by Alan Stankevitz | Sep 5, 1999
Just Truss Me I met with the president of a local roofing and house construction company on Monday who seemed really interested in the work that I was doing. I told him my story about how I needed some help getting the roof up before November. He said that he had a...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 28, 1999
The week was shortened a bit by rain on Monday. The rest of the week was the same old pattern. There was dense fog until about 10 AM and then the heat, humidity and lack of wind made things quite uncomfortable while working. Nobody said it would be a picnic, but it...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 21, 1999
Sliver Me Timbers! Aye Mateys! This past week was pretty much devoted to raising the 6 x 6 timbers into place to support the trusses. I started by cutting and raising the post and beams to build the center support octagon. By Tuesday evening I had completed the...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 14, 1999
One of the few items farmed out for construction are the roof trusses. If I put my mind and muscle to it, I suppose I could have built the roof from scratch but I decided to cheat a little. I ordered the trusses about four weeks ago and expected that they would not be...
by Alan Stankevitz | Aug 7, 1999
Build It and They Will Come Now that my master plan is complete you might as well know that I’m really not building a 16 sided cordwood house. It is a landing pad for the aliens from the planet “Stackwallon” located in a galaxy far, far, away. Okay,...
