carring the house down the hill

For our site, it is not possible for the lumber to be delivered next to the house, and a crane is not realistic… so each stick has to be carried down the hill.  Here are some pictures of the latest delivery of roof rafters, really really heavy, carried 100 steps down, then we climb 100 steps up for the next.

I’m sure that some people will think we are crazy, but it is the maple forest cottage, it’s

hand carrying each rafter

stacks and stacks of rafters

Temporary 2nd floor working platform.

start of season III of building, season II of framing.

particle board and windows being added

exterior of south elevation breakfast nook window openings. Also the corner of the walk-in pantry that we added to our version.

worth every step.

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AUGUST 2013 – BACK TO WORK

So after a long period of permit revision battles, and all summer waiting for the framer to have an available slot we are back to framing.

We now have the living room, dining room section of the roof approved, so the house will look more like the final goal.  We are not approved to remove the last bit of the old section of the cabin, so for now, we are just building the new roof over the old cabin, weird I know, but that is the way the game is played.