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Answered Prayers

The forecast for this week wasn’t good, rain moving in. Yesterday I said let’s pray for rain to hold off tomorrow so we can get this roof done. It didn’t rain today.

#littlethings #answeredprayers #almostdone #day8

First day.

Seven

Days.

Today we made 6,731 trips up the ladder to install all the purloins and fascia. Metal goes on tomorrow if the rain holds off.

What day are we on?

I lost track.

Anyway, we sheeted both gable ends with siding. Put the lookouts back up. Capped the front ones, will do the back and sides tomorrow. I finished nailing off the last few pieces of bird blocking too.

Then we start the roof metal. Oh the joy!

#akcabin #arewedoneyet #buildingisfun #day6

Five Work Days In…

Yesterday’s field trip was amazing! I have a ton of pictures to sort through in order to make a blog post. But all fun times end and it’s back to work!

A glimpse of the ride out.

Today we finished standing trusses. Put the lookouts up. Cut truss tails, installed bird blocking. House wrapped the front gable and picked up a few more supplies for putting the metal roof on next week.

I think we made 8,000 trips up and down the ladders.

Like this week, next week will be a day short, this time for the holiday.

Day Four

We finished framing the last wall and had the trusses delivered at noon.

Dean and Sheldon finished hanging all the siding while I went to pick up our windows. Got those installed. Then we started standing trusses.

We got 6 of them in place, 7 more to go on Friday then it’s roof metal time!

Kitchen side window.

Bedroom egress window.

Starting to look like a cabin now!

Tomorrow is a school field trip so we’ll be doing other things, be back on Friday for more building fun.

#aklife

#cabinlife

Three Days In.

Today we started standing walls. Got 3 done. Tomorrow will be finishing framing and sheeting then trusses will be delivered at noon.

Let me just brag a little on the beautiful weather we’ve had the last two days. So nice. Alaska tan coming my way, right before the rain. ☔

#buildalaska

#cabinlife

Monday, Monday

Started the day off with getting our electric service hooked up. Dean worked on sizing joists while I set up our rain shelter and hooked up our temp power outlets.

The mill broke down so Sheldon showed up on the job site to give us a hand. We sailed through setting the floor system and in no time the sheeting was down and BAM!

Look Ma, it’s a floor!

Tomorrow is walls! Woohoo!

#shebuildsit

#cabin

On to another project.

No rest for the weary. Finished one cabin yesterday and rolled into the new job site this morning. This is a 12′ x 24′ cabin, dry in only. (No interior or finish work!!)

We spent half a day gathering supplies. The rest of the day we set our paver/pier foundation & brackets.

Ready for the floor system.

Then we sized our rough sawn beams and set them into place. Leveled and squared them and cut our rim joist and laid out our joist placement.

Time flies when you’re having fun. Time to clean up and stow our tools. Monday we will knock out the floor joists and blocking. Hopefully getting some sheeting down for the floor too.

Finished!

A happy little cabin, nestled in the happy little trees on a happy little lake.

Finished!! The building that is. There’s still plenty of clean up to be done this weekend. On to another waiting project.

#alaskabuilt

#cabinlife

#lakelife

#whitespruce

Almost done

We’re almost done with this little log tiny house build.

280′ square feet of interior living space. Equal storage space below. 4′ x 14′ of covered front porch. Full service kitchen and 3/4 bath. The customer will be doing the shower at a later date

So much finish work. The bathroom pocket door trim consists of 12 components! All custom made trim, nothing store bought. It’s all Alaskan white spruce. Local logs milled at SND’s sawmill. You can’t get more “Alaskan Made”.

#alaskalife

#tinyhouse

#logcabin