http://www.loghometoday.com Building and Decorating A Log Cabin Home Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:12:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Richard Musclow (of Musclow Heating, geo thermal specialists in Bancroft, Ontario) stopped in to lend a hand hoisting the tie in beam, (front of house to back of house), building a small, cosmetic wall (hiding the ugliness of a fridge side), and installing my century old, hand hewn log as ... http://www.loghometoday.com/cross-beams-and-cedar-log-post.htm Curtis Foster came by and checked on us - and helped heave a few logs around - but the best part of Curtis' visit happened after he got home! His nephew Bradley was there, along with one of his city friends, and Curtis told Bradley that Eric needed to speak ... http://www.loghometoday.com/moving-excess-logs-off-the-main-floor.htm If you've had a chance to look at our plans, you've already seen that we have many large windows in the log home, four double doors (front entrance and all patio and deck exits) - in total 17 windows and 8 doors. We're not even counting interior doors yet! Remember that ... http://www.loghometoday.com/affordable-windows-and-doors-for-our-log-home.htm Since we didn't quite finish the top rows on Saturday, some of our friends came back on Sunday to lend their hands to our log home building project again. It was a short day, placing the final courses on the interior log wall, but again, heavier than I could manage. The few ... http://www.loghometoday.com/finishing-up-the-weekend-building-project.htm As I shared in the last post, the logs for our home average 300 pounds or more. Lifting and carrying them wasn't too much a problem for my female, 6' frame, but when we needed to start raising them over my head, I lost steam. I just didn't have the ... http://www.loghometoday.com/friends-help-build-a-log-home.htm This week we're working on the interior wall of our log home build and I thought it would be a great time to show you how we pulled this off. Log homes are not like traditional framed houses in that there is little room for adding outlets, wires and switches (running ... http://www.loghometoday.com/planning-for-electrical-outlets-in-your-log-home.htm Once the log wall height hit 6' 5" as in the photo below I was no longer able to assist in raising and placing them as the next tier. Thankfully the few areas we had to work on were not utilizing full 16 foot long logs (weighing over 300 pounds). Most of ... http://www.loghometoday.com/logs-get-too-heavy-to-lift-during-the-build.htm Once we'd completed the exterior walls, and as we waited for strong friends to assist in getting the final courses of logs (top rows), Eric and I set to building the interior walls of our home. Interesting to note that logs not yet exposed to the sun had the bleached pine ... http://www.loghometoday.com/building-the-interior-walls-of-our-log-home.htm Today we hit the 2/3 completion mark. Well, 2/3 complete on the first floor at least. Just: one week after the logs were delivered, with only one day of rest in between, working away at building this log home for 5-8 hours per day, just the two of us, ...and we have completed 2/3 of the first ... http://www.loghometoday.com/23-complete-building-our-log-home.htm Below is a quick video from YouTube on our current progress building this log home. If you don't know us personally, it's important to note that the logs only arrived 6 days ago and most of the work (regarding laying out the logs) has been done by the two of us. ... http://www.loghometoday.com/6-days-later-the-building-of-a-log-home.htm If I've said it once, I've said it a million times - Freymond Lumber of Bancroft, Ontario is top notch. They also are our supplier of logs for the 'build a log home' project here. It is my pleasure to showcase their product, blaze their logo, and recommend them to you ... http://www.loghometoday.com/the-logs-arrive.htm With the main work performed in the basement of our soon to be log home, Eric and I got busy building the sub-floor. The first step was to cap off the ICF (styrofoam and concrete foundation blocks) with 2x12 pine boards creating a fully wooden 'sill' of sorts for the first ... http://www.loghometoday.com/sub-floor-log-home.htm