Creating a Workshop & Home

[hitekcountry]

<font color="blue">hitek; WRONG!!! It's 67'10" and 19/32. Now if if we're picking, we'll go all the way. </font>

Well......Yea..... Your right...... but you see when you get to be my age, You have a hard time seeing even a 1/16. A 1/32 shoot who can even see that, SO it don't matter nohow. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[johnday]

hitek; Truthfully, as long as I'm within 1/2' I'm happy. But we won't tell those picky injunear guys, will we? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[hitekcountry]

Johnday

Careful what you say about those injunear guys. Now.... just keep this between you and me, but I’ve been pretending to be one for some time now. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Was laid off more than a year ago, so now I’m pretending to be a construction type guy. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif Not doin too bad neither, well at least i"m gittin damm good at the cussin and spittin part /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Fred

 

[ronjhall]

<font color="blue"> as long as I'm within 1/2' I'm happy </font>
1/2 foot, and you offered to help me with a project. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

I finally finished with the drain, vent and conduit piping. It turned out to be a bit more then I anticipated, but since I've never done a home with 7 toilets before, I should have guessed as much.

In the photo, there's five toilets and vents lined up on a four in line that runs straight through with a clean-out angled up.

Next to that is a four inch line for the HVAC system.

Then there's the three inch line for the showers, sinks, laundry and two toilets in my home.

It was bad enough figureing out where all the drains had to go, but putting vents in the walls really gave me a headache.

In the background you can see my Dad on the backhoe digging a trench for a sewer line for his RV when they are visiting. Before he could dig the trench, I had to build a pad for them to park on. Now I found out I'm short one 4 inch tee to run the line, so another trip to the store.

 

[EddieWalker]

I use the buckets to make it easy to dig out the pipe later on when I'm ready to connect to them. One bucket is for power, the other is water.

 

[EddieWalker]

My girlfriend came by today and helped tie the rebar. It's just about finished, except for a few places where the footings do weird things.

 

[EddieWalker]

She's a perfectionist, so when we all thought the rebar was tied, she continued to look until she found one that wasn't.

 

[EddieWalker]

Today we poured concrete. The first truck arrived right on time, and the guys were ready for it.

 

[EddieWalker]

There was a crew of four. The boss, Julio, and three laborors.

I've poured small pads for sheds and driveways on my own and with a few helpers. It's always backbreakeing work, with less then perfect results. This will take 30 yards, and thats about 27 more then I'm comfortablel with.

The price for there days labor was $650 total. The cement came to about $2,400 after tax.