Our Quaint House

It’s Here And true to the hype, it all went up in under 6 hours! Let’s just cut to the chase and watch the footage: Your browser does not support the video tag. Watch the whole foundation get erected in under 10 seconds! Now, I know what you’re gonna say, that looks small. Well looks can be deciving, especially with no …

Foundation Delivery Delay Looking in from driveway at the gravel Inspection passed. The sleeves for septic, well, and some electrical in. The gravel for the Superior Walls is all in. What are we waiting for? Well, a crane, and smaller trucks. Apparently someone missed something along the way and no one noted down that …

Success The second inspection of the work done was for the footers. Since we’re doing a superior wall foundation we only had to check depth, which in my area is 48 inches. And because such a large portion of our basement will be below grade, we only had a few trenches that needed to be deeper then the surrounding soil. …

Massive Rocks Two giant rocks, one an accent, one a problem. New England is known for growing rocks. Stick you finger in the ground and you’ll hit a rock. This property must be old because the size of the rocks that grew here are massive. These boulders are responsible for breaking the pins on two different sized …

Clearing the Way Looking down the driveway from the house The majority of our driveway came pre-cut and pre-installed. Isn’t that nice of nature? However our septic field was in the way of the full approach, and so we had to curve the driveway to the north a bit, unfortunately through some light trees and decent sized …

Empty Lot, Where to go? Where is this log going to go? Now that the house area of the lot is mostly cleared, we need to identify where the corners of the house are going. Yes we have the septic field staked out, yes we have a survey, yes we have the dimensions of the house. But all of that falls apart once the lot is …

It’s bigger than you think One of 4 truck ready to be unloaded from our dirt road and up our dirt driveway One of the benefits we like about a log cabin kit is that everything needed to dry-in the house is delivered all at once. Logs for the walls Interior first floor joist Interior sub floor Interior partition walls …

Time to Dig After what was actually years of waiting, the excavator has shown up and began it’s work. This is where the fun begins. This is where things start moving and visions start to come. The stone at the front is too much for the excavator too! The drive down was marred with traffic and detors, but he made it …

AKA - Microplastics What’s that saying, the path to hell is paved with good intentions? That’s what I think of erosion control, especially on large, rural, wooded property. If you’re not familiar with erosion control, it’s the black woven plastic fencing you see around construction sites. One portion of the silt …

Southland Log Homes As mentioned earlier, we choose Southland Log Homes as our log home kit supplier. I have to say everything about working with them has been a breeze. In fact I originally set up an account on their website becuase it was the only way to access their design system (which is free). Being early in the …