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Off subject but related, something funny happened to me that demonstrates how strangely the deteriorating human mind can react to outside stimuli.

In video 4, at about 14:20, the videographer's ...

I just spent 7-1/2 hours watching all 5 videos. Took so long because I had to keep stopping for my metric conversions.

I have to say, I am super impressed by what this fellow has accomplished in a...

Have you ever seen white foam insulation?

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My guess too. Did you build it or someone else?

It looks like it was chinked with Permachink on one side, then spray foamed from the other side before Chinking the other side.

Just my guess.
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You could strip the tinfoil off of that thing and make a bunch of tinfoil hats.

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Moe AND Wilensky!

I have always been a Ron Smith. I would kill for either one of your names and you, you lucky dog, you got both of them in consecutive order!

The log house is a mess and you...

YES, YES, YES... Happy Thanksgiving!

We are celebrating Thanksgiving this year with most of our family right here wherever we happened to be in the middle of Texas....

There is a great $3 hack that will do wonders for chinking nails with a palm nailer.

1... At Harbor Freight, get the assortment of 1/4" drive ratchet extensions. The longest one is probably the...

I loved nailing. Did most of it by hand with my favorite old wooden handled claw hammer. The key was grinding a dish into the action end of the hammer.

I had to use a palm nailer for some of the...

I saw an LHBA home up on Washington, years and years ago that had been chinked with spray foam. Then they went at it with a wire brush on an electric drill to smooth it out. Then they painted it.
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I say pay the local more than he is worth and never let him on the build again.

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This is page 2?

I've heard about it for years.

My Mother used to talk about it all the time.



Is that all there is?

The Kit House experience can be devastating. Google Kit house problem or Kit House Forum.

The problems are rampant and it is usually the owner that gets stomped.

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If you like doing it, just go at it. When it gets to be a chore, start looking for a way out. In the end, a log house is just a house.

When I read that last sentence, I want to argue with it. It...

Welcome aboard Mr. Fire. I also just took the course... from Skip in 1981. You'll like it here.

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Glad to see you back.

Of course, you already know that it doesn't matter how smooth we like OUR chinking. Every single one of our places turns out different.

My house is rustic. Lots of...

I cared.


Ooops, sorry, I thought you was someone else.

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