New House Build in WA

JD 4520 · Apr 28, 2021

Great weather at this stage. The project is looking good. You must be pleased at this point with the results.

EddieWalker · Apr 28, 2021

Impressive dirt work. It's kind of funny to me how much I appreciate how flat somebody can make dirt!!!

EddieWalker · Apr 30, 2021

OMG, that's a lot of 4x4 posts!!!!! Here in Texas, just about everything is built on a solid concrete slab. I haven't seen pier and beam framing in decades, and I never saw anything like this before.

JD 4520 · May 7, 2021

Headed out your way this weekend. I’ll leave my hammer at home. Awesome progress and great weather for building.

EddieWalker · May 7, 2021

Who prints the measurements on the lumber? I just paid $8 for a framing stud. Does the printing add to the cost of each board?

deezler · May 7, 2021

Wait, what? Why wouldn't you want to have a basement down there instead of all that huge wasted crawl space and ridiculous number of 4x4 posts? This is very odd to see while sitting here in climate and ground-stable Michigan.

herm0016 · May 7, 2021

esp with a walk out.

deezler said:
Wait, what? Why wouldn't you want to have a basement down there instead of all that huge wasted crawl space and ridiculous number of 4x4 posts? This is very odd to see while sitting here in climate and ground-stable Michigan.

i am curious as well. lots of places here do not have basements due to the rock, but 4 foot stem walls and crawl space. usually a center load wall, 2x4 16 oc wall with some cross bracing on a concrete footer.

deezler · May 7, 2021

Robert_Actual said:
This is the norm on the west coast, especially when building on a slope. The whole crawl space will be insulated, vapor barrier, sealed, and conditioned.

Which raises another question for me: It looks like if you just slid the house back 20 feet, you basically could have filled the dirt in and not really been "building on a slope". What would the foundation requirements in WA be like in that case?

deezler · May 7, 2021

Thanks for explaining! Would a raw basement (but with stairs heading down and no egress) really be taxed all that much? So basically a rational set of choices let to having a bigger, fancier crawl space. How's the radon around there?