Creating a Workshop & Home

[hitekcountry]

<font color="blue">If anybody is curious, a perfect sqare with 48 foot sides is 67 ft 11 inches diaginaly.
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If you want to split hairs it's actually 67ft 10 9/16in.

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks hitekcountry,

I was wondering if I was pulling on the tape too much, or not enough. If I'm off by 7/16 at my diaginal, then I'm out of square by half that amount. ???

 

[jmc]

A 48 ft/side parallelogram with diagonals different by 7/16 inch is out of square by .03 degrees. That out to be close enough out in the country.

John

 

[johnday]

hitek; WRONG!!! It's 67'10" and 19/32. Now if if we're picking, we'll go all the way. LOL /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

OK you guys have me convince the stretching the tape method might be the best!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I've never put in this many bathrooms before and underestimated how long it would take to do so. Did I mention I'm also going to have four clothes washers in the workshop?, plus one inside my home.

The reason for so many washers, or the ability to install so them, is I'll have cabins down the road and will need a place to wash sheets.

Here's a photo of the pipes going in.

 

[johnday]

Eddie; Looks like you got your p##p in a group! Keep up the good work and the photos. Did you know that there is dirty dirt and clean dirt? Clean dirt is dirt you get from construction, dirty dirt is what you get when your wrenching. Just an old carpenters saying. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bird]

On a right angle triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides; i.e., the square root of (48*48)*2 in this case or 67.88225 feet. So I come up with 67' 10.587" or just a hair over 67' 10 9/16". /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Yep, need to stretch the tape; must have had a little slack in it. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[johnday]

Bird; Do you think my Construction Master IV might be lying to me ? One of us is off a grand 1/32". I can't stand to be that inaccurate! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( One of us is off a grand 1/32". )</font>

Maybe so. You're right with the numbers and I said it was "a hair" over 9/16, since my tape doesn't have marks for the 32nds. Maybe I should have said "two hairs". /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

It's funny how and why we remember certain little things. Thirty-five years ago, this year, a fellow at the office told me he was building a little pole barn (actually a shed) to store hay. He was going to be setting a row of telephone poles down the center and 10' on each side, another row. The center row would be 4' taller than the outer ones, and he needed to know how long the rafters would need to be to reach that span plus a 2' overhang. I knew there was a simple formula, but couldn't remember it. So I looked in the Dallas Yellow Pages and there were two people listed under "Mathematicians". I called one and he couldn't remember either, but then he called back in a few minutes because he had remembered it. We were having quite a laugh about it at the time, and I'll guarantee you I haven't forgotten that formula since. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[johnday]

Bird; It is amazing what you can remember. I amaze myself daily just remembering the way to work! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[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.