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A&E's House

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#1 · (Edited)
So it's never to early to start planning so I want to hear thoughts, ideas, recommendations, etc about our (hopefully) new place and planned upstairs master suite addition.

I am strongly leaning floor trusses at the moment to make mechanical work faster so I can dry the place in as quickly as possible.

Blown in fiberglass walls and vaulted ceilings.

Malarkey Legacy shingles
Oxford grey or storm grey

Keeping the white siding, adding black corner posts, black freiz boards, black facia, and white drip edge.

Where I will need to carry load down in the crawlspace, would footings on grade be ok or should I dig holes for the footings?

Should I screw the ceilings to the new floor trusses or will attaching the remaining chords of the roof trusses to the new trusses be sufficent?

Anyway, that is enough to start with I guess I am meeting with a customer of mine who is an architect and owes me a drawing sometime this week. (Needed to shave a few bucks off a project for him so we made a trade off for $750 to get it into budget, right now I am quite pleased with myself for being so creative...lol)


For those who missed it....current floorplan.

Proposed addition


Current attic space
 
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I agree with tx. I have a third party inspector on my own house much less a client's in the county where there is no permits. Only unlicensed work done on my jobs is on property i own which makes it legal for me to do myself.

I get where the plumber is coming from, Andy. What if the inspector happened by?
 
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yup. And that $600.00 number was the same when I first got licensed.

And it had been that way since the 1972 Licensing Act.

So it used to be you could damned near build a garage "back in the day" and not necessarily need to be licensed.

Fact is, I flew under the wire like that for a couple of years.

And before that (1972) - it was wide open country.
 
#747 ·
Class c or above here for a drywall
Contractor . The screw inspections vary in different areas in Va I don't work in the areas where they have screw inspections because they're idiots !!
I'm not having some Jack off engineer tell me what I've spent most of my life learning what will and what won't work .

The codes they worry about most adds up to nothing .

The codes they should change are never looked at in a common sense way .
 
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