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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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#90 · (Edited)
I am completely on board with the dedicated house tools. I am actually going to take my electric compressor in to get fixed tomorrow so I can have it ready to go when the time comes

For the shell I am taking a week - week and a half off and going full time on the place. Then I will work in a couple other weeks as I can.
 
#94 ·
It sucks being a HO at times. Especially if you're a contractor.

I've always said HO insurance companies should give contractors discounts. I can't tell you how many boo boo's I've fixed that I could've made a claim for.
 
#109 ·
If i weigh precutting my mechanical holes in tgi webbing on the ground before I start and the stiffening up of the cantilever ends that will need done, I think the floor trusses still come out on top. Then it is simply run joists, rough mechanical, install subfloor and frame it up.
 
#126 ·
When I built my house I subbed the roof, stucco, HVAC, and drywall finishing. Everything else I did myself. Only went a little over budget. Took me a year of nights and weekends to get 1700 sq ft done.

Now my basment has taken over 2 years and still isn't done...lol!

Biggest difference is now I have 3 kids and when we built I had none.

I think you can do it..but it is way more of a commitment than you think. We do this day in and day out and know what needs done but for some reason, at the end of the day, things just don't go as smooth on a personal project.
 
#134 · (Edited)
I know this is a huge undertaking but limits on time, money, and options are all what they are.

People spend a lot of money on education....I've never handled the business end of a project like this, only done and managed the work. Having that experience alone is going to be worth it in the end and hard to put a price tag on.

I still haven't solidified the budget. I am now at 15k, I would really like to stay under 20k.

Speaking of 20 k, I was asked what I thought a ballpark was on a 20x20 master suite area addition on piers would be and I said at least 25.

Obviously, I have already learned that wouldn't be a good number but definatley worked as a qualifying answer as they had the same look I did when I got the floor truss quote... still no addition. lol
 
#139 ·
I'm not happy to pay taxes. I'm happy I don't pay NJ amounts and other states property tax burdens. But I hear ya! In reality none of us own anything we are all just custodians until we die. (Or not pay the taxes) :laughing:
 
#140 ·
Long story, short. Looking at purchasing a plot of land. Owner didn't pay property taxes for 12 yrs.

Put in an offer, accepted with a 30 day public notice.

Last day the owner paid one yrs taxes and sale fell through. Owner h as s always used property for hunting grounds.
 
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