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Nice! Is the fireplace chimney individual stones (real or imitation)?


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Imitation, I started to use real but cutting them was realy taking alot of time,and I travel for work so just home on week ends so I had to go with imitation it is also on half the fron and the front of porch, It was labor intense since doing it by my self.

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Thanks. I need to do the same for my fireplace on the house, and was hoping to find some on a sheet vs. individual pieces. Looks like it'll be a project for next year!


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Zhkent, thanks for posting your home construction, this is great stuff.

lbrooks, beautiful house!


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Essup-- I looked for some on sheets but really didnt like what i found. What i did find was very expensive, I did learn some tricks to help speed things up on installation.

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lbrooks:

O.K., I gotta ask, what did you find out tip wise? I'll be putting it on tyvek wrapped OSB. My Dad said to start from top on down, that way any dropped mortar won't make a mess of the installed stones.


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Essup,
It's called cultured stone, you will need to put up some 15# tar paper and some lath using roof nails, when you put up scratch coat if you just let it dry a couple hours before you start installing stone it seemed to stick alot better,and what really made the stones stick well was mixing in some thin set with the type n or s morter mix, using rubber gloves and spreading the scratch coat and the morter on the stones by hand and rubbing it in real good was twice or more faster, and stayed on well. Till I did this I would put up 5 stones and one would fall and knock 3 off.

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Looks great lbrooks.


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 Originally Posted By: lbrooks
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It's called cultured stone, you will need to put up some 15# tar paper and some lath using roof nails, when you put up scratch coat if you just let it dry a couple hours before you start installing stone it seemed to stick alot better,and what really made the stones stick well was mixing in some thin set with the type n or s morter mix, using rubber gloves and spreading the scratch coat and the morter on the stones by hand and rubbing it in real good was twice or more faster, and stayed on well. Till I did this I would put up 5 stones and one would fall and knock 3 off.


Sounds familiar. \:D I was told to put a small spacer under the screening that is nailed over the 15# paper to give the scratch coat a bit more of a physical bond to the mesh.


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 Originally Posted By: lbrooks
Essup,
It's called cultured stone, you will need to put up some 15# tar paper and some lath using roof nails, when you put up scratch coat if you just let it dry a couple hours before you start installing stone it seemed to stick alot better,and what really made the stones stick well was mixing in some thin set with the type n or s morter mix, using rubber gloves and spreading the scratch coat and the morter on the stones by hand and rubbing it in real good was twice or more faster, and stayed on well. Till I did this I would put up 5 stones and one would fall and knock 3 off.


My guess is that you were mixing the mud too dry. When doing brick work, you want the mix to be fairly dry, and I've seen allot of peopld do the same with cultured stone. Then the rock falls off and the mortar doesn't have any "stick" to it. If you mix it up wet, the rock sticks really well. There is a point of too much water, but that's pretty easy to figure out.

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 Originally Posted By: lbrooks
Well here is what my wife and I did, all we had done was concrete and roof, the rest is all sweat equity, the pond will be located at left of picture.

Yessir, very nice. You should know by now that we need construction details. Give us some background on the project.

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under the deck is a set of windows like the levels above, I will open up under the deck once the garage is built. it has a full basement. It has 1000 sq ft in basement and first floor and 800 sq ft in the loft. All outside walls are 2x6 rafters are 2 x 12 with blowed on cellulose insulation. The pond (mine will be a lake, as that what people around here call a valley damned up) will be located at left of house looking at picture. I will post me first drawing of it before we started so you can see what i am working toward. This where i started, I like the cedar siding but at my age I didnt want the maintance,and once the garage is built, under deck will open up like the picture. Not exact but getting close. I really dint want to post the dream picture but I did want to share where i got my start.

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I think you are well on your way to being 100% completed. It's really close to the picture that you used for a guide.


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Just an Observation
My pond is around 3 acres and over 20 feet deep in spots with probably a twelve feet or more deep average. A lot of water.
The winds here in Kansas kicked up before christmas. We kept getting 20 mph, 30 mph, and more winds with temperatures in the teens and below.
The pond hadn't frozen. The wind was hitting the pond directly from the north and west, it seemed to be circulating it even.
This went on for 5 days at least, 2 of those days we were in a blizzard warning and the pond also absorbed 6 inches plus of snow.
The new house I built uses geothermal with an open loop pulling about 12 feet deep in the pond (gravity feed) to a gravel bed around a 20 feet deep well casing, with the pump at 12-14 ft below pond level.
The temperature of the pond was pulled down to 43.3 degrees, measured at the furnace intake.
While this works I did screw up and let the air filter get dirty, which combined with the cold water and extreme outside conditions led to long cycle times in which the unit would freeze internally. It would automatically go to electric backup, I would reset it by turning electric off then back on.
The pond finally iced over and I got new air filter on. Also the outside conditions improved a bit and there haven't been any more freeze ups.
Tonight (jan 3 2010) will be single digits, but have not had a freeze up since the 29th.
The pond temperature has came up to 45.5 degrees at this time. It stayed at 43.3 for 5 or 6 days and has just risen in the last 3 days.
What a test right on the get go!


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Here's some pics of our cabin. We used Superior Walls for the basement, wood stud walls, and log siding upstairs on the first floor and the loft. It is 24X24. We got a builder to frame it out, and dry it in. We contracted the finish work out, and worked on it over a 2 year period until finished. The builder sent some pics in with some other cabins he had built to Log Home Living magazine. It was featured in Country's Best Cabins 2011, and Cozy Cabins 2012. They did a story about a growing trend of smaller cabins being built, and folks downsizing. We hope to eventually add on to it and move there for retirement. It is great for weekends, but I would need it to be a little larger for permanent residence.
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It looks way bigger then 24x24. Very very nice I might add.


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That is flat out fantastic! I agree with Blair - it looks a lot bigger than 24x24!


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You mentioned that you also had a basement.

OK, you say it would need to be a little larger for permanent residence? You have, excluding the basement, 576 sq. ft. plus whatever floor space you have upstairs. What would you add to make it really livable?


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Well the loft BR is nice until you get up in the middle of the night for "nature call". I don't want to be going up and down stairs in the middle of the night when I retire. We would build another BR,and bath on the right side first floor level, then turn loft into an office. The basement is another BR. It is livable now, but not quite what I would need.


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Extremely appealing. You can always tell when a female has been involved in a project.

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Sir, you have a beautiful home. Your stone work is outstanding also. Your floors appear to be hickory which is the only one that I haven't installed. I am going to pm you about your source for the log siding.

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Thanks!
Yes, the queen was involved from the start, and did all the design. She is constantly decorating!


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As if exquesite design isn't enough, there's a fresh loaf on the kitchen counter, another different one on the outside table, no dishes in the sink and nothing out of place anywhere in the house.
What a special girl!

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