Author Topic: I\'ve started building - Finishing up (Read 7138 times)

CHIZZY · « **Reply #45 on:** July 22, 2006, 04:32:28 AM »

what the fuck!?!? Us northern folk don\'t see cinder block houses. Then again, we don\'t have hurricanes. My house is wood with plaster & lathe walls, and it\'s ballon-framed, meaning the studs go all the way from the top of the foundation to the roof. And I think the studs are 20" apart, not 16.

So what do you do, build walls inside of the cinder block?

« **Reply #46 on:** July 22, 2006, 01:34:45 PM »

I may be wrong but wasn\'t that just pics of the foundation?

videoholic · « **Reply #47 on:** July 22, 2006, 02:44:19 PM »

We have termites here so you really don\'t want a wood framed house.

What you do is for the interior walls you put hard insulation. You will see it as 4x8 sheets. Then you put a baton strip in for spacing so you can have your wiring and such in the walls. THen sheetrock. So you lose about an inch and a half of interior space.

Interior walls are like normal. Pressure treated bottom plate and 2x4 studs. You see all those knock outs on the bottom of the walls? Those are where steel is in the walls. At least every 48" there is a steel rod going from roof to footer. These knockouts are where the 10" steel rods tie in with the steel that is embedded in the footer. After the inspector comes, we cover these holes up and fill these chambers with concrete. It ends up being a friggen rock solid wall.

We also put steel on the top layer of block that tie in the roof trusses. The house is rated for 130 mph winds which means it can take quite a bit more than that.

We\'ll have no problems next time you come visit chizzy.

videoholic · « **Reply #48 on:** August 01, 2006, 02:58:54 PM »

Pouring the walls with concrete tomorrow. Roof is being deilvered on the 14th. Should go up by the end of that week.

I have a fishing shoot the 10th-13th. I think we are going to have our baby on the 14th (going to induce). I have an A&E shoot possibly starting on the 17th for 5 days..

Busy couple weeks in the vid household.

Looks like the walls are going to be framed the following week. The guys want to jump right on it. WOoHOo.

only thing that bugs me is I could have put longer windows in the bathroom. The three together in the front on the right hand side. Had I known my house was going to sit so high I could have done it. THey are small windows five feet up in the room so you don\'t see my wife\'s bitties. But since our house is so high I could have really made the windows longer.

Oh well. When we put the tub in we can set the tub pretty high and make it look right from the inside.

Plus we are going to have big planter boxes in front of those windows so it won\'t look odd when it\'s all done.

Bobs_Hardware · « **Reply #49 on:** August 01, 2006, 03:21:59 PM »

Awesome house Viddy. Congrats man.

Going to be amazing to raise a family in.

videoholic · « **Reply #50 on:** August 28, 2006, 06:55:39 PM »

They started putting up my roof today.

videoholic · « **Reply #51 on:** August 28, 2006, 06:56:55 PM »

I think tomorrow they will finish setting the trusses up and start decking it.

Crane was there for 13 hours. Ouch. long time.

« **Reply #52 on:** August 29, 2006, 10:09:48 AM »

nice... I worked on a crew once setting trusses, can be some scary shit on a windy day.

Those end trusses suck when the plywood is on them.. like a big friggin\' wing.

House is coming along nicely.. have you set any sort of date you hope it\'ll be done?

« **Reply #53 on:** August 29, 2006, 03:44:09 PM »

are you going to paint the cinder blocks and put some covering on that roof?

videoholic · « **Reply #54 on:** August 30, 2006, 05:01:30 AM »

stucko on the block and then I am hopefully going to put some stone around the bottom.

Roof is dimensional shingles. I\'m thinking about a deep brown color.

Still working on the roof. This thing is so complex. amazing how it all fits together.

CHIZZY · « **Reply #55 on:** August 30, 2006, 06:26:16 AM »

why not go for spanish tile? That shit is sexy. Maybe some mosaic work around the windows...

videoholic · « **Reply #56 on:** August 30, 2006, 08:51:39 AM »

there are a couple houses down the street with spanish tile roofs. not for me. Very very expensive. I\'d rather buy a pool and a boat.

clips · « **Reply #57 on:** August 30, 2006, 03:02:51 PM »

coming along fine...i was a bit worried with ernesto comin up, but he\'s lost alot of steam and has been toned down to a tropical storm...

videoholic · « **Reply #58 on:** August 30, 2006, 03:32:01 PM »

Ernesto is a big pussy

videoholic · « **Reply #59 on:** September 19, 2006, 06:43:25 PM »

My Camera phone sucks.

I\'ll upload more pics probably next week some time. I now have walls studded out and they are shingling today. It will take them 3 days to put the shingles on. Roof is 8900 sq feet and an 8/12 pitch which is very steep. Dude came very close to falling off putting the underlayment in.

By the way, the underlayment is called Titanium and it\'s twice as strong as 30 pound tar paper which is standard. No clue why the guy put it on. I told him I didn\'t need it. Oh well. A good selling point. THe roof can go six months without shingles with this stuff. Pretty cool.

I also installed the roof window today for the theater room. Very nice window. No pic of it yet. I am working through next Friday so I won\'t be able to be out there for a while.

Now that the walls are up, I am really liking how the house is layed out. It\'s not broken up at all. It\'s very basic and everything makes sense. I was in a house down the street the other day that is about 4500 square feet and at least a thousand of it is hall way. I have maybe 80 square feet of hall way in my house.

Hello

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