Friday morning, now this has been 4 days, they're there at 6:45am to pour the concrete.
The wife...
Friday morning, now this has been 4 days, they're there at 6:45am to pour the concrete.
The wife...
Foundation is poured dude!!!
Gratuitous baby shots...
RIP Skwizgaar the cat. Such an awesome kitty...
Foundation cured from Friday till Wednesday. This was sitting there when I got home Tuesday afternoon.
Came home Wednesday from work to this!!!
Damn those guys are quick!
Thursday I came home to this...
Brick showed up while I was taking pix...
Yes, white brick.
Javelin wrote: Damn those guys are quick!
You ain't joking!
Friday they had all this done...
Saturday, we were dried in.
Come on in!
Entry way, 10' ceilings.
Office to the left.
Into the living room with these huge 6' tall windows
Looking back into the living room from the windows. You can see the hallway to the girls' rooms.
Kitchen
Breakfast area
Laundry Room
Kourtlyn's (1 year old) room
Kelcie's (15 year old) room
2nd bathroom
Entry to master suite
View from door into the master bedroom
Kinda from the corner looking towards the master bath
Looking into the master bath
This will be a large garden tub and stand up shower
Doorway to master closet
Covered half of back porch
Open half to enjoy those big windows
Remember I was talking about Tensioned Foundations? Here's how it works. Ya hook up a hydraulic ram and insert keepers that look just like oversized valve spring retainers over the steel cable.
Then you turn it on and let it pull the cable to 7800 psi. Rinse and repeat.
Looks like they're all done. Those plastic things are the molds that kept the holes open when the concrete was poured.
Now you use a big ass diamond saw to cut off the excess.
Nice & neat.
Fill the hole with concrete and you'll never know it was there.
1) Those guys are FAST
2) This thread is incredibly fascinating.
3) I want to build some kind of structure some day. Maybe to live in
Gotta go home now, I'll post more in a little bit. LOL
I'd like the 350 square foot cabin when you're done. Plenty of space for one guy, after I add the 2500 square foot garage.
congrats. good luck with the build. looking forward to more pictures and updates
Cool! My g/f is sort of doing a blog for the reno work I'm in the middle of, but it's all on FB, which doesn't let you hot-link.
It is amazing how fast pro's work. Much faster than the snail's pace we're moving at...
Hmm, I don't know that I've seen a post-tensioned SOG, especially in a residential application. We've done parking garages and other large structures that way but no SOG's that I'm aware of. Around here slabs typically just get wire mesh or fibers with some rebar in strategic locations (of course rebar in the foundations).
That was a different way of doing the post tensioning than I'm used to seeing, but that way there's less chance of error.
When I see them the cable can get all wiggly (a big no-no) and when they tension it can create problems instead of stopping them.
Ian F wrote: Cool! My g/f is sort of doing a blog for the reno work I'm in the middle of, but it's all on FB, which doesn't let you hot-link. It is amazing how fast pro's work. Much faster than the snail's pace we're moving at...
Where do you think I'm hotlinking all these pix from? LOL They've been building the house for 3 months. You guys are getting a full house build from beginning to end in just a few short hours. LOL
Conquest351 wrote:Ian F wrote: Cool! My g/f is sort of doing a blog for the reno work I'm in the middle of, but it's all on FB, which doesn't let you hot-link. It is amazing how fast pro's work. Much faster than the snail's pace we're moving at...Where do you think I'm hotlinking all these pix from? LOL They've been building the house for 3 months. You guys are getting a full house build from beginning to end in just a few short hours. LOL
Pictures aren't working here.
This is cool. 
Looks good! I have a zillion pics from when my home was built 7 years ago (move in day was the day before Thanksgiving) but they were slooooowwwww, mostly with the finishing work since they used panels fabbed up off site and installed here. It would be boring to look at and I'd have to find them so this is all you get 
I feel you on livin in that cabin - we (me, wife and 2 kids then 6 and 4) lived in a small apartment for 3 months while my place was built, but not thatsmall.
Now we get to some cool technical stuff. I upgraded the AC unit from a 14 sear 4 ton system to a 19 sear 4 ton heat pump system. I really don't know what that all means, but apparently it's completely badass. Someone put it in my terms by saying, "dude, you just upgraded from a 1984 Chevy truck to a brand new Cadillac CTS-V". It helps when your friends understand how your mind works. Anyway, pics!!
Osterkraut wrote:Conquest351 wrote:Pictures aren't working here.Ian F wrote: Cool! My g/f is sort of doing a blog for the reno work I'm in the middle of, but it's all on FB, which doesn't let you hot-link. It is amazing how fast pro's work. Much faster than the snail's pace we're moving at...Where do you think I'm hotlinking all these pix from? LOL They've been building the house for 3 months. You guys are getting a full house build from beginning to end in just a few short hours. LOL
WHAAAAAT? Is he the only one guys?
Now I started customizing. I decided to run some CAT6 cable to each room. Remember the little thread I had a while back about "Learn me CAT6"? Yeah. Anyway, I ran 2 strands to each bedroom and the living room.
Terminating in the office
Run into the girls' rooms.
In case I want to have volume controls here...
Master bedroom strands
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