I posted a few days ago asking if it was feasible to add a log addition to a stick built house. I have a new question now :)
Our home is a manufactured home on a permanent foundation with a basement. It looks stick built, but dh said is it pre-fab. His idea was to build a quick small 1 story approx. 1000 sq.ft. log home on the back of our property for us to move into temporarily. Then, sell the pre-fab home, have it moved off the foundation (by the buyer) and build our log home on the existing foundation, probably about 2000 sq.ft., two story.
I know that it will take time for us to take the class (next on the to do list), accumulate our equipment, plan, etc. but let's just say we could get all of that together by next summer and were ready to start building. Could someone give me a ballpark on how long it might take to get the smaller one story house built, and then to get the bigger house built? I know that no one can give me an exact time, and there are so many different variables involved. My husband does work full-time, but we could work all week-end, and into the evenings in the summer, we also have several young male friends who would love to help us, and there is at least one person in our area who has taken the class too. We do have four going on five young children, so I won't be able to help as much as I would like, but I will be able to help after bedtime, and during naps, etc.
We were thinking that we could turn the second house into a Bed and Breakfast type set-up, we live on a small homestead/farm near one of VA's biggest lakes so there is a tourist attraction nearby too.
I am just trying to logistically form some sort of a timeline in my brain. Thanks for your help!
No one is going to be able to estimate your time for you, there are too many variables. Your level of skill and experience, how much cash you have, how hard of a worker you are, how tall your house is, how you are lifting logs, how you are driving rebar, what you're doing inside, loft, full 2nd floor, no 2nd floor, etc. There are dozens of variables and we wont be able to estimate time for you.
I will say building one of these houses is extremely labor intensive.
My biggest concern would be you trying to use your existing foundation. That might be a problem. At the very least you're going to need to modify it to work with a log home.
You really need to take the class before you do anything.
I posted a few days ago asking if it was feasible to add a log addition to a stick built house. I have a new question now :)
Our home is a manufactured home on a permanent foundation with a basement. It looks stick built, but dh said is it pre-fab. His idea was to build a quick small 1 story approx. 1000 sq.ft. log home on the back of our property for us to move into temporarily. Then, sell the pre-fab home, have it moved off the foundation (by the buyer) and build our log home on the existing foundation, probably about 2000 sq.ft., two story.
I know that it will take time for us to take the class (next on the to do list), accumulate our equipment, plan, etc. but let's just say we could get all of that together by next summer and were ready to start building. Could someone give me a ballpark on how long it might take to get the smaller one story house built, and then to get the bigger house built? I know that no one can give me an exact time, and there are so many different variables involved. My husband does work full-time, but we could work all week-end, and into the evenings in the summer, we also have several young male friends who would love to help us, and there is at least one person in our area who has taken the class too. We do have four going on five young children, so I won't be able to help as much as I would like, but I will be able to help after bedtime, and during naps, etc.
We were thinking that we could turn the second house into a Bed and Breakfast type set-up, we live on a small homestead/farm near one of VA's biggest lakes so there is a tourist attraction nearby too.
I am just trying to logistically form some sort of a timeline in my brain. Thanks for your help!