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.
Well to catch everyone up on what is going on we ran out of tile for the master bathroom floor. Needed 6 more boxes. I picked those up yesterday along with the grout.
I also picked up the shower curtain rod, bath towel rods, toilet paper holders and checked in with the place I bought the granite for the kids bathroom vanity.
My kitchen sink should be here tomorrow!
Ordered my clawfoot tub. That should be here either the end of this week or the middle of next week.
Picked up a toilet for the guest bathroom. So that means 1 toilet left to get!
When we found we were short tile my friend went and tiled his folks house. I saw him the other day and I expect him back next week to finish the tile.:thumbup:
Hubby is out farming and once he has the spring crop in he is going to go to work on getting the upper cabinets done in the kitchen.
I have been chinking between the top logs and the ceiling. It is really sealing the house up. Read some information in a log home magazine about air leaks around the doors and windows. Builders will put the pink fiber glass above the windows and doors while the house settles, but no one pulls it out after 3 years. So they advised to pull it out and put spray foam in there. I plan to do that.
I ordered the 11 interior doors we need yesterday too! They should be here in 2 weeks. Then I am going to stain and polyureathane them.
Only doors left to get will be the bi-fold doors to the closets.
I cannot believe how close we are to being done. I was in the basement of this old house getting something off the top of a cabinet and it just touched one of the support beams and the beam is dry rotted big time! Chunks of it just fell off. Yeah scarey!
Waiting for my friend to get back to finish the tiling.
My right knee decided to go out on me again and I am scheduled for surgery on the 6th. Going to try to find out what is wrong.
I got my latest log home magazine and read a rather interesting article on sealing air leaks. So I followed what they said. I took the top trim piece of the windows and doors down. then took out the fiberglass insulation and put in window door spray foam. I found the last few leaks around the windows that were driving me crazy! Ran out of the spray foam and need to get some more cans of it.
Hubby got the vanity and toilet installed in the guest bath! I got to break in the shower!
Friend started laying tile in the master bath on the floor and hopefully he gets it all done today! Trying a new type of grout that we are not having to seal and is suppose to be stain resistant. Friend said it went on great and the clean up was easy. He got some on the walls and it wiped right off. Turns out we are the guinea pigs for this grout in this area. Hope we have no problems with it. Would hate to tear it all out and re-grout it.
Will have to go up and look again but I believe it is TEC 500 Power Grout.
We are definately giving new meaning to blood sweat and tears!
Hubby was trimming on a piece of wood trim for one of my pull out shelves and the knife slipped and he cut fleshy part of his palm at the bottom of his thumb. Refused to go to the ER. It was not too bad, but could have used a couple stitches on one end of the cut.
Hope things get better!
I sat on a folding chair and hung the towel bars in the guest bathroom.
More progress! Hubby got the 2 doors to the guest bathroom up yesterday and I got 1 stained before I ran out of stain. Going into town to have my stitches removed so going to pick up more stain and another toilet.
Ok I am trying to not laugh at my poor hubby, but he learned to not hang doors when tired!
He hung the door to the laundry room backwards! It was suppose to swing into the laundry room not the kitchen. So he has to pull it and rehang it. Normally it would not bother me but it blocks a light switch hubby had to have.
So after he hangs this door that will leave our office, bedroom and bathroom left to hang!:thumbup: All the doors to the rooms upstairs will be in so that will leave the 6 doors in the basement.
Only doors left to get and hang will be the closets and pantry.
Friend got the floor tiled in the kid's bathroom yesterday. Might be out today to grout it. Even though the grout says water resistant I am going to seal the kid's shower as a safety measure.
All the doors are in upstairs. Picked up the last box of tile for the master bath plus the 2 bags of grout. While I was at the tile store the area rug I was crazy about and found it on sale! It was over $300 and I got it for $175. Hubby does not know yet!
Kid's and I found some things for their bathroom today. Was pretty nice letting them pick out what they wanted for their bathroom.
Daughter and I went up to the house and hung the towel racks and hung the toilet paper holder.
There was still a film on the walls so daughter was wiping that off. Told her it might take a couple of times repeating that to get it all off the tile.
Trying to get a hold of the granite place to come out and get the granite put in.
Only problem with this new grout is the film. Had hubby pick me up a regular sponge mop and used it to get the film off the floor and walls. Kid's bathroom is looking better.
What kind of grout did you get logluvr? Is it the kind that has the sealer mixed in it? Just wondering as I've read that that kind is harder to sponge off the tiles.
Friend came out today and got the rest of the tile down in the master bath. He is coming back tomorrow to finish grouting the tile. So hubby just needs to get the vanity and claw foot tub put in and that would just leave the trim on the walls and around the door and I am waiting til all the doors are in so I can stain and poly them.
That was too funny!!!!!
Hubby got my claw foot tub put into place. He found the plumbing that was included did not fit perfectly. So there was a lot of cussing going on, well every time he cussed my tom turkeys gobbled back at him! ROGLMAO!!!!!!
He threatened to shoot them but he knows better.
Friend is doing other jobs right now and hubby is out getting our hay put up then we are going to start harvest. So no work getting done until things are done around here.
Next month is going to be totally crazy.
Hubby has been busy harvesting our grain crop.
We got rained out so he got the toilet, claw foot tub and vanity in place and working!
Got the rest of the doors put in too. Going to try to get some more of the cabinets built.
Still having some leaks showing up. Took one window interior frame out and started looking. From what we could find is the rain was coming in from a check in a log. The corners were the wettest. Going to get more energy seal and going to see if I can get my nerve up and start sealing as much as possible.
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