from my blog: https://loghomejourney.wordpress.com...ld-wood-stove/
https://loghomejourney.wordpress.com...raming-begins/ thought I would post "framing complete", but I'm probably going to stop framing and work on the stove before it gets colder. So there'll be another framing post eventually. Steve said instead of 1 thing taking 3 months to complete, I now have a million things that take days - weeks to complete.....here we are....
https://loghomejourney.wordpress.com...ning-up-leaks/ just some odds and ends to get the thing fully closed in - mostly about spray foam, lol.
https://loghomejourney.wordpress.com...chinking-post/ I used the calculator at the permachink website - my average gap is about 4", and about 2" deep x 40 foot long walls x 20 feet tall (15 lines of chink x 2 (inside / outside)) x 4 walls is how they figured it = $14,000 for their stuff. Traditional mortar chink = 1 wall takes about a bag of portland cement ($18), 4 bags of lime ($4 each), and probably 1/2 ton of sand ($23). So 1 wall, outside only: 18 + 16 + ...
Hi folks- finished welding and painting the second floor brackets - just need some holes. And I'm going to follow Ronnie's suggestion to hang a ledger board on the wall, and then install the brackets on the ledger board. logs are way too crooked for anything else, I think. https://loghomejourney.wordpress.com...teel-brackets/
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