Just a few house shots

"view" from the loft

I was out of town town for Thanksgiving and nothing was done while I was away, of courses that can be explained by the holiday and bad weather on Monday. the builders have gotten much of the roof up these past few days and it should be compleat this week weather permitting. Weather channel says rain for tomorrow... go figure. =-)

We had snow today so things are kinda wet but we are moving along.

Its been a very productive week. I'm real happy with the work thats been done. I hope next week is as good!!

View from my bedroom to be =-)

Things keep moving along. If all goes well the roof should be up next week...

Progressing.........

moving along.....

Today there was PROGRESS........

With a log home you get the "feel" of how the house is going to look when its done. The log is the insulation and the wall so there is very little finish work to do. My builder says the walls should be up (weather permitted) by the end of the week. I'm not holding my breath but.......

This photo was taken on October 29th nothing more has been done since then. I talked with the builder yesterday he says he will be on the property Monday. We shall see......

It looks like no one will be working on my cabin again this week. I got a call last Friday and was told they were going to be here Monday. Got a call Monday and was told half the crew did not show up, they all went hunting. Tuesday the builder had and appointment I don’t know what happened Wednesday and today it’s raining. Maybe Monday?

Things are moving along.......

These photos were taken 10-23-08

The footers were pored on Tuesday and with all that concrete

I just could not resist

Nothing more has been done this week.... Bummer

Amerlink delivered the logs today!! Now its up to Mike.

Today the inspector came by and he approved the foundation work done so far. Inspection #1 done!

The guys were here today putting in the rebar for the footers. If all goes well the building inspector will be by tomorrow and we will get the OK to pour the footers. If he comes early we can pour concrete tomorrow afternoon if not then Thursday.

I got a call from Allen Rhoads of Amerlink log homes. He told me according to his boss the president of the company John Barth my logs are to ship out on Friday and will be here Monday morning. I am cautiously optimistic.

Well I’ll be darned! My contractor started on the cabin today. I am soo happy about that. Unfortunately Amerlink Log Homes, the folks we bought the logs from, for the second time have told me that my logs will not be coming as scheduled. A message was left on my phone answer that said my order has been postponed and they don’t know when they will get my logs in. I take that as being postponed indefinitely. All I can do is sigh and accept that I may have to go in a different direction to build this house. I have heard many good things about Amerlink so this is very disappointing.

Welp another week as gone by and still no starting on the house. Last Monday Amerlink, the folks I’m buying the logs for my cabin from called and told me that they were delaying the delivery of my logs “indefinitely”. Well when they said that my left eyebrow shot up and I replied “what does that mean?”. The next three days were spent on the phone talking with Allen Rhodes a customer service rep and playing phone tag with John Barth, supposedly the president of Amerlink Log Homes. By Thursday “indefinitely” became Friday October 3 at 8am. We shall see.

I am starting this blog to keep track of the progress of the building progress of my new home. More to follow