Tongue And Groove

Nice and catchy and an easier entry than "Wood II" might have been.

The main milking parlor, mentioned earlier, had walls and ceilings made out of 7 1/2 inch wide tongue and groove long leaf pine. Beautiful stuff, but somewhat dull in appearance with nails here and there. We wanted to keep that wood in place and we did.

We ran into several problems the first of which was having to insulate from the outside. As we were using spray in foam (for R values of 30+) our vendor did a horrific job of protecting the inside lumber. When they sprayed from the outside, the stuff went all over the inside because they did nothing to prevent it. The insulation worked, but there were problems.

And the wiring also had to be done from the outside because I didn't want to tear off the interior lumber. You can see some of this in the pictures. Over time, we got through the inspection and got the siding and rock put up which left lots of work inside.

We had to order special windows to preserve the look and feel of the original "pull in" types, and these crank outs do a fair job. We also had to cut out the hole for the bar area and used one of the original doors as the cover for it. Then the clean up room was to become a bathroom, so we had to do some painting in there. We also covered up all the bricks with bead board (carpenter - see below.)

Eddie Jacobs (our carpenter) did FANTASTIC work in this room. We'll discuss that more later as well, but he used the milking parlor as his staging area for the rest of the house. Thus the floors, steps, trim, etc. all started in this area.

Once the 2nd and 3rd floors were done, he simply hammered or removed naile, rough sanded the walls and floor (covered with dust from the concrete and wood work.) He also did a great job covering the ductwork which we were forced to put throughout this floor. Covering it with more bead board was genius. Then he simply applied some "poly" as he would say.

So, as this was supposed to be a short post, I've noticed it's run a bit long, but the wood looks fantastic. Old pine, who'd a thunk it? Nothing on the finished product, have to keep you waiting for something. . .