I too thought I might build another. Maybe with a lot of help and no other life commitments. I don't see either one in my future!
Patrick
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I too thought I might build another. Maybe with a lot of help and no other life commitments. I don't see either one in my future!
Patrick
It think it varies a lot depending on a lot of things. Quality of stain, location of the home being the two biggest factors. My home gets beat on by the sun for a lot of the year and I used One time...
If I ever build another house it wil be ICF's.
Not that I don't love the logs.
Patrick
Nothing is ever guaranteed. However, the cost to chuck your blueprints, go to the class and build an LHBA home CAN be way cheaper than building with milled logs.
5.60 a linear foot seems high. I...
I use google and bing maps to scout hunting areas. I have seen elk with both, to give an idea of the resolution that you can get now. At one point, when we lived in North Carolina, I could see myself...
They won't ban wood stoves. They will keep tightening the regs until the only stoves that can be bought are out of the price range of the very people that need wood to keep their house warm.
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That place really is sweet!
To be honest, reading the thread from the beginning I didn't know how this was going to work out. I love it!
Patrick
That's exactly what we have.
Dave,
We do have a ceiling fan, plus a stove mounted fan. I can't imagine how hot the second floor would be without it.
Patrick
It finally got cold enough to light a fire in the stove. It has been in the 30's at night and the 40's during the day with clouds and rain. I should say that it took several days for the temp in our...
I have a moderate case. I used to be bad. I flew helicopters for a while and surprisingly that didn't bother me at all.
Mind over matter. I wish I could be there to hold the bottom of the ladder...
I had almost no experience. A little basic plumbing and I might have changed out one dead outlet.
One thing not mentioned above is the Internet. There are videos and how to for DIY for just about...
If you can work on the house 3 hours a day, 7 days a week, that is more hours than most of us can work on our places in a week.
I say go for it. Take it easy, work smarter not harder, build as...
Hiring out drywall really sped things along. I also started working 4 14 hour days a week.
Patrick
Thanks. We will get some pictures up soon.
Patrick
It wasn't very long ago I was sitting up at 3 am for flight deck watch, floating around on the USS IWO JIMA in the middle of nowhere. The ships internet was so slow that it took about 15 minutes to...
Hickory peels really easy when its fresh. It's a nightmare a few weeks after cutting.
Patrick
TheBeak,
I am in the final stages of our build in Montana near Livingston. Distances are vast here and members are few and far between. I had another member offer to help and I turned her down...
We just built one yesterday!
It fell over in slow motion 10 minutes after completion. I hope you have better luck!
Patrick
I have been looking at the news more now than ever. Fiscal cliff, school shooting and now I am on pins and needles waiting to see what lunacy Biden can come up with to assault the Second Amendment.
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One of our members has proven that with a telehandler and a skilled laborer, these homes can go up fast.
Selling them when done might be tougher than it used to be, but you wouldn't have to build...
My second floor tng is 100 plus yo Doug fir reclaimed from a silo near Bozeman, Mt. All 1200 sqft is clear of knots, and the only defects are the occasional bolt hole from the original installation....
Without land cost, I am going to be right at 28 dollars a sq ft. This includes our finished walkout basement.
Patrick