Husband and I have talked for years about building our dream home.
After 15 years of marriage and numerous things that have happened we started building last year.
We had always talked about a log house.
So after 5 years of really looking, 3 years of designing and 1 stressful year of finding the "right" log home manufactor we started.
Part way into this I thought we were crazy, but here is what had happened.
The digging of the foundation between rain storms
All Done with the dirt work
Cut the water line and sewer line, digging to find it
Pouring the footings
The guys doing the concrete were the second guys we hired. First guy called us 5 days before the builders were due at 7:30am and said he was overbooked too bad, bye. We just happened to catch these guys between jobs.
The house to the right is our current house. Parts of it are old homestead shacks that were pulled up with a tractor and added on to the original house. It is over 100 years old. Basement is collapsing and the house is sliding to the coulee.
Would have cost us just as must to fix it up as it is to build a new house.
Basement framed by the builders and putting on the floor trusses
I forgot we get hit with -30 below temps out here and without protection it will kill the trees.
Losing our current windbreak of pine trees the pine beetles are out on the plains too.
We put in a Lennox forced air furnance. Going to add AC to it too.
Looking at also putting a pellet stove in the basement and a wood burning fireplace upstairs.
We got an old Home Comfort wood/coal stove that my husband's Grandmother bought out of the back of a peddlers wagon back in the 30's, going to put it in the kitchen area.
The plans also call for a 3/4 wrap around porch, but we might do a full wrap around porch.
shumakerscott it was mainly cost. We had a choice of waiting another year or 2 and getting a loft too with a catherdrail roof or start last year and get into the house sooner.
So we did the closed truss roof instead.
Sorry to see the stain peeling like that. It's a shame to have to re-do such a big job after just one year. Do you remember what brand it was?
When I saw the picture with the white house in the background, I thought, "The people in that house must be wondering why their neighbors built so close to them". :laughing:
I'm looking forward to seeing the progress of the whole house, but especially your craft room when it's finished.
Well Gary you missed the fights last year over several issues.
I won luckily. Hubby wanted cheap and I wanted done correctly.
What you can not see unless you look closely at the picture where the roof is going on the foundation walls have a sprayed on water vapor covering that was done before the backfill. It was sprayed right over the footings, it is similar to a sprayed in bedliner. We also put down washed gravel and weeping tile on the 3 sides.
Yes it is sandy soil. It has cretaious sandstone under it. It was so hard the excavator could not get to the depth required and we had to move the house 3 feet to the west.
cocobolo I would have go digging for the papers, but I know there was 3 species of trees. Lodge pole pine and spruce. I have no idea where the inspection papers are filed away, but I do know there is 1 more species of tree there.
Yes we are very ticked off.
Our builder belives the stain was frozen in trasport.
BM is blaming us. :furious:
The place we bought it from is giving us the run around.
Have some guys coming on Thursday to media blast the stain off. Going to cost us around $5500 to get it off.
I'll get some pics of that. Gotta remember this is a work in progress. We work on it when our full time jobs do not interfere.
logluvr...the manufacturers (Ben M in this case) will always try to blame the customer. It seems to be their first line of defense. I took a look at their website last night and watched a video they have there. It would seem - according to them anyway - that their product is almost indestructible. Just what are they claiming you did?
And $5500 to take it off??? I don't know the size of your walls, but it looks like you have about 1,000 square feet of log area, give or take. You could correct me on that one. Have you looked into alternative methods of removal? Something that might cost a whole lot less perhaps? They are charging you $5 a square foot. That seems awfully high to me.
If you are going to have to foot the bill for a possibly faulty product, I think the least you should do would be to check with your lawyer.
I don't know about you, but it really burns me to see folks getting the shaft like this. It would be great if you could find a better solution.
How about some type of brush on a grinder? Hire a couple general laborers to knock it out. That is a sh!t load of money to do a re-do. I wouldn't ever buy their product again and I would slam them with negative publicity on the net. Be very vocal about this. You should not be the one to carry the burden. dorf dude...
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