Creating a Workshop & Home

[dholly]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( </font><font color="blueclass=small">( ...an inspector show up today. )</font>

Eddie, did you pass... uh.. I mean did the building pass? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( She also brought fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuts, peach cobler, sweet tea and chocolate chip cookies!! )</font>

Me thinks we already knew the answer to that question! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm using OSB for the ceiling of my porch along the public bathrooms. It's got a nice tecture and works well outdoors. Around the doors I'm triming them with PT 2x4's and galvanized nails. Simple, primative, but effective.

I need to get these rooms weather tite before I move my stuff into them next week. They will be used for storage while I finish off the interior and then organize the workshop. Some of my stuff is still in boxes from my move to Texas three years ago. I might wait until Christmas to open them since I have no idea what's in there anymore !!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[EddieWalker]

The main thing I really require to live in the house after it's weather tite is a bathroom. Everything else is just a bonus!

This is the kids upstairs bathroom. I did it first because I used vinyl for the flooring, wich is very fast and easy to put in. The downstairs bathroom will get tile, which is easy enough to do, but still takes a few days for everything to dry.

Except for a door, it's about ready to use. Still no TP in there or curtain for the shower, but that's easy enough to fix.

 

[EddieWalker]

Not much changing on the exterior. I was on the roof this morning trying to finish of screwing it all down. There's sections that we skimed over while installing it to keep moving along. Now we need to go back and tighten everything down.

I also have to finish off the trim. For some reason I really hate doing this. Not sure why since it's real easy to do and the results are incredible. But I have to force myself to finish this part of it. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Down the road I'll be building a porch, but that's sort of a low priority right now.

 

[Tim_in_IA]

man you are flying with this project! I know what you mean about the trimwork. It is harder to finish once you've moved in so get it wrapped up beforehand. I lived in my house as I was finishing it and you're always walking over stuff or having to move things from one place to another. Really slows down the progress. Your home is looking great!

 

[Holzster]

Eddie

You have a soft copy of your plan to post here? Just courious

thanks

TWH

 

[EddieWalker]

Here is the plan I used to build the building. The demensions on the plan are rough numbers that I adjusted to fit as I was framing. I use Broaderband's Home Design software for the plans.

We spent about two months going over the design while waiting for the land to close that I'd sold. I knew I needed a space to live in, a workshop and the public bathrooms for the RV Park. Originally I was going to only build a single room cabin. Then Steph got involved and offered some suggestions to the plan, and it evolved from adding a loft, then a loft with a half bath for when Steph and the kids visit to finally pushing out the living room into the lean-to area and adding an upstairs with a full bath and seperate bedrooms.

By the time the land deal closed, this is the plan we'd come up with.

Eddie

 

[DannyD]

Dont you hate it when they come in and mess up perfectly good plans..................

I know you dont Eddie. Now if I can just get my better half to agree to the Ford Mustang I want........

 

[EddieWalker]

With the heat we're having along with lots of humidity, I only have a small window to do any work on the roof. After a few hours it's just too hot and I get the shakes and start to feel lightheaded. That's my signal to get back down to the ground.

This morning I finished off the trim pieces.

 

[EddieWalker]

While I was on the roof, my AC guy showed up to install the system.

 

[EddieWalker]

It didn't take long to get it up and running, but first he ran this pump for quite awhile why installing the inside unit. Later when everything was all together, he hooked up the freon.

 

[EddieWalker]

The inside unit is in my utility room. You can see the inner makings of the unit. Basiclly after the filter, ther's the condensor, a fan and some electronics.

One thing he said he does that most dont is to give me a way to add water mixed with bleach to kill off alge and bacteria that might start to grow over time in the drain line.

 

[EddieWalker]

After the AC was done, I had to go buy some farm diesel for the tractors. Got it for $2.02 a gallon.

I have the rock for the roads scheduled to be here at 8 am tomorrow morning, so I need to finish off my driveway.

The last thing to do was put in some conduit for my electric runs to the front entrance. I need two lines, so I put in three pipes just in case.

 

[Bird]

Eddie, I started several years ago putting a little bleach in the condensation drain at least a couple of times a year. I had to fix up a short piece of neoprene hose and a small funnel to do that now. However, the house that we may (or may not) buy also has the installation with an easy place to add bleach. The A/C man I had to check it out recommended one cup a month.

 

[DMF]

Holy cow, don't you guys have any rocks in Texas? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Being from New England I've never seen such nice trenches/easy digging!

Project is looking great!

 

[BXRICK]

I don't think they do have any rock down there. In wroughtn_harv's thread about building a pond, he mentions getting rocks from a supplier. I understand (sort of) buying special, flat rocks for steps and such, but just good ol' rocks?

Actually, I find it very interesting to read about peoples' building projects from other areas of the country. It's amazing how the climate and other local factors affect what gets built and how.

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( don't you guys have any rocks in Texas? )</font>

I can assure you there are plenty of places in Texas that have lots of rocks, but fortunately we also have areas with none. I had 10 acres 60 miles south of Dallas and there wasn't a rock on the place that hadn't been imported. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif But of course during the hot, dry part of summer, you'd have thought some of that clay was a rock because it was so hard. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Holzster]

Bird

Did you have that white rock a few feet down. I hate that stuff!!!

 

[Bird]

Nope, everywhere I tried digging, that black clay went down 6 or 7 feet. I saw some new stock ponds being dug and it seemed to gradually change to a lighter colored, more yellow clay after about 10 feet in some places, although my brother had his pond enlarged and deepened, and it stayed the same all the way down.

 

[KentT]

Isn't the black clay what they call "caliche?" If so, it will dry almost as hard as a rock...