Starting a new home

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Eddie

You sumed it up perfectly.....

 

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Congrats on the slab. The rest is easy!!! hahaha

Not sure about no more rain delays. I'm in the process of framing out a roof on a house I'm building and the rain is killing me. I've only been able to work one day on that project this week. Luckily I have other clients. LOL

Eddie

Again, Eddie you are right. It has rained every day since the concrete was poured. Just glad we got it pour when we did or we would be still waiting another week or 2.

We have not done much more because of the rain. I will run up there tomarrow to see how wet it is.

 

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Update,

Well it has been about 7 weeks since we have started on our house. By now you would think we would have it dried in, Wrong..... Due to the rain almost everyday we are way behind. I have been out of town lately an very busy so I have not been able to keep up. Last week we was able to pour the rest of the concrete around the porch and the garage and the house is almost framed. As we speak right now there is a major storm over the house right now and I hope the framing is ok after the storm is over. Here is a few more pix of our progress.

 

[EddieWalker]

Thanks for the pictures and update. I'm watching that storm on the radar right now and it sure looks intense. After the last couple days, it's gone from dificult to get anything done, to impossible!!!

The house I'm building right now is two weeks away from being dried in, but I'm not getting anything done because of the weather. It's not just the rain, but the winds, thunder and lightning. I actually saw it hit some trees on friday!!!! That's the closest I've ever been to a strike and the noise was more then I would have imagined. No fires, but I did see smoke coming off the trees.

Your porches look like they are going to be pretty big. The house I'm building also has a large wrap around porch that is a big part of why I got the job. I also designed the roofline that they really liked, plus worked with them on the layout. We're finishing it off in Hardi lap siding and painting the posts.

Here's a picture from last week.

Eddie

 

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Your porches look like they are going to be pretty big. The house I'm building also has a large wrap around porch that is a big part of why I got the job. I also designed the roofline that they really liked, plus worked with them on the layout. We're finishing it off in Hardi lap siding and painting the posts.

Here's a picture from last week.

Eddie

What is the pitch of the house you are building? Mine is going to be real simular to yours. I will have a 8/12 pitch on the roof and the porches will have a 4/12.

 

[EddieWalker]

It's 3:12 and 7:12.

I sort of drew it out for them before I started, but we didn't decide on the pitch until I had the walls framed in and held up a board for them to decide what they liked. It was thier call, and they liked the shallow pitch over the porch. For the steep pitch, I went with the 7:12 because I didn't want to deal with anything steeper or taller. They wanted 12:12, but I talked them out of that. Too darn steep and even worse, it would have been higher up then I'm comfortable working on. I'm afraid of heights, so putting a step ladder on top of the rafters to attache the peaks can get kind of crazy.

Another consideration was to have a wall that would fit a four foot octogon window in front and look like it belongs. I've seen it where the window distracts or looks odd. Here, it will look pretty good in my opinion.

Eddie

 

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Update 6-27-07

Well the constuction guys are not able to work very much since the last update, but we have made some progress. We framed up the garge and they are almost complete with the ceiling part of the framing. Here is the pic's of the garage.

 

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here is the living room.

 

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here is the porch and patio.

 

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here is a few pic's from the driveway and road.