Chinking (Day 1)

We started on the chinking this weekend to give us a change from stuffing insulation. It doesn't go quite as quickly as insulating & nailing. We are using the mortar recipe recommended on the log forum, we were able to get ~ 1 -1 1/2 rows completed per mixture. LHBA member JAK (Joe) came down with his family from Illinois to help for all of Saturday & a few hours on Sunday
(Thanks!!!! Help is greatly appreciated & was good meeting you guys). With their help & Tim's we were able to get the first 5 row completed on each side.


How's this for a chinking assembly line?


Here's Tim working on the corner


He did such a good job that we gave him that job for the weekend!


This was another visitor on Sunday morning.

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Allen said…
Your home looks amazing. I, too, am in Indiana and am hoping to build in the next couple of years. Congratulations on a job well done
June 18, 2008 at 9:01 AM
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