Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days

   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #141  
Love that wall setup.

Going to go pretty fast, looks like you have perfect weather for those walls to go in.

Mark
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #142  
Very cool! Great pics on the foundation wall install. This has likely been asked already, how are they attached to each other?
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #143  
Very nice. I am really liking this Superior Walls system. Those are the standard, R-5 walls, right?

I think those are the Xi walls. The R-5 walls shown on Superior Wall's site have concrete studs with a wood nailer insert. These studs all look like galvanized steel stud facings to me.
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #144  
Very impressive

David Sent from my iPad using TractorByNet
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #145  
Wow really something to see thanks for posting.
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days
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#146  
Got some more pics of the rest of the install, which I think answers the questions you guys have.

Prepping the area where the 2 car garage goes:

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Running the plate tamper after getting close to level:

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Setting temporary horizontals bars to the exact height using laser level:

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Scraping to get exact levelness:

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Setting first wall:

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Setting 2nd wall:

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A little further along:

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And the final piece:

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They were gone in 30 minutes and all that was left were a few bags of trash:

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Couple of angles of the completed foundation:

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How garage walls are tied in with basement wall:

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View in from the walkout basement:

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View inside the basement. They plan to put down styrofoam 2 feet out from all walls that will have less than 2 feet of back fill dirt on the outside. Everything else will get a 6mil plastic barrier.

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Inside basement looking out:

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R Value of panels:

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How corner pieces are tied together:

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How straight pieces are tied together:

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   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #147  
Really appreciate your photo documentation of the wall placement. Almost like being there and very educational.
Thanks.
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #148  
the construction of the foundation was most impressive. a couple of questions, if i may: 1) what is your sense of the total elapsed time from showing up on site to leaving? this was all done in a single day, correct? 2) do you know what the cost differential between the superior walls foundation that you have and the "typical" process of forms, concrete trucks, etc?
 
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1) what is your sense of the total elapsed time from showing up on site to leaving? this was all done in a single day, correct?
Trucks arrived at 8:30am. They left around 2:00pm

2) do you know what the cost differential between the superior walls foundation that you have and the "typical" process of forms, concrete trucks, etc?
Regular basement with rough-in plumping, french door and 5 windows (2 double and a single) would have been about $25k. This was about $29k. So $4k premium, but well worth it I think, since the basement walls are fully insulated and ready to be finished later, should one so choose. Also a lot less mess on site, not to mention much faster. There are conduits built into the walls too for wiring, including around corners.
 
   / Building a stick frame house in the woods in 90 days #150  
AMAZING! And great photos.

From what I read, you don't have to waterproof the outside either, it's already done.
 
 
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