The Thomas/Padgett Home

Here are a couple of pictures of the notching. This is a saddle notch. The Foxfire Book shows it laid out with a 90 degree angle, using a framing square as a layout tool. After a survey of our notches it appeared they were targeted at a 45 degree layout angle, I made a thin plywood template.

We have now replaced the logs on the main level. The house is back down on a new stone foundation.

This shot shows the new bottom logs and foundation on the northwest corner. The log row just above the porch roof needs replacing yet, as does the uppermost back log. So a bit of logwork to go still. I'm putting in the new lower floor now, and then will probably go to the second floor and decide how to strengthen it. It has bad bouncy problems. It was framed with pine 3x6's on 26"-32" centers, several sizes too light by present standards for the 18 foot span.

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