Home Building Stories Stories and Real Advice from Non-Professional Home Builders Members Log In Here User Name: Password: Sign Up SPAM is not allowed on this site. Building topics only! HTML is allowed if you have your own user name and password.

Return to Table of Contents From: David Bailey Date: 08-24-06 01:44 am Subject: Structural Design in our Cabin ID: 0 Message: I had to cut down one beautiful pine tree to build the floor for our Arkansas cabin. You can see here that the grain is gorgeous!! Once it was poly-ed to death it shined like I wanted. My initial intention was to use a double 2 x 6 to span the nearly 32 feet to support the roof. You wan see later that there is a diagonal support in the middle. Fortunately, Jen's father, a builder in the family, cam and looked at it and said that there is NO WAY that is strong enough. Now, here is a lesson for me... I was really upset. I was offended and it took me a few hours to get over it, but later that evening we ordered another $900 worth of wood from our local supplier and were ready for building the next morning. My father-in-law made up and once again we are as good a friend as ever. Return to Table of Contents Thread: Structural Design - David Bailey 08-22-06 07:34 am       Structural Design in our Cabin  - David Bailey 08-24-06 01:44 am              Notching the post with a Sawz All  - David Bailey 08-26-06 09:23 am              Even the kids pitch in.  - David Bailey 08-28-06 17:00 pm              The last beam for the roof!!  - David Bailey 08-31-06 00:38 am              Structural Design in our Cabin  - David Bailey 09-02-06 08:16 am              Structural Design in our Cabin  - David Bailey 09-04-06 15:53 pm Respond to this message Here: From: Email: (optional) Subject: Add Picture (jpg only) or File (Word, Excel, PDF, Gif, PNG or text): Message:

World Traveler Tigger goes to Chateau Chantilly north of Paris Click here for more information

Administer This Page
This site is designed and maintained by the team at Sand Dollar Digital Design ©August 2006
Report abuses and other comments about this site to Sand Dollar Digital Design