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rotted in their aging Edmonds log
home.
"Our first reaction was to sell the
house," said Jean, who found the
decayed wood shortly after the couple
purchased the house eight years ago.
"But we loved the house and the area
and we wanted to stay."
Located at 18834 Andover, St., their
home was originally built as a small
summer cabin and a large addition was
later added.
Instead of selling the house, the
Tremoulets decided to replace the logs
themselves.
After several years of con-
templation and a search for
replacement logs, the Tremoulets and
their two young children tackled the
project earlier this month. With the
help of a neighbor, they removed the
rotted logs and replaced them with new
logs in one week.
"It was a lot easier than we thought it
would be," said Sonny, a mechanical
engineer, who enjoys woodworking as a
hobby. -
"After I realized that the rotted logs
were not part of the foundation, it was
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affair
"THE HARDEST part was finding
new logs," Sonny said.
It took them four years to find new
logs, he said. They found what -they
needed when a friend moved into a
housing development that was still
being cleared several blocks away.
Sonny agreed to build cabinets for his
friend in exchange for two fir trees.
The Tremoulets peeled the logs and
let them dry for two years.
"I had several weeks vacation this
summer so I ju€t decided to go ahead
with the project," Sonny said.
The couple took out the diseased logs,
which left the entire southwest corner
of the house open. With the help of their
two children, Nannette, 6, and Tyson, 4,
they rolled the new logs over to the
exposed corner of the house. A neighbor
helped lift six short logs and one long
log into place.
Now they will chink oakum in the
cracks between the logs.
`.`It went very easily but slowly,'
Jean said after the project was com
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