Creating a Workshop & Home

[EddieWalker]

This is ten yards with another truck pulling up.

The fun part about watching them work, is they don't say anything to each other, they just automatically know what to do. Nobody stoped moving.

 

[EddieWalker]

This is the last truck.

The trucks came right after each other, and were waiting for the one before to finihs pouring. The total time to pour was about an hour. They spent another three hours working it smooth.

 

[EddieWalker]

One of the trucks was a little full, cause everyone who measured the pad came up with 29 and a half yards. I paid for thirty yards, so where did this extra 3 to 4 yards come from? We're not sure, but I used it for a place to park when it's built. No rebar, no forms and it's on an angle. It will crack in a day or two, but that's to be expected.

 

[EddieWalker]

Here's the finished pad. They really weren't too happy with me after dealing with all the vent and drain pipes.

Next step will be to order my lumber. When it gets here, the pad will be plenty dry enough to start framing.

Eddie

 

[HuckBB62]

Don't they require footings under the exterior bearing walls in Tejas?

 

[PSDStu]

Nice job Eddie! Thats really going to look great!

 

[LarryD]

<font color="blue"> They really weren't too happy with me after dealing with all the vent and drain pipes. </font>

I was thinking that very thing as I was looking at all the imbeds..did you learn any new Tex-Mex words? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Don't they require footings under the exterior bearing walls in Tejas? )</font>

Huck,

It depends on what area of Texas your in. If your outside the city limits, then there is no code, no permits, and no rules. Some homes can be really scary.

I'm outside city limits, so to answer your question, no, I don't have to put in footings.

Each city has it's own code, or version of it. Just about every footing is a shovel wide and a shove deep. You use two rows of half inch rebar, tie it together with the rest of the foundation on 2 foot squares, and thats about it.

Not sure why you asked the question, unless you didn't notice my footings in the picture with my girlfriend. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Just kidding.

Here's a closer view of that same photo that shows the footing more clearly.

 

[MF1455v]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It depends on what area of Texas your in. )</font>

Eddie, glade to see Smith county has not gotten greedy like Collin county has. We have almost the same permit requirements as inside the city limits.

Slab looks good. Looking foward to seeing the project progress.

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks James,

One of the things that scares me is that soon enough, they will change that and start getting involved in every little detail.

To put in the sewer lift station just requires an ok by the water utility. In order to donate it to them, all they require is it to be engeneered. My cost for the lift station and sewer mains with manholes is just under $100 grand, but a guy I know with a little RV Park (24 sites) paid the same amount for his aroebic septic system.

It was a nightmare with the permitting, inspections and red tape. Because it's a commercial septic system, he has to deal with the government. I've worked real hard to ensure I can avoid them at just about every level.

I'm building to code with a little extra that comes from learning in CA. One day I'll sell it all, and I don't want anybody comeing back and saying I did something intentionally unsafe. It's cheaper to do it right today, then to have to undo a disaster years from now.