Moving along

So I'm going to start off this post inside our addition and then move out to the wing we are adding on.

So above you see Dylan & Noah adding 1x9 T&G to the inside of our framed gable wall, while Cliff is in the ceiling putting in new can lighting. As a home owner you can pull the wires and do your own plumbing but as a General in our state you can't do these things on a job.

I'm very excited because we will have a pantry located in my kitchen I can hardly wait to fill it up. To the left side of it is where the refrigerator will sit and to the right of it the kitchen sink comes out and there is going to be a cabinet that gets used for a pantry in a normal kitchen but will be used for my dishes and glassware because we won't have any upper cabinets.

This above picture is great in that we always get ask how much do the logs settle....here is the answer on the right is the old log wall that has been there for 13 years this May. You can also see above the window the space left for the small amount of settling we have in our logs to take place. The gray stuff on the wall is backer board that was used behind the tile back splash that is coming down. The top logs are some older logs weathered and the bottom are newer logs....so you see a bit more settling in the lower part that in the upper where the logs have aged a bit more. We will sand down all of this and so you won't see much color difference.

This is how we are trimming out between the new and the old logs with a log cut in half. Again this is not a finished application yet every things needs to be cleaned up and then have some clear sealer put on it before it is done.

In the ceiling we have added log rafters so that we can cover up where the T&G in the existing wing meets up with the T&G ( not there yet) in the addition.

OK so now outside to the wing addition....last week the footing and stem walls where poured I think it was Wed. and then Thursday they stripped the forms and our guys started the sub floor.

Then Thursday and Friday the plumber came in and did all the under floor plumbing and here you see the heating guys doing the under floor work for the heat pump.

Monday morning first thing they took some of this insulation down under the floor and put it in against the inside stem walls just to give us some more insulation factor. The guys started sheeting and before they where done the inspector came and signed off on rough plumbing, heating and sub floor framing.

Today the guys came and got our propane going again so the camp stove is no longer in the kitchen and we are back to using the Jen Air stove to cook with.

This is mid day on Tues they are almost done framing all the outside walls in. Yes framing instead of logs. We will put log siding on the outside and maybe some T&G on the inside walls to have the look of a solid log wall. There are a number of reasons why we are doing it this way but I guess the big one is that for the most part over years of doing this we have gathered some left over siding from some of our home owners project and we have maybe enough to do this without buying more ( we may have to buy some ) but we didn't have enough logs to do it and so we would have had to buy them.....like all of you we also are on a budget. Remember we are doing this so we can move my parents in with us to save them money and then if needed to take care of them. So we looked at all the options and took this way because we had more log siding than logs.

So here we are on the pond side of the my folks new home and on the far left will be a door out to their new porch and then you see 2 big holes for windows the first from the door is in their new living room and the second it in the bedroom where they will be able to see the pond and enjoy the wildlife.

So 2 things remember if you click on the photo it will get bigger and then plan to come back again.....trusses come on Monday so check back then if not before....