I figured I better just start a thread for this lol. Im building this for my parents

5/7/2009




5/20/2009




As of 6/6/2009



Spectators gotta love them...

 

You a builder or just this time for the parents?

 

Today we got all the walls set in the basement and floor joyces on and got 3/4's of the flooring on, further than I thought we would get...

6/9/2009

 

awesome. Nothing more exciting the watching a house being built. I miss framing.

 

i was supposed to be doing construction this summer but it didnt pane out. i like seeing my work actually go somewhere

 

Ive worked construction off and on, for the past few years, but no its not my main source of income. My friends are contractors and well they call me when they get behind mainly lol.

 

The sad part is well have it all framed in sometime next week, (have other things to do Friday-Sunday), then it will be like 4 months of finish work probably lol.

 

That's awesome....

I want an underground shop... with big roll up door :-)

 

Sweet.

That styrofoam insulation/foundation stuff is a trip. Seen it one time on a finished foundation underneath a really nice log-home, but never again. Nearly nobody uses that stuff up here. .. Way quicker than having to get molds in and out of there?

You doing the all the framing on-site, or trucking in pre-fab sections?

A little jealous of being able to start from scratch. I am in the middle of a couple projects to retrofit low-voltage electrical (home audio, networking) @ my little shack and it is such a pain in the *****. Just the thought of having direct access to the studs leaves me drooling a little.

 

I dont know about the lite form being much quicker it takes about a day to set up, but you dont have to frame out/insulate the basement walls then, the dry wall hangs right on the foam.

Where doing all the framing on-site, hopefully have most of the upstairs walls set today....

 

I guess this thread got moved lol, I wish I had pics but well I lost my camera somewhere im my F150 not sure where though I have way to much crap in there. But we got all of the walls set interior, exterior and the garage walls. Hopefully get most of it sheeted tomorrow then head to the lake by the afternoon, then set rafters Monday....

 

So you lay out the foam and pour crete in between the mold? The leave the foam there and back fill on the outside? Is it water proof, or do you still tar or what not the outside to prevent leaks??

How hard is it to get the foam to hold up the sheetrock, would of thought the nails would very well...

 

Yes you pour the concrete between the foam, the foam stays, theres a membrane that goes on the outside of it the seal it up. The foam has plastic ever 16 inches to screw the sheetrock too...

 

It always trips me out to see a house with a basement being built. Here in Cali its fairly rare to have one, most of the projects I've seen/worked on are concrete slabs for the ground floor. Looks like fun though.

 

ha its the exact opposite out here. first time i was at one of my friends house i thought he was kidding when he said he didnt have a basement.

 

Found my camera, looking for my batteries to charge.

 

dude ur lucky.. i would love to be able to build a house.. good progress too

 

The only issue is then you have to live in it and you know everything thats wrong with it lol. Like every time you look at a wall you know it crooked ect.

 

lol true.. but still

 

Damn dude, thats coming along fast.

 

Ya not bad, been running two framing nailers helps alot when you have 6 guys, its costing me alot of beer though thats forsure...Got the garage walls set this morning and start to sheet it, rafters to be delivered tonight. So Monday we should be ready to set them, cause where taking the weekend off...

 

Yea I can't wait for my parents to get started on the addition so I can move home and stop paying $800 a month for rent.

 

That garage looks like it will be nice and big

 

Its was suppose to be bigger, but my servour screwed up and I didn't realize it until they already poured the basement, so I had to take 3 feet out of the width of the garage cause there has to be a 6 foot setback from the property line.

 

That sux.
Awesome progress though!!