Prepping the Log Home Building Site

Jason Hoover and Ben Kyle of ICF Building Solutions were eager to get building the walls of our new log home, but before they were to ‘close in the box’ that would be our basement, we first had to bring in some gravel for the basement sub-floor.

So on Wednesday – or was it Tuesday, the week is a blur – Eric, Ben, Veronica and I set out and managed to empty 8 pickup truck loads of gravel onto the site and level it.

You can see in the photo above, all there is to Logix blocks. Two sheets of styrofoam, held together by black plastic spacers, with lego block style tops and bases.

On another post I will talk more about building ‘green’ and other benefits of building the base structure of a log home with stryofoam – the beneifts of which there are many.

At any rate, once the gravel was in and we no longer needed ‘truck access’ into the basement, Ben got building the walls. He did this mainly on his own, but under the instruction and care of Jason Hoover via cell phone. As the homeowners we had perfect confidence in Ben Kyle – not only in his ability to do the job on his own, but to look after our pets on the days we couldn’t make it into the property.

Within a day’s time, our building site started to look like a house…

Here’s something else you want to see a fair shake of on your building site if you’re using strofoam blocks – rebar!