That is coming up very nice. I havent commented, but following this daily.
I work for an appliance company, so if you need anything appliance wise, let me know. Ill get you some great deals.
Also, Im good buddies with a master electrician as well as a cabinet guy if you need anything once its up!

Cant wait to see the progress!

Well... After being out of town all week, I finally get to go up there today and see the progress first hand. I have to go into work for a little first and take care of a few things at the office and then I have to turn right around Saturday and come home for Irish Jr's prom night.

Anyhoo... On to the pics.

It looks like my idea to use the T-111 for the sub floor on the second floor and the decking on the roof is going to look nice. This pic is what our first floor ceiling is going to look like. [It looks like they haven't installed the ledger boards for the joist yet...]






Here's what it looks like from the view side. You can see the doorway going into my storm shelter and another to access the basement/crawl space...

Coming along nicely. Keep posting, I'm enjoying this thread. I have almost a 2 year project going on just to finish out a Amish Shed for camp. I can only work on it when I have the time (and funds) to do it so it's dragging. It's also hard to start a thread that takes 2 years to complete. Might lose the avg Joes attention.

Well about the time that they finish the "Blacking in" phase of this thing I may be running out of money too... hopefully I can afford a few boards every payday to keep the thing rolling.

Both of our parents are getting older and in their 80's so it's my hope that we can get it finished by the end of 2017 while our folks are still healthy and mobile enough to enjoy it with us on some weekends.

Man, I sure am proud for you all. That's gonna be a little slice of paradise up there. Heck, you're doing the fun part right now. The planning with Mrs. Irish, and your son, the picking out andi improving things you already designed, the whole bit.

I hope you're taking a jillion photos for yourself so you can have a little coffee table book to look back on.

Man that looks GREAT!

I'm fretting over my roof design right now... My rafters are going to be exposed and I'm going to insulate on the outside of the roof so I'm thinking of something along these lines...

I would consider a metal roof. I end up patching shingles at least once every year on our cabin. Thanks for sharing the updates.

My roof is going to be metal. That detail I pulled off the internet to illustrate the above decking insulation, just happened to have shingles.

Ran up there yesterday to inspect the work so far and chill out on the new back deck. Mrs. Irish and I spent most of the evening sipping cocktails and enjoying this view. Later we laid on the back deck and checked out the stars and the full moon...

I plan on spending a lot of time staring at this scene from yesterday afternoon...

Wow!!

Mrs. Irish and I bought all the windows yesterday at the Lowes in Trussville and delivered them all the way to the cabin. Glad she is lifting weights now and can help with the heavy lifting...





They got the permanent posts under the lower deck and they should have all the 2nd story exterior walls stood up today.

Anybody want some free firewood? Seriously..

They were starting on the roof today so I had to whip out a few details to shoe them how I wanted it...







They show R19, but I switched to R15 because it will insulate better in that same space and not have to be compressed...

Oh... And I'm going to fill in the spaces between the joists with 2x8 blocking and trim all that out later.

Question: How are you venting your roof? Or are you venting it at all? Vapor drive from inside the cabin will go where?

I love your design and I'm envious (in a proud for you kinda way)!

I would suggest using the seamless type metal roofing. I put a metal roof on about 15 years ago and over time a few of the screws backed out, making a leak. It seems that this is a common problem.

Thanks for your comments. This issue has vexed me for some time and there seem to be two schools of thought as far as an insulated "cathedral" ceiling. I'm going with the non vented school of thought.

I have done quite a bit of research as you can imagine and it seemed to me that in my application it was difficult to work out some kind of vent on a single sloping roof without it allowing some kind of rain water incursion. Had I used shingles instead of a metal roof I think venting - so the roof wouldn't get do hot in the summer - would have been more important.

So basically my roof is going to be similar to the walls in the house... two barriers and two sheathing layers encapsulating a layer of insulation space. It is based on several proven designs that I have seen... I certainly hope it works...

I'm not sure what you are calling seamless. My metal roof will have standing seams running down the slope, but each sheet will be one continuous piece running from the top to the bottom on the slope. So each piece will be 24' long.

Screw heads won't show.

OK... Thanks... I'll ask.

If I were going to put a metal roof on my house this is what I would do. When a sheet goes down it has clips that go over the edge, and a screw goes into the decking to hold the clip down (or something like that). When it's done you never see any screws (none exposed), thus it can't leak through screw holes like timbercruiser is talking about.

New pics from yesterday...

Stairs are framed up and nice and open to the floor above, just like I wanted them. They're going to be pretty when I trim them all out, put on the wooden treads and install the hand rails.



Second deck is done along with most of the second floor framing. That roof peak is going to be high, thank goodness I've got a deck up there to put a ladder on...