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🎄Christmas surprise from October
One of the last Jump Jams of the season—captured back in October, just edited and released for free by Evan Kay @ekay_adventures for everyone who was there. Candid moments, action shots, and the people that make these days special.
Drone opener by Mike Cannon 🚁

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Something special is taking shape in the shop 👀 These aren't your standard roof panels—they're custom-engineered for a truly unique timber frame build. The best part? They're helping us refine our direction for a foam-free SIPs system for other timber frames. Install photos dropping soon and yes that is TimberBoard in the background 😉

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Enjoying this July sun and playing in the rain 🚲 🍻 ❤️

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This past week my son Arlo and I built the screen porch. I was surprised by how by how much I like it and what it added to the feel of the house.

I had decided early on to never attach a deck or porch to house. This porch is on an independent slab foundation, and the only connection, so to speak, is the flashing we added to the wall when we did the house siding. The porch metal roof runs directly under this flashing, but both the house and porch are free to move as the seasons change, ground freezes, ect. There are no fasteners connecting the two buildings. The porch roof beam sits on 3 4x4 vertical posts that are anchored to the slab with simpson strong tie 1/2”x8” Titen bolts. They are just in compression and more than strong enough for the job. The wall framing has double bottom plates, that sit on white oak blocks, holding the spruce frame 1.5” off the concrete slab. Plenty of space for water to drain out from under. The exterior has 3’ corrugated steel panels for the lower siding, pine tarred hemlock above, hanging past the slab edge to keep wind and blowing snow out. The windows are all the same big square RO that the house has, only these have removable screens and polycarbonate panes, not windows. Inside walls are hemlock. Arlo is doing the siding while i am here in the shop. There is power and lights via conduit buried in the foundation, no holes in the house walls.

The use for this porch was for farm chores: drying beans, corn, onions, garlic, chicken and game processing, wood storage, dealing with produce, bike storage in season ect. Not a hang out space. Having a dry place to work outside is key. #alpineluddites #diy #carpentry #building #porch #porchlife #hub #homedesign #homestead #vermont #vermontforreal #vermontbyvermonters #peacham

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Every once in a great while, @hillside_designworks and I get a ride in together. These generally happen at very short notice, and without much planning ahead of time as to the route or its duration. Tonight in the hills above Pomfret, we might have caught peak autumnal bliss, and were reminded again that this particular season, in this particular state- no matter how many times you have experienced it- never gets old.

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No idea what went wrong. This was the very last wall to go up. Nice to see the wall wasn’t damaged, now who has a telehandler I can borrow? Hahahaha #alpineluddites #carpenter #carpentry #luddites #ludditecarpenters #vermont #diy #peacham

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There are days I doubt my choice to build to the highest possible standard, using basic, non toxic or petroleum based materials like wood fiber insulation, locally sawn wood siding, locally sawn wood sheathing, nontoxic pine tar/linseed oil coatings, metal roofing, lime wall finishes, linseed oil paint, solid wood and cork flooring, finished with linseed oil finishes( Rubio mono coat) European building papers and tapes…..it is much more difficult, and time consuming than a basic code level house . I am very tired having done 90% of this alone, but then I read the current article from @guardian about the issues with spray foam insulation in the UK and I feel a little better. Scroll through to see the highlights. Thanks to @croft_co2 for posting it. If I have to build any more houses after this for other folks I’d only so it with Crofts straw insulated wall panels. If I could have afforded it I would have used them here. #alpineluddites #diy #homedesign #homebuilder #strawbale #sprayfoaminsulation #greenbuilding #naturalmaterials #sawmill #vermont #peacham #carpenter #carpentry #woodhouse #vermontlife

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Timber Batt is here for the house and shop! Huge thank you to fred @rkmiles1940 for working hard to make this happen. I had hoped to use insulation from @timberhp.insulatebetter which is made from wood scrap in Maine. I have their batt insulation for the interior walls, their blow in Timber fill for 20” in the attic of both buildings. I am glad that i used rockwool R80 board on the exterior due to the harsh weather i have had during this build and slowness of building alone.

For the first time since i started in late September I am home sick. Should be back tomorrow but I will see. Goals for this week are : no shoveling, to get both gable walls standing. I am building the rake overhangs onto the gables so i can stand them with the overhangs completely finished . Details are slow. The strapping is 4.5” as there is no insulation on the gable walls, but the vertical siding is going from the ground up-to the gable. I also have to build bucks to hold the copper gable vents flush with the siding. The hardest part of building solo is thinking everything through by myself, not forgetting any steps. I have a couple of problem areas i need to address, that i didn’t think through correctly. Seth @hillside_designworks has been generous with his time when I have questions I cannot sort out or need my ideas validated. #alpineluddites #ludditecarpenters #diy #carpentry #carpenter #passivehouse #vermont #madeinmaine #timberhp #golab #vermonthomestead #vermontlife #peacham #peachamvt @nekocaseofficial #buildingdesign

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I am moving all house building posts to my “ luddites farm” account. It’s mainly friends who follow me here, not so many customers. This past week i finished the sub floor , built the stairway and laid out the wall plates for the second floor. Nothing earthshaking but a lot of work. Friday I had to shovel the subfloor and wood stacks. 2” of wet, heavy snow and fairly cold temps.

This week i am finishing the couple small interior walls, then start framing the second floor. The weather looks better, some sun and temps above freezing.

I also need to get all the fruit trees ready for winter.this mainly involves protecting the trunks from mice and voles chewing on the bark.

Seems i am spending 40-50 hours a week building and 30 hours in the shop. This will reverse once the roof is on. #buildingdesign #buildingahouse #building #vermont #vermontbyvermonters #vermontlife #dıy #peacham #luddites #farm #homestead

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