Progress

The septic tank is in but not backfilled. Huge boulders to deal with, we almost had to use Dynamite! All Cedar walls are up and the 2x6 Douglas fir tongue and groove roof sheeting over the kitchen and dining area and the Master bedroom area is complete. Rough electrical is in. Main beams over the great room are up, all exterior stud framed walls are complete. The second floor is complete. The doors are onsite, the hickory floor is onsite, the electrical fixtures and plumbing fixtures will be here the first week of December.



The insulation has been delivered for the roof and the metal roof has been ordered. The main fireplace is complete including the stone veneer. There is a bit of stone veneer to finish on the front face including the hearth. It looks awesome! Rob believes that he has 3 more weeks to finish all carpentry on the house except for interior work. The Oak spiral stair is in production back East and should be delivered in “roughly” 2 weeks.



Energy Inspectors, our LEED Provider, will go up there when we are done with the carpentry and insulation work. That will be their first official scheduled visit.



We are not quite on schedule. This house has taken Rob our builder quite a bit more time that we were told it would take and we have had an early rain start. The product swells as much as 11/2” when it gets wet thereby throwing off the dimensions and preventing the finish blocks from fitting, so that has been a real struggle. Gluing and screwing each log was extremely time consuming as you can imagine. The house is coming out beautiful and we will start the hot water tubing and light weight concrete in 2 to3 weeks.





Over all, the project is going quite well and we have made several field changes that my parents approved of, primarily window locations, structural revisions, and a multitude of finish detail changes.

We submitted my drawings next week. Now that my drawings are 99% complete and that the finish schedule list, we can start the bidding part in earnest. If all goes well, Rob is considering forming and pouring your footings in January, it really depends on the weather. The actual footings are not that complex but we don’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves and the weather turns on us.