Our Home In The Woods!

[rustyshakelford]

They are moving right along. These were from this weekend. We are going out there tomorrow to see the progress. We are getting excited! Also we are picking up our new range which my wife is estatic about. They are sure proud of them. We will try and keep that as a suprise for when it's done.

Still waiting on the dormers and pillars

Rear of the house

Brett

 

[Jack Yuan]

waaaaaaaaa, very cool. come on

 

[TnWV]

Really like the design so far! Looking foreword to seeing how it all comes together. Thanks for sharing!

 

[EddieWalker]

Looks like a nice, interesting roofline. They should have OSB on it in no time!!!

Eddie

 

[rustyshakelford]

Looks like a nice, interesting roofline. They should have OSB on it in no time!!!

Eddie

I hope so! It was originally designed to be a 10/12 roof. That seemed way to steep and did some figuring that put the peak around 30'. Though that was way to tall for a single story and would look weird. Had the framer drop it to an 8/12 and hoping it turns out. I'm sure they were more than happy to make that change.

We wanted to have a section of the front roof done in metal but I couldn't believe how expensive it was. It was the first time I was truly shocked by the price of something I figured to be relatively minor.

Haven't gotten to pick out our entry doors yet so I may have more surprises yet.

Brett

 

[EddieWalker]

Wonder why it was so expensive? Was it some kind of special metal? Who told you the price? most of the roofers that I know do it all and don't care if you want metal or shingles, it's all pretty simple.

Sometimes when a contractor doesn't want to do something, they jack up the price to either make it too expensive for the client to do it, or worth the time to learn how to do it.

If it's something you want, I would be 100 percent sure of the price and know why it's so much. Nothing worse then not having what you want and regretting not doing it.

How much was it?

Eddie

 

[rustyshakelford]

Wonder why it was so expensive? Was it some kind of special metal? Who told you the price? most of the roofers that I know do it all and don't care if you want metal or shingles, it's all pretty simple.

Sometimes when a contractor doesn't want to do something, they jack up the price to either make it too expensive for the client to do it, or worth the time to learn how to do it.

If it's something you want, I would be 100 percent sure of the price and know why it's so much. Nothing worse then not having what you want and regretting not doing it.

How much was it?

Eddie

It was an extra 6k. It's the area above the door that says shingles. I think they didn't want to mess with it. I was just wanting a concealed fastener metal. Not standing seam

Brett

 

[JRobyn]

I bet if you asked for a redo on that quote, but use just "standard" corrugated sheet and washer-head screws (exposed), you'd find the new quote to be MUCH lower. I found in our construction that going outside of what the local contractors do as "standard" got really expensive. On our metal, we asked for a standing-seam quote; it was ridiculously high. Maybe that's what you actually got quoted to meet your hidden fastener requirement. For our install, they used a very thick poly mat underlayment that I believe will prevent any leakage issues even if any of the washer-head screws don't seal perfectly.

It all is looking terrific!

- Jay

 

[Jack Yuan]

how much is this house cost totally? Is it possible for me to build one in your there? BTW, I'm Chinese.

 

[rustyshakelford]

I bet if you asked for a redo on that quote, but use just "standard" corrugated sheet and washer-head screws (exposed), you'd find the new quote to be MUCH lower. I found in our construction that going outside of what the local contractors do as "standard" got really expensive. On our metal, we asked for a standing-seam quote; it was ridiculously high. Maybe that's what you actually got quoted to meet your hidden fastener requirement. For our install, they used a very thick poly mat underlayment that I believe will prevent any leakage issues even if any of the washer-head screws don't seal perfectly.

It all is looking terrific!

- Jay

That makes sense. Were just going to do shingles for the entire roof. With our weather I'd be concerned about the lift span of the gaskets on the fasteners. The cost of materials is approx 1.5 the cost of shingles but I guess the labor was considerably higher.

Brett