Sep 12 2008

A Week of Roof Rafters for the Log Home

Published by laura at 12:51 pm under Building A Log Home

Now that the gable ends are done and lifted, and the ridge beam in place, it’s time to start hanging roof rafters on this log home!

I’m going to first take a moment and give my husband a virtual pat on the back first. Here’s a man who lost his dad when he was just seven years old. Who has never built a house before. Who is working full time already. And who was happy to give his wife anything she wanted – even though he had no idea how hard or laborious it might turn out to be!

For the record, after the house fire, I did not want to build a house. I’m not sure I even wanted to live in the same province as the house fire. Veronica (my daughter) and Eric (husband-extroidinaire) did want to build though. They wanted to champion the land that tried to drive them off it!

While I’m singing the praises of my husband I can’t miss our friends who have stepped out of their comfort zone, and/or ‘found’ time in their already over-loaded schedules to help us out.

Let’s Talk Rafters!

When rafters are going up you know your roof isn’t far behind.

Unfortunately for us, I chose the roof profile – Eric and Veronica both loving a busy roof – and we did not know how challenging building a roof of dormers and extra high entranceways would be.

So, while I applied stain, UV protection and gloss coats to our log home siding (for top floors only) during the day, Eric continued to come into the property after work hours to hang rafters in the shed dormer.

Working towards the roof of our log home. The ridge beam in place and the rafters on the shed dormer side start going up!

Special Challenges: Not enough of a challenge that Ontario has seen more rain this summer than any other year, or that our roof is busy with alternating angles and dormers, but Daylight Savings Time is not here yet and as Fall approaches the day’s get shorter than ever.

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