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Click TOOLS OF THE TRADE to see some of the tools and equipment we used. Click CREDITS to see the major companies and suppliers we've worked with. |
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9-24-10 With two walls completely stained and chinked on the outside, we were ready to move the scaffolding to the front wall. Jeff was also busy cutting out the front door opening. |
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9-26-10 The upper third of the wall has the base coat stain applied. No additional pics for today. |
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The entire wall is now stained with the base coat. Bob and Jeff did a little work on the radiant heat system in the basement as well. No additional pics for today. |
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10-8-10 While Mike and Jeff applied the top coat of stain to the front wall, we set up a single tower on the back wall so Bob could defuzz. |
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One wall left, and it will require every scaffolding frame we have. It took us a good part of the day to set up two towers three levels high, and a third tower four levels high. This will be good enough for applying the stain. Our crew today was Jeff, Jillena, Ruby and Lydia. While Jeff and Ruby were staining, Jillena put up more radiant insulation in the basement ceiling. |
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10-10-10 We had great weather today to finish applying the base coat to the last wall. |
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Bob joined Jeff today and spent most of the day fitting blue foam board into the gaps on the back wall. Jeff installed the soffit paneling on the east half of the roof overhang. |
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Jeff took the opportunity of a fair-weather day to get as much of the top coat of stain on the back wall as he could. You can see how it goes on white, yet it dries clear. Just a couple more 50 degree-plus days and the staining will be finished. After staining as much as he could reach from the scaffolding, he installed the last piece of soffit paneling, which needed to be scribed against the ridge pole. no additional pics for today |
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Bob made good progress on the foam board today. Jeff was busy with other projects, including spray-foaming the openings around the west cap log top plate, and both sides of the ridge pole where the paneling meets it. no additional pics for today |
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Mike was out today and helped Bob and Jeff take down the 4th level of scaffolding and convert our tower into a 3-level structure again. This time we kept everything connected and braced as a single unit. Mike stuck around and stapled lath over the foam board Bob had completed. Jeff also finished spray-foaming the openings around the east cap log top plate. |
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Bob was hard at work again, fitting foam board on the outside of the back wall, and spray-foaming all of the remaining small gaps from the inside. Jeff was outside working on drip caps, siliconing, and window corbels. Brendan stopped by and did some interior insulating. |
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It was a cloudy and very windy day today. Bob continued on the rear wall, fitting foam board on the outside and spray-foaming from the inside. Jeff continued his projects of installing drip caps on the front windows, siliconing around the windows, and spray-foaming any remaining small openings on the front wall. no additional pics for today |
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Bob and Mike made good progress on the back wall insulation while Jeff installed some channel weatherstripping on the basement door. |
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Ted's back! Ted joined Bob and Mike up on the scaffolding to make some more headway on the insulation and lath. Meanwhile, Jeff installed a set of corbel supports under another window and a few more drip caps. In the evening, Jeff started putting up the insulation around the top of the basement wall. |
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11-6-10 We had a real chinking party today! Lots of friends came out to help and it made a big difference. We had one crew working on chinking the back wall and another insulating the front wall. With 5-6 people on the scaffolding, we got the entire wall chinked and the scaffolding broken down and moved to the front of the house before sunset. THANK YOU to all who gave up their Saturday to help us. |
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11-12-10 Jeff cleaned most of the back wall before tearing it down and moving it to the front wall. We left one short tower to reach the last of the upper logs, then tore that down and moved it to the front to complete the towers on the north wall. The rest of the cleaning would have to be done from a ladder. no additional pics for today |
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11-13-10 Jeff finished cleaning the back wall from a ladder while Bob cut and fitted insulation in the front wall and Jillena sprayfoamed from the inside. In the evening, Jeff cut more lath strips in preparation for chinking the front wall. |
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11-19-10 A much colder day today. We're wrapping up the stapling of the lath and getting ready for another chinking party tomorrow. |
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11-20-10 Another cold day, and windy. Not the best for chinking. We had to use an antifreeze additive in the mortar since the evenings were dipping below freezing. With another great crew, we finished the entire wall. |
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11-25-10 Jeff finished stapling up the Tyvek on the front gable wall, then spent the rest of the day cleaning the front wall logs. |
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