After a HUGE round of non-stop work as we prepared our house for the roofers and then put on our roof. We were both EXHAUSTED. We took a week off from the build, and now we’re ready to get back to work! We have a boom lift rented and we have three projects in mind that we want to complete while we have the boom lift. We need to stain our house, install windows, and install our chimney. We start off this list of projects with staining. This is super important because it will protect our logs from all of the rain we typically get over the fall, winter, and spring. We chose to stain with a paint sprayer putting on the first layer and then we brushed it in. The stain color we chose is cedar, and it transforms the look of the house. Along with staining, we also have to caulk the corner log intersections of the house to keep cold air, moisture, and bugs out. 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.
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