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.......
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.
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'.
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.
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.
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'.
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Your project is certainly coming along. I love the log rafters!
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