Working on the power

 

We've got the power lines running to the house. Everything is buried and we're waiting for Green Mountain Power to come and hook it up at the pole. It was a chore just getting this done this year with all the rain we've had. We're going to start working inside again soon.

Cleaned & first coat of sealer on

 A couple of weekends ago while I was vacuuming, Bob got the furnace room floor in.  Since then we finished cleaning inside and yesterday got the first coat of sealer on the inside log walls. We also moved the pellet furnace in. Plan for next weekend is to sand, spray the second coat of sealer and we'll be pretty much done until after Bob's surgery. He's going to get new hips. Finally.


Furnace room floor

Took a day off to take a last motorcycle ride up to northern NH - got some nice foliage photos.

Another milestone reached this weekend

We finally finished sanding the inside log walls. We started on August 1, 2013. So just over a year to complete the sanding - but in real time it was only weekends over a 9 month period. In actual hours it was around 250. Looks great. Now we clean and then seal.



The bottom 2 logs are what the walls were like before sanding. The floor will be above those 2 logs.

Blowing the sanding dust off of everything. It'll take us a weekend to clean before we can seal the logs.

 

Sanding and more sanding...

I thought I'd post a few photos of the sanding process. We finally found a mask that has a vent/filter so my glasses don't fog up. We've taken the first 2 weeks of July off - need to give ourselves a break. We'll be back at it next weekend.

 

 

I take off the surface dirt & discoloration with the grinder

Finish sand with the orbital

Catching up...

It's been awhile since I last posted so I've got to get things up to date. All the windows are in. We just completed closing in the porch overhang. We're still sanding but we're past the halfway point now. Bob has been having issues with the backhoe so we still aren't ready to run the power from the pole to the house - he needs to finish the trench. Hopefully that'll happen in the next few weeks.

No buyers yet for the Haverhill house. I guess the market is still pretty slow. We've transplanted more flowers and lilacs - we won't have to purchase anything once we move in. Anyway - enjoy the photos!

We finally got a chance to start working on the cabin again. This winter has seemed never ending. It has been the coldest winter in many moons. Two weekends ago, before the ground transformed to the muddy mess it is now, we managed to install 3 windows. We are anxious to get the remainder installed. Doors are after the windows, then power to the house.

 

Early fall

The house stained. Thought I posted this earlier - guess not.



We traded the Harley for this. The bike couldn't did trenches, pull stumps, make the driveway...but it was a hell of a lot of fun! We can always get another bike - once the house is finished.