I was back at the house we finished up at earlier in the summer.  It is not completed, but the owner wanted us to pull out for a while and they were going to do some of the work themselves. We are going to build a little roof over the basement entry area and I … Read more

Well, our work here is done, we pulled out of here to the next project earlier this week.A strange project for us, but it turned out looking pretty good:   …funny story here, but that will have to be another day… Sometimes, all you can do is laugh.

A home that I built a few years ago is being sold by the owner. They have made a nice little virtual tour, accessable here. They don’t show some of the coolest parts of the house, like the screen porch:   Or the loft office area: and a garage view:   …so I put a … Read more

Guess it’s been a while since I’ve posted here. It’s been a busy last couple weeks. The progress on the storage building we are working on can be seen here. Seems slow but it is such a big building. The roof metal was on last week and the soffets and walls are being done this … Read more

This past week we managed to get the trusses up on this building. We had a couple down days because the crane wasn’t available on the day we needed it, then when it was available, we got rained out halfway through the day after getting just one set and a gable wall up. It was … Read more

The truss sections are built on the ground to be lifted up later with a crane. We started this during the first real warm week of the summer. We had some days in the 90s with very high humidity.Before that, it had been an unusually nice summer, rarely getting above 80 degrees with plenty of … Read more

The sauna door is taking shape. I have the last few veneer boards glued on. It will look like a cedar plank door, but it is really just thin veneers glued to a plywood box core. This is the way I will try to keep this door from warping.

Extreme Makeover in South Range Wisconsin: On the weekend of August 8th, 2009, I went to a little place just south of Superior Wisconsin, a little town called South Range. Somewhere out in the country near there, a field with an old dilapidated farmhouse, (among a hundred other similar fields with old dilapidated farmhouses), had … Read more

…and now for something completely different…As soon as we get the sauna building done and a couple other loose ends tied up, we are going to build a huge pole building for Hamiltons Boat Storage. This isn’t something we normally do much of but it is for someone I built a lake home for in … Read more

With the building standing like this we started to re-think the siding. We had intended to go with regular 6″ beveled siding on the lower parts with cedar shingles into the gable areas, but we started thinking this might be small enough that we could just do the whole thing in cedar shingles.…Except for the … Read more