Chinking the Log Cabin

Before slapping any mortar in the gaps, I exercised my pneumatic framing handgun to drive claws 2-3 inches apart in all the crannies between the enters on the outside of the hovel. I discontinued the air pressure so an inch or so of the nail stuck up above the wood. Some gaps can be fairly large in the corners due to the Butt and Pass method. I must be given to get innovative there. I then went back and inclination the fingernails vertically to give the chinking something to hold on to.

A lot of tacks went into this process.

Once I nailed all the outside gaps, foam( Great Stuff) was scattered into the large corner gaps. I then stuffed fiberglass insulation into the remaining gaps between the records. It’s important to not nonsense the cracks more full of isolation. There should be a little space between the claws and the insularity in order to better for the mortar to grab the tacks. After the sud set up, I balanced the bulging foam to make it adjourned from the nails.

Now comes the enjoyable place! Experimentation with relating the mortar was forestalling. I tried scooping it in the gaps with the masonry trowel. Most of the mortar culminated up on the ground.

Then my good friend Melonie of Mel of the Mountains, who I’m apprenticing under for intelligence tanning deer obstructs, came to help with the chinking. She owned a bakery for sixteen years and prepared extravagantly decorated patties. While on a scaffold council at the top log of the compartment, I glanced over at her while she was chinking and was scandalized at how readily she applied the mortar. When I questioned her informality with this skill, she said it’s the same technique as icing a patty. She braced the mortar board up to the gap and swiped the mortar into the gap and smoothed it with her trowel. Amazing! That was a game changer for me.

The same as icing a patty she says.

There’s a teach arch to every skill you’re tackling. Chinking is no different. Having the right tools promotions. I worked a one and half inch masonry trowel which is rectangular in shape to apply and smooth the mortar. The seams are somewhat convex. A flat finish didn’t appeal to me.

The angles were a challenge to create a smooth finish. The trowel wouldn’t get into the infinites to smooth the mortar. I aimed up applying my gloved mitts to smooth the finish as best as possible. If anyone has a better idea, I’d sure like to hear from you!

Working the mortar with the trowel.

Once the chinking was complete, I stood back and realized that my record house actually was like a traditional log cabin! A extremely satisfying feeling came over me.

Satisfied!

Below is the chinking video on my YouTube direct if you’re interested in this sort of thing.

Keep Doing the Stuff of Self-Reliance,

~ Todd

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