New House Build in WV

[coobie]

NICE..

 

[TnWV]

Made good progress the last couple days. Everything is painted except a bathroom, hallway and a couple closets. Wife picked up a few more gallons of paint today, so that’s on tap for tomorrow. Total so far is 20 gallons of primer and 17 gallons of paint, including what was bought today. Not as much as I expected.

I managed to start the flooring this afternoon and it went pretty well, hope to get al lot more done tomorrow.

Also hung several fans and light fixtures. Put a bunch of switches in too, nice to be able to turn breakers on and not have to turn them back off.

Here are a few pics of the progress.

 

[EddieWalker]

That flooring looks really nice!!!

 

[s219]

Nice work! You have entered that crazy phase where the amount of work to do has blossomed. You can make a lot of progress but it will seem like you are trying to catch up with infinity. The farther you get, the more little tasks will accumulate.

On houses where all these tasks are subbed out, this is the phase where you'd have 10+ vans parked in front of the house and all the trades buzzing around like bees. I like watching projects like that when it's not me struggling to do all the work on my own.

 

[TnWV]

That flooring looks really nice!!!

Thanks, it definitely worked well with the paint color. I was afraid the paint might be a bit grey for it, but it worked out well.

 

[TnWV]

Nice work! You have entered that crazy phase where the amount of work to do has blossomed. You can make a lot of progress but it will seem like you are trying to catch up with infinity. The farther you get, the more little tasks will accumulate.

On houses where all these tasks are subbed out, this is the phase where you'd have 10+ vans parked in front of the house and all the trades buzzing around like bees. I like watching projects like that when it's not me struggling to do all the work on my own.

Thanks. When I think about the remaining work, I try to look back at what has been accomplished, that makes the tasks ahead not seem so big.

I’d like to see a few of those 10 vans pull up, progress would be faster!

 

[TnWV]

Fought with ceiling fans way too much the last couple days. I hung a second in the living room identical to the one above. These fans have remotes and I’ve never had one with a remote before. They would be nice if you want to operate from only one switch and not have them connected to each other. I wired for the fans to be one one switch and the lights on a 4-way so light could be turned on or off from rack entrance/ exit from the room.

Hooked everything up and the lights went haywire. Flip a switch and one would come, or may be the other, or maybe both. No rhyme or reason and it had me questioning my wiring and testing everything. Turns out, you just can’t connect two remote operated fans and expect them to light up consistently without using the remotes. Also found that these particular fans require the fan to be on for the light to work, even though the lights have a separate lead.

Never seen anything like it and it cost me hours of troubleshooting. Finally just took them down and had the wife return them for regular pull chain models. They work as they should.

Anyways, installed lots of other fixtures, switches and outlets. Finally made more floor progress this evening. And my wife did some more painting. You can see in the picture that I had to plane the subfloor at the edges a bit to flatten it out. Too much time in the weather I guess.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I put ceiling fans in almost every room of my house. Light switched, fan uses pull chain. Most were cheap HD Hampton bay models. Almost every one of those has been replaced already, a couple let out their magic smoke. All replacements are Hunter which have never failed. I counted 10 ceiling fans in the house.

 

[TnWV]

I put ceiling fans in almost every room of my house. Light switched, fan uses pull chain. Most were cheap HD Hampton bay models. Almost every one of those has been replaced already, a couple let out their magic smoke. All replacements are Hunter which have never failed. I counted 10 ceiling fans in the house.

I have found Hunter fans to be good as well. All fans purchased so far have been Hunter.

 

[TnWV]

Progress has been slow since Saturday with Easter on Sunday and baseball activities yesterday evening and this evening. I did manage to get several more boxes of flooring down and more outlets installed.

Concrete is ordered for Friday morning to pour the garage floor and A/C and generator pad.

I would like to have a water hose spigot outside of the garage. My choices are to run pex under the concrete changing over to metal coming out of the concrete, I’m thinking copper, then going through the concrete foundation and mounting a spigot on the foundation or running the pex over the garage, in the attic, then back down the outside wall with the spigot coming out of the wall.

If I go under the concrete, there will be the short metal pipe showing on the inside of the foundation wall. I would just paint it to match the wall color. If I go into the garage attic and down the wall, nothing is exposed. I don’t believe it would freeze under the concrete, and I could insulate over/around it line in the attic. Not sure which method is most freeze proof.

I’m torn on which route to take. Any suggestions??

 

[EddieWalker]

Why would you change from PEX to copper? When you run the PEX, or any other water line through concrete, be sure to put pipe insulation around it so the pipe never touches the concrete.

The only thing I use more then the water spicket outside my shop is the sink inside the shop. Run a drain line where a sink would go and install it later if it's a Code or Inspection issue. Just run the drain to an area where you want to water the plants.

 

[TnWV]

Why would you change from PEX to copper? When you run the PEX, or any other water line through concrete, be sure to put pipe insulation around it so the pipe never touches the concrete.

The only thing I use more then the water spicket outside my shop is the sink inside the shop. Run a drain line where a sink would go and install it later if it's a Code or Inspection issue. Just run the drain to an area where you want to water the plants.

I planned to change to metal since it will be exposed on the interior side of the foundation wall. I figured the metal would be more durable when exposed.

 

[EddieWalker]

I did something similar for my garden. I used copper to go up the fence posts and attach the spickets. I thought the copper would be better for weed eating around those posts.

This was a mistake. I covered the copper in foam, and slid a 2 inch pvc pipe over it to stop it from freezing, and 2 out of a dozen pipes burst when we got down to -6F two months ago. I should have stuck with PEX.

And to make it worse, I never weed eat around them. I spray with round up.

 

[TnWV]

The garage will be heated, so the exposed pipe freezing should not be an issue. I could come up out of the concrete with pex, then put something around the pex to protect it. This would keep me from having a connection under the concrete.

Now that I think about it, maybe running pvc conduit under the concrete to run the pex in is the best solution.

 

[EddieWalker]

What would be the advantage of putting PEX inside PVC?

 

[TnWV]

What would be the advantage of putting PEX inside PVC?

Protection while pouring concrete, and the possibility of being able to pull in a new line in the future if there is ever a failure, is my thinking. I want the pex protected where exposed either way, and it wasn’t much more difficult to just put the entire run in conduit. It’s done now, and other than putting forms at the door openings and snapping lines around the foundation, I’m ready for concrete.

 

[Robert_Actual]

Progress has been slow since Saturday with Easter on Sunday and baseball activities yesterday evening and this evening. I did manage to get several more boxes of flooring down and more outlets installed.

Concrete is ordered for Friday morning to pour the garage floor and A/C and generator pad.

I would like to have a water hose spigot outside of the garage. My choices are to run pex under the concrete changing over to metal coming out of the concrete, I’m thinking copper, then going through the concrete foundation and mounting a spigot on the foundation or running the pex over the garage, in the attic, then back down the outside wall with the spigot coming out of the wall.

If I go under the concrete, there will be the short metal pipe showing on the inside of the foundation wall. I would just paint it to match the wall color. If I go into the garage attic and down the wall, nothing is exposed. I don’t believe it would freeze under the concrete, and I could insulate over/around it line in the attic. Not sure which method is most freeze proof.

I’m torn on which route to take. Any suggestions??

Which ever way you go, add hot water there as well. House is looking great! You’re getting into the fun part.

 

[TnWV]

Concrete pour went great today. Ordered 18.5 yards and I doubt there was enough left to fill two 5 gallon buckets, just the way I like it. What a relief it is to have that done.

 

[Robert_Actual]

The slab on the outside, for trash cans or wire in a generator?

 

[TnWV]

The slab on the outside, for trash cans or wire in a generator?

Air conditioner and generator will sit on it.

Couldn’t get the truck around there, so I had to carry the concrete in the tractor bucket.