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Title: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on March 29, 2019, 05:10:43 AM
Today is my last day at work (no more suits) Next week is the drive out to Missouri and the build begins!  This forum has provided a great sounding board and lots of suggestions/ideas!  With all the friends and family asking to be kept up on the build and the transition to "my turn" at living, I promised them I'd post videos of the progress.  I'll try and post them here too so those good ideas can keep flowing!  In case I miss one I'll post the link here, there are already two videos posted showing the plans or as some have put it "something to compare the finished product to". 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQRKBjPZkMNLdccme7CxIWA
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Migraine Craftsman on March 29, 2019, 08:03:39 AM
Congratulations on no more suits.

When will you break ground on the project? I also subscribed to your channel to see the progress.

c*

Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on March 29, 2019, 04:18:39 PM
Thanks! I can't tell you how the thought of no more ties makes me feel! The foundation but arrives the week of 8 April and I've asked that he be done by the end of April - weather permitting. Excited to get started and share the journey. Thanks for subscribing!
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Migraine Craftsman on March 29, 2019, 04:40:07 PM
Quote from: retiredmarine on March 29, 2019, 04:18:39 PM
Thanks! I can't tell you how the thought of no more ties makes me feel! The foundation but arrives the week of 8 April and I've asked that he be done by the end of April - weather permitting. Excited to get started and share the journey. Thanks for subscribing!

I actually know the feeling of no more NOOSE, I mean necktie. I did some of that in my previous life.

Since you mentioned a couple of weeks time frame for the foundation I am assuming its gonna be a block crawl space? I like those since you can get to everything under the house.

/cheers, awaiting your progress vids.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on March 29, 2019, 06:20:43 PM
It's going to be poured concrete walls, my foundation guy seem allergic to block.  ;D same concept though 24 in above grade plenty of room to crawl under if I HAVE to.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Mike 870 on March 30, 2019, 06:35:27 AM
That will be nice to have a solid foundation.  I can add my voice to the chorus of people who wish that they had done that.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on April 02, 2019, 01:10:15 PM
I've got a few people here to thank for the full foundation idea. I got talked out of pillars some time ago and I'm glad.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on April 07, 2019, 04:55:30 PM
OK, getting there is some of the battle, right?  I'm packed up and headed to MO!  Road trip ahead and then the next page of "To Do's" starts.  There is an end isn't there?  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQRKBjPZkMNLdccme7CxIWA?view_as=subscriber
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Migraine Craftsman on April 07, 2019, 05:29:09 PM
Left you a comment on your youtubes, I also downsized all my crap when I moved but I fit it into a honda civic lol.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on April 07, 2019, 07:57:02 PM
You win!!  I will say some of the stuff I moved was for the build.  I purchased all my electric, PEX plumbing, fixtures, wood stove, ceiling fans and lights. Well that's my excuse anyway.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on April 14, 2019, 09:18:18 PM
First week down.  Electric service is in, build site and adjacent areas cleared, pad preped for shipping container (storage) and tiny house (12X12 storage shed delivered.  Foundation is next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV2nMVA30fM
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on April 21, 2019, 03:34:11 PM
Week Two. Rain made the site unable to get the well truck, shipping container, or the form truck in.  Still made a bit of progress and got the temporary "household set up. Also threw in a orientation of the property. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45aEDxly9o
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Rys on April 22, 2019, 05:45:14 AM
How very exciting! Looking foward to following your progress.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on April 23, 2019, 07:10:01 PM
Thanks!  Amazing how the weather effects the beginning so much!
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on April 28, 2019, 08:28:47 PM
Week 3! Time flies!  The weather is slowing me down, I still have several large trucks that need to get into the property not to mention the excavator to dig the foundation and concrete trucks to pour it. That means solid, dry ground.  Rain doesn't help.  Oh well I've got nothing but time. I did get the well drilled before last weeks rain. I'm calling that a success!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bppugEH7dA

Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on May 05, 2019, 05:08:54 PM
Week 4 and I have footers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wfM85Wv1NQ
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Migraine Craftsman on May 05, 2019, 05:21:19 PM
Grats on coming along I know how it feels to wait to get going.

Btw funny thing is I am doing the same thing on my channel. Just finished footers and got started on the block foundation.

About to head to youtube and leave you a like and comment.

/cheers  c*
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on May 06, 2019, 09:44:13 AM
Just watched your video, nice build.  That blond is nice! lol   Glad you seem to have blue skies!
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started - Week 5
Post by: retiredmarine on May 19, 2019, 04:13:51 PM
Somehow I forgot to post this here.  Week 5 has come and gone with me one step closer to water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piDlp199uaY


Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on May 19, 2019, 04:24:16 PM
Week 6!  The crawlspace walls and well are done!  My household goods have arrived, that means I now have tools!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBfQ8Qnhoto
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: jsahara24 on May 20, 2019, 09:30:23 AM
I'm enjoying watching your videos!  Look forward to following your progress, do you plan to do any of the construction yourself or are you hiring most things out?  I see the weather over the next two weeks looks really wet especially in the midwest.  Hope it doesn't impede progress too much.

Take care,
Jason
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on May 24, 2019, 01:41:10 PM
Jason,  the plan is to do everything but the spray foam insulation myself. You were right about the rainy days, but it looks like the sun may be returning. Still need to backfill and I've been keeping busy emptying the moving trailer into the shipping container. Hopefully the weather holds. Thanks for following along.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on May 26, 2019, 06:59:44 AM
Week 7! Household goods and DSL.  Getting closer to that first lumber order!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOuEw6Tq1z0

Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on June 02, 2019, 05:29:38 PM
Week 8 - The foundation is complete and back filled!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvmQ4cH5Jdk
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on June 09, 2019, 03:38:44 PM
Week 9 - well the lumber, plumbing, and electrical supplies aren't going to order themselves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lB2YWuOe9g
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on June 16, 2019, 07:42:16 AM
Week 10

Posts, girders, mud sill, and Joists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqpF36Mqugg
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on June 23, 2019, 06:33:37 AM
Week 11 - Installed the subfloor, cut window and door parts, and spotted the headers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXT_PgCnWiI

Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Migraine Craftsman on June 23, 2019, 05:30:55 PM
/cheers  c*
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on June 24, 2019, 10:53:56 AM
Thanks!
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on June 30, 2019, 07:22:34 AM
Week 12 - The walls are up, ready for exterior sheathing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9iiFqI1zwM
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Don_P on July 04, 2019, 08:34:40 PM
Oh man I hope not but I think we need to talk about window and door headers. With the void in the stud support created by those openings there needs to be a beam, a header, at the top of those openings to support whatever is above. I'm not sure with my screen but it looks like you spanned those openings with 2 flatways 2x4's, if so, that doesn't create the needed support. The header tables are in chapter 5, table R502.5(1)
https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/VRC2012/chapter-5-floors
It gives header sizes depending on building width and what is above. The header members they are calling out are standing up on edge. As the openings get wider also pay attention to the jack count.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on July 04, 2019, 09:02:40 PM
There were about 3 headers that I rotated the wrong way and instead of them being on edge they were laying flat. Caught it and I'm going to rotate them.  They are double 2x4's with a 1/2 inch of plywood between.  I'm going to blame it on the heat - missing that I rotated them the wrong way.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Don_P on July 04, 2019, 09:14:19 PM
Good deal, 3 is much better than all! We call that tropical brain bake. We stripped and reshingled our house last week, thought we did good to survive for old farts. I think going to the landfill is as bad as anything this time of year. My partner emailed last night that his roof leaked into his living room in yesterday evenings rainstorm... darn here we go again  d*
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on July 05, 2019, 01:02:54 PM
Yikes!!!   I'm not looking forward to the roof work, that 6/12 pitch is looking mighty steep!
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on July 07, 2019, 06:25:20 AM
Week 13 - Trusses and wall sheathing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnRJj_M4DEY
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on July 14, 2019, 08:59:34 PM
Week 14 - "Almost a roof"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zXX8tcNXX4
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on July 21, 2019, 06:22:33 AM
Week 15 - Roof Progress

Sheathed the roof, rear facia complete and roof laid (almost).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVyupcMSKDw
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on July 28, 2019, 06:29:17 AM
Week 16 - I'm Stuck!!

Getting 20,000 lbs out of the mud!!  All the roofing trim and underlayment is installed. House wrap done (except for one small triangle) Just waiting on the rain, I mean roofing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIYyelg6IyA
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on August 04, 2019, 06:18:20 AM
Week 17 - The Roof is Done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PArRLeCnhQ

Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on August 11, 2019, 06:18:06 AM
Week 18 - Filling Giant Gopher Holes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwV01XnzgU
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on August 18, 2019, 06:17:32 AM
Week 19

Got the electric in and front pourch almost complete. The back deck is moving along and the chimney is ready for spray foam.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cCFoFiE_8U


Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on August 25, 2019, 06:19:41 AM
Week 20 - The house is dried in!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H4e-C1EoXY
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: KJones on August 31, 2019, 01:11:57 PM
Just subscribed to your YouTube channel after finding your videos here! Hoping to make my way through them this Labor Day weekend, to wet for me to do anything at my place and College Football started this weekend!

Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on September 01, 2019, 06:26:52 AM
Quote from: KJones on August 31, 2019, 01:11:57 PM
Just subscribed to your YouTube channel after finding your videos here! Hoping to make my way through them this Labor Day weekend, to wet for me to do anything at my place and College Football started this weekend!

Thanks for sharing!

It's been quite a journey, I think I can see the light!
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on September 01, 2019, 06:40:20 AM
Week 21 - Spray Foam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ismScBGF0
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on September 15, 2019, 09:53:55 AM
Week 23 Drywall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QYwN3-Zrn0
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on September 22, 2019, 06:28:52 AM
Week 24 Drywall is almost done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvi90VliZlc
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: Migraine Craftsman on September 22, 2019, 12:59:06 PM
You are a brave man for doing drywall,  c* /cheers to you.
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on September 22, 2019, 02:54:41 PM
Or crazy.. d* d*
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on September 29, 2019, 06:15:07 AM
Week 25 the Drywall is Done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fhc5f1h0P4
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on October 13, 2019, 06:25:31 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYBg4yQ1D94
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on October 20, 2019, 06:22:19 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFDoiGLpw4o
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on October 27, 2019, 06:54:57 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayrhm-nyVkU
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on November 03, 2019, 07:18:44 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYDRqxZJafk
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on November 10, 2019, 08:00:18 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ictt9Bs3rwI
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on November 17, 2019, 07:37:46 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J6dNA0XmVM
Title: Re: The MO Build has Started
Post by: retiredmarine on November 24, 2019, 07:36:01 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKvh1f9lgss