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Thats a nice one, osb on the curved roof too?

 

I can guess what the inside of that home looks like..cut up!!

 

Cutting jacks.

 

There are 4 of these massive columns. This house has had a bunch of changes. We had to go around and drop the facia. Wrong details/measurements on the plans. And about 10 niches. We are realizing this drafter for the builder we are working for has no clue what she's doing. Oh well the more changes the more we get to charge.

I head for Maui tomorrow guys have probably 2-3 more days left here. Then we are slow for a bit. Hopefully something comes up while I'm gone.

 

Have a nice trip!

 

Law of unintended consequences- the builder raised the foundation up 18" because it "flowed better" but left the garage floor level as is. Now he thinks there's too much space between the top of the garage doors and the soffit so he wants me to raise the garage headers a foot. ***hole!

 

Law of unintended consequences- the builder raised the foundation up 18" because it "flowed better" but left the garage floor level as is. Now he thinks there's too much space between the top of the garage doors and the soffit so he wants me to raise the garage headers a foot. ***hole! View attachment 165033

We have missed a few garage headers by a foot over the years. Raising them is a pain, but doable.

 

I just wish they would look ahead a little. They were up for a good week and a half with no sheeting. The day after they were sheeted he comes up with this.

 

Yep, been there, I understand completely.

 

I have the old discount one from Bob's Closeouts. I guess all the magic's been used up.

 

I walked through a POS Today .. While the H/O was pointing at the impossible She wanted fixed I kept looking in the opposite direction ... She turned and asked me what I was looking for? I said ! A window!!

 

Haven't posted many pics here in a while. This is our current project. Pool house with 3" thick t&g roof sheathing with 7" foam system over. 60 windows in this bad boy. Cupola on top is 12x28

 

Thats serious stuff! Whats that concrete structure behind? I have seen it spec'd on plans before to put plywood over top of the car decking for racking resistance. Is this an issue?

 

This deserves its own thread. No?

 

We leave it down for shear. It's already an 8 footer, but his thought was to raise the header AND the floor. Now you've made a steeper drive, created a runoff problem with the neighbors drive, and have to bring in a whole lotta fill. I told him why not just put in 9' doors?

 

5 days in on this 6 pack. Worst foundation I've seen in 5 years. So bad we couldn't sheet the garage walls on the ground as they would teeter. Out of level out of square and up and down is what they are getting. Can't shim 1 1/2" over 9'. Not one I'm glad to have my name on. Should have second floor on and sheeted tomorrow.
Total is 9800sqft.

 

5 days in on this 6 pack. Worst foundation I've seen in 5 years. So bad we couldn't sheet the garage walls on the ground as they would teeter. Out of level out of square and up and down is what they are getting. Can't shim 1 1/2" over 9'. Not one I'm glad to have my name on. Should have second floor on and sheeted tomorrow.
Total is 9800sqft.

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Who formed it?

 

Yeah, mines not much better. Perfectly level +/- 1/2". I had sheeted all the walls down, so had to plumb with the forklift.

 

Does anyone charge extra for for shimming plates if needed ? The builder I do lot of work for has no problem with me charging extra for shimming , he just back charges the concrete crew for it. I guess it's cheaper to pay carpenters to fix it then do it right the first time .

 

Always shim some on most homes we do. Only charge extra if it's way out like that. That usually is a homeowner ICF job though x-(

 

 

Cedar conical roof. The construction master came in handy on this one. Steel brackets still need to be installed on end trusses as well as plates to tie bottoms of rafters to the beam. Copper roof to be installed.

 

Did this yesterday
Nothing special but it looks good
Took special care to not put purlins at 1/2 and 1/4 points for sake of lights to be installed

I am doing a barrel on the porch too, pushing for a groin vault in another room!

 

Wall prefab on the same building. Should have them all up today I hope. (Second floor walls)

 

Dormers

 

Dormers View attachment 168354 View attachment 168362

Where is the fascia on that bad boy

 

I knew that would be the first thing someone would say. We didn't have any at the time.

 

Started another 4 family.

 

Started another 4 family. View attachment 168610

Looks good! Concrete guys can actually get the ledge consistent over there?

 

Ready to crane

 

They are an elusive bread,good masons.

 

You guy's should see the crap concrete me and kyle_dmr deal with in our area.

 

As a few of my cement head buddy's say - she's blow and go

 

I'm excited to see a foundation within 1/2" of square. Level? Ya sure