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
