Building our dream home in the NC mountains

It's almost mid August 2011 and the love of my life and I are getting ready to begin a year long adventure building our dream cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. We're actually in Oregon, as we speak (8/11/11) wrapping up a glorious 10 day vacation with my wife's sister and brother-in-law at their cabin in the mountains.

Why the title "The Maple Tree Adventure"? Our property is on Maple Tree Lane at an elevation of 4200'...sounds like an adventure to us.

We've talked about this for a long time and now that it's a reality, we are excited to start the process. The process should take about 10 months. The build should be completed by next fall 2012.

Our goal is to offer up a blog entry daily. Some posts might include a photo, others may not. The adventure takes my wife and me in different directions for awhile. She teaches school and will finish out her career in June 2012 in Raleigh. I, on the other hand, will head to the mountains to get the cabin rolling in the next week or so (8/16/11).

Keep us in your prayers, leave your comments and plan to visit us next spring 2013.

Kent & Darlene
210 Maple Tree Lane
West Jefferson, NC 28694

(828) 406-4823

Friday, November 18, 2011

Back on a dry track

Worked started early this morning with the arrival of the 'boom' truck and our roof package. The roof package consists of rafter 20' and 24' long and Zip-panels for the roof decking. All of this is heavy stuff not to mention awkward to move around and the boom truck made it easy. We had to go from the ground level to the second floor level so you can see why this was a big deal.

While the boom truck was at the job site we had the operator move all of the second floor SIPs from the garage to the second floor. Again, this saved us a lot of difficulty and time. It took about 2 hours to complete the task but it was sure worth it.

Many thanks to Blevins Building Supply for helping us out on the material placement.








We started setting the second floor SIPs about 11am and by 3pm most of the second floor was in place. What you're seeing is the front of the cabin (view side) with most of the SIPs in place. If it looks odd it's because their is another layer that will be placed on to to form the gable end ^ of the cabin and complete the right front wall. It'll make more sense after my next post.

The guys are working tomorrow and Sunday in hopes of having the roof system in place and the decking on before Thanksgiving.

More coming,
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