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
Congratulations on no more suits.
When will you break ground on the project? I also subscribed to your channel to see the progress.
c*
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
How very exciting! Looking foward to following your progress.
Thanks! Amazing how the weather effects the beginning so much!
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
Week 4 and I have footers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wfM85Wv1NQ
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*
Just watched your video, nice build. That blond is nice! lol Glad you seem to have blue skies!
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
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
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
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.
Week 7! Household goods and DSL. Getting closer to that first lumber order!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOuEw6Tq1z0
Week 8 - The foundation is complete and back filled!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvmQ4cH5Jdk
Week 9 - well the lumber, plumbing, and electrical supplies aren't going to order themselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lB2YWuOe9g
Week 10
Posts, girders, mud sill, and Joists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqpF36Mqugg
Week 11 - Installed the subfloor, cut window and door parts, and spotted the headers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXT_PgCnWiI
/cheers c*
Thanks!
Week 12 - The walls are up, ready for exterior sheathing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9iiFqI1zwM
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.
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.
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*
Yikes!!! I'm not looking forward to the roof work, that 6/12 pitch is looking mighty steep!
Week 13 - Trusses and wall sheathing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnRJj_M4DEY
Week 14 - "Almost a roof"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zXX8tcNXX4
Week 15 - Roof Progress
Sheathed the roof, rear facia complete and roof laid (almost).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVyupcMSKDw
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
Week 17 - The Roof is Done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PArRLeCnhQ
Week 18 - Filling Giant Gopher Holes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImwV01XnzgU
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
Week 20 - The house is dried in!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H4e-C1EoXY
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!
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!
Week 21 - Spray Foam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ismScBGF0
Week 23 Drywall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QYwN3-Zrn0
Week 24 Drywall is almost done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvi90VliZlc
You are a brave man for doing drywall, c* /cheers to you.
Or crazy.. d* d*
Week 25 the Drywall is Done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fhc5f1h0P4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYBg4yQ1D94
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFDoiGLpw4o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayrhm-nyVkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYDRqxZJafk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ictt9Bs3rwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J6dNA0XmVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKvh1f9lgss