At Home In The Woods

[Obed]

The past couple of weeks, we've had several people look at our Cumberland Plateau property that we have up for sale. Warm weather seems to have brought out the property shoppers. Since we had a baby and the wife is staying at home, our priorities have shifted so it would be really nice to sell the plateau property. Some parts of me will hate to let the property go. We bought the property because we love the outdoors. A lot of the people who have looked at the property are hunters. Catoosa Wildlife Management Area is walking distance from the property. Catoosa WMA consists of thousands of acres of managed forest; they have scheduled hunts but you have to be picked in a lottery in order to hunt there. So there's lots of wildlife. Our property has gets the spillover of wildlife and would be a paradise for a hunter. The property has lots of deer, wild turkey, foxes, and otters. Here are a few pictures.

The creek.

Small waterfall.

The big water fall.

The river.

Another section of the creek.

 

[nhkabotab7800]

Obed,

call a scafolding comany and ask about Putlogs they come in a few different sizes, I have used them up to 20'. that is about the max, but should work for your 16' porch.

it really is the easiest answer to take care of scafolding issue over your porch, they attatch easily to the scafolding framing and then you simmply keep going with the next level of scafolding. kinda supprised the brickies do not know of them...

seems to me that it would be the least expensive way to answer your problem.

 

[mikefromnh]

Pops has got it right -- lintels are required anyways every so many feet anyways -- you could not go 3 floors straight up without steel lintels re-supporting the brick. Usually its just a piece of angle iron bolted to the house and hidden in the mortar joint.

I'd tell the sub to get over it -- he should have the scaffolding and ladders necessary. AT most I'd put a couple more posts up and maybe some temporary cross bracing. But that is doing the sub a favor.

 

[Obed]

Pet Door
We want to have the option to put in a pet door so the cat (and maybe small dog) can come in the house and leave the house at will. Has anyone done this? We will need to frame an opening before the brick installation begins.

Obed

 

[Wood_Butcher_Dav]

What about putting it in a door? The door off our utility room is foam core steel that has no storm door that works great for us. No cat litter box in house .

Dave

 

[mikefromnh]

Pet Door
We want to have the option to put in a pet door so the cat (and maybe small dog) can come in the house and leave the house at will. Has anyone done this? We will need to frame an opening before the brick installation begins.

Obed

You can put it in a steel panel door. Done it many times.

Also there are now storm doors available that come with a pet door already installed.

 

[brin]

Obed...at this point after all the time you have been building this house, if I were you I would concentrate on wrapping it up...get er done ! and worry about these little things later, you have got to be tired of this by now..

 

[mikefromnh]

Obed...at this point after all the time you have been building this house, if I were you I would concentrate on wrapping it up...get er done ! and worry about these little things later, you have got to be tired of this by now..

How's the budget doing anyways?

Do the quotes you got from builders seem so high still?

 

[woodlandfarms]

IMO, the dog door is a sticky wicket. You say you want it for a cat or small dog. Get either, and you will want a large dog in short order. And then the dog door does not work.

If I had the luxury of making an opening for a dog door, I would size it for a large door and then put in a "plug" to size it for smaller.

One big thing, whereever you put a dog door expect a serious amount of dirt and dust. My dog door in LA is in my office. I am constantly picking dog hair out of the computers, and dealing with the dust that comes in.

Put a dog door somewhere out of the way.

One last thought, you might want the door to open into some sort of a dog run.

Carl

 

[PAGUY]

Obed - You may want to think twice about that when living so close to the woods. Critter like skunks and raccoons have been known to use them looking for food. Big enough and small skinny burglars can squeeze thru them and gain entry to your house.

Owning pets is a commitment that requires making sure you care for their personal needs no matter what time of day it is.

My neighbor installed one in his basement door and so far has been visited with a skunk and other neighbors cats helping themselves to his cat's food.