mjncad
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Wonderful property you have there and I'm looking forward to seeing how this project progresses.
First a Garage
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denmansoft
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All the vertical rebar is grouted at least 1ft. into the rock with Rockite. It won't be moving with all the earthquakes we get around here. The flatdeck trailer turned out to be an excellent workbench for this kind of stuff. We got all the lumber where possible in 16ft lengths.
Forms are all done. Now for the cement pump and truck.
Forms are all done. Now for the cement pump and truck.
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denmansoft
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We used 8 cu meters of concrete for the footing and walls. The cement pump they sent was a 42M reach pump truck. (almost the smallest they had avail.) It went straight up to the top of the trees, over and then back down. My garage is only 24x24...
Here I am fillling the forms. One pass to fill in the footings and run the vibrator around. next pass around to fill the walls. Run the vibrator around again and we were done. It was an intense couple of hours, but my first foundation went in almost perfectly.
Now we need to re-build the grade so it looks like a garage foundation...
here is more what it will be like.
We put 2 loads of sand into the inside and 3 loads of gravel in front and on one side to get the grade close to what I want.
Here I am fillling the forms. One pass to fill in the footings and run the vibrator around. next pass around to fill the walls. Run the vibrator around again and we were done. It was an intense couple of hours, but my first foundation went in almost perfectly.
Now we need to re-build the grade so it looks like a garage foundation...
here is more what it will be like.
We put 2 loads of sand into the inside and 3 loads of gravel in front and on one side to get the grade close to what I want.
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denmansoft
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Two walls are up and squared off.
Second load of sand to fill up the sand box.
Sandbox compacted.
First door beam up. The FEL bucket was all I needed for this one.
The second beam needed some help with my forks.
Second load of sand to fill up the sand box.
Sandbox compacted.
First door beam up. The FEL bucket was all I needed for this one.
The second beam needed some help with my forks.
Egon
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Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Denman and Hornby Islands are very nice indeed. Heck, if I looked into my slide collection I'll probably find quite a few.
Denman and Hornby Islands are very nice indeed. Heck, if I looked into my slide collection I'll probably find quite a few.
Jagmandave
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How do you get your vehicles there? is there a bridge?
Garage is coming along nicely, you'll love having the shelter and storage as you finish up your house build. I'm surprised they'd run electriccal service when all you had there was the 5th wheel trailer - they won't do that on my remote property.......
Garage is coming along nicely, you'll love having the shelter and storage as you finish up your house build. I'm surprised they'd run electriccal service when all you had there was the 5th wheel trailer - they won't do that on my remote property.......
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denmansoft
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Egon
I thought I'd traveled a bit. Is there anywhere you haven't been?
We are hoping to get back to the maritimes soon.
Jagmandave:
There is a ferry from Vancouver island to Denman Island. Runs every hour, 10 minute ride.
It costs me an extra $15 to have the trailer on. Any truck delivery of lumber, or processed aggregates etc. will run $200+
When we asked for the pole service for power we asked for a 200Amp service to handle the house once it was built.
If all we asked for was for the trailer, then they would probably have said no.
We had to blast the hole, put in the pole and wire it. ($$$$) all they did was put a transformer on their pole on the other side of the road and run the wire across to our pole. ($$$$) After a few months we got a huge power bill. The new fancy digital meter had gone beserk and showed SSSSSSS across the display. The Meter reader wrote it down as 2222222 Kwh. It took 4 months for them to go and actually test the meter and replace it.
The biggest problem with getting power was they wouldn't even open a file until we had a house number! We had the Blaster/Backhoe, pole, electrician all lined up ready to go. After many months, phone calls, and queries we finally found that none of these agencies did or knew who handled house numbers for our island: Islands Trust(municipality), Post office, Land Titles, etc. I finally found someone working in the property tax office who lived on Denman: She said the Fire chief handled the numbers. Our fire chief is the Blaster/Backhoe Contractor!
6 months from when we initially asked for power our application was on the books. One month later we had the trailer hooked up.
I thought I'd traveled a bit. Is there anywhere you haven't been?
We are hoping to get back to the maritimes soon.
Jagmandave:
There is a ferry from Vancouver island to Denman Island. Runs every hour, 10 minute ride.
It costs me an extra $15 to have the trailer on. Any truck delivery of lumber, or processed aggregates etc. will run $200+
When we asked for the pole service for power we asked for a 200Amp service to handle the house once it was built.
If all we asked for was for the trailer, then they would probably have said no.
We had to blast the hole, put in the pole and wire it. ($$$$) all they did was put a transformer on their pole on the other side of the road and run the wire across to our pole. ($$$$) After a few months we got a huge power bill. The new fancy digital meter had gone beserk and showed SSSSSSS across the display. The Meter reader wrote it down as 2222222 Kwh. It took 4 months for them to go and actually test the meter and replace it.
The biggest problem with getting power was they wouldn't even open a file until we had a house number! We had the Blaster/Backhoe, pole, electrician all lined up ready to go. After many months, phone calls, and queries we finally found that none of these agencies did or knew who handled house numbers for our island: Islands Trust(municipality), Post office, Land Titles, etc. I finally found someone working in the property tax office who lived on Denman: She said the Fire chief handled the numbers. Our fire chief is the Blaster/Backhoe Contractor!
6 months from when we initially asked for power our application was on the books. One month later we had the trailer hooked up.
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Maxfli
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denmansoft
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That looks a lot like Tacomite?
We haven't been up to Stuart Island since we sold our ketch 10 years ago.
We haven't been up to Stuart Island since we sold our ketch 10 years ago.
Maxfli
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She is St. Eval, owed by Dennis Washington.
