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Discussion starter · #81 ·
existing Walls come down first thing monday morning. Customer is really happy, he's an engineer and he commented on how nice our joints are and how great everything looks. The roof is all dried in, roofer comes next week for shingles. we'll have windows in next week and electrician starts roughing in electrical. Owner is doing his own radiant floor heat below subfloor. Not part of my job. He's done an excellent job on the rest of the house, so I know he will do just fine. We normally run everything but in this job market, you gotta sometimes bend the rules a bit and stay busy.
 
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tcleve4911 said:
Hi Dan
Interesting project and your work is, as per usual....very good.
Thanks for the pics and the time you're spending with us.

You mentioned the Archy made a mistake with wall height.
With all the extra header/rim & LVL work you're posting, your estimate for framing must have gone out the window when this was discovered.

How did you manage this part of it?
Was there a Change Order involved?
Was there additional money requested?

Just curious since this is when the Archys usually grab their prints and point to the box that says something to the tune of:
" NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING ON THIS DRAWING"

Would like to hear how this part is playing out.:whistling
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Sorry, missed this one!,

The only real extra for material was buying 9' precuts, losing a few hours that day but using them we never had to cut a stud, so that saved us time building the walls. I returned the 8' studs, but we did use a lot of them for ceiling joists.

The beams were already on the prints, moving it higher just made us have to cut that rim out. I know the architect isn't going to say she did anything wrong. But she will have a long talk with me about why she shouldn't have tied so many details to the exact wall height without knowing exactly (with in an inch or so) of what it should be.

No change order has been issued. I will talk with the homeowner, but the increase isn't thousands of dollars because of this mistake, so for a few hundred bucks, I will just say it's part of jobs like this.

We are still within a time frame of finishing this job when I want to and what I figured.
 
#86 ·
That's how I thought you might respond.
Remodels always have some quirk that reels it's ugly head and you have to pool all your resources and just get through that part (I didn't want to overuse GIT ER DUM)

Has the Archy been by to see the mistake she made and how it effected everything else?

Having an Archy that you can work with through difficult situations together is priceless.

Good Luck with your talk. Hope it's positive.:thumbsup:
 
Discussion starter · #87 ·
I've been working with her for 9 almost 10 years. We've had our disagreements in the past but overall, she's pretty good. To her defense, the plans of the house when they did their last add on (second story, plus porch etc.) the existing cad plans showed the porch roof as 4/12. It was built to 3/12 in reality. She isn't being contracted to stay on this job and consult. Her job was for plans/design only. The customer was mine to begin with and I brought them to her. Normally she's on the job, usually the customer gets the change order and it's up to them to go after the ARchitect if it was their mistake. In this case, it would just be a back and forth argument about who's really at fault. It's not worth it for me to go down that road. I just want the job done and hopefully get some of the finish work inside, which we normally do.
 
Discussion starter · #88 ·
well, my helper called in today, out at a concert too late last night, so I bolted the rest of the beam (40 5/8" bolts) at the house, installed hangers on the existing floor joists, and then demoed all the walls myself.

here are some pics of the exterior sheathing complete. The roof is all on now. The roofers had it done in 4 hours, with flashing installed at wall etc.

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BOLTS anyone??

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Walls coming out....
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#91 ·
Nice to see that I'm not the only one that spaces my sheathing.:thumbsup:

Place is really coming along Dan.:thumbup:
 
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I'm just waiting to see if they are going to require shear blocking at all those seams. I've never been asked to do this in the past but this is a new township to me and I heard they are rough on inspections. not sure if the IRC2009 calls for sheer blocking on 1 story buildings or not. I don't see how it would really help. I've never had an issue not putting blocks in.
 
Discussion starter · #98 ·
our floor lines up in most spots. their floor is up and down in spots and the ceiling has a big sag in it. At the edges our ceiling planes but not as you go in a few ft. We are going to have to tear of the drywall on the existing ceiling, plane the some of the joists down a bit to get it to blend into our new addition. I'm not furring my ceiling down all over. They have an existing beam in their basement that has dropped over the years. It can't be jacked up because the owner already poured floor leveler on the second floor during the last renovation.
 
#100 ·
Dan,

I appreciate you posting this thread - I've enjoyed watching the progress at the comfort of my desktop and have learned a few things along the way :thumbsup:. It's the perfect medium to gauge our own skills against how others would perform the same task.

I think you've captured the true intent of forums like this by helping fellow professionals visualize with all the photo's.

Is your customer following this thread?... Pretty cool if he is - gotta know he's gettin' a good job.

Keep'em comin'

PS. You really think that skimpy beam with all those small bolts is gonna hold up the place?...:laughing::laughing::laughing::eek:
 
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