East wall insulated April 10 2010

Worked on the east wall this weekend. Cut 6 sheets of 2 inch foam board to fill the holes in the wall cavity. We will spray foam the cracks and then overspray a 1 inch foam coating to finish filling the wall. Should be R-17 ish when we are done. The open spots are for the windows. We have some small spots to fill in but still need to run electric wiring etc.


This is the siding choice, there are cheaper ways to reside it, but this stuff is cement coated and tough as rock. Unless you bend it then it snaps real easy......

We will get some small paint samples to paint these to see what colors to go with as well as the trim. I'm real sure that hunter green is part of the trim.


Front floor is almost all gone as well. Then we need to buy 10 sheets of 3/4 inch OSB to do the floor. Tile choices are being worked on as well. The loft area must be torn down so the floor can go in.

March 27th work weekend...

Also known as don't lean on the back wall. No really, don't lean on it.

We had a full weekend, Friday night arrived at hotel and kids went swimming. Saturday we worked on cabin. Finished pulling old wood and 8 million freaking nails out of the studs in the back wall.

Pulled out the old "framing" and put in the window frame as designed. Spent time re-attaching the back wall to the new frame to help solidify it.



The windows only need to be purchased and can be installed in the back wall.

February- beginning the 2010 remodel year

Temps in low 30's, but we got some heat and worked on the insulation for the roof area.

The board is the carsiding put up to see how it would look.

Nov 15th- great weather!!

Well we muddled through a killer stress headache and got the floor partially replaced from the "great chimney smashing incident of 2009". We needed to replace 6 boards that were missing, fix up the framing to hold up the boards and make a door way hatch for access.

We also did more leaf raking and just sat and watched the clouds.

leaves lots of leaves

Quick trip to the cabin to work on the leaves. We took a truck load out to the compost center. Leaves on the one side of the cabin I raked into my garden spot and will use them as compost for the garden. Other side of house was not raked, we hope the wind blows them into the backyard.

Looks like we will be purchasing a propoane heater for the cabin to provide heat during the cold weather.

Well, the weather is a changing. We had a blast this year even if it was a bit rough. Emily and I finished the sub-floor Saturday and spent time cleaning up the mess. We hauled 3 big bags of creosote home for the dumpster and some of the larger pieces of junk. Next year all that will be gone!! The front half of the building still needs to be stripped but it will wait till we get the back half started and the bathroom started.

I will probably still go up north this winter but work projects will be limited to insulating the roof areas and possibly starting the floor work for the laying tile in the living areas. I expect temps will be a big negative, but just being there helps clear my head. We need to do something that makes big heat to use it during the winter.

October 2nd

Worked on putting sub floor in. Kathy and Josh helped for a couple of hours. We got 4-5 sheets to go to cover the back 2/3rds of the house.

Stupid power supply failure caused me to not be able to work on Sunday so no pictures.

Architect has plans completed, pretty close to what we want the place to look like. I need to scan them to post them.