The Handmade House

I wrote in an earlier post that my son had a house-building project going on. He does.

This house, when finished, will be almost all handmade. Cliff and his partner, Roger, cut the tees down, hauled them to the sawmill site, and sawed them into lumber. The lumber that comes off of the chainsaw-driven Logosol mill that he uses is beautiful and is as smooth as if it had been planed.

The frame is pine and cedar posts and beams and the exterior siding and roof decking is mostly cedar planks with a little pine thrown in on the roof. A green metal roof tops it all.

Just lately we have been building the fireplace and chimney. This is interesting, especially if one has never built a fireplace and chimney before. It is a Rumford fireplace. A Rumford style fireplace is built to a unique and innovative design which allows it to burn very hot and efficiently. I can’t wait until we fire it up for the first time.

Still much work to do but the house is dried in and has plumbing, electricity, and soon, a fireplace - and just in time for winter.