Nine's Bootcamp Experience (BRK)

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Lunch break!

Daniel and I got the ceiling boards all planed on one side. We didn't plane them perfectly smooth to retain some of their inherent rusticity. 😅

Then the new 2x6 got sliced down to 1x6. After that, we lined up all the boards roughly in their order of install and figured out the lapping order. Set up the router and got them all lapped. Lyra checked in on us a few times to ensure we were doing it well. She seemed to be satisfied. 😁

After lunch we're gonna start installing them! 😎

#30

Yesterday Daniel and I were able to finish installing the ceiling boards. With an hour to spare, we decided to put the frame around the stove output to class up the place a bit. 😉😂 It also covers the old notch in the board that no longer lined up with the box. There was also nothing to attach the wall side ceiling board pieces to, so framing it allowed us to handle that oversight.

The slight plane of the boards brought out some nice colors in the wood. One of them has Jupiter-esque red swirling storms on it - that's probably my favorite board.

Today we rebuilt the solar support, added more support braces, and mounted the panels on the South side. Got a hole drilled for the wires to come up through the floor.

Next we got the plastic put down on the floor to prepare for our new floor joists. We found a bunch of 2x4s we can cobble together for the joists. We are going to hang some brown paper on the lower walls before we install the joists.

Lunch break is drawing to a close.. Now is the time for lounging on the waning warmth of the mass in here and grooving to the jams. Have a great afternoon, friends!

Now that you see how nice ship lap works think about why I advocate using the electric saw mill to make ship lap logs for making nice tight wofati walls and ceilings.

Hans Quistorff wrote:Now that you see how nice ship lap works think about why I advocate using the electric saw mill to make ship lap logs for making nice tight wofati walls and ceilings.

Sounds like that would be a great idea. It might be a bit more handling of each log than they already are though.

Have you built a wofati? I'm curious to see how you built yours. 😊

#31

Field trip to Fred's plot to plant seeds! 🌱💚🌲