Category: Columbia River

The last few days I installed the 4″ drain piping for the downspouts and the 4″ French drain piping as well. Two days ago my neighbor Arvid installed the gutters and downspouts. To button this project up for the winter, the garage doors need installation, which should happen within the next week or so. Also the whole project needs to…

Today at 5pm, the roofing job is complete, thanks to my good friends Henry and his to brothers Charlie and Howard along with Craig who manned the heavy equipment. It was a good 5 days!

Today we’ll have the south side sheeted.

Yesterday, I racked off 26 gallons of wild blackberry wine from a big barrel. It will now bubble in glass carboy bottles till Christmas. We might unbottle the single gallon jug at thanksgiving;0). After the wine I hung the garage door surrounds. I also got word from the truss guys, and they say there moving up…

This last week I called a couple of good friends, and we installed the windows and exterior door. Then, we covered the sub-siding with 15# roofing felt. It is now ready to receive the wood board and bat finish siding. But, before that can happen we have to haul a couple of large logs out of the river and…

Today I finished up the plywood sheathing. Now the house is ready to receive the roof trusses. They will arrive the last week of September or the 1st week of October. Next week I pick up the doors and windows.

The house is framed. The trusses won’t be here till the first week in October. Until then, I will complete the 1/2″ plywood sheeting then move on to installing the windows and exterior doors.

This morning I got a little help from some friends. We lifted the interior baring wall that will hold up one side of the roof trusses. Next week I’ll build the last two exterior walls and the two short walls on each side of the dormer. Then set a couple of beams and build the…

This morning I called a few friends to help me raise another wall.