At Home In The Woods

[scoutcub]

Obed -

The place is looking fantastic. I love the stone fireplace, the shower tile and shower seat, and even the brown tile!
Should be quite a transition moving into such a beautiful home...!

 

[srs]

Obed -

The place is looking fantastic. I love the stone fireplace, the shower tile and shower seat, and even the brown tile!
Should be quite a transition moving into such a beautiful home...!

I have to agree. EVERYTHING looks great!!!! I'm going to hate it when this thread comes to an end, then what will we do??

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I have to agree. EVERYTHING looks great!!!! I'm going to hate it when this thread comes to an end, then what will we do??

road trip to knoxville :laughing:

 

[Obed]

Front Porch Concrete
The front porch and basement back porch concrete slabs got poured today. Prep work was done two days ago.

We used 4000# dyed concrete with fiber. The front porch has rebar placed every 16" in a grid pattern. Sand was used to cover the brick rollock around the edges of the porch to protect the brick during the concrete work.

A footer for the front porch steps was dug, laid with rebar and poured. The rebar was inserted into drilled holes in the adjacent porch footer to help prevent the steps from settling independentyly from the porch. The front porch will only have one row of steps. The porch will be 16" above grade. Concrete blocks will be laid on the footer, then one 8" high step will be laid on the concrete blocks. You can see rebar sticking out of the bricks above the footer for the steps. Hopefully, the rebar will help prevent the steps from settling and leaning away from the porch.

This guy sprinkled a powder dye by hand on the concrete to give the surface a less uniform color. The grey powder on the porch prevents the concrete stamps from sticking to the concrete during the stamping process. The concrete will actually actually be a brownish color when it is finished.

 

[tony Cecil]

Obed

Spectacular cement work.....I personally like it better than some type of laid stonework..Tony

 

[Obed]

Thanks everybody for the nice remarks. My wife said something the other day that I hadn't heard her say before. She said, "We're getting close." While there's still a lot left to do, my wife is finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. She is actually the person making this house build happen. Most of my job is just digging around the house with the tractor, shovel, and maddock.

Next week the painter will paint the trim. Some plugs, switches, and lights will be installed by the electrician. The cabinets are supposed to be installed. Trim work will continue.

 

[dcyrilc]

I don't think you'll be eating Thanksgiving Dinner in the house, but there's a good chance that you might very well be eating Christmas Dinner there though.:thumbsup:

You are indeed getting close.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

that porch looks great.

 

[dstig1]

They could eat Turkey dinner there...it may be roasted on a grill on the porch, but they could eat there

Seriously if you are talking about painting trim and cabinets install now, you are very close to the end of major work. The only caveat is that the farther you get in the project, the slower progress is. Finish trim is much slower than framing, for example. You don't get a floor a day in trim...

 

[Obed]

Seriously if you are talking about painting trim and cabinets install now, you are very close to the end of major work. The only caveat is that the farther you get in the project, the slower progress is. Finish trim is much slower than framing, for example. You don't get a floor a day in trim...

Dave,
Trim work has been going on for 4 weeks. I don't mind that the trim work is taking a while. I believe all the doors and windows are done. The crown moulding is done. Baseboards just started. 2/3 of the baseboards were defective and will have to be returned Monday. All the bad ones were made in Brazil.

We love the trim guy. He takes his time and is very detailed. He's been here everyday for so long that he's almost part of the family. He has made himself at home in the garage where he has set up his workbench. He plays old-timey country music. Sometimes from our camper we can hear him singing in the house.

Here's some of the detail work he does. At the bottom of the windows, instead of just cutting off the ends of the trim boards as 90 degree angles, he cuts 45 degree angles and attaches a small piece of trim at the end.

We ordered jam extensions for our windows so that we have wood trim completely around the windows instead of sheetrock. If the window stool sits on top of the jam extension without any modifications to the stool, there will be a 1/4" deep depression x 1/2" running along the bottom of the sash (between where the stool and the sash . My wife saw a house that had the 1/4" depression and did not like it figuring it would collect dust and be hard to clean. So the trim carpenter routed out the bottom of all the stools so that when installed, the stool would sit 1/4" lower so that there would be no depression between the stool and the sash.

The trim carpenter made 45 degree cuts at all the outside corners of the crown moulding.

Here's the dining room/office. The trim carpenter moved an electrical outlet and one low-voltage box that were in the way of the wainscoting trim and patched the sheetrock. I'm thinking that most people would have just left a gap in the trim for the existing electrical boxes.