At this point the outside of an tigin doesn't really look much different. Thought I'd add the most recent exterior pictures because soon, I hope, things will be looking different.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Sunday, August 4, 2013
when it rains it pours
One of the reasons we bought an tigin, besides falling in love with the tired little house and Cornish, is because Martin hasn't had steady work for a couple of years. Before that, the work he did get was an hour and a half commute from New Gloucester, which isn't ideal.
As soon as we purchased an tigin, the calls started coming in. Martin is scheduled to do a specialty stair job for his brother. He needs to finish up a couple of jobs that winter interrupted. On top of that he has recently rebuilt a spring house for friends of ours. Then my brother needed to have rotten sills replaced. He also had a deck job scheduled for this summer. Today, Martin received a call from a contractor who he has worked for in the past about a job.
If things keep going this way, Martin will be able to earn money to invest in materials for an tigin, but the whole project will take longer. That's okay though, as Martin says, "It's a spare time job."
As soon as we purchased an tigin, the calls started coming in. Martin is scheduled to do a specialty stair job for his brother. He needs to finish up a couple of jobs that winter interrupted. On top of that he has recently rebuilt a spring house for friends of ours. Then my brother needed to have rotten sills replaced. He also had a deck job scheduled for this summer. Today, Martin received a call from a contractor who he has worked for in the past about a job.
If things keep going this way, Martin will be able to earn money to invest in materials for an tigin, but the whole project will take longer. That's okay though, as Martin says, "It's a spare time job."
Friday, August 2, 2013
planning stage
Negotiations between me and Martin have progressed. The result is that Martin is able to start drawing some rough plans to see whether or not our ideas will actually work in the space that we have. We have decided to make the house 24 foot by 30 foot as long as the code enforcer accepts and approves the plans.
So a couple of days ago, we measured the house, including all of the windows and doors, the height from the sill to the bottom of the windows, the height of the windows, and the height of the doors. Martin figured out dimensions related to the peak.
Today we went back and measured the barn to within an inch of its life. Now that we have all of the measurements, Martin has started drawing and redrawing. He started with rough drawings on small notepad paper and has progressed to copier paper taped together. Final drawings that will be submitted for approval will be drawn on 18x24 sketch paper.
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