Tag: deck
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Summer Fun
The past few weeks we’ve slowed down working on the yurt. We took time to celebrate Josiah and Peter’s birthdays. It was a big one for Josiah this year… 13! We officially have a teenager in the family! Peter has also started back up working again. This mean bigger projects around here only get done…
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We Have Power!
Big things happened this week! Pete’s brother came to help us install the solar system. In one day they mounted the solar panels and batteries, then hooked up the inverter and charge controller. By the end of the day we had the batters changing. Two days later we had them equalized and ready to take…
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Sooo close!
Phew! Today was long! We started at 9:00a.m. and stopped at 8:20p.m.. This morning we finished off the “corner” joists and one of the funny end beams. They went so smoothly! We were very optimistic for the day and had hoped we could get the OSB on the deck by the end of the day.…
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Hanging the Joists
Hey everyone! Got another rainy day to fill you in on what’s going. Saturday we had a bunch of friends and family help us out with our deck. We built the rest of the beams and hung the middle joists. Pete took care of cutting the wood to length while the rest of us hung…
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Deck Posts
Hey folks! It’s about time I share an update on how the build is going. Monday, Pete cleaned up the build site as best as he could before the rental company came to pick up the excavator. Then we went into town to shop for brackets and nails for the deck. Sadly, the stores didn’t…
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