Our cabin starts to take shape as we install the rim joists. The rim joists are the wood that wraps around the perimeter of the house, and the floor joists will actually connect to the rim joists. It is SO important that the rim joists are square because if they are off, then our floor joists will be off, and then our floor will be off . . . We work super hard to be meticulous in placing the rim joists to our cabin kit home. We continually check square, and we make sure that where the rim joists are doubled up and tripled up that they are all level with one another. This is much harder than we expect it to be, but in the end, we are super happy with our results. 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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