We are finally working on a project that allows us to FINALLY see our house start to take shape. We are laying the floor joists! Ryan and I have been so excited to get to this step. It took us a little longer to get there than we hoped, but we’re finally there. We laid our floor joists according to our building plans. They are 16 in. apart (on center). They also overlap in the middle. This meant that one side was perfectly 16 in. on center, and the other side started at 14 ½ in. and then shifted to 16 in. on center. This is exactly how our building plans told us to do them. Also, we did not use any floor joist hangers for this project. The joists are attached to the sill plates and foundation beam with toe nailed in nails (according to our plans), and then they are secured by 16D nails on from the outside of the rim joists to the floor joists. 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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