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It is neat seeing how difference construction crews build homes in different area's.
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We sheet all our exterior walls with plywood before standing them and if we are using a house wrap tyvec we do some of that before we stand the wall.
We also started using pex tubing the last couple years and have not built slab home in a while and see the pex just ran under the slab just something a little different than I am use to seeing. My brother said the last concrete slab home he was at done this also.
It is looking good. Keep posting pics.
Continued progress...getting the framing almost done and roofing is coming next.
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Looks like things are finally moving along. I am kind of surprised that you're not farther along. My house was built in 3 months from the time that they broke ground to the time that I moved in. Looks like you're at 4 months now and just getting the exterior up...
Yeah, there have definitely been some delays with certain aspects dealing with the city, but when the contractor has has work being done it's gone fairly fast. It should be a total of about 6-7 months, not counting the delays. He's hoping to have us ready to paint the interior by mid February.
Continued progress. Last week and into the he weekend, the framing has been finished and the roof is up. The electrician is now getting started and further work on the plumbing is taking place. If all goes well, we should be sheet rocked and textured by mid to late February, then we start much of the finish work. I'm sure we'll be out working on the house every chance we can get so we progress quickly.
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Things are continuing to progress along. HVAC rough-in is done. Plumbing and electrical rough-in is close. We've had a few things come up that affected budget, so some changes are being made to adjust. I tried to take some interior pictures to show some of the work, but it can be a bit tough in tight quarters...hopefully they are helpful for visualizing some of the layout and progress. As you may notice, we did a lot of can lights, so there are very few fixtures. If all goes well, electrical will be finished this week, along with windows, then it is on to exterior finish.
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From your pictures your contractors doing a fine job. It's always interesting to see how other builders practice their craft. What state are you building this home in? The reason I ask there is no snow and the ground looks fairly dry. I did notice someone made a window size change. In our area we use ABS plastic for the drain pipes instead of PVC. Normally a house with this pitch of roof and fairly simple roof design we would opt to use engineered trusses doesn't really matter it's all good. Hope everything goes well I'll be watching this thread.
Yeah, from everything I'm seeing I agree. The foundation is amazing and definitely will be solid on top of our shifting soil. The framing seems top notch to me, and they seem to go over the requirements and minimums with a few aspects. We're in Oklahoma. We've had a couple storms roll through with rain, snow and ice, but it doesn't stick around. Window size change? I've had a couple people ask me about trusses. The reason they aren't used much around here is it is cheaper to do the stick build. Trusses really only get used when someone has money to burn or on commercial jobs.Quote:
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So, we have been working on finalizing the design for the kitchen cabinets and decided to make one change, which was to put the oven stack in a corner. The layout and elevations have been sketched out and looks like we have a pretty good design. Here are some pictures showing the design. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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We were actually at the house this weekend doing clean up, and laid out the design to see how it would look an feel.
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Pulled the truck in the garage while we were there. Looks like it's going to fit just fine. ;-)
Looking real good. Watching from pics is so less stressful.
Is your island going to be 1 level? We went with a split level and really like it. Since your slab and plumbing/electrical are done there isn't much else that can change. Are you adding under cabinet lighting?
Yes, we want the island single level.
I have electrical in place so we could add lighting under or over cabinets at any time.
More progress...windows are in, patio posts are up and the fraidy hole is done. Data and coax lines are being run and insulation is getting started.
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Fraidy hole looks pretty good. We're a little itchy after working at the house today...wonder why. ;-)
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Brick has been started and hopefully exterior doors go on this week. It took a while for the front and rear entry doors to come in, but they're here now. The weather doesn't look like it is going to cooperate much this week, but hopefully some good progress can still be made.
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is a fraidy hole a tornado thing? We don't have those in the PNW. of course, we don't have houses just built on a slab either. we always have a crawl space underneath.
Yeah, a tornado shelter.
Brick is almost done and the doors are starting to go in. This week the weather is supposed to be really nice, so hopefully a lot of progress can be made.
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They got the brick done, after having to wait for one last delivery of brick that was out of stock. Now the focus is on finishing a few interior items, and sheet rock as far as the inside is concerned. The exterior is being trimmed out and prepped for paint. We're liking the way the trim looks and anxious to see it painted. We decided to do board and batten around the whole house at 2' centers. We also decided to trim out the transition from the shake shingle look in the gables and the board and batten siding.
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Sheet rock is underway. It's fun to see the spacial feeling in the house change as the walls are closed up.
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I hope you ran every kind of extra wire you could think of before sheetrock. When I had my house built, I did 2 runs of coax to all the rooms, as well as Ethernet. I prewired the bedroom, family room, and office for 5.1 surround sound (though I wish I would have known that 7.1 and 9.1 would eventually come on the scene). I added more outlets the garage, bathrooms, and kitchen. I wired in for canned lights and ceiling fans. I wired for outlets under the eves for Christmas lights. A couple extra days of wiring was so worth it in the long run.
We did most of the same. We didn't wire every room for surround...I doubt we would ever use that and I'm pretty fond of the sound bar technology now. We're definitely wired up for whole house network capability, audio, etc. We also did lots of extra outlets for various purposes, as well as lots of can lights and ceiling fans. We didn't do the eves for Christmas lights...don't plan on ever having lights up. But, we did set up for flood lights around most of the main perimeter of the house, so the wiring is already there and could be easily tapped in to.
A couple cool things we wired for is fans in the upper corners of the garage (in addition to the ceiling fans), extra plugs on the 3rd car bay that are at about 6-7' height for bench level task/shop lighting, switch and plug at the end of each main hall to the back bedrooms to mount a corner fan unit to push air down those hallways. That last item is mostly for winter to push warm air to the rooms from the wood stove in the main part of the house. We also pre-wired and are prepared for a whole house attic fan if we ever decide to put one in.
Nice job. Yeah, the "office" that was wired for 5.1 is now our guest bedroom and that wiring isn't being used anymore. But in the master and family room it's great. I also ended up with wiring that is no longer applicable. I wired for a hot tub to the back yard. We don't have the hot tub anymore. I also wired for phone lines and we don't have that anymore either. Tech sure evolves.
Good call on the rest of the stuff you did. I like it when people think through the things that would compliment their lifestyles.
Thanks. Yeah, I got a lot of good feedback on here and a couple other forums as we were planning things. This is actually the third new construction house we've had, but we are much more involved in this one than any of the others. This one is way more custom, as well.