Floor build days 3 & 4

Kyle driving screws into the double rim joist.

Day 3 will be used to add the 3 remaining piers, installing the double rim joist and insulating the floor.

Jake getting in on the action.

Once the rim joist are finished the insulating begins!

Mom and Jake hard at work.

Once the insulation was in we layed down some poly and called in a day, 10 hours in the sun and 85 degrees.

Off to the lake for a swim and a bath.

Day four started at 5 am due to weather concerns.

Get the plywood screwed down and stain the frame.

Dad and Kyle getting started.

finishing up the screws

We added a coat of stain as a protective layer on the exposed GT frame.

Jake and Kyle doing some staining down under.

Jake and Kyle on the finished deck.

The work accomplished on day 3 and 4 would not have been possible without my wife and two boys giving 100%.

Thanks Carol and Boys.

Foundation Block Piers

The cabin "pad" consists of 8-10 inches of class 5 we had hauled in by a local contractor.

The next step was layout of 12 block piers starting of a 16 x 16 x 2 cement block, a 12 x 16 x 8 cinder block and finally a 4 x 16 x 8 solid block.

The next step once the block was level and squared up was to put down 6x6 timbers running the 24 foot length of the cabin.

We layed out 3 runs of timbers one on the center and one down each side.

once the timbers were set a 2x8 GT frame was put together and squared the size was set up to recieve a second rim joist on each face.

The next step was to layout the floor joist 2x8 GT 16 inches on center.

we ran short of block as you can see, we will add a set of piers nex trip up.

The above was completed in two days by my friend Scott and I.

Thanks for all your hard work Scott.

Also A special thanks to both of our wives for letting us play in the woods building our dream cabins.

Driveway / Road building

This is about building a cabin in northern Mn.
The Cabin will be a 4 season "off the grid" type cabin on a shoe string budget.
The Cabin is to be a 16 x 24 gambrel style building with a sleeping loft on each end.
The property is located 30 miles from Nashwaulk, we have road acess but no power.

Here is the drive way into our building site.