3R Home and Barn Project

[EddieWalker]

Rob,

The place is just looking awesome. Every time you post pics, it just amazes me how quickly they are moving along, plus all the details that they've accomplished!!!

I might have forgoten this, but what are you doing for siding on the lower portion of the walls, below the decks. It looks like T1-11 in the pictures that I saw, but I wasn't sure if that was just the sheething and something else is going to cover it? or are you leaving it like that and staining/painting it?

I really think you a building a home that will compliment your views and setting.

Thanks for all the updates and pics,
Eddie

 

[tlbuser]

It's starting to look like something now that the roof line has been added.

The saying goes something like; "a picture is worth a thousand words".
These pictures are showing a fantastic home under way. Won't be long before you'll be sitting on the porch enjoying it all.

 

[silverdollar6]

I agree with every one else, the pictures are great. Are you going to post pictures when the house is finished? it would be great if you could put cameras in every room after you move in, it could be like the TV program "big brother", we could live with you and comment 24 hours a day. Wouldn`t that be nice? ha ha ha

 

[3RRL]

Eddie thanks a lot.
We felt the home "fits" nicely in the area.
That bottom part is really the "crawl space" but is a lot taller than most. We will stain and seal the sheathing as it is. Then add a decorative walkway around with some shrubs etc. That's why I asked about that 1 yard concrete trailer in your hot tub thread.
Maybe I should look into the log type covering that the garage will have? Wonder how much that would cost? Do you think that would add to the looks?

tlbuser thanks too.
It is our dream retirement home. We hope by this time next year we'll be relaxing on those porches.

silverdollar6,
Thanks and I'm glad you are enjoying the pictures too. Each time up we take snapshots but always have way too many to post. I guess we're pretty excited about it.
LOL ... Now you're beginning to sound like Tom (tommu) about the webcam. He's been bugging me about it for 6 months now. Hahaha no way am I going to put cameras in there. I'll be lucky to have an Internet connection out there.

 

[srossman]

I'll be lucky to have an Internet connection out there.

Say it isn't so..... I really hope you are just kidding. I know that TBN will sorely miss you. Where else are we going to learn about the laser self leveling, remote controlled brush mower that your building? Your post are some of the first ones that I read in the morning to see how the progress of you many projects are coming along. The house looks awesome. You and the mrs. have done an excellent job at documenting it's construction.

 

[3RRL]

srossman,
Well, I am hoping that I'm kidding, cause I like it here.
We have no electricity hook up except our own solar. No phone lines and no cable. I'm pretty sure only ATT/Singular is the only cell phone reception we can get. I know our Verizon doesn't work out there so we'll have to change.
I do know my nearest neighbor sends me emails so he's got to have Internet acces right?
So what is available to get Internet? Satellite maybe? How expensive is that?

 

[tommu56]

Rob
No wonder the web cams aren't working!

Maybe we can get some one near by with internet access to translate your smoke signals to html code to keep you in the link.

Maybe you should have build a tepee.

tom

 

[sandman2234]

Me readum heapum big smoke signal and translate to dit dot.
Now we need someone to translate dit dot to 010101

David from jax

 

[Defective]

Here's one starting point for you Rob:

Ssstay connected

 

[EdC]

Rob

I switched to satellite about a year ago and really like it. Ours is about $70.00 a month for 1 MPS service. It is fast enough that both my much better half and I can be on our respective computers and it is still fast enough for me to watch the streaming video of your hydraulic box blade wizardry. Our service is through Wild Blue, Hughes is cream of the crop but a bit more expensive, and there are other companies out there. We do lose the signal during hail storms and if too much snow gets on the dish, other than that no problems.

 

[3RRL]

Defective, thanks for the link.
I read it but I'm not sure WLL is what I'm looking for? Of course at this point I'm not sure what I'm looking for. Plus I fall in that category of not having good technical knowledge about it.

Ed, I've heard of Wild Blue and HughesNet. I was looking at this Internet Aywhere as a possibility. Looks like the start up cost is a little more than the WLL that Defective's link showed? Have you seen this before? Sounds like it's pretty fast and reliable?

Tom and David, you guys reminded me of my dealings with some young engineers I had recently. I was telling them about an old telecopier (I think) before fax machines. They don't even use faxes but everything through email and the Internet. So they were telling me "what did you use before that, smoke signals?" Hahaha. Those kids are a riot.

 

[EdC]

Rob

Internet Anywhere would certainly work, but you sure are paying a LOT of money for its ability to find the satellite on its own. That feature would be handy for a motorhome that is constantly moving but would only be used once at your house when the original setup was being done. Both WildBlue and Hughesnet includes that setup in their installation price. Here is the link for WildBlue; WildBlue - Official Website - Satellite Speed Internet and here is the link for Hughesnet: http://www.hughesnet.com/. You have to enter your zipcode to see if you have a service rep nearby but both sites give a price breakdown.

 

[tlbuser]

Not sure about the west coast, but locally the only way Hughes net comes is tied with DirecTV. My personal experience with DirecTV was far from satisfactory. When my laptop air card subscription expires, I plan on trading up to Wild Blue.

 

[EddieWalker]

I have Hughes Net. It used to be DirecWay, but then they changed names. I don't know any details, but we just received a new modem and now it says Hughes on it. I wouldn't recomend it, but if all you have is phone line, then it does work most of the time.

I've read on here that Wild Blue is maxed out on it's service and isn't taking new customers, but can't confirm that.

I was talking to Gary Davis at the get together, and he was telling me about Sprint. He uses them for his service and can drive on the highways and never lose his connection. Speeds and price was similar to satelitte, but service is the big difference!!!

Eddie

 

[bones1]

Ok Rob. It's 9:00 EST where's the pics?.

 

[3RRL]

Eddie, tlbuser, Ed,
Thanks for the information, you guys have been great.
I'll never forget the great comments you guys made when I built that gearbox for Larry....that was special for me.
Loretta told me she has to have that connection that allows her to work at home. What is it AVN or ATN whatever, so that leaves satellite out I guess. Maybe the Sprint service is the way to go? Her company is looking in to it for her. She will be telecommuting from home. (which is great for us $$$)

Steve my buddy...I didn't go up this weekend so no updates yet. I'm going up to spend Thanksgiving week up there. Last couple days for Fall turkey season too. I'll be meeting with the plumbers and electricians. I think they might have the metal roof up I hope????

 

[stumpfield]

Loretta told me she has to have that connection that allows her to work at home. What is it AVN or ATN whatever, so that leaves satellite out I guess. Maybe the Sprint service is the way to go? Her company is looking in to it for her. She will be telecommuting from home. (which is great for us $$$)

Rob, If I take a guess, it would be VPN (Virtual Private Network). I work mostly from home for the same industry. They require a pretty secure network. My work installs everything and they even pay the bills. I don't know if they service your area. Check this out to see if there's something similar in your area. https://www.sti.net/secure/gsnsignup/

Tom

 

[3RRL]

Yes Tom you are right, it's VPN.
LOL, I told Loretta what I posted and she cracked up at how stupid I am.
I checked that link out and was unable to find out if we have a clear view to Deadwood mountain. Is there a way to find that out?

 

[whodat90]

If you can get a wisp, absolutely go for it. I have hughesnet (which was direcpc/direcway) and it has it's good points and it's bad points. On the good side, it's not dialup. That about covers it. On the bad side is terrible latency, near unusability with anything encrypted (take that to mean that a VPN is iffy at best), near unusability with anything involving remote desktops, and on top of that hughesnet has instituted what they call a 'fair access policy'. Basically I have a 500mb bucket of internet per day, that I can empty at up to 1mbps. Once it's empty, it refills at ~28k. If you hit the fap limit, you pretty much turn the modem off for a day and hope. That wouldn't be so bad, but you get no monitoring tools and no warning. FWIW, with three computers in my house, I can get fapped just by letting them run their automatic windows updates, plus a bit of regular browsing. Upload speeds are also not anything to get excited about.

 

[3RRL]

Your information along with Eddie's pretty much sums it up then. No Hughesnet for us. We'll have at least 4 computers and probably 5 with the laptop. We both plan to run some business up there, although mine does not require a VPN like my wife does.

The biggest thing for me is to be able to check on my TBN buddies, view their photos and post mine. That would be a drag to go backwards like that. I'm used to Time Warner (road runner) and it is fast as all get out. I switched from Verizon and gained noticeable speed up and down. At times it is blazing fast.