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the Vermont Street Project: springing back

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We just had our one year anniversary of the timber frame raising here at the Vermont Street Project. Started digging in March, raised the frame in May, worked through the summer of 106 degree days and a fall of finishing details, moved in the week before Christmas. then slept. For the last 4 months we've slept, at least in this journaling world. Posted by jonathan orpin. Subscribe in a reader. Enter your email address:. An introduction to this journal. I had assumed this was going to be difficult. I ...

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the Vermont Street Project: 11/1/08 - 12/1/08

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So Barack Obama won. I got this from Meghan, a peace corps volunteer in El Sauce, Nicaragua, who has been helpful in our efforts to start a solar oven. Program there. ".I actually feel hopeful about the US and the world. Early risers in El Sauce and the taxi driver who brought me to the PC office today asked me what I think of Obama. "He'll be great," they say. "We have hope that the US will remember the corners of the world again.". And watched the world series. Sierra looked at me during game 4 wit...

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the Vermont Street Project: 12/1/09 - 1/1/10

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I had said for many months that we would be in for the holidays. By golly we made it, with help from a shoe horn and some olive oil. Activity and its buddy exhaustion reached a peak. Noel the clay plasterer scrubbed walls one last time, Maxine scrubbed shower tile for the first time, we vacuumed until late each night and fought for a temporary certificate of occupancy. I was surprised that we couldn't recycle the #7 polyisocyanurate (above) that Hubbardton Forge. It's very hard to describe the feeling I ...

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the Vermont Street Project: 8/1/09 - 9/1/09

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There is much to learn as a builder and designer when building your own house. One good lesson is about being a consumer; being on the buying end of the transaction; wanting and needing various products and services. I'm used to the role of provider. I and my co-workers provide a wide variety of services, like design, engineering, building and installing, for a myriad of products like timber frames. Even screen porches and wine cellars. Both knew their trades, and I was willing to hire them by the hour f...

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the Vermont Street Project: a recent advertorial

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So we recently decided to break a few rules of advertising in a timber porn magazine. It came from how I've been feeling recently as the industry struggles with the balance between craft and what it takes to make a living. It's Not About the Marketing. His words stunned me. By expressing structure as craft and combining that with extraordinary energy efficiency and a caring business environment, timber framing has rocketed to the forefront of residential construction. This couldn’t have happene...When a ...

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the Vermont Street Project: 1/1/10 - 2/1/10

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Maxine says I sprained my back on Mt. Hood. Yesterday in part because it was so clear that I could use a day or two just being. Just being on the couch. Ice has become my good friend all day. I realize it's been 3 weeks from my last post, and the "remember me" function on the host page doesn't remember me. I'm thinking it is just being snarfy. Now would be a good time for catching up a tad. I am blown away by what we have created, of what we do as a company. The house welcomed us and our family for our C...

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the Vermont Street Project: 6/1/09 - 7/1/09

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More on the exterior. It was pointed out, after the last entry, that my shot from 60 feet up on an extendable boom forklift was telling, certainly, but hey, what does the rest look like? Above is the south elevation, with kitchen window on the right, dining area in the middle, and raised porch on the left. South light is also let into the common area through the clerestory windows, above. I can read your mind: should those people be up on the roof? Posted by jonathan orpin. About 30 degrees and cold this...

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the Vermont Street Project: holiday

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Maxine says I sprained my back on Mt. Hood. Yesterday in part because it was so clear that I could use a day or two just being. Just being on the couch. Ice has become my good friend all day. I realize it's been 3 weeks from my last post, and the "remember me" function on the host page doesn't remember me. I'm thinking it is just being snarfy. Now would be a good time for catching up a tad. I am blown away by what we have created, of what we do as a company. The house welcomed us and our family for our C...

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the Vermont Street Project: 5/1/10 - 6/1/10

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So we recently decided to break a few rules of advertising in a timber porn magazine. It came from how I've been feeling recently as the industry struggles with the balance between craft and what it takes to make a living. It's Not About the Marketing. His words stunned me. By expressing structure as craft and combining that with extraordinary energy efficiency and a caring business environment, timber framing has rocketed to the forefront of residential construction. This couldn’t have happene...When a ...

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the Vermont Street Project: 9/1/09 - 10/1/09

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Today is my wife Maxine's birthday. I'm not on the same coast, although we've been steadily together for the last five weeks and I took this picture over the weekend at Nick and Becky's fun wedding. I had flowers delivered. And a note that said, among other things, that I loved her more than ever, (this is true,) that I couldn't have built this house without her, (this is true,) and that "I wouldn't want to live my life without you and, quite simply, I won't.". Val and Dave discuss a placement. We reache...