Building our retirement home

[KiotiKowboy]

Now I remember looking at those pictures. But I've slept since then. .

That's my excuse. You'll have to find another one

 

[KiotiKowboy]

The project inches forward. We've managed to get the plumbing set and the slab poured. Framer is on tap for sometime next week and it will be quite a relief to see something resembling a house take shape. The next step will have its own set of complications given that we made some size changes just before the slab sent down. The plans, in several places, no longer match the drawings. We'll have to meet, measure and make some adjustments before the hammers fly

 

[TomSeller]

The project inches forward. We've managed to get the plumbing set and the slab poured. Framer is on tap for sometime next week and it will be quite a relief to see something resembling a house take shape. The next step will have its own set of complications given that we made some size changes just before the slab sent down. The plans, in several places, no longer match the drawings. We'll have to meet, measure and make some adjustments before the hammers fly

I'm confident you will workout the details. Very nice big slab, by the way. Nice!

 

[KiotiKowboy]

I'm confident you will workout the details. Very nice big slab, by the way. Nice!

I may have mentioned earlier, we went into this with less than proper construction plans. Our designers were sending us to the poor house and we had to walk away. As a result, we were left with little more than floorplans - which have been modified several times by hand. Every step now raises questions ... Where exactly? What size exactly? How exactly? LOL

We keep pushing along and trusting all will end well We've driven hundreds of miles shopping for exterior stone and wood siding, kitchen and bath fixtures, doors, windows and counter-top granite.

In the pics, the slab nearest is the garage. The center spanned section is our basement, and the far slab consists of the Great Room and main living areas. Above the basement section will be the guest bed, laundry, mechanical room and pantry.

Ground floor living space should be around 2600 sq ft and the basement is approximately 1000 sq ft. Total "under roof" will come in around 5400 sq ft.

 

[EddieWalker]

It's good to see the picture with the chairs under the rebar. But I'm at a total loss as to why there is no rebar in your footings? I've never seen this before and it's one of those things that gives me a lot of concern.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

I believe the way to describe this would be a monolithic slab on top of a footing - sort of a hybrid from traditional stemwall & monolithic. The footing went in long ago, and the perimeter of the slab rests on that footing - which also provides the brick ledge. There are also a few concrete piers in the slab.

 

[EddieWalker]

That must be the pad with the plastic. There are a few pieces of rebar coming up and at an angle. Those must be what's tying it all together.

 

[sdef]

We are also building our retirement home- rather the contractor is. We cleared the forest and built the driveway. Ours is 3300', brick, wired and plumbed for natural gas generator. Were supposed to take possession in a week or so but that is now delayed due to water damage from the floods in SC. Some roof, floor and sheet rock damage, not to mention some erosion. However, the very large dry bed I made (~180'x3.5'x3.5') to drain the sloping, now exposed cleared two acres worked wonderfully and directed the 21" of water runoff around the site the barn will be built. Although I did also lose some of the 350 tons of fill I had prepped for the barn's bed. Had another ~2" of rain yesterday. Oh well.



EDIT: I deleted this single pic of the house set off in the "Attached Thumbnails" box as it was an earlier photo and have no idea how it became posted.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

We are also building our retirement home- ...

Very nice. Congratulations.

I can only hope we will eventually home something taller than the cement slab! tick tick tick Waiting over a week for the framing crew.

 

[Got2BTru]

Looks VERY nice. Some nice details in the house. We start in the spring, Lord willing....