Work Continues

I'm back from all of my travels and will catch up on my blogging.

The factory sent roof panels for most of the roof, the guy on the left is standing on one of the prefabbed panels. The panels are made of a layer of 1x4 tongue and groove pine boards, 2 2" pieces of foam insulation, a 2" air gap and a layer of OSB.

But they had to build the valleys by hand and that meant a lot of hand cuts. The first step was to cut and install the 1x4 tongue and groove boards that make up the ceiling of the cabin. The guy on the right has finished the boards for that section of the roof and is trimming the ends.

The next step is to put in the foam insulation and put on the OSB, that is what the guy in the middle is doing. Those things in the lower right corner of the picture are the foam boards that are being used.


This is what the inside looks like. I am standing in the living room looking straight up, the front of the house is to the left and the bedroom is in front of where I'm standing.


This is a closer look at the inside of one of the valleys. It really looks nice!


If you look real close at the second picture, you can see a wire coming out of the center of the main support beam. It's kind of slick the way they do this. They drill straight down through the support beam and drop the wire through and lay it on top of the beam. For the lights that are attached to the log rafters, they drill up through the log, the 1x4 pine board and the 2" foam then they fish the wire up to the peak of the roof. All of the wires are brought together at one place and dropped down through an interior wall and into the basement.

Here are the pictures from my 2 regular places. The tarp is on because they haven't closed up the very peak of the roof (that will be done when the shingles are put on), so they are protecting the ceiling boards.




This is a new view, they finished the roof of the farmers porch. I really like this view. This is still the best place to catch the morning sun!


I mentioned that we are looking at the different options for the wood preservative we have to put on the logs. Here are the 4 choices:











I'm not to crazy about any of them. I think 078 is too orange, 996 is too pale. There isn't much difference between 077 and 005. They might be okay, but they look kind of blotchy.