Today I received the finished house plans for a new home on the farm in Royalton. This was several months, but we never really got going until October because the sale of the house in Grafton did not come about until the end of August, and will be final March 1 this year. I will update this page later with photos since I think the gallery is temporarily offline. I will keep this thread updated as we progress along, come spring time. :)
Photos to follow....
I did not see the house. My Dinosaur computer does not like facebook. I can just about get by with youtube,when it feels like it. But I did see some examples of what you weave?
Good luck with the house.About 18 years ago my dream was made. We built a house on The Farm,right where I always dreamed of one. We was trying to lay the house out in March. I had to ran around and gather up snow to put stakes up. ::)No snow,but the ground was froze solid.
Yep, ok. It's because it's not public I guess. I'll take the link down and get the images on here as soon as is possible.
Congratulations Donk!
Building a house is the best of times and the worst of times.
I need to update my thread.
Jon
Yes indeed. And do keep us up to date on your progress, Jon. There won't be a lot to report on for awhile on my end until the glaciers melt. ;D
I just went back and checked my thread and really don't have much to add.
It's moving slow right now I'm sure we will have a flurry of activity this spring.
Make sure that you put it on high stilts so that the glaciers can slide under it :D.
Yeah, have to be 9 feet to be above the glacier line. ;D
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Congratulations! I built my own, moved in about 15 years ago.
Lots of work and lots of personal satisfaction.
House Exterior.
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960 square feet on both floors.
Cool I like it ! Will be a fun project 8)
You will need a 90 degree roof to help the glaciers slide off :).
Love the porch. A man needs a porch like that.
Nice, I would run the porch to the side door.
It actually is the access to the main screened in porch to the left, that faces west toward the mountains and farm fields. The front entry will have concrete steps that we have and to the left an outside tap. The front open porch is just the right size for sitting in the March-April sun and for the close line off the left end. ;D
Snow guards would be a good idea on the upper roof over the porch, that drop can beat up the porch roof and cause leaks. If you go that route then count on the weight of the snow on the upper rafters... which is better than an impact load on the porch.
Shouldn't be a problem, the drop was much higher than that on the old farm house from the main house onto the shed roof, for over 120 years. The snow could never really get any depth. ;)
This coming week I will most likely be signing off the internet grid for a few months. I will be moving out of Grafton and back to Royalton, staying at my brother's until the new house is built. I will update this thread on the other side, so to speak, with construction photos. My internet will probably be satellite or tower based when I emerge and not FiberOp any longer. Oh well, happiness and contentment often times has trade-offs. ;D
I love a wrap around porch but they can be a rigging problem for future maintenance and repair work.
Good luck with the build. We did that 18 years ago. All went smooth except for ledge,BIG rock where the bedroom is. A blasting crew helped that problem out. ;D
Shouldn't really be any on the spot we are building, half the cement floor footage is near the existing ground surface. There is probably 3 feet of field stone on top of the slope. Time will tell and the excavator man may find a few treasures, many not so golden I suspect. :D
Walk-out basement's really add a lot to a house.
Best of luck to you on the build,hope the surprises are all good.
"an outside tap" This is for the beer ;D .
Well, since I can control the flow from the inside of the house, one never knows. Not likely though. :D
Well the days are lengthening and the snow is slowly receding. I recently chose a general contractor and will be working out the agreement between us in the coming days. :)
All sounds good. I did all that 18 years ago. They was digging about now. Just got the cement trucks in,we had a few days of freezing weather.
Yep. There won't be any snow or ground frost, or threat there of, when we start digging around first of May. ;D Been in Royalton about 4 weeks now, another 6 will go by just as fast. Another 6 more I'll be in a new house. :)
As it turned out, I am waiting here until the 21 of May for the roads to reopen (annual spring break up closures (http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/departments/dti/trucking/content/spring_weight_restrictions.html)) so we can haul full loads of cement. One of these nights this week I will meet with my excavator man and cement man to show them the layout for the buildings on the site. Should be scratching ground next week. :)
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is that 960 sq ft total???
that must be each floor right?
Each floor yes. :)
I think we are going to pound stakes tonight with the excavator man.
Good luck!!
Back bedroom we hit rock. And I do mean rock. Every was going good until I heard the noise of a big rock. We did not want to move the angle of the house because of the view. And if we did,would we hit another rock?? Blasting boys took care of that problem and $500 too. They must of been drinking coffee at the shop. They was about 45 minutes away and they was at my house in just about that time. Lucky!
I think everything should be fine as far as rocks and ledge. We don't have real big rocks as a rule, there might be one like a wheel barrel on occasion. Ledge is one of them things you might not hit for 20 feet, 8 feet or 2 feet. Pretty sure it is good and deep here though. Time will tell. ;D
Sewer has government approval, digging tomorrow, and cement guy coming Monday for forms and footing. 8)
House Site. If I never mentioned it before, I have a 4.5 acre lot here.
Straight ahead just off the curve in the drive is the spot for the house. Outside basement entry out toward those thick dandelions to the left (west - facing Maine).
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From the north
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A little to the left
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Shop area
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Gardens and vineyard off in the distance
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Potatoes are just breaking ground, lettuce and Swiss chard are up. Spinach is slow. It's bone dry here, and I mean dry. Apple blossums to the far left in photo. ;)
We have been on those hills to the West and to the River on the East too. Actually we have almost circled your place. ;D
That little bush there, in the view from the north, that is a striped maple. I planted that because of the rather big leaves and the stripes in the bark. Some are a lime green, others turn red in the bark then after a few years they turn real dark green with the stripes as well. I think the last time or two I was up at Jeff's stomping grounds he and I both sorta kept an eye out for them when visiting the parks. I have mentioned before that the stems might make an interesting chair project. I have seen the Amish in northern Maine make rockers with bark left on them. They use ash though. This is by Smyrna. I think there is also a fella near Easton making rockers, not been there except to drive by when the ground was turning to soup this spring, so didn't stop in. The road he is on is the Bangor Road. It runs past the Easton School and is sort of a back road that also runs down to Mars Hill and comes out by the town garage, although by then it branches off onto another road or two coming from Easton. Anyway, a bit of a meandering tale to say that I intend to visit and see if I can find a rocker sometime this summer. ;)
That is one fine site.
Nice!
In the first picture, the way the trees are makes me think there might have been a building there at one time.
Yes, my great grandfather's house on dad's mother's side.
Foundations all dug today. We did find some ledge. But we ripped it right outta there. ;D
House
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Garage
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Shop
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Couldn't be more prouder if they was my own boys. Here at 8:00 am and down the road at 6:00 pm ;D 8)
Looking Good! Gotta be an exciting time for you. 8)
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When my oldest son and I put in his cellar in 2002, the excavator found a BIG rock. The excavator was big but I don't recall the make or model, but he could not lift it. He just cut a ramp and moved it to the front yard at my son's request. The rock is about 9' long, 6' wide and maybe 5.5' high on one end and 4.5' high on the other. It is a hard rock. My son has talked of having their last name etched in it by a grave stone engraver, but 16 years later now and that has not happened yet.
After the cellar, a modular was set on the 32 x 68' foundation. We went with those insulated foam blocks and had a pump truck fill them. His cellar is 9'4" high, so heat ducts and plumbing could be hidden with a suspended ceiling at just under 8'. The basement is partially finished.
That's a big modular. That with garage to?
I'll have 8' 6" in the basement I believe and I'm installing a wood furnace. I don't want a finished basement, I have to store wood. And I really don't need a finished basement or the extra expense. I have a barn for storage on site. Yes, rocks. Most big rocks here are no bigger than a wheel barrel, but I did notice 3 or 4 almost the size of 2 wheel barrels. Something that might make a little 26 HP Kabota BX grunt a bit. They are sitting under my lower driveway right now. ;D
Those are some monster footings, just for reference I trenched some for a 60'x70' hangar we're pouring the slab for on Monday. The footings were 3' deep and 4" wide :D. You're really going to have a nice place there!
The cement crew likes some room to work. ;)
Exciting times!
The foundation people will appreciate the extra room to work.
It is peculiar how ones perception of the building sizes change at different stages of construction.
Exciting for sure. From the plans it looks like you've really thought out the design. We built our place a little under 10 years ago. Had a couple snags here and there, just keeps ya on your toes! Only thing(s) I'd have done different would have been to have a one or two foot crete wall on the walkout (to prevent future issues from splash back / snow / rot), had someone else do the chimney..., oh and had a bigger budget!
Looking forward to following you on this journey.
Plus, I love looking a shops / garages too!
We've started on the footings today. :)
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You are going to need a sawmill :). It has happened before.
I don't want to fight the government like the old man in the movie "Still Mine". :D
Forms are up to pour the walls today, will take the next photo when the forms come down. ;D
i see the key in the footing i dont see any steel sticking up
They got the walls all poured and started with the forms on the garage and shop, I'd say they are almost half done those forms. Threaded steel rod is in to anchor the house. :)
Took the forms down today and tarred the outside. :)
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Looking good, progressing well!
We've been laying around the perimeter tile and back filling today. :)
We put down the pipe for the radon gas testing. I wouldn't know how gas would travel through bedrock, maybe. New regs.
I use to put the same tar on the 4" lip of the footing [inside] let dry. when you pour the floor over it it will make a gasket. no gas can get in the cellar.
Don't put in a sump pump. ;)
Won't need a sump pump. :)
Starting Monday, on which we begin framing, I am doing a 6 week count down to completion on the house. Well, that is what two contractors told me including the one I chose. So we shall see. :) 8)
Looking good and a exciting time for you and family.
We have the walk in and sides of the basement all framed now, the first floor trusses and subfloor are down and should have the first floor framed tomorrow with some closure from what we can reach before staging is put up. Photo at the end of the week. :)
It's all coming together! congratulations on your new home!
Things tend to slow a little after the framing is done
Yes for sure, only I think you measure the progress somewhat different because of the finer details. :)
The end of week 1:
We have 4 days into it because of a cold rain all day Thursday. :)
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You have to be smiling. :)
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Yes, sir-ree. I climbed to the top for a view out over the basement entry and it grew even bigger. 8)
The lift truck is coming on Tuesday to put the roof trusses up. :)
Are those floor trusses you are using?
Yep. :)
Oh, and the top floor is going to have a 9' ceiling, even in the dormer where the big round top window is. The dormer is 16' wide. My crow's nest. :D The ceiling will slope down to 6', no knocking of heads on ceilings. At least not mine. ;D
I have been shopping for a rocker, and I got one in Maine last weekend. It's oak and made in USA, sorta. A photo when the porch is on, and ready to rock. ;)
Looking Good !
Great progress! Fun to whatch it go up I am sure.
Are those 2x6 studs in the walls?
Yes sir. :)
Well, I had to take a pick of the roof going up. And climbing. ;D
The red lines show the edges of the 9' ceiling. Ceiling slopes down to 6'. :)
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Lookin' good!
End of week 2, which was another 4 day week because of rain on Monday.
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Do you see the moon off the corner of the roof? ;)
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Wow, it is bigger than the moon!!!! :o
Coming together nicely. 8) 8) 8)
Lookin' good, I really like the roof lines. What are you gonna use for roofing material?
that's shaping up to be one sweet abode...
Quote from: GRANITEstateMP on June 23, 2018, 12:53:03 PM
Lookin' good, I really like the roof lines. What are you gonna use for roofing material?
Galum Steel 26 gauge, 3 lb per linear foot. :)
Are you screwing the metal directly to the osb?
Larry, ice/water shield, #15 felt on top, screwed down steel.
Screw down well, The OSB does not hold screws well.
Screws will be going into the rafter and gable wood.
Excellent. Make sure you closely inspect that it is done that way, as screws can back out of osb, especially if they pre-drill the metal.
I'm impressed by your build. Its really interesting following your progress. Thanks for the pictures.
The steel up this way often (not always) comes pre-drilled on the ridges. All work is guaranteed for 7 years through Atlantic Home Warranty. Only two fellas around here that have that backing, including this contractor. I just saw their Warranty inspector this week on site.
Week 3: Only 3 days this week for weather and July 1 weekend.
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We did close in the south end (that is quite the staging there), it is 42 feet to the peek of that roof. Those sheets of steel are 24 feet long and 26 gauge.
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We also have the sewer in now, we are awaiting inspection before covering it. The berm is 20 feet out sloped and 10 feet out the ends of the tubes. I think I'm building a hotel. The backup plan is the potty hut.
In that dormer area in last week's photo is a cathedral ceiling, about 15 feet to the peek, sloped down to 9 feet. 16 x 16 feet floor area under it.
Y'all are rollin! Great progress!
The roof pitch eliminates any concerns from the snowload police. ;D
For sure, won't be more than 2" on that sucker before she slides. :D
Week 4: A 3 day week. Vapour barrier up with 1" of styrofoam on. Petitions up in main floor. Dormer area and north wall up stairs closed in. Still need strapping and petitions on second floor. Photos of living room, kitchen and large closet by entry/washroom.
Living room area
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Kitchen area
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Washroom closet, 3' deep
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Videos
First floor
house first floor - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jTVrbRoQc)
Second floor
house second floor - YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sui7xmsAYeE)
Looks great. Y'all have accomplished a great deal! Will you use double hung or casement windows? Videos helped.
Are you rushing it a bit with the rocker in front of the window? I do like the view.
Double hung mostly, with casement over the counter tops with crank outs. Casement have better thermal, but can't clean them very easy.
It's a new rocker I recently bought. I am just breaking it in. :D It will go back in the barn when the men are at work during the week. ;)
Very nice!
Looks wonderful! 8)
Thanks everyone. :)
Today we put up the posts and framed the floor in for the main porch, I suspect they will carry on around for the narrow entry porch tomorrow. We put in the bedroom petition up stairs and framed in the linen closet up stairs. Still a closet in the bedroom to frame in. They are probably going to strap the second floor ceiling tomorrow I suspect.
Week 5: A five day week.
Porches on and roofed, ends of main porch framed. Windows and doors hung. Started electrical inside. Measured for cupboard space and ordered. Inside petitions finished.
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Awning over door
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Main porch decking on and ceiling strapped.
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Siding and trim should be finished up next week. We're smile'n. :)
Looking good, a house can't have too many porches !
Flu Installation this afternoon. It was hot today to.
First floor
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Second floor and attic
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Through the roof
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Clears the peek almost 3 feet, maybe a full 3 feet. WETT certified installer 40 years running. :)
Is that a tin chimney for a wood stove?
Wood furnace. Stainless steel, insulated and with heat shield inside the house. It's a Selkirk, very reliable. :) Double walled SS stove pipe will go from furnace to flu.
Why not a masonry one? Masonry one would last forever.
Amazing those chimneys can be so close to the framing.
Quote from: Peter Drouin on July 17, 2018, 06:23:02 AM
Why not a masonry one? Masonry one would last forever.
I won't. :D And I don't want to do battle with insurance companies. ;)
Quote from: samandothers on July 17, 2018, 08:53:16 AM
Amazing those chimneys can be so close to the framing.
The old brick one was. You could place your hand on the wall in the corner where it went and feel the heat. Was there over 100 years. This flu is heat shielded and insulated.
when the liner in my chimney failed after only 6 years (due to water intrusion), we ended up busting out all the old liner and replacing it with a stainless / insulated liner. I've been super happy with the liner, seems to draft a bit better, and cleans WAY easier!
Yeah, and these Selkirks are good flues, my uncle put one in 40 years ago and it is still there. And his runs up outside, whereas mine in up through the house. Which is even better. :)
Quote from: GRANITEstateMP on July 17, 2018, 02:45:16 PM
when the liner in my chimney failed after only 6 years (due to water intrusion), we ended up busting out all the old liner and replacing it with a stainless / insulated liner. I've been super happy with the liner, seems to draft a bit better, and cleans WAY easier!
Do you have an outside chimney?
Peter
Can you believe it.
The insurance companies like metal chimneys now.
When I built my place 13 years ago my Dad and I built a double flue masonry one up through the center of the house.
Times have changed.
Mr SD
The house is looking good.
Are you drywalling or plastering ?
Or wood paneling the interior walls?
Yeah Peter, runs up the end of our cape. I really wanted to have the chimney inside, but we've got 10lbs of house packed into a 5lbs footprint! Space and money didn't allow us to run it inside. The moisture intrusion issue was a lack of drainage material around the cellar wall (it's on the ledge-iest side of the lot ;D) it was my fault, we built the house and I figured sand instead of crushed stone... My Yankee Cheapness kicks in from time to time and it usually costs me in the long run.
After 3 years with the stainless liner, it's all still holding up well (for what it cost I sure hope it would!). My brother-in law that did the old flue break out also did the install and I trade him green wood for cleanings, says that we usually have a very minimal amount of creosote, not sure if it's the liner, better wood, or me and the stove reaching our Zen spot ;D
Quote from: Bruno of NH on July 18, 2018, 08:04:45 AM
Mr SD
The house is looking good.
Are you drywalling or plastering ?
Or wood paneling the interior walls?
Drywall and paint. Trim in pine around doors and windows. Maple cupboards, maple stairway, maple flooring upstairs for the loom studio and bedroom up there. Insulated first floor ceiling and inside bathroom walls. Men are putting in ducts for heat and air exchanger today. Siding is going up and wiring and plumbing pretty much done or as far as we want for now. Little more work later once other stuff is in place. Shower is in, 60" long, 36" deep with seat, glass door. Didn't put door in it yet or vanity. I don't want it broke or scuffed up. :)
I had a pre-fab metal class A chimney in my old house, installed in 1975. It is cleaned professionally once a year and inspected (the other cleanings are done by me) and now, in 2018 it is still good (my daughter now owns it). The SS inner wall on the pre-fab chimneys are good and according to the insurance companies are now better than masonry chimneys.
The insurance com. are looking at the cost of replacing the chimney. Tin chimneys are cheaper than masonry one is why. It's all about the $$$$$$.
I have a 3 flue masonry one in the middle of the house.
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knee wood. :D :D ;D
Not a valid reason actually. If that were the logic then instead of replacing a $300,000 home they would only allow a $250,000 one. She's all factored in and your paying. :D ;D There are way too many old old chimneys that are not safe at all, they began cracking down a few years ago and won't even cover older homes or give you a partial coverage. And some older folks that had to shop around think they got a deal when the premium went from $1500, to $350 with the other guy, and they have about nothing in the end. ;)
They will replace what you have Insurance on. [ If that's what you have set up] When time to renew is when they get you. Drop you or the price goes up.
I got some junk talk from one, Told them to stuff it up there #&%^$#
Today most have no idea how to burn wood, I have friends will not build chimneys. Just because most will burn green wood and ruing one in a year.
I was on the town fire department for ten years [ certified by the state of NH] and seen the tin ones explode inside a house and come apart, not good.
Seen a lot of chimney fires in masonry ones stay together to not burn the house down.
I have been a builder all my life and seen a lot of junk put up.
Some of the new laminated wood will sag when the wood gets hot. Houses trimmed in plastic with plastic siding. No painting, But when it gets burning, Wow. :D :D
I burn 5 or so cords a year and only get ½ a five gal pail of white ash a year out of it in the spring.
Wood heat is great.
Best of luck with your new house.
I've seen 3 none brick chimneys locally, where folks burn green all the time, they had flu fires, but didn't burn down. One actually burned down not more than a month after a chimney fire, but that was electrical, and nothing to do with chimney. The house was empty. :D I also know of a good many brick chimneys that brought the house down in a fire to. :D Anecdotal evidence. ;)
Week 6: A 5 day week.
We have a couple sides finished with siding, another couple days to finish up. We have 3 days on it now. We wired most everything up until we pour the basement floor. We put the plumbing all in until we get the sinks and flushes in and we plumbed the shower. We put in air exchanger ducts and second floor heat ducts. Furnace and first floor heat duct goes in after basement floor is poured. Cold air return is in to upstairs, first floor ones later when furnace is in. Upstair one goes through a side wall so dust bunnies from the loom don't get eaten. :D We will insulate all around the bathroom. We will also insulate the ceiling of the first floor for sound deadening. So insulation and gyprock arrived today. You will see a hole near the window and a pile of gyprock on the floor. It had to come through that hole. The sheets are 12 feet long. Much easier than navigating up a stair case. :D We have to install a water line and drain to the washer like the one shown, a new code thing.
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Shower is 60" long and 36" deep, will have glass door.
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Washer hookup, new code requirement. I guess they don't trust a pipe with a tap. :D
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Hole to get 12' gyprock upstairs ;D
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The pink panther is on the loose.
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Your be in pretty good shape by winter, looking good !
Insulation for sound deadening?
Big floor loom on second floor and also one bedroom over the other, someone snores pretty good. :D
This is fun to "watch."
I am amazed at how fast this house has gone up!
Great stuff.
Jon
Yes indeed. And the boss of the crew is here every day with the rest of'm. :)
This has to be an exciting time for you. Me, I'm just following along, admiring, and sorta remembering my Cabin Addition days. :)
Loom studio space and almost finished sheet rock on second floor. :)
L corner with 7' wide corridor to closet and shelving area. Still some sheet rocking to do around the closet, and some cutting around the door. The dark line in the ceiling will be where a man hole will be cut out. We will access the attic to blow in insulation from there.
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Still have to install the pot lights in the long slopes. Those will swivel to any angle. Space left open there to get up there to finish the wiring to them. Not a big job there, just need to cut holes and wire them, the line is already run to them and the switch. There will be 6.
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That window is 6' x 8'. The room itself is 32' long and 16' deep plus the L corner.
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Wow! Your house is awesome. I really appreciate the pictures and descriptions. All of the bedrooms are on the first floor? Are any in the basement?
One on the first floor, one on the second floor. You can see the door way to the upstairs bedroom next to the stair well. :)
No rooms in the basement, it will not be finished down there, other than the wooden walls with sheet rock. I will have a wood furnace there, a wood room, utility room and storage areas. There are petitions for the wood area, but not closed in, other than strapped. I want air flow. :)
Is there code for fire protection requiring sheet rock behind a wood wall?
2" clearance I believe between insulated chimney and combustibles.
They will be crack filling, starting on Tuesday, is the plan, and by the weekend painting will possibly begin. The painter said he likes to paint for my contractor.
Moving right along!
We have been crack filling this week. More yet to do, but they will let it set a day to dry good. This was in three days, upstairs and down.
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Also, I bought my paint today. That is an expensive little pile of 22 gallons. But, it is the best to. ;D
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Basement floor is done, polished and cut this week as well. And we poured the foundations for the garage and shop this week. 8)
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My Dad paints interiors, I have know idea how he can do that all day without going mad! He is a big fan of the Ben Moore stuff, said the same thing, expensive but real good.
Looks great! Why do you cut the cement floors?
They do same on garage floors, in case you get a crack in it, you can contain it and repair it. I've seen garages have cuts every 3 feet across.
Painting. We should be tidied up by Tuesday with the paint, we have the stairway and the living room area to prime, but all the walls and closets are primed and one coat of color except the kitchen area. Loom studio and bedroom in photos. Got the cedar decking on the entry porch. Sided the south end of the house and main porch and covered the porch ceilings. Working on screens and railing on entry porch next and screen door. Framed in basement stairs and firewood room.
Ceder decking
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Main Porch
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Painting
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Man, I am not a painter and glad others can do it! It looks great.
Is the porch ceiling vinyl, how wide?
Main porch is 8' and entry porch with cedar decking is 4'. I believe the panels are 12" wide.
You are doing a great job!
I sure like the painters and that paint is really great. Nice even job. The crack fillers were excellent to. :)
Fixtures and switches are almost all done, tomorrow will be wiring up the breaker panel.
Insulation for first and second floor ceiling just arrived this afternoon along with the hardwood (maple) flooring for up stairs and the 3/8" sub-floor for the first floor vinyl flooring install. Rented the blower to install the insulation. :)
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Happy trails. smiley_horserider
That Maple is some purdy stuff. 8)
Very nice looks like your doing it up right !
Quote from: Magicman on August 14, 2018, 06:59:50 PM
That Maple is some purdy stuff. 8)
Maple is running $8 a square foot, got it for $5. Pricier than red oak. At $5 it is cheaper than vinyl because vinyl needs 3/8" underlay at $4 a square foot. ;)
Conduit run to house, garage and shop. Back filled garage and shop and dug water line from well.
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Garage
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Shop
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Lookin' good! Are the garage and shop gonna be done after the house is complete?
Yes
We dug out the old well box and exposed the top of the well casing on Friday. We have to put on 8 feet of pipe to bring it above grade. We had over 2" of rain Saturday night, so it got a little soupy down there. In fact like a big wash tub of water. :D She all drained away laterally through, down is solid bedrock. ;) There is the old water line.
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Lookin good SD
Bet the missus is anxious to get in.
Monday we put an 8 foot extension on the well. We have to do a little more digging to put the water line and power through to the house. We hooked up the power, so we are live wired now. And we put down the maple flooring. The furnace man will probably be here with the furnace and air exchanger by the end of this week. :)
Maple flooring, of course I am checking rockability standards. :D
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Basement steps
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Railing
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Screening
inside
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outside
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Hey, I am liking what I am seeing. thumbs-up
Right now, the screen door is not on, so the screens are keeping the blow flies in. :D ;D
Looking very nice,
Boy, looking at those pix I can almost smell the new house smell!
Is the existing barn you can see from the porch pictures yours? Part of the original farm?
Yes, my barn. It was built in '54.
I like the looks of the maple floor!
Are the railings aluminum?
Yes the railings are aluminum, and strong and rigid. :)
I thought we had decided on iron railing from a local guy but these work just as well. These had to be special order because of the span between posts. I'm fine with them. :)
Looking great. Will be good to get infront of the loom and do some creative designs. In your new home.
Doors,stairs and cupboards.....and lots of firewood. :D
Noticed some birdseye figure (photo) in the maple on one drawer face. ;) The shelves pull out, no reaching behind on hand and knees. :D All the cupboard doors are on European hinges with those easy close gadgets on them so they don't slam.
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Stairway handrail of maple with brackets used to mount them (got the brackets at Lee Valley). Steps are maple. I need two more coats of finish, sand between the coats.
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Pine doors throughout, except the broom closet and my bedroom door is hard maple. Another big walk in closet with a set of pine doors not shown.
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Had to wait 8 weeks for that maple door, and $800 later. ::)
Doors all waiting to be varnished.
Firewood room inside and free standing racks outside (braced corners and across top). There is over 6 cord stacked now and 2 more to be stored. I believe the wood room holds 5 cords. ;)
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Until next time........ smiley_horserider
Thanks for the update. You've gotta be getting antsy.
Yep! The plumber comes Monday to finish up. Got the submersible in the well on Thursday, so hopefully the electrical will be finished up this week to. The room doors all need varnished. Still waiting for the moulding on the dormer window. ::)
A lot has gone on! It is really looking good.
How do you control or deal with bugs in all that inside wood?
Burn'm ;D
That should do it, they don't disembark. You have a nice set up!
Swampdonkey,
Are you moved in? How did it all come out,happy? Did you run into anything unexpected or something go sideways? Seems like you had some great contractors to work with
Yes, I moved in on October 12th. Only a couple things that moved a bit slow. One was waiting for rubberwood for the dormer window. Another is a window repair, it was not put together right at the factory. They are fixing that Nov 13, after months. The problem there is the window company getting parts to the repair man, who is a third party. No one knows what the other is doing most of the time. :D Special order items are a bit on the slow side, like cupboards and a hardwood door 8 to 10 week slow. :D
Still arranging things in the weaving studio or 'great room' on the second floor. ;)
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There!!! Glad all is going good for you.
Thanks for the update SD. Hopefully more pictures will follow. smiley_thumbsup
Really nice! Congratulations on a very nice and quick build. I noticed it was 1/18 when you started the thread. Foundations dug in June. Here it is November and you are in! I am about 10 years in on a barn project! :D
Bringing this thread out of hiding to announce I am building the garage in 2 weeks. Very simple structure, steel roof and vinyl. Bare studs inside. Materials and trusses around $7000 plus 2 weeks labour. 8)
I remembered that a garage was in the plans, so lets get-r-done. 8)
A garage adds alot to the look of a house.
Trusses for the garage arrived and I tarped them. :)
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8)
Materials landed here this week. Lumber, OSB, siding, corners, J-channel, soffit, sill gasket, flashing, house wrap, roof vents, windows, door. Everything is tarped.
The steel won't be here until we have the roof on for the final measurements before cutting. But it will just be a matter of 24 hrs or less on delivery once they get word.
Begin construction June 3.
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Grass seed is starting, foreground and upper right.
Good for you SwampDonkey!
I've enjoyed following your thread. Always neat to see something take shape
I will be starting another house in a couple weeks. Me and an old friend, now business partner, did a spec house last year (as a side project) with the help of a local GC. It went fairly well, learned a lot, and made a little, and now we're gonna give it another go.
Best of luck with the rest of the build.
Matt
Day 1 on the garage build.
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Looking good. smiley_thumbsup
Day 2 progress on the garage. Ready for the steel roofing. Windows and entry door hung. Started the siding.
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Good crew, they aren't messin around!
Day 4. Roof and siding complete. Ready to pour the floor and wire the electrical. :)
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Done!! Looks good.
Still have the Rav4?
Nope Camry. Traded the Rav4 for the Tacoma in 2014. :)
In preparation for the floor pouring I levelled out the gravel using mason line and steel pins on the corners. It was only roughed in and packed after the form was poured. I did strips 2 feet wide as I levelled the gravel. I only had 3 wheel barrow loads too much to remove. It will be packed again, but only at the back wall for 4 feet, the rest is packed good already. There will be a 2" slope from back to front. It will be 4" reinforced concrete which is poured out over the door holes in the wall.
The floor was poured last Wednesday and today we began wiring the garage. The overhead door will be installed August 6, since the factory is on vacation the last 2 weeks of July.
Today I sanded the stairway and hand rails for a second coating of varnish. Applied that and it dried really fast today. I will do it one more time and maybe another after that. :)
What a lovely build, thanks for sharing, though it makes me a little embarrassed to share my workshop build that has taken months to not look nearly as nice as your house! Congratulations! It looks like you made wise choices all around.
Thanks aigheadish. I don't get email notices, so sometimes I miss replies.
Day one of the wood shop.
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Looking good !
Not big enough.
Sorry, I'm kidding, it had to be said. Looks like it should be a nice space.
I'm currently in the very early thoughts of building one of those work benches, with flip-over tools, to create some space in my shop, which is not big enough.
Yeah, lots big for me though. I'm not going to be doing that much. ffcheesy I worked in one for years about 1/3 the size. Got room there for a couple cord of firewood along one wall. ffsmiley
Day 2
Ready for the metal roofing.
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The windows are in.
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Is That your house up on the hill on the right??
@Peter Drouin No, that is an old church parsonage up there across the road. My house is to the left of the shop.
Got the steel on and ridge cap, soffit and facia and taped the seems on the house wrap. 3 days storm will hold up work, finish up on Monday. :sunny: :thumbsup: Will call the electrician next week, book the cement work which won't be done until at least June because of road closer up here (spring breakup), then get the stove and flu in and the overhead door. ffsmiley
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Looking good. I think I would have put more windows in. ffsmiley
Nah, the wall facing the road to the right is going to be for firewood. The wall to back will have a stove to the right of that window on up through the slope facing the road. The wall space back there would be nice to air dry lumber on a rack. ;) The west wall to the left will have power coming in about 4 feet from the corner. Lots of natural light plus electric lights. The wood lathe will be a on a bench under that west window. The entry door will have a window to the south. The overhead will not be windowed. One thing I like is wall space, too many windows and you have no wall space. :thumbsup:
Well ok, ffcheesy I think the green lumber in there will get moldy on you.
I put my lathe right under a window in my shop too, and knowing my history with running the lathe, I also built a raise-able screen protector that covers the window when I'm using the lathe.
I'm amazed at how much work you are getting done in a day!
Not so much green lumber getting mold, but kilned lumber not being dry enough for furniture. It's barely down to 20% out of the kiln, most of it, and not under climate control in storage which might dry further to 16% at best. ffcheesy ffcheesy ffcool
But I have stacked green hardwood without trouble in stickered piles over head in a barn. White pine you have to be careful with.
In my old shop I have a window behind my lathe there and never had anything head in that direction. ;)
I also like wall space more than windows, if I want to look out I open a door. I also don't want people looking in.
One of the reasons I don't want windows facing a road. But priority is wall space. I need that whole wall for wood stacking. And the most of another for a dry rack. It's not like I'll put 1000 bf on it, just a few sticks for a project to dry a couple weeks behind the stove.
We finished the siding, put in the flu, trimmed around the doors, put on the plastic and strapping on the ceiling. Ready to insulate the attic in the morning and that will be it until I get it wired, then I will insulate and put the 1/2" spruce plywood on and pour the floor as soon as they can come. Roads are closed to 80% until June up here on back rural roads, so no cement trucks.
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A little 'thoughtful' bonus, so that the electrician isn't climbing up there in my insulation, we ran a wire up to the outside light. :thumbsup:
Something I just noticed. You can see the shadow of the house in front of the shop but the left corner of it. The sun is far enough north now that it hits the north side of buildings in the afternoon. The sun it hitting the overhead door area starting pretty much at the door trim. That is of course the south end, but it is shining between and on the north end of the house and on the south end of the shop. The overhang of course puts the wall in shadow. The ground up to the foot of the overhead door is in light. Won't see that in January that late in the day. Sun would have set and way further south. Would have been a shadow in front of the shop (from the house) all afternoon.