams.
- Construction Update: Ceilings
We now have ceilings over the beams in the laundry room and the kitchen. All of the rooms in the basement and 1st floor are studded out. As soon as all of the ceiling decking is installed (this will also act as the floor in the upstairs loft) they will...
- Construction Update
An ice storm caused work to stop for today. Here is how the house looked at the end of yesterday. Shortly after this picture was taken, the logs for the second story arrived. They will get these logs into place over the next week. Then, next Wednesday...
- Cleaning Up
Christmas Eve's ice storm left us with a few fallen trees and limbs.Cleaning up was a necessity as one of the trees had fallen over the lane from the barn to the house. This road will be used tomorrow for delivery of our log home beams.Construction...
- First Log Delivery
Today was an exciting day, indeed... our first load of logs was delivered. These logs will make the outside walls of our first floor. Two more deliveries will bring the second floor logs and window jams and roof trusses. Oh if only we could control the...
- We Have A Foundation!!!
The foundation for our new log home is complete! Here are a few pictures to document the progress thus far. It feels great to finally see some progress in the right direction. Within the next two weeks, the concrete will be poured in the basement, the...
Animals
Sunny Days
Cold, sunny days are great for construction. If we could just hold the precipitation off until the end of January, the shell of our log home would be complete and under roof.
This week the logs for the first floor are finished. On Friday, after New Years Day, a crane will arrive to lift the beams into place. These beams will hold up the second floor loft.....and the main beams are HUGE! You can see the cut outs on the top logs for the ceiling beams.
- Construction Update: Ceilings
We now have ceilings over the beams in the laundry room and the kitchen. All of the rooms in the basement and 1st floor are studded out. As soon as all of the ceiling decking is installed (this will also act as the floor in the upstairs loft) they will...
- Construction Update
An ice storm caused work to stop for today. Here is how the house looked at the end of yesterday. Shortly after this picture was taken, the logs for the second story arrived. They will get these logs into place over the next week. Then, next Wednesday...
- Cleaning Up
Christmas Eve's ice storm left us with a few fallen trees and limbs.Cleaning up was a necessity as one of the trees had fallen over the lane from the barn to the house. This road will be used tomorrow for delivery of our log home beams.Construction...
- First Log Delivery
Today was an exciting day, indeed... our first load of logs was delivered. These logs will make the outside walls of our first floor. Two more deliveries will bring the second floor logs and window jams and roof trusses. Oh if only we could control the...
- We Have A Foundation!!!
The foundation for our new log home is complete! Here are a few pictures to document the progress thus far. It feels great to finally see some progress in the right direction. Within the next two weeks, the concrete will be poured in the basement, the...