Yet another boring house building thread
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more retire to NM fundz!!1111
Good thing you're going to become a world famous serjin!
every day6 hours....
a week?
This one is close, now let's see if the long url works:
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It's my deceased great grandmother's house/land. Old house on 74 acres and my old trails are probably still easy to find.
Dammit!!! Rain today...Tue the plumbing was roughed in
Wed the beam diggers got the foundation dug out and the poly installed. The foundation was pre-trated for those nasty termites. The post-tention contractor will be in this afternoon to install the post-tension cables.
Tomorrow morn the carpenter will install the brick-shelf and the floating forms. Then it will be inspected for Fri morning's pour.
Fri we will have the slab poured and the framing lumber delivered.
Sat the carpenter will pop lines on the slab, lay sill plate and start nailing up walls.
Looks like i'll have to rent a concrete pump truck for tomorrow's pour.... bye-bye $1100.
True... but we can access 3 sides of this slab with trucks easily.... but I do have a pump truck on 'will-call'...
One thing that's a new change on this house is my plumber started using copper water pipe that's got a covering of plastic over it. This is great, because now i don't have to wrap the exposed lines in the beams.
http://www.kamcoproducts.com/index.asp?content_id=30
I don't understand what you mean by exposed lines wrapped in beams.True... but we can access 3 sides of this slab with trucks easily.... but I do have a pump truck on 'will-call'...
One thing that's a new change on this house is my plumber started using copper water pipe that's got a covering of plastic over it. This is great, because now i don't have to wrap the exposed lines in the beams.
http://www.kamcoproducts.com/index.asp?content_id=30
the plumbing is installed before the beams are dug.
when the beams are dug, there is always copper water lines criss-crossing them. These exposed bits of copper have to be wrapped with duct or rubber tape to keep the Cu from being exposed to the concrete.
Well, i just had my first crisis on this job...
the pump truck company i had a reserved a truck for back on Tues bumped me for another pour... i have never used this company before, so i will not be doing so again.
so now i am looking at having to pour at 11:30AM instead of 7:30AM which means my finishers will be out working on the slab until 7-8 PM. ..and i will have to order up some faster setting concrete too.
Options:
1. Pour later in the day.
2. Gamble that the trucks can make it to the forms thru the mud and save the cost of the pumper and the extra for the quick setting concrete.
F$#$(%(*#@~~!!!
the pump truck company i had a reserved a truck for back on Tues bumped me for another pour... i have never used this company before, so i will not be doing so again.
so now i am looking at having to pour at 11:30AM instead of 7:30AM which means my finishers will be out working on the slab until 7-8 PM. ..and i will have to order up some faster setting concrete too.
Options:
1. Pour later in the day.
2. Gamble that the trucks can make it to the forms thru the mud and save the cost of the pumper and the extra for the quick setting concrete.
F$#$(%(*#@~~!!!
N8, isn't 1 day a little soon to start framing? Here in CA they give the concrete at lest 5 days after pour before framing.
Since when is 1785 sqft a McMansion?Every time a McMansion goes up, God kills a kitten.
When you live in Louisiana.
It's not a proper mansion, that's for sure. But it aspires in its outward appearance to be a mansion.
Therefore, a McMansion.
HTH.
Nope. Not a requirement here.
They will have the forms busted off, the lines popped and the sill plate down by Beer-thirty Saturday.
However, it will be a week before we tension the cables.
This is our standard operating proceedure. We use 3000 psi concrete generally but tomorrow we'll be using 5-sack in order to get it to set up a little quicker
BTW, i canceled the pump truck...we are gonna go at 0800 without it and hope the trucks dont get stuck. its a gamble but the odds are slighly in my favor on this.
Oh man.......you guys are wide open in this thread today. Watching N 8 and stosh flex their building knowledge muscles is highly entertaining!! 
Ohhh, so it's like they can't afford a real mansion so they buy a ****ty, small house that looks like a mansion. People suck.
lthumbsdown:Depends on how much Calcium they add partly. We were framing on the slab the next day a few weeks ago.
Contractors, framers, plumbers, electricians all have their own way of doing things. I can NEVER find 2 contractors in the same profession who will tell you the same thing.Oh man.......you guys are wide open in this thread today. Watching N 8 and stosh flex their building knowledge muscles is highly entertaining!!
true... many ways of doing the same thing really.
BTW, here's my weather gamble on no pump-truck for tomorrow... so far it's looking like we will have no more rain... hope it holds until tomorrow nite when it can rain all it wants on the new slab.
Can't they just use wheel barrows to move the concrete around. It's only a slab.true... many ways of doing the same thing really.
BTW, here's my weather gamble on no pump-truck for tomorrow... so far it's looking like we will have no more rain... hope it holds until tomorrow nite when it can rain all it wants on the new slab.
'Round here there are McMansions that are upwards of 5000 sq ft. All crammed in together and ugly.Ohhh, so it's like they can't afford a real mansion so they buy a ****ty, small house that looks like a mansion. People suck.
Well, poured on Fri morning, and got all the lines popped Sunday.
i just shingled another house, not that's too much of a big whoop tee doo. But the dough will bring me closer to another bikey.
i do such quality work.
i know for a fact n 8 doesn't even touch a tool, unless he's in the site porta-potty.
i do such quality work.
i know for a fact n 8 doesn't even touch a tool, unless he's in the site porta-potty.
this house has 16:12, 12:12, 10:12 and 9:12 roof pitches... interested?
those are not sill plates. those are the forms for the brick ledge that haven't been taken off yet.
When plumbers forget the difference between the stack and the drain line.....
those rooflines and windows remind of one thing:
people want steep (9:12 min) pitches here because of Louisiana's enormous snow loads