Third week

Work is ongoing. Supports for the brick roof and plastic base roof is installed. Coloured panels are installed at the edge of the roof as well as below the eaves. Now we move inside the

The visual progres of the building will be minor from now on so I also reduce the frequency of this blog. Following major steps in near future will be insulation, inner roofs, floors, electricity, doors & windows and bricks to the roof. then there will also be painting that has to be done during the later spring. But one thing at the time.

Nineth day

Now are the roof supports up on the top. Hopefully the wind is not so hard tomorrow so that plastic foil installation is possible. Today the wheather was very cold and we have to hold our hats very carefully to keep from flying away.

Eighth day

Now all the logs are on the walls. 34 layers of logs are installed and we faced only few problems during the installation. This last day showed the hardest. One log in the left side wall missed one hole for the. Luckily we were able to replace this log with the similar one from the midle wall and make the missing hole with the chain saw and use that log in the intermediate wall. Thanks to Raimo you can hardly find the corrected log.

Weather today was very windy and we had to be very carefull just to stay safely at high level bridges. Anyway log building is now done and tomorrow comes some finishing work like fixing screws, removin the labels etc. Also installation of roof supports begin tomorrow and hopefully roof building don't take too much time so that logs will stay dry if the rain comes.

Seventh day

Seven workful days are gone and 27 layers out of 34 is now done. Front and back walls are now in their final height and still 2 layers to door wall and 7 layers up to the tip of the tiangle. Final shape of the front is now visible but some changes to vision will come when roof is built later on. May be one day is enough to finnish the log building and we can start installing the roof support at thursday. Hopefully the weather stays at least as good as today over the weekend.

Sixth day

As thought monday gave fairly much progress to bulding. 22th out of 34 layers is ongoing and there is still 12 to go. Rooms in upstairs are in the shape and we are not able to jump over the walls and normal doorways must be used when moving from room to room. This warm weather is not good for log building and traffic on the yard brings the mud on top and there is risk to sopil the logs with dirt. Anyway we are in good shape and only some days to go.

Apassionata four seasons tour

It is amazing how some people can handle these mighty animals so nicely. Saturday I travelled with family to see this great "Apassionata four seasons" show and it did not disappoint me. So many fine and beautifull horses performing their tricks with music and flashing lights. I can recomend this show if you want to see what horses can do. And if you know something about them you know how patient you have to be to make them follow even the smallest signals.

Fifth day

Fifth day is used to build intermediate floor supports inside the garners. Intermediate floor is good to use as support to build the higher layers of logs. So no visible development with the walls has happend today but monday we will continue.

Third & fourth day

I was travelling on wednesday so now two days at one time. When getting higher more time is wasted to prepare stands for installation. on third day there was need to set second level on stands and then some layers of logs and today more stands. Now we planned to install intermediate roof/floor supports. This seems to be good idea becasuse they have to be installed anyway.

17 layers are now installed and still 17 to go. Gable wall triangles are anyway short stubs and thou easier and faster to install.

Now the shape is well visible. Front wall will be build from very tiny stubs whichs are collected to the porch. Lower holes for railing is already visible on upmost layer.

Wheather has beed warm which is not very good for log building because logs get easily little wet. Also snow on the ground is very slippery.

Second day

Second day is now over and walls are getting so high that it is not possible to set the layers from ground or even from inside floor. So some time was spent to build stands to get foot of the ground. Wall height is about 2 meters and layer 12 is now ongoing and still it is 22 to go. Tomorrow morning there is some preparation work to do for higher stands. We also used grain to lift the logs to last walls today.

Some log packets are comletely used and more space appears for machinery. One good tip is to get good packing list from vendor and also draw a map where the packets are located in the yard. That will help to find the right logs when they are needed.

First day

First day is now closed and first 4 layers of logs are assembled. Everything goes as planned without any major problems. Ofcourse some minor issues are faced as bottom layer cable holes but theses are issues which can quite easily be corrected during the assembly work.


Final shape and size is somehow visible. Just waiting to see the next few days.

Now it starts

This is time to start the building. Almost all parts are now on place
and monday is the day to start. One full truck load of logs and other wooden stuff for builders to use for this building. Lets hope that weather is fine for next month to keep logs clean and work ongoing.