were able to finish staining the cabin! started placing chinking nails done (got one exterior done. took 10 man-hours to do the whole wall. also got started with insulation. one wall took 3 man-hours. will keep moving forward.
to prep the logs of our 35x35 for chinking we had to clean the logs, borate them and stain them we'd talked about cob blasting the logs to clean them but it turned out our compressor was not strong enough to move the cob fast enough to do a good job. so we powerwashed the logs instead (and are selling the cob on CL ) we used a 3750 PSI powerwasher which worked great til the pump died. while we waited til the new pump arrived, we rented a 4000 PSI one. ...
Updated 07-03-2015 at 07:47 PM by panderson03
had the week off work and got some work done on the cabin. got the logs cleaned, did final borate ( ) and started staining the outside. got a moisture meter to be sure our logs were dry enough for the stain. thank goodness the weather cooperated! here's a pic from the NW corner the north side is on the left. that wall is cleaned but not stained the west side is on the right. stained it with Outlast Q8 medium gold ...
Is there anyone out there who has had experience finding your logs in Colorado? Just finished the class end of May and have model built but worried about locating the logs. Any suggestions are greatly welcomed.
we've been going back up the build for a few weeks now. working on closing in the triangle sides of the shed dormers, then will get the metal roof on. the roof looks great after spending 6 months covered with titanium. so glad we were able to get that step done before snow fall! after the dormer triangles and metal roof we hope to -pour cement floor in basement (with PEX for in floor heat!) -do final grade -build ...
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