Porch Roof Construction Part 1: Posts and Beams
We had a big stack of lumber delivered a few weeks ago so I sharpened up my chisels and dusted […]
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We had a big stack of lumber delivered a few weeks ago so I sharpened up my chisels and dusted […]
Read more →Our porch deck materials were delivered a week and a half ago. As we’ll be on hiatus for the latter […]
Read more →Pouring the piers for the porch I’ve gotten a little behind with the weekly recap. Late April and early May […]
Read more →Work continued this week on framing the exterior walls. We finished the front of the cabin but didn’t have enough […]
Read more →After much deliberation as to how to frame the walls and some tinkering with window sizes and locations we started […]
Read more →“Give a cob house a good pair of boots and a a good hat and she’ll last forever.” – The […]
Read more →Leading up to raising day the following questions had been dogging me: Will the weather hold up? Will enough people […]
Read more →This week we made preparations for raising day. Top of the list of the preparations was assembling the bents (wall […]
Read more →The joinery is cut, the sub-floor is installed and so the time has come to raise the frame. Barring adverse […]
Read more →We finished up the posts this week and moved on the first of the beams. I thought the 8×8 posts […]
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