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 11, 2011

First level...one more to go...

First floor framed in 5 hours
Just like clockwork, the Eco-Panels truck showed up at 8:30am this morning. The temperature was 19 degrees....brrrrrr! Everybody was excited about the delivery because it meant our first floor was going to be installed IN ONE DAY!

Sure enough, by 2:30pm the first floor walls were up. The amazing part besides the speed in getting the walls up is that they are insulated, pre-wired, have the outside finished skin on (board & batton) and are framed. Four steps in one step.

As the day went on, the temps went up (a bit) the sky was beautiful and all went well.

The install went without a major hitch. The learning curve for SIPs was rather short and we were rocking and rolling in no time. The view to the right is from the hill above the cabin.

On the photo to the left from left to right, the openings are: guest bedroom window, front door, bathroom window, kitchen window, door to deck from kitchen...



The photo to the right is the view from the kitchen and dining room. One of the main criteria for buying this property was 'the view'. It's all we expected and more!

The guys are working tomorrow to install the second floor truss system. The decking for the second floor will be installed Monday. The second floor SIPs are scheduled for Wednesday of next week then we go to the roof system.

More coming,
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