Recent content by BlackDogFarms

73RR: I continue to search for ICF builds. Hard to come by but the tech manuals and installation manuals as mentioned above are what i am concentrating on next. I will reach out soon for more specifics on your build. Grazie "Thank you" from Italy

This is exactly the experience I am looking for thanks for chiming in.

DW1 I have a basic idea of the plans, nothing finalized yet. My sight already has a septic permit that is valid for a few more years. While I can do that my self, being overseas I will pay for that to be done in my absence. You mention you are in the process of this now - does that mean ICF...

yeldogt... living in eastern NC wind is a concern, plus a tornado went right through our property in 2011 messing up quite a bit - its not tornado alley but still. I also love the idea of the greater insulation value and the 4 hour fire resistance. So yes wind, fire, and insulation value...

I am looking for several house building forums to start reading... what does the garage journal folks use. Most of the garage journal is DIY or at least design it yourself. I am not seeing many actually home forums like this. I have found gardenweb.com which seems to be the houzz app but...

We are going to have a walk out porch/deck on the back of the house. That walks out of the living room/rear dormer to a 16ft wide deck 14ft long. We will also have French doors on the deck to get furniture etc in and out of the house easier. Our bed room will be where the windows are on the...

More pictures including a sunset last week. Will post updated floor plans soon. We dropped the plans off at the drafter on Friday and should have those within two weeks. Now our decisions are hardie board or the vinyl siding that has the wide face. And we have decided to use regular metal...

More pictures of the lot and of the Hickory Flooring. We harvested 4 hickories and 2 beeches to provide us with Hickory hardwood flooring and the beech trees for the cabinets. It will cost us 3000 after the flooring and cabinet wood is kiln dried tongue and grooved and planed into 5 inch wide...

Attached are pictures of the lot after it was cleared. It ended up being a lot bigger than we expected. There was a lot of brush and fallen trees that prevented us from being able to judge the actual lot size. We are estimating about an acre and a half cleared.

We have made changes. We are sticking with our original design, we did make it a 30 by 44 instead of 30 by 40.

We are making progress... attached are pictures right before the lot was cleared. We started the 29th of January and finished on the 8th. Only took them 4 days but the rain showed its ugly face.

Yes the Croatan butts right up to our property. The roof line d will go to the exterior walls and the truss designer stated we could have point loads engineered into our floor trusses where our knee walls mount. Yes the main reason for the exterior stairs is to assist with materials and...

Side view

Added 4 ft to overall dimensions to assist in stair placement 30x44.have a guy at work that's a structural engineer designing my garage door beams/LVLs, wall sheeting, and possible beams in the garage instead of floor trusses. Just weighing my options.

Scratch the 9' doors I meant 10' doors and moving the man door around the side of the house so that gives me 2.5' on the corners and in between each door