This past weekend we started raising our blog cabin walls! Friday night P & I arrived at the blog cabin and found a big blog cabin surprise! It was dark when we got there so we ran inside, grabbed a flash light and made our way around the back of the cabin to take a peek. I took the flash light, clicked it on and pointed away! Gadzooks!!! To our surprise, the blog cabin decking for the kitchen and bathroom floor was already done! What a grand surprise! THANKS DAD!! :) With the decking already all set by "Our Wayne", we dedicated both Saturday and Sunday to building, Raising and Bracing our very first wall! We started by making a lumber list. I love lists **sigh** Once the list was made, off to the lumber yard we went! "Our Wayne" hand picked every 2x8 we bought to make sure each board was perfectly straight. I watched him carefully as he did this. He would carefully look at the pile of 2x8's for a nice clean board. He would then select the 2x8 he thought looked best and pull it out of the lumber pile. Then, leaving the end that was farthest away from him tilted on the ground on the 2" side, he would lift the end closest to him up to his eye. Next he would close his left eye and look down the 2" side of the board with his right eye. He explained to P & I, if the board was warped you could see the curve in the board and know it's no good. I tried this technique and he was exactly right! You could see the warped wood vs. the perfect wood. All the warped pieces he discarded and the nice straight pieces we purchased for the blog cabin addition.We loaded the truck and took all the lumber back to the cabin and began to frame out our wall. We learned about studs, jacks, headers and window openings and in about 3 hours we built our very first 8' section of blog cabin wall!
We then raised the wall, braced the wall, and added sheathing to the outside.
Here are more pics we took this past weekend...ENJOY!
-J
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