Rain Rain Go Away

Last week the plumber was back and did the next step....got rough in and vents out the roof.


The guys set this corner log for the porch on pond side.


Here is a look from our porch ( which was an add on a couple of years ago) to the new porch on parents wing. Blue sky is here today and gone tomorrow....


Here is my parents front door there will be a ramp as a walk way up to porch.


Cliff at the end of the day staining the T&G for roofs before it goes into place...beautiful blue skies.....


The next day rain and more rain and so this was Friday and guys took it off because of weather and they where sick.

This is taken on Tues am showing what Cliff did this long weekend. First he put plastic from the ceiling to floor and started to sand glu-lams ( because some of them from log post to wall where outside just a month ago....) and the log walls and log posts needed to be cleaned up. Then he finished the can lighting now only lighting we have to do in house are pendent light which can't go in until upper cabinets come out and new window goes in and a light for new pantry in that back corner.

Aren't I pretty...this is Brandy our "grand puppy" ( that is correct no grand kids yet so this is one of the critters we spoil : ) Notice she is smiling !

Yesterday during a small rain break.... they roofed under the new porch

Then they put on the T&G both sides on porch roofs.

A bit of a different look taken from the small office window you can see below in the road shot picture of our place.

Today again raining on and off....the guys just carried up all those roofing bundles !

Lumber delivery....this time some more decking and fascia for porches.

Remember the apple tree / bush that the Beavers eat the bottom of ( you can see it at bottom of picture) will here it is with blossoms : )

Here is the road view and remember above the different picture from office window that is from that small windows at the top of the 2 story wall on left side of picture. Our office is above our garage.

Roof got covered

So last Tues. the guys started sheeting the roof after putting up fascia boards all around ( for those who don't know what that is it is a trim around the edge of the roof ).


Looking at this process of sheeting from the inside

By Wed. it was all done....

So Dylan did a bit of finish trim work ...he is making cuts down the old and new logs where they meet. ( remember if you click on picture it gets bigger ) He is doing this because he wants to set that half log you see next to him in so it looks like it has always been there.

Here he is breaking out the logs where he cut them......

Then this is what the other side looked like when he was done. Scroll down and you will see in another post earlier where we are doing this same look on the inside. That was the end of our week we had to travel for work and Dylan went to help his cousin with a project in their kitchen.

So Monday they finished framing all the interior walls. As you look at this I'm standing in the kitchen area looking to the pantry / utility area on left side of picture and then back into the bath room ( shower has some insulation in it). The long wall separates the living area from the bedroom.

So that is all for now.... but the plumber is back here now and guys are going to be working on porches this week so I may try another post this week.

Bye to one Big Boy Toy but more to come.......

So the last job for the Backhoe was to load up all the logs from the trees we cut down. We have a friend that lives by us that does great things with logs....his name is Dan and he owns Blue Pine Designs or http://www.bluepinedesigns.com/ anyway I have added 2 different photos of customers of ours that have his product in their homes. And we also hope to have some of his stuff. Anyway he came by last week and took about 15 logs to dry and cut up.......

These cabinets and bar are something Dan of Blue Pine did as a custom cabinet job....he even did the face cover for the dishwasher which is on the far right of sink.

This is inside another customers mudroom and when they got done building all of this we started calling then "shelves are us " . Jim & Marsha bought all the materials for these shelves and post bottoms and side panels and I believe even bench materials from Dan and then they built this themselves......

OK so back to our project mid week the guys sheeted the walls.

I took a walk around the pond again now they have the house wrap on.....

Then they finished working on the deck for the wing that attaches to our porch deck...they will come back sometime soon and build a porch on this part also.....

OK so we needed to have a cover up of the corner and we used a log that has been hanging around long enough to grey out and so Cliff got out his new find. One of our customers told him about this product they called "Gone in 30 seconds" . Will one day about a week ago Cliff went to every store in town and finally found something called "30 Seconds" and he has been testing it everywhere....so if you look at the middle of this log it has a tan strip around it ! Gone in 30 seconds : ) Again don't forget if you click on the picture it gets bigger.....

You can also see the deck got done and connected then they will do log siding on the right side of this log. Cliff has really been having fun seeing how God is providing for him all the deck we took off that porch we removed got put back in place on the new deck for the wing and we even had a couple of extra sticks left over that I had Noah put in place on our steps ( long story short we did this decking a couple of years ago and ran out on our steps but had another color and so that is what he took off and put the left over on so now it is all the same : )

So now it was a wait for a couple of days for truss to come so they came back inside our place and put up T&G on the dining room side .....while Cliff finished things over the kitchen side.

You can see he had to put back the vent pipe for the sink ( that is the black pipe behind him) and then we had to add a couple of lights into our old part of the kitchen cause things are changing a bit in there....

On Sat. our youngest son Justin came over for the weekend to help and here he and his dad are marking out where things are going to be in the bathroom. Cliff thought it would be a nice gift to my Mom to let her get a feel where all the walls and cabinets and shower/ sink and stuff would be. So they marked it out for her and then even laid down 2 x4's where walls would be. Sorry I didn't get a picture of that I was going to but the day got away from me.

Before Dylan & Noah left on Friday they also got up a few more log rafters. Then Cliff & Justin worked on the wiring for that end. See the black boxes each side of the door. And they put up our new fan / light and moved our antler light from the old dining area to it's new home.....

Monday morning and the Truss truck came first thing.

This is a good look at the truss. We are putting in what is called a Scissor Truss that way we have a vault inside the wing ceiling.

OK so now we have to make new and old come together. They are using this first truss to mark where they have to cut away the roof line.

They have cut away the roof and Dylan is cutting what we call the lookouts you will see them on the new roof at the end of today....

Cliff is using the chain saw to cut away the beam.

First truss goes into place !

Here Noah on the far left is adding in blocking in between each truss....Cliff is doing the same on the far right. And Dylan is putting metal straps on the top of each truss....you can see all this better on the last picture.

OK so what you are looking at here is a string line ( orange in color ) that they put up to keep all the truss lined up.

We are at the end of Monday and Dylan is adding the "look out" for the new roof. These are used to carry the sheeting and roofing as it hangs over 2'.

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....