1.) Friends and family who support your project and visit the site and encourage and offer suggestions are essential.
2.) A good architectural team, structural engineer(s), construction team and good subconstractors make all the difference in the world. Especially when they listen to your ideas, offer their own but aren’t offended when those ideas are met [...]
The dear brother also bought 5.1 acres of forest land next to his house in Welches. He bought it as a buffer, a barrier against development. Now it is time for some one to put a house on it, or just hold it near and dear. It has broad leafed maple, large Douglas fir and at least [...]
Milled lumber gets moved inside
Half the gate at the Still Creek Campground entrance was locked with a sign from the Forest Service saying the next day both sides would be locked. Stewart had been in just before me and had left the unlocked side open. The drive in from Highway 26 was still crunchy but [...]
With a major winter storm predicted for the coming weekend the “big wrap” is underway. The goal is to have the house wrapped with paper up to the maximum level of whatever Mother Nature might dump in the snow department. Excellent progress was made today. Our paperers were being very careful to anchor [...]
The balcony is loaded
James mudding and taping
Water tank all hooked up
There are predictions of snow at 4,000 feet, but Summit Meadows (3,500 feet) seems to be a magnent for snow. About noon the crew started thinking SNOW, hauling the remaining siding inside, picking up and packing out tools, doing the garbage drill and the like.
If [...]