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Every now and then on the build, you’re moving along in one project with confidence and almost a feeling of ease, and then the project is HALTED. That’s what happened to us this week. We were ready to continue on to the deck on the other side of the house, but before we could start the other deck build and complete it, we had to finish some other jobs.
Some of the jobs we needed to complete were small(ish). We had to move our temporary electrical box to its permanent location. This sounds easy, but it required a little more work than we anticipated.
Other jobs will require MORE work and equipment to complete. One of those jobs is installing our septic drain. That will be a HUGE project that involves digging a trench which means that we need an excavator. We have the excavator reserved but will not receive it until next week.
Follow along as we prepare all of our utilities to be ready and installed so we can complete this deck build.
And now a little back story on us, in case you just found us on YouTube. We’re Sara and Ryan. We are your average suburban family, but 9 years ago, we purchased a raw piece of land in the Hood Canal in Washington. We’ve been developing this piece of property slowly, and this year we knew it was time to go all in. So we purchased a log cabin kit home and decided that 2020 would be the year we built a house on our property. We plan to build this cabin (as much as we can) on our own.
Unfortunately, COVID-19 put a delay on our cabin kit being produced and delivered in the time frame we had originally planned. While we could have just waited it out and pushed back starting on the build of our home, we decided to shift gears and change our course for the time being. We purchased a 30 foot yurt, and will be setting it up as additional living space when we begin to build our cabin.
In the summer of 2021, we FINALLY moved to the Hood Canal so we could start the build of our future home. While we are building our home, we are living in a camper trailer and the yurt that we built in the summer of 2020. We hope to have our cabin kit home built by the summer of 2022. Just my husband and I are building the house. We get help here and there from friends along the way and we do plan to get help on the roof but other than that we are doing it all on our own.
Follow along with us as we build our dream in the Hood Canal.
