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skyking · Sep 27, 2024

Hoping to "place" the concrete tomorrow

Greenman · Sep 27, 2024

I'd pour it.

Micrornd · Sep 27, 2024

Greenman said:
I'd pour it.

Yea, you would

skyking · Sep 28, 2024

Today was the day. It rained a bit and I and the concrete company were concerned about access, so I picked up 11 tons of 3" minus and made a pad for the trucks to back into the pump.

I remembered a sleeve for the future EV charging station. I hole sawed inside and then used the end of the pipe to bore into the other side of the block, then foamed that in and pinned it with a couple of screws.

It penciled out at 29.2 yards but 3 trucks was not enough and they sent out 1 more yard.
We plumbed up the walls after the second truck, and figured we were good on that. The alignment system was outside and we had preloaded it out to have it properly prepared.

skyking · Sep 28, 2024

we were wrong. That last couple of feet and the vibrator moved the high east wall about 1.5" out of plumb and nobody spotted that.
We were cruising around with the scaffolding, setting in the anchor bolts when I spotted it.
Pulling on it with the alignment system just pulled the stakes out, and our efforts with wedging it in from the inside were fruitless.
I've done a whole lot of strange and crazy things as an excavator operator for the last 35 years, but never did I imagine this.

I had to knock down the 200 yard pile enough to get close, and I pulled on the wall in 3 places. Jacob held a 2x6 against the wall until I got pressure on it and we pulled it back into shape, then reset the alignment.
We got it done.

Hans Gruber · Sep 28, 2024

Do you have a rendering for what the finished product will look like?

skyking · Sep 28, 2024

nothing 3d, here is the south elevation.
That 4x5 window is in the well there.
Because of the hung joists in the east end, all doors are roll in with no steps and that window is right up near the joists. It will get a cover.

iRONic · Sep 28, 2024

A wheelchair bound person's dream house!

Seriously, aging in place is a very smart philosophy for home building.

skyking · Sep 29, 2024

after witnessing all the struggles my brother in law had ( and my sister), I would not create a space that did not accomodate everyone possible.
Ideally it would be a single level slab on grade rambler, but the site did not speak to that.

skyking · Oct 22, 2024

So here is what it looks like when you go find the sanitary pipes below the finish.
Tap tap tap where you know they are, the sound is different. Break the thin concrete and vaccuum it up as you go, and pry up the cookie.
There is the coupler ready to continue piping. I will stuff a rag in it and the framer can hole saw for the pipe, and put the wall up. I'll glue a short piece in there after the wall is up so he does not have to frame over it.

I leave the ones I am not concerned with below grade and out of the way of the rolling scaffolding. These ones are in a bearing wall we need to frame to get the first floor subfloor in.
I'll locate and bring up the conduit and pipe as we build out those partition walls later.

skyking · Oct 31, 2024

walls are going up and building the basement stairs today.
I had to choose a finish for them to get the heights right, and we are going with rubber industrial on those.

They are behind a basement door. I will transition behind that door to a glue down LVP product to be determined.
The glue downs vary in thickness from 2MM to 5 MM.
the back edge of the stairs I am looking at are 9/64" or about 3.57 MM. I can feather that either way if needed.

skyking · Oct 31, 2024

We have the bearing walls up, ready for beams and tomorrow we'll build the basement stairs. I had a great chat with the inspector and aired out all the changes and questions I had. He was quite happy that I was sharing everything with him, I suspect folks are trying to "get one over" on the inspector and that gets old.

I got some great pricing from my local lumber store on the I-joists and made a command decision on the upgrades to stronger joists.
I also spoke with a local HVAC contractor who will supply me with the ducting that I will put through the joists. That was a huge relief.
They can get 7x14 premade in 5' sections, which I can easily design for.

herm0016 · Nov 2, 2024

are you planning for a eventual drop celing in the basement or for drywall on the bottom of the joists?

skyking · Nov 2, 2024

No drop ceiling, that is the whole plan on putting the ducting and plumbing through the joists.
To meet code the joists must have a fire covering on them so I get to finish it.
Same goes for the ICF walls. They must be covered by code.
I may drop the equipment room down 10" so I can run ducting around above a nice finished lid. It may be handy for consolidating the return air ducts cleanly.
It would still be 7' 6" or better in there.

skyking · Nov 2, 2024

The first set of stairs and all the bearing walls are up, both sides of the elevator shaft, etc.

We added a West coast style stringer to the open side to capture the stairs for installing a wire type railing.

That is not exactly the style I will be building, but you get the idea.

We got a good start on waterproofing this afternoon, after a long day of drying shit out. The rain has just been enough to keep things too wet to work.

skyking · Nov 12, 2024

We finished some backfilling on the big job, then I dumped out the pea gravel there, and took the dump truck to the shop to get the trailer and then to go rent a telehandler for my house job. I got it mobilized up here and now I'm ready to haul in some more rock to make the work site more passable. I'll have to do some of that reverse spread dumping to get it done.

That's an 8K 44' and weighs in at 26000. It wreaks havoc on jobsites so I will go open up my wallet at the quarry again.

skyking · Nov 15, 2024

It's been a busy week. I hauled in rock Monday, load of mudsill Tuesday, picked up a load of all the floor beams and joists and rim boards Wednesday. Loving this flat deck trailer.

My brother and niece's son showed up late Wednesday so yesterday was the first day with a full crew.
All the hangers were up and we made a router template to cut duct round holes.
Today we punched the holes in the bedroom joists. Those are an upgrade on the basic joist in the permit. I modeled all the spans in BC Calc software and upgraded those one class stronger.

The lads cut all the joists to length and staged them. I'll get to handle them again to cut rectangular holes for bigger duct, the dryer and bathroom vent piping, etc.
There will be no flex ducting anywhere in the house.

This was the other location I was going to upgrade joists, I was going up to the BC6500 but they were unobtanium. The vendor offered these beefy 60 series for a buck a foot more. Sign me up!

These are long spans and there is a partition wall that will transmit some loading from the floor above, and it is the longest straight walk coming in the entrance.
All told, the enhancements cost $335 over joists that met code OK but would have been a bit "boomy".

skyking · Nov 15, 2024

The framer built the drop floor section for the no threshold shower, and I discovered a problem with that yesterday and came up with a fix and also extended it to add more splash zone.

Screeenshot of the analysis of those joists in BC Calc.

skyking · Nov 18, 2024

BoomerD · Nov 18, 2024

I hope you have everything buttoned down…big storm coming in tomorrow night.

skyking · Nov 18, 2024

BoomerD said:
I hope you have everything buttoned down…big storm coming in tomorrow night.

we will see the benefit of the rain shadow on most of the heavy rains, but the winds will come out of the east tomorrow afternoon with a high wind advisory overnight to early Wednesday.

Hans Gruber · Nov 18, 2024

skyking said:
we will see the benefit of the rain shadow on most of the heavy rains, but the winds will come out of the east tomorrow afternoon with a high wind advisory overnight to early Wednesday.

You should setup a weather station with a rain gauge starting January 1st. Parts of Sequim are in the rain shadow more than others.

Greenman · Nov 19, 2024

skyking said:
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I know it's accepted and safe to do, but every time I cut a huge hole through a TJ I felt like I was doing something wrong. Even seeing them in place makes me nervous.

skyking · Nov 20, 2024

I keep hearing that LOL.
What is interesting is that slightly off center 8x14 creates more shear stress than a centered 8x18. You can drive truck through the middle LOL.
In retrospect the framing costs are so reasonable that I really should have built with 14's rather than 11 7/8".
It would have lowered the basement ceiling that 2", moved the stair header a bit but that is it functionally, and it would give me more options for hacking things through.
The basement ceiling is at 101" now, which is sweet.
We are getting the joists in tomorrow and the HVAC in simultaneously for the most part. When we get to the end of the day, it will need the custom plenum over the furnace built, a return plenum, and there are some ducts going up to the 2nd floor to continue with.
We kept it all in the lid except for in the equipment room and 1 12" pipe that pokes out of it and 90's up.

skyking · Nov 20, 2024

Got wood? That's 9000 pounds of first floor framing. I had no clue it was going to be that much when I sent in the takeoffs.

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