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Report from the Job Site
(11/14/08)
Building projects are all wrapped up
for the year.
Mike and Sandy Hawley's cabin on the
Canadian side of Rainy Lake is closed in for the winter.
They worked with Ron Redford and his crew to install windows
and steel roofing, hauled to the island on Joe Johnson's
barge. The exterior logs are stained with Woodguard
preservative. Soon the only access to their cabin will be
across the ice.
Noel and Teresa Chicoine are
installing 2x6 tongue and groove decking over loft log floor
joists. Their carpenter is waiting for windows and outside
deck materials to arrive. Last week 47 inches of snow fell
in the area. It may have slowed work up for a while on their
job site south of Deadwood.
Steve Roel (from California) purchased
a log home north of Oahe Dam last summer, right after a
damaging hail storm moved through the area. Most of his
neighbors replaced siding along with windows and roofing;
the logs held up fine. Jim Glover, Glover Construction,
replaced the roof and nine windows on Roel's home. I
stripped old finish from the logs, caulked and applied new
stain.
The next scheduled project is Jason
and Jennifer Ericson's vacation/retirement home near Deer
Mountain in the Black Hills. We met at their building site
in October to stake out the location of the house so the
well driller could get started. The home they plan to build
next spring will be constructed of 12-inch hand-peeled logs.
Christian Sabatino will come up from Florida and says he's
in shape to lift 12" logs.
November 20-21 I'll be in Minot, ND,
and work with Rex Weltikol installing railing across the
front of his loft and metal brackets on the support posts.
If you are from that area and would like to meet with your
questions about building a log home, please contact me:
email
mike@bearsdenlog.com or cell phone (605) 280-2044.
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Sophie wants to play. |
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I'm working on scheduling for
home shows and other marketing this winter. Good
news is the addition of a distinctive selection of
log home plans
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designed by Gravitas Design, Boise,
Idaho. Licensing and web-design work should be complete in
the next few weeks.
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Mike Sines, Owner
Bears Den Log Homes
Bears Den is a home-based business,
operating from a log cabin near Pierre, SD, since 1996.
Mike Sines is a retired Police Captain
and experienced log home builder in the Dakotas and
surrounding states.
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Mato & Sophie. |
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Ann Sines is a free-lance writer,
creates custom quilts, teaches quilt classes, and manages
their two Alaskan Malamutes, |
Mato and Sophie. The business
name came from their first Malamute, Bear.
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Bears Den
Newsletter
Thoughts on quilts and logs,
books and dogs, brilliant insights, acts of
stupidity,
and the ritesof friendship tumbled
together in no particular order. Emailed four
times
a year.
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