Saturday, February 20, 2010
The timbers have arrived!
We settled on building our timber frame with Eastern Hemlock rather than Douglas Fir. The fir is beautiful and the natural color is more to our liking but the sticker price (nearly double) was pretty hard to justify. Additionally, the fir would have been trucked from the west coast and the hemlock is harvested within a few hundred miles of here and distributed by a sawmill 20 or 30 minutes from our house site.
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Reminds me of linking logs :) Pretty soon the sun will come up and with it the house will start to develop. Keep up the great work!
Hey guys, cool stuff. Now we need more on your green building and site design efforts, so we can post you to our site as an example farm. :)
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