Hi, have you built your log home yet or are you still working on it? I would love to be involved, help or or whatnot if you are still working on it.

Hey,

I have so much 1/2" rebar, and I have not paid one dime for it. I have had to dig through some construction sites or refuse containers, but have not paid for the rebar. At most sites, garbage fills up quick, or they do not pick it up. I am eager to clean it up. Most pieces are at least three feet long. Give it a try. You can save the money for something nice later on.

Tom
nobleknight
class 01-15-05

rock climber,

I'm located in Columbia, MD - below Baltimore, north of DC. We're looking to start on out first home project in Louisa, VA (about an hour NW of Richmond) - looks to be around 2.5 hours from you. We're going to be starting hopefully around newyears.... more info in the email i'll send you soon!

Benjamin

Silcoxjh -

My wife and I are going to start building in Louisa, VA pretty soon, we hope to have our logs by Xmas and if permits happen in a timely manner I might even have the piers poured by the time the logs get there! Then the peeling, the stacking, and the rest of the routine... we'd be thrilled for any help you would want to lend.

Good luck with your model! Building our model was a really good excercise for me - just like they said in class, I made a few mistakes on the model that I really wouldn' have wanted to make on the real thing. (Like, for isntance, accidentally ending up with my middle RPSL's loft girder one foot away, instead of kissing up against it!) And then I also figured out some non-mistake changes, like that the same misplaced girder should really be on the front-of-the-house side of the RPSL instead of the back, simply to get a few more square feet of floor space in the loft and so that the stair landing wasn't cantilevered out an unreasonable distance. Little things like that... well worth the time. Little hint: I only used about 4 nails to hold each dowel to the one below it (one at each end and one in the middle; one to the perpendicular pass log on the course below it) and then the horizontal nails pinning the log to the one it butts against and the one it passes on its own course. 1" finishing nails worked fine, though true scale ones would have had then a little shorter. I drove my nails with a railroad spike, which was about the right size, but if you use wide-jawed pliers you can just push the nail straight through the dowel with no difficulty at all, it's much faster and easier than hammering at it. (I used pine 1/2" dowels). Just an idea.

About your engineering: As a licensed engineer in MD, do you by any chance have the authority to wet-stamp some LHBA 30x30 stock plans for use in Louisa County, VA? That's my current quest - to get a stamp, so I can go for permits.

email me at {benjamin dot kleber at gmail dot com} and I'll ping you when we're planning to do interesting stages of the work once contrstruction starts. Oh, and if you're itnerested, feel free to take a look at a gallery I've got of some pix of my model home - when the website is working, it's http://petridish.net/albumview.asp?a=26541 (but sometimes it goes down).

We have discussed several post in the member's section about obtaining inexpensive or free rebar. This question may be better suited there, especially since the private messages aren't working yet with the new site. Do a search for "rebar" and it should give you the post where its been discussed.

I just saw rebar on Craigslist for $5.50/20' stick. http://norfolk.craigslist.org/mat/661130253.html
This seems high to me. What do you think?

JD

Looks to me like you would save about $60 off wholesale for the rusty stuff........

Curtis
Roadscholar