Building my Retirement Home or "My First 5 Year Plan"

Weekend_Sawyer · October 10, 2017, 01:56:37 PM

That is a concern.
I believe that a membrane under the deck. A slight slope to that part of the floor and overhanging roof lines will prevent that.

Bricklayer51 · October 10, 2017, 03:19:49 PM

Jon remember that your not getting younger think about humping food and all your staples up steps

Weekend_Sawyer · October 11, 2017, 06:44:35 AM

I know. Every day I'm reminded that I am not the handsome young man I was 35 years ago.

My house is being built into the side of a hill so the basement is a walk out, the front door will only be about 5 steps to get up to.

Weekend_Sawyer · January 12, 2018, 01:01:56 PM

The drafter has finished the plans and I am really happy with them.
He also included some drawings of what the house might look like finished.

Here's the front of the house/cabin. I havn't quite figured out what I'll call it.

and here's the back. The upper area/loft is the master bedroom/bath.

It's about 1800 sq ft including the loft. Not really small, I'd call it comfortable.
The next step is getting a structural engineer to put the numbers to beam sizing and such.
The first (I was going to write crook but I'll hold my tongue) one I talked to quoted me $4500.
I fell out of my chair and told him I need to get a 2nd quote. I am meeting with an engineer this weekend that my buddy Wayne recommended who he has been using for the last 20 years. Over the phone he quoted me $500 and Wayne says not one of his houses has had a problem due to poor engineering.

Raider Bill · January 12, 2018, 02:48:33 PM

Yep, that will work! 8) 8)

Hilltop366 · January 12, 2018, 04:35:24 PM

Quote from: Weekend_Sawyer on January 12, 2018, 01:01:56 PM

Here's the front of the house/cabin. I havn't quite figured out what I'll call it.

I'd call it home.

SwampDonkey · January 12, 2018, 05:21:36 PM

Looks good to me Jon, lots of porch rocking space. I see you think like me, roof over it and bug screen'n. ;D Are you using jack posts from the ground up to the porch deck by the walk-in? That is what I plan on.

samandothers · January 13, 2018, 08:40:42 AM

Nice! Complete with an older Jeep Cherokee!

isawlogs · January 13, 2018, 09:00:38 AM

Looks good from here!! I like the concept.

WDH · January 14, 2018, 07:46:48 AM

The porch is fine. Looks really good. My kind of place.

scsmith42 · January 14, 2018, 02:46:07 PM

Very nice!

slider · January 24, 2018, 07:40:39 PM

I see you have screened in part of the porch ,good move in the summer time . I like your plan . I think you may be coming to the project this year ,looking forward to seeing you again.

Weekend_Sawyer · January 25, 2018, 08:37:47 AM

Quote from: slider on January 24, 2018, 07:40:39 PM
I think you may be coming to the project this year ,looking forward to seeing you again.

Slider, I plan on it every time. This annoying thing called work demands a lot of my time.
I am very hopeful to make it this spring.

Jon

Weekend_Sawyer · May 16, 2018, 08:04:06 AM

We have recently made some nice progress.
My concrete guy poured the footings for the lally columns and the chimney and then my contractor and I put in the under floor plumbing.

The next step is to pour about 30 yards of concrete.
Waa Hoo
Jon

samandothers · May 16, 2018, 09:36:08 AM

Glad things are progressing! I was wondering how things were going.

WDH · May 16, 2018, 04:49:01 PM

This is getting exciting.

Raider Bill · May 16, 2018, 04:56:02 PM

Quote from: WDH on May 16, 2018, 04:49:01 PM
This is getting exciting.

It sure is!

SwampDonkey · May 16, 2018, 05:21:44 PM

Nice to get the ball rolling and keep the momentum rolling. 8)

Peter Drouin · May 16, 2018, 07:20:06 PM

Looking good, 8)

Bruno of NH · May 24, 2018, 09:06:02 PM

Looks good

Weekend_Sawyer · June 05, 2018, 06:58:05 PM

The recent flooding in my area has not touched my foundation. But it sure did keep the concrete truck from getting any where near my place.

SwampDonkey · June 07, 2018, 05:50:40 PM

Thank goodness you were spared any flooding at your build site. Hopefully things dry up for you to keep things rolling along.

We could sure use some rain. All we get in sprinkles or showers of no consequence. Showers is all they have forecast for next 3 days, and not a high probability.

Weekend_Sawyer · June 11, 2018, 09:54:09 AM

As I said earlier, the recent flooding and 5+ inches of rain caused no damage to my foundation.
Now the roads getting in were another thing altogether.

There are 2 ways to get to my building site which is in a valley called Connors Hollow. The Little Red Schoolhouse entrance which has an old school house that is no longer used, and the yellow gate entrance which you might guess, has a yellow gate on it. Were into practical names. The school house way is 2 miles from the paved road to my place and was wiped out in many places by the storm. The little creeks along the way left their banks and ran down the roads cutting ruts that in some places were 6 feet deep.

The yellow gate road is 1.6 miles from my foundation. I did not see the damage to the yellow gate road because a logger and good friend of ours was working a piece of land along this road and repaired it before we got there. Man, that made me happy!

We spent the weekend with a skid steer, track loader and backhoe working the school house road. We got about 2/3 of the way done and it started raining again. So we packed up and headed for home. We will hit it again next weekend.

If the weather cooperates I'll have a concrete floor sometime this week.

Jon

samandothers · June 11, 2018, 01:25:09 PM

Bummer on you roads! Glad the house site is high and undamaged.

SwampDonkey · June 11, 2018, 05:19:49 PM

Roads can often be a challenge for sure, especially with any gullies and steep slopes around running water off quick to streams or across roads. You'll soon have the school house road back into shape and ready to roll.

Two miles is a good bit of road to maintain, then another two, that'll keep you busy. ;)

No rain here since my last post. Dry dry dry.