Building a house, and a family, one step at a time.
How can you create a home that’s more welcoming, more inviting, and more people will be blessed by entering? Well we’re not entirely sure, but here’s a sample of what we’re doing to try to create a Home for Hosting. On this site you’ll find how-to’s, stories, a build blog, and product and technique reviews on what we like, what we’d do differently, and what to avoid when building your own home.
(Oh yeah, we are still very much building this site and importing a ton of posts over from our previous home building blog which was pretty haphazard. BUT, we are already getting some pageviews despite not yet sharing it anywhere, so if you happen to stumble upon this site somehow, please check back later when we’ve got it all prim and proper!)
nik Time to head home. I’ve been telling the kids “home is where the dog is right now.”
nik A pile of trusses up, posts poured and back filled, and some more wall sheathing up. If you look closely you can see the mammoth rock in the path of the right side retaining wall that has been drilled out with rebar epoxied into it
nik A big day for progress on the roof, thanks to some hard work by the neighbour crew.
nik Trying to line up the concrete sonotube piers for the deck. Kind of important to get this as close as possible as they go all the way up and tie into the roof!
nik Because our timber posts are oversized, ranging from 8×8 to 12×12″, we are using some threaded anchors with j’s plunged into the concrete sonotubes as opposed to premade collars.