Paneling the Ceiling

The work weekend got started early Friday morning with a bunch of hauling.

Gabe and his dad had to go out to the mill in Iron to get all the paneling. It took 2 trips with John's huge trailer that he made for the car he's working on restoring. Thank you for all the driving John!

Screen porch trusses (pictured), siding, shakes, gutters and panel were all brought over on the barge.

Lanny left his house super early in the morning to meet Gabe at Timbuktu at 10 am on Friday. They spent the day working on getting set up for the paneling.


I came up with the rest of the work crew (Crep & Krebs) late Friday night. Nana & Papa kept the kids all weekend so I could help the guys. I had signed on to be the cook, but ended up being a runner too. I was the go between John & Garet working 2 saws outside and the guys up on the scaffolding inside. Not that I would have wanted to be up on scaffolding all weekend, but I worked hard - if I do say so myself! I hauled almost every board that went up inside.

Garet & John working the saws.

 

A lot of work each time the scaffolding had to be set up/adjusted as the guys worked their way across the ceiling.

First side done!

Steak dinner after a long day's work.

Sunday breakfast. Getting started on the other side.

Gabe and his dad making the trim pieces for the peak.

Last piece over the living room ceiling done! Horay!

Aunt Judy, Uncle Jack, Sophia & Chloe stopped by late Sunday afternoon to see the progress and bring us freshly made buns. They even helped us haul some boards inside.

After all the great help from the guys over the weekend, we just had a few feet of paneling to finish the peak. Gabe, John & I worked late into the night to wrap up the paneling and get the rest of the wood (about 3500 board feet) inside the cabin. We packed up and we headed into Virginia around 9:30 pm. and at this point we still thought we had to pack up the kids and drive back to Minneapolis so Gabe could get to work on Monday. (Gabe had called his boss earlier in the evening to request Monday off when he realized he needed more time to get the project wrapped up, but hadn't heard back.) Luckily, Gabe got the message on the drive into town that it was ok to take vacation. What a relief....I don't know how we would have made that drive - we were both completely exhausted. We got a good night's rest in Virginia and headed back home Monday morning and Gabe went back to work in the afternoon.

That's a lot of wood left to put up.

Ceiling looks great!