It’s time to lay our subfloor! Before we can start the subfloor, though, we have to pass our underfloor inspection. We had to wait for this inspection for a week so we were SUPER anxious and nervous leading up to it. If we failed, we were worried we’d have to rip out and re-do a lot of our previous work. When we are through our inspection we started laying the subfloor. This part of the project was SO fun because we REALLY got to see the shape of our cabin floor plan. When we were laying the plywood, we also got to see if the floor joists were actually installed correctly and were 16 in. on center. Our subfloor consisted of ⅝” tongue and groove plywood. We layed it in a staggered pattern as our plans called for. The plywood is glued and nailed into place with ring shank nails. As long as our floor joists are layed correctly the installation is pretty easy because you can see the marks on the plywood for 16 in. on center. 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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