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Bob - was the rep suggesting that it's better not to caulk the ends or that it just wasn't particularly necessary?

Good info - I've been considering Hardipanel to re-skin my shed/shop (no animials) when I get 'rountuit. Among all it's other implied qualities, around here, given what's happened to building...

Last shot for now. The small tags are markers labeling each beam and it's position.

Shot 5, love those "floor joists"!

Shot 4, notice the hand-hewn squared logs. No idea of the wood type, maybe Chestnut?

Shot 3, some of the corner joinery.

Shot two, close up.

Here are some current shot with the vines and dilapidated siding removed - revealing the true log structure beneath.

A couple of years ago I posted a shot of an old 'cabin' that was on our farm. A local historical society had been promised they could remove it to include in their display of local original farm...

Cindi

I haven't been on CBN much for awhile so missed your thread until now. I'm a LOT closer to Maine than you and a few years back we drove from here to Bar Harbor and back. With only minor...

Wellll... I do need to get this 'addressed' - whether that means frozen as is, repaired, or replaced. Not sure how close the doomsday clock is - far as anyone can remember this wall has been bowed...

I believe I've mentioned our wet basement before. We are still working on the upper stories but I'm also starting to look at addressing some of the water problems.

A 65-pint dehumidifier is...

I'd love to see the answers you get - I've got a very similar problem with an old shed on my place where I have about a 12% steady slope front-to-rear. I want to make it even worse by extending the...

Try WESCO and Graybar. They're wholesalers but I think most locations won't turn away a walk up customer. Since you're not a wholesale customer - they're not going to be cheap but neither is...

Gregg - are you thinking of a "retaining wall" under the edges of the actual shed - or as a "perimeter" somewhat outside the corners (and corner poles) of the shed.

I've been trying to think of an...

And yeah, I know there's a lot of issues with this building (love the blocks holding down the roof metal!) /forums/images/icons/tongue.gif but really it's more solid than it looks (would have to be...

Front 3/4 view showing the shed addition end.

Rear view (the low side) showing the back end of the shed addition (to the right).

In the teach an old barn some new tricks category-

I've got a 16x24 outbuilding in "bank barn" style with a cement block wall foundation/lower level. The grade slopes two ways - left-to-right...

Good questions. Don't know of any springs or other evidence of subsurface aquifer flow anywhere nearby - there is a pond 50-60 yards off (downslope) but that's pretty obviously just surface fed (and...

Still is!

Actually I've never been down very deep on this property yet. The top soil is really pretty good - reasonably rich and not too much clay. But I've only been down about 12"-18" here...

I've seen basement "gutters" used with sumps and sump pumps to good effect. There are even commercial moldings that can be used. For now for us doing something like that - along with a strong...

Yeah - we'll have to start with the outside if we do anything. Sloping away isn't practical without MAJOR earth movement. The house sits with maybe 500-600 feet of 4-5% nice steady slope above it...

The big pain in the posterior is that the entire basement is fired glazed terra cotta block. Nothing, and I mean nothing, sticks to it for very long. All of the really good inside waterproofing...

Mike - how big of a unit are you running - and how much of a dent did it make? The basic "box" stores seem to only carry units up to a certain size (50 pints?). Not having used one before I wasn't...