Our addition more fun !

Hang with me today because I have added all the newest pictures and it brings us up to date with what is going on at our place....

Above picture starts off on the 11th of this month where you can see we put in new footings and sub floor. We have also added posts to hold the glu-lams. You don't see it but there is under floor insulation there also and this hole in the stem wall is to be able to get to the crawl space. See the log corners on the far left and right will as you will see below we needed to remove them so we could add in new logs walls.



Here Dylan our son is cutting the log wall out which he did on both sides of the corners on both sides of the house.




Cliff is checking it out notice the hole and logs on the ground....yes I was wondering about this also cause it still feels like winter at night around here....and some days also !



We did fill this hole with a board and insulation for the weekend.....




On the 14th Dylan & Noah were back putting up the new log walls on both sides and then they framed in the Gable end this wall will connect to the new wing for my parents.

Also I know you may be looking at the fact that we have a straight line of logs old and new.... will I can't wait for you to see how we finish that off with a real cool trim we are going to do later.

Why not logs on the gable end....we thought about it and talked about it and then couldn't figure out which side would get the flat side of the log and which would get the round so we just framed it and then we are sheeting the inside of our part for a couple of reasons ....one is for better sound barrier and another reason is we may use log siding inside our gable end ( still not a given for sure ) and the guys will screw that in from the outside so you will not see the connections on the inside.

So on the next picture you see Noah on the left finishing the sheeting and Dylan on the right side tearing down the original outside log wall which has log siding above the log wall.

OK here comes the fun part this morning starts the big tear down of our original log gable end you may have to go back to the post before this so you can remember what that used to look like....

At this point they have taken out the kitchen window on right the Double Doors in the middle ( when we first moved in those where our front doors ) and then above them was a fixed trap window.

Dylan got out his chain saw to cut the Kitchen side of log wall in half ...what he was cutting was the lags that connect one log to another.

Then they pulled down the top half of the wall......

Then they jumped on the bottom half of the wall....and some wonder if lags will hold up a log wall....

So on the family room side ....oops don't let this happen to you : )

So here is what it looks like opened up before we cleaned up.

So the next post will show how we are going to put it back together....remembering we are still in the process and want to live with this part over the weekend to get a better feel for our new space so you will have to come back again.