The comment we get the most when people see a picture of our cabin is, “WOW! You guys are almost done.” Which we always reply with, “Well . . . . not quite.” That’s the strange thing about the cabin kit build, once you have the windows and doors in, it looks pretty much done because the outside walls are all complete since they are the logs (no siding). Well, we’re not almost done, but every little step gets us closer. Our next step this time is installing the soffits. The soffits are something I had NEVER heard of before, but they are so important. They allow your house to “breathe” so you won’t have excess moisture build up in the roof once the insulation is installed and the house is complete. We’re hoping the soffits help a little in letting our house “safely breathe” and control the moisture inside the house to stop the mold growth that is happening on our rafters. I’m curious, have you heard of soffits before reading this? 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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