Bruce from Kanata, Ontario decided to build himself a barn, before building a house. Actually that makes a great shop for building the house. So Bruce cut his own logs, sliced boards and then build a barn with board and batten siding. Aside from taking even more than his whole summer vacation from his computer job, what did he learn?
"Don't do the concrete work yourself." He said it was real heavy and there was a lot of it.
"Get some help while putting up the trusses."
"Take it one step at a time, then move on to the next phase."
He tried just about everything to grey the siding boards without success: baking soda and water, bleach, lime sulfur mix. It is probably the freshness of the resins in his lot cut boards that are holding back the aging process. Either he has to just wait and let nature do it's job, or he could cheat by applying a grey stain, which would then fade to gray boards.