Dr. Mudd

The time has finally come to chink and daub the cabin. Here is a picture of Mike (aka "Dr. Mudd," though he assures me he his not harboring any assassins) performing his craft. Historically, cabins were chinked with stones or wood shingles (probably left over from the roof) and daubed, or mudded, with a combination of sand, lime, and sometimes horsehair. Daubing would have to be repaired quite frequently, sometimes completely replaced every year; and it provided little insulation from the cold. Though Lance and I enforce accurate preservation in this project, we made an exception in this case, allowing Mike to use his modernized technique of using wire and fiber insulation as the chinking and adding a bit of latex to the daubing so that it will contract and expand more easily with the logs. In one wall, however, we are going to use the original chinking (wood shingles) saved when the cabin was dismantled. This wall borders the kitchen and will not be exposed to the outside elements.

Other pictures show the progress on the porch and Jamie working on the porch roof.