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)
Maybe. We're getting rain tomorrow , I can work the next few days here before I have to go back to Grand Haven. Hell, I can probably not go back to work till Monday.
Fast it is. I think finishing off the entire upstairs would be doing too much. I think it will be perfect. Anything more and the people who need that much space aren't going to want a tiny lot
My son got a fractured pelvis and he is already playing Legoes on the floor behind me, the little snot is healing fast. All his face rubs/ burns are practically gone as well.
Some Sunday work. Stairwell Center wall is framed and the opening is boxed in around the perimeter.
Ended up having to put about 24" of stone in the footing holes. Glad I have a landscaping buddy. I was able to get my hands on about 2/3 of what I need total on a sunday afternoon.
I had to cook dinner here (ham) again as well as get all the above done.😕
I have a little help but I'm doing more than the Lions share.
Always seem to have a little extra gas in the tank for this project, I get excited when I start making progress. Always has been my dream to build my own house, and while I may not be completely building this place....i did the design and am building enough of it to say that I'm building my house I think.
Putting in my PSL column tomorrow. This house was built for this addition. The stud to the right is already on proper layout to sister the column too. Have to run this one to the foundation as it is holding 12,000 lbs.
What do they say? The cobbler's kids never have shoes. I have been good at putting things off at home, Hate to admit how long my house has gone in getting it the siding done. But am done adding on so no excuse in getting it done , so says my wife.
I saw a new development of mid-market homes in PA about 15 years ago. All PEX. It sold me.
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