New Home Begins

ENG18LT · May 8, 2013

Looking good Tom. How is the basement doing as far as water goes? The walls/joints seem to be staying water tight?

tkappeler · May 8, 2013

ENG18LT said:
Looking good Tom. How is the basement doing as far as water goes? The walls/joints seem to be staying water tight?

Completely watertight. The sump crocks are never more than 1/2 full when we turn the generator on.

ENG18LT · May 8, 2013

tkappeler said:
Completely watertight. The sump crocks are never more than 1/2 full when we turn the generator on.

Nice.

dstig1 · May 9, 2013

Congrats on the inspections!

mjncad · May 9, 2013

Good deal on passing the plumbing inspection. I'm sort of surprised that the HVAC didn't go in first as the ducts are the biggest thing to route. No matter, as long as it meets your approval, that's all that matters.

I agree, put up the ledger board now while it's easy to do.

tkappeler · May 9, 2013

mjncad said:
Good deal on passing the plumbing inspection. I'm sort of surprised that the HVAC didn't go in first as the ducts are the biggest thing to route. No matter, as long as it meets your approval, that's all that matters.

I agree, put up the ledger board now while it's easy to do.

I hear you about the HVAC first. Did the electric and plumbing ourselves out of pocket so did not have to worry about bank draw schedules. We had already done a site survey with the HVAC company so we knew where the trunks were going and kept that in mind when we ran everything so those "lanes" were clear.

The one tough part is that the trunks will have to drop down UNDER the beams on either side of the great room. There is no room to run them between the ijoists as they are 12" on center (7" in between) and solid blocking all along the beams so cant run through them. It makes me especially happy to have gone with the 9' basement ceilings.

mjncad · May 10, 2013

I sure wish Casa Lemon as I call our house had 9' ceilings in the basement. Good deal on coordinating with the HVAC company on routing and sizing. I've drawn up just enough HVAC ducts for commercial and industrial faculties to know all the contractor cares about is duct sizing, routing, and general location as they wing it from there.

tkappeler · May 10, 2013

Here are some pics of the HVAC work in progress. The pics were taken yesterday, during the work, so it's a bit of a mess. I will get better pics now that it's complete.

Monday is the HVAC inspection. I will be running the gas lines tomorrow and preparing for the framing inspection next week. We could be into insulation and drywall the week after!!.