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Moving to Sweden - Main house

The old house looked okay and it could survive the winter - I just had to install proper windows and fireplace. But the 45 sq m2 log house moved on the berggrund (ground stone?) during its 150 years history resulted in tilted walls and floors and supercold floor. However the water never froze even with -30C. So yeah, time to move on. Its not gonna be a 100m2 loghouse which I put up in Estonia , but another wooden-wool 100m2 house. We took a piece of paper and drew this: The center of the building is a big "warm wall" that consists of 5 tons of stones. Heating it with a fireplace makes sure the building is kept warm. And then there are two bedrooms and a main open room. First things first. Dangerous trees had to be cut down. May 2023. Then some digging was needed. As the road became problematic, then we had to bring 5 x 20 tons of macadam for the uphill road. Being a main contractor as well as builder was fun. June-Jyly 2023. Summer was nice in the countryside. View from top o...

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