Darryl's log home

The roof, windows and doors.... We've been away for a 3 week holiday... but finally an update! Precious and Timo started on the ceiling... fitting reeds in behind the roof logs.   My son, Mischa slept in a tent in the loft (our future bedroom) while on holiday from Namibia..... _____________________ Blessing and Stephen sanded down the logs on the inside of the house with a sanding disk on an angle grinder.  ________________________ After the logs were sanded, they sealed them with  Timber-care Interior sealant. Here you can see the difference between the sanded and sealed finish and the natural, pealed log. You can see the the difference between the white gum and the pink gum. The logs look beautiful! __________________________________ The windows and doors. Wayne cut out the kitchen window... We inserted the frame that Darryl had built into the hole. Then the lounge window wa...

Building the dry walls. .... doing the plumbing... Resting..... Fitting the partition sheets and think-pink Crete-stoning the walls...  Filling in the cracks between the planks with sikoflex. Sanding the floors. (We hired an industrial sander.) Sealing the 'red' gum floor of the bedroom....  ... and the white gum of the lounge and kitchenette. Ta daa. The garage floor got screed-ed... The tools and machines moved in...  A little parapet built so we don't drive off the edge of the drive way... The drive-way cleared and our last left over tree trunk  re-positioning  to a place of honor at the front door... (It was heavy!)   Wayne built a new temporary stair case... (the old one of bricks got used up in the parapet.)  I sanded down the new bathroom shelf.. applied sealant... Ta daa... The shower floor......