My father has fallen and can't get up

[fatjay]

Concrete day today, 3 yards. I'm beat. finished the water lines yesterday and insulation. Did the vapor barrier and rebar this morning. Boxed out the shower. then the concrete truck came at 2. Quick break, i have a lot of cleanup to do, but i have my helper and he does good work.

https://imgur.com/Kus2Vva

 

[kevin37b]

Nice work ,Kevin .

 

[fatjay]

Last night I went back and pulled the plastic covering off and put down insulation to keep the heat in while curing. Today pulled all the forms off and cleaned that up so you can at least walk. Ripped the rest of the stucco off the wall so I could get my final measurements, cut the studs and jack studs, bottom and top plates, and headers. Started pulling gutters and fascia down. Working with my arms above my head is exhausting.

Monday I'll pull up the insualtion, and build hte walls, and move the motorhome to block the view from the street so the code **** won't see if he happens to be driving by. I need to take my compressor over there so i need to take the trailer. I'll get all that ready tomorrow. The rest of today I need to cut and split firewood.

 

[Gator6x4]

Last night I went back and pulled the plastic covering off and put down insulation to keep the heat in while curing. Today pulled all the forms off and cleaned that up so you can at least walk. Ripped the rest of the stucco off the wall so I could get my final measurements, cut the studs and jack studs, bottom and top plates, and headers. Started pulling gutters and fascia down. Working with my arms above my head is exhausting.

Monday I'll pull up the insualtion, and build hte walls, and move the motorhome to block the view from the street so the code **** won't see if he happens to be driving by. I need to take my compressor over there so i need to take the trailer. I'll get all that ready tomorrow. The rest of today I need to cut and split firewood.

Good looking work. You have more nerve than me if you are investing all that time and money without a permit.

 

[newbury]

Good looking work. You have more nerve than me if you are investing all that time and money without a permit.

Yeah, I had assumed he was in an area with no permits needed, like my area in Mississippi.

 

[workinonit]

I went through all the bathroom, kitchen and access modifications with my mom and dad. Years of getting him off the floor after his stroke and blindness prior to being forced to put him in a facility. Then is was my mom's time. She never made it to an assisted living arrangement. They are both gone now, 2019 and 6 months apart. Some nights I long for the phone to ring to rush over and help one of them back up. Make all of the mods you have to to keep them around as long as you can.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I know a guy who’s house is close to the road, house from the horse & buggy days. County would not issue permit to add onto the back side of the house, because house is too close to road. So he just did it anyways.

 

[Gator6x4]

I know a guy who’s house is close to the road, house from the horse & buggy days. County would not issue permit to add onto the back side of the house, because house is too close to road. So he just did it anyways.

I wonder what he would have done if they had condemned his house and revoked his certificate to occupy until the unauthorized addition was removed. Jeez I can visualize some lawyer retiring on such a case.

Condemned houses, or houses the occupy Certificate has been revoked on has the electrical, water and sewer service suspended. I know the water and sewer only applies to a city resident but it also applies to a county resident. Because without electricity a person has no power to power the well pump which mean no water to flush the commode.

 

[LouNY]

I know a guy who’s house is close to the road, house from the horse & buggy days. County would not issue permit to add onto the back side of the house, because house is too close to road. So he just did it anyways.

Good for him. While some inspection and regulation may be needed to prevent shoddy workmanship many of these inspectors are on a power trip and seem to be dedicated to driving up the cost of simple projects. Expecting contractors to stop work and stand around sitting on their thumbs,
home owners to interrupt work and leave things tore apart for a week waiting on them. And then permits are just so called legal thievery and busy body governments trying to keep their thumbs on people.

 

[fatjay]

Good looking work. You have more nerve than me if you are investing all that time and money without a permit.

This would have been a 6 month project just by waiting for inspections had I gone the permit route, and that is just not acceptable to me. He needs it now. In 2 weeks he's going for open heart surgery, as well.

Around here, folks don't bother with permits unless you can see the work from the street, and the permit guy won't go around looking for issues, but if he see's it, he's a total moron about it. He talks in circles and if you ask him a question, he stares blankly at you.

 

[3Ts]

I used to live in an area that required inspections during building. The stories I heard about the inspectors from various builders was difficult to believe, I thought the builders were complaining about having to do things right. - Then I got a building permit to build a barn. Signed off with all the approvals. Built it exactly as shown in the drawings. The inspector didn't like it done that way and would not approve the construction even though his boss approved the plans. What the !@#$%^&*()_ I made some changes that the inspector wanted and called for another inspection. He still didn't like it, but he also realized that he'd have to come back out and didn't want to drive out to the far end of the county, so he approved it - finally.

Note: There are situations where an inspector can be very helpful in dealing with a builder as well.

 

[Gator6x4]

Please continue taking pictures, not for posting but you personally lots of pictures as your work continues. Be photo happy on trusses, wall studs and electrical. Include a ruler showing spacing distances for wall studs, trusses, etc. Don’t forget plenty of photos were you join the existing structure, corners etc.

If the sheik does hit the Pam it will be easier to show a photo and say this is how it is rather than having to try and verbalize everything.

 

[jmc]

Whenever I've "limped" around the house after an accident or surgery, what I longed for most was an OVERHEAD handhold in critical areas- maybe hanging from the ceiling, an arm's length above the edge of my bed or over the toilet. Those handicapped, wall mounted bars in the bathroom are better than nothing but something over your center of gravity seems more useful. To their credit, hospital beds mounted with traction frames often have a triangular grab bar, chain-suspended from the overhead frame. Since you're doing this from scratch, maybe you could rig something simple from the ceiling.

 

[two_bit_score]

Get well soon wishes to your Dad! I'm enjoying your pictures!

 

[big bubba]

fatjay: an honorable project, well thought out, that is a tribute to your compassion and selfless service to family. hats off to entire family
i'm getting up there in yrs myself prob close to your father. my own daughter would never consider a sacrifice as you have done to an aging parent. good to see your generosity in action. speedy recovery to your father & best on the project.

 

[tradosaurus]

I'm 57 and already thinking about an ADA shower when I get older. I also don't have a 2 story house which will make life easier.
Good job on the bathroom build.
Hiring a contractor for that would probably cost $20K or more.

 

[fatjay]

Got the walls up. The roof is going to be a challenge with the pitch and not colliding with the bathroom windows on the 2nd floor. Gonna rip off the existing roof and plywood to the back bit and ease the pitch, except over the shower and toilet. I think i'm going to do a shed roof over it instead of an a-frame. Just the back portion will have the existing pitch, wiich will have a ceiling height of 6'6" where the rest of the ceiling will be 7'8". I'll ease to a 2:12 pitch for the bulk of it and 1:12 for the shower. It's complicated to say type it out.

 

[3Ts]

It's looking good! And yes that roof intersection with the windows is going to be interesting.

I'll ease to a 2:12 pitch for the bulk of it and 1:12 for the shower.

I don't know if you plan to use shingles, but the ones I have on my house say no less than a 3:12 pitch (I'm using 2.5:12 pitch myself) A metal roof can handle a 1:12 pitch easily.

 

[fatjay]

It's looking good! And yes that roof intersection with the windows is going to be interesting.


I don't know if you plan to use shingles, but the ones I have on my house say no less than a 3:12 pitch (I'm using 2.5:12 pitch myself) A metal roof can handle a 1:12 pitch easily.

Yes, 3:12 is for standard shingles, metal is 1:12, but apparently there's new "shingles" that are 1:12 that my buddy was telling me about. Also there's a construction grade roofing that can handle low pitches. Whatever it needs, it'll get.

My idea was the bulk of the roof will be a 2:12 if i go to the top of that wall from 3/4 the way up the roof to the top of the wall I have now. I have a support wall separating the shower and toilet that I can sit trusses on as well as the outside wall and the header wall from the existing outside wall. So the ceiling over the shower/toilet will be different, and lower. But the rest will be full height.

 

[newbury]

That will be an interesting roof. Looks like a good candidate for catching rainwater (or snow).