We are FINALLY starting the build of our cabin kit home. We begin with laying the sill plates over our concrete foundation. The sill plates are anchored to the concrete foundation of the house and some say that they are the most important part of your house. This is because they are the FIRST piece of wood that goes onto your house, and they are what your entire house will be attached to. In our case, the floor joists and the rim joists will attach to the sill plate. The sill plate of a house also creates a moisture and insect barrier between the concrete and wood of a house. As you saw in our previous episode, we had ALL of the materials delivered to us for our cabin. Unfortunately, this did not include the materials for the beam and posts that our house will sit on. We knew this information, but then we forgot this information. So we started out so excited to get building, but then discover we don’t have everything we need to start the build. We purchase the materials needed for the foundation beam as well as the sill plates. Only to find that the sill plate material was actually right in front of us all along. Follow along as we lay the sill plate on foundation on our cabin kit home during the hottest summer we’ve ever experienced. This is JUST the beginning of building our cabin kit home. And now a little back story on us, in case you just found us on YouTube. We’re Sara and Ryan. We are your average suburban family, but 9 years ago, we purchased a raw piece of land in the Hood Canal in Washington. We’ve been developing this piece of property slowly, and this year we knew it was time to go all in. So we purchased a log cabin kit home and decided that 2020 would be the year we built a house on our property. We plan to build this cabin (as much as we can) on our own. Unfortunately, COVID-19 put a delay on our cabin kit being produced and delivered in the time frame we had originally planned. While we could have just waited it out and pushed back starting on the build of our home, we decided to shift gears and change our course for the time being. We purchased a 30 foot yurt, and will be setting it up as additional living space when we begin to build our cabin. In the summer of 2021, we FINALLY moved to the Hood Canal so we could start the build of our future home. While we are building our home, we are living in a camper trailer and the yurt that we built in the summer of 2020. We hope to have our cabin kit home built by the summer of 2022. Just my husband and I are building the house. We get help here and there from friends along the way and we do plan to get help on the roof but other than that we are doing it all on our own. Follow along with us as we build our dream in the Hood Canal.
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