J & J Log Home

For the last two weekends we have been busy chinking the inside of the house. We have accomplished quite a bit, it seem to be going much faster than when were were chinking the outside. It might have something to do with working off of floors and it not being 90+ degrees outside. We had quite a bit of help this weekend, and it was nice having an extra day due to the holiday. On Friday and Saturday Travis ( Log Home Builder Member KingLewey70) came down to help. It turned out that he was quite the chinker, even though it was the first time he had ever chinked. He is welcome to come and help anytime. On Sunday we were pretty chinked out and decided to clean up the logs a little. For those that have never chinked before, it is a very messy and dusty task. No matter how hard you try to keep the lines perfect and the excess chinking off the other logs it seems to make it's way there. Another Log Home builder member Chris (ribbonevt) came to check out our progress and lend a hand. Chri

The excavating company came out today to run the main power from the street to our meter base. They were also nice enough to trench our water line in as well, & helped me get it into the crawlspace, nice guys! Digging near the water meter: 48" deep trench for water supply, he was flyin' through our rock-free dirt. Here's another angle.... After this, they trenched another along the treeline for the A/C & phone cable. We'll be able to fire up the furnace soon & get the drywall guys starting. The REMC was out the following morning & wired up the meter, we have real power!

Last week we had the inspector out for the rough-in inspection, it turned out that there were still some things that we needed to do before he would give us the okay to continue. Things like fire caulking, dryer vent, and also a few things that the electrician failed to do. It probably did not help that we were not there when the inspector arrived. He tripped the temporary security system which we put in to prevent thieves from stripping the wire and copper out of the house. After we finished those repairs last weekend we called the inspector and had him come out again this week, and he gave us the okay to move forward. It seems that there are so many little things to do when building a house. Given that this is our first house and neither of use has any experience (other than google), it would be helpful if someone were to write a book that gave detail instructions on how to build a house starting with digging the footers to the final inspection. We called the painter out to put the