Building a wooden house

[sandbender]

This video has been popping up here and there over the past week...

[video=youtube;ErGQ0rXkn74]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErGQ0rXkn74[/video]

...it was posted by the folks at John Newman Tools.

For those who have seen this and enjoyed it this earlier video may be of interest too.

[video=vimeo;17360574]https://vimeo.com/17360574[/video]

I think I prefer the house in the second video.

 

[Toddy]

The second one is beautiful
It's a home.

M

 

[Toddy]

Just finished watching the first video, and it's a beautiful home too a family home with space to live comfortably

Thank you for the links; I enjoyed watching those

Mary

 

[Macaroon]

I'd like the first one as the main family home, and the second one to take them for holidays, please!

The first one is superb in the standard of finish, .......meticulous is perhaps the way I'd describe it but without being fussy.

Building such a house is the one big project I always wanted to do but was never quite able to get there, watching these people do it is a vicarious pleasure.......Thanks for these really enjoyable vids

 

[Tony]

Excellent stuff, that would be a home to be happy in

 

[sandbender]

In the first video (the larger house) he drops a sizeable stone into the basement, why? Is that perhaps where the foundation of the fireplace/stove will be?

 

[Macaroon]

In the first video (the larger house) he drops a sizeable stone into the basement, why? Is that perhaps where the foundation of the fireplace/stove will be?

It's for the foundation of the whole lot, chimney stack and fireplace which IIRC weighs in at 13 tonnes

 

[sandbender]

It's for the foundation of the whole lot, chimney stack and fireplace which IIRC weighs in at 13 tonnes

I thought as much, thanks for that.

It is a lovely fireplace/oven.

 

[Macaroon]

It surely is, and I've not seen one stood on a timber base; it looks superb.

 

[Fraxinus]

As a carpenter/joiner I love to see how other craftspeople work, not only do you nearly always learn something new but some people have a kind of poetry in the way they do things.
Jacob has that about him and I can tell that he has thought the whole build out in minute detail.
Thanks for posting this up.

Rob.

 

[Joe tahkahikew]

Second house built much like we build our hunting cabins for winter. Don't need as many tools, just saw, axe and a chainsaw and plenty moss for chinking gaps. We never really had glass windows and smoke goes through the roof, although many of us use stove + pipe fire. Floor of spruce/cedar foliage.