Sleepers, Insulation, and OSB

After the T&G, we put up the sleepers, they are the boards that hold the insulation and give support to the top of the roof.

These are the sleepers all laid out on top or the T&G roof.

One of the bad things about doing the roof in the middle of the winter, we spent alot of time clearing the snow off of the roof before we could really get to work.

We used Rigid Styrophome Insulation because it doesnt need to be vented, and it adds great insulation. We had to stack 5 deep to get our Rfactor for this area, but we did go a little bit overboard, we needed R49, and these are 2" thick sheets, with an R factor of 6 per inch so each sheet is R12 so 5=R60 but when we are getting into the -30 or colder nights here in Jan. I think we will be glad we went with the extra Rfactor.

Finally onto the OSB, this was the easiest part of the roof, they went up really well!

Glad we are finally done with that part of the roof, we are taking a break and enjoying the winter! This was last saterday, we went Ice fishing with some of our friends, total of about 25 fish caught in about 5 hours for about 5 fishing poles, it was nice to do something besides the cabin for a change!

We are going to order our metal roof soon, and hopefully get it up before the spring rains start!

T&G roof

Ok, it has been a long hard winter, we have had ups and downs along the way, we found a local saw mill that had T&G 2"x8"x16' we decided to go with a clear coat stain to keep the interior light, we will probably go with a little darker stain on the log walls, and an even little darker stain on the flooring...when that time comes.
stained Tounge and Groove in the drying phase.

I spent several weeks staining, luckily we have a 3 car garage that is heated, (best decision we ever made to have a heated garage!) it took all of the 2 bay side to lay out 22 boards on an improvised scaffolding and stain them, then let them dry for a day, the 3rd bay is where we stacked the unfinished boards (so they weren't out in the cold and so they would not warp), then we would lay the boards up on the roof as they were stained, needless to say this took a long time! We had some issues with the rafters not being set right, (long story) but we got them all up! and it looks great!

T&G half up, this if a view from inside the cabin

This view is from our current house, that is the corner of our fence.

We are so glad that we are building our first Log Home so close to our house and can go back and forth pretty easily!

we nailed foot holds up to help with the walking on the roof, they were just scrap T&G

Almost done!! (this view is from the back of the house)