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Hopefully we will be getting started on a new project here sometime over the winter. The most important thing is getting the foundation in, all the concrete and dirt work done before everything freezes. I always like to wait for the last possible minute to do this, just because it makes my life a little … Read more

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We got the siding deliver this week. it is half log siding from Homestead Timbers. I don’t know anything about this company, have never worked with them before, but it looks like nice stuff, as far as half log siding goes. It is all Northern White Cedar, which is interesting because we don’t see White … Read more

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This is an interesting project we started last week. It is an “A” frame with “wings” built lower down and we are going to raise the “wings” and give it room for a few extra bedrooms and baths. This is the profile before we start: This is what the profile will look like after: Here … Read more

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.