Recent content by Strangers_Mach

Well, we talked with the city, got the lot all surveyed, and unfortuneatly, i cant have the garage exit off the side, it has to come from the front curb because theres a 6' boarder owned by someone else in between my lot and the alley way. Tried purchasing the small chunk and they were...

Thats a good idea, my buddies folks have a door way that leads down to the basement from the garage. It is handy for them. I'll see what it might take to add a set into my plans.

We plan on having an interior stair well that way later down the road we'll be able to finish the basement into a larger family room/man cave area, as well as 2-3 more bedrooms, my reloading/gun safe room, and another bathroom. Obviously if there is going to be a bathroom/kitchen sink down...

Basement is a go! Talking with the wife tonight, and we decided it would make sense to go ahead and do the basement now. Our original plan was to build it on a crawl space and build a 24d X 36w garage. I've downsized a little bit realizing that i'll be building a large shop soon enough. The...

Stuart, good catch, the floor plan we recieved actually shows it opening into the room. I just tossed a door into the floor plan when i was designing the lay out on visio. As for my closet, hell i've got all of my stuff folded into my little 4 drawer dresser, including my shirts! hahaha

I'll jump on my profile and update it! Wasnt really sure how much i would contribute at first, but the more i've posted the more i enjoy this site. The corner tub is merely an option, i can either do large shower and linen, large tub and linen, or large tub large shower. I'm happy with a large...

Im not really sure what the exact problem is with the siding. I know they were all blind nailed and cut with shears. But they've all had to completely remove and reside them. And these were all brand new homes. At first the thought was the homes were settling, but after 2-3 more occurred it...

CNG, i've actually had more warranty claims against hardiplank style siding then i have lp based siding in the past 7 years. Heck in the past 6 months i've had to file 4 seperate claims against hardi for their planks cracking and falling off. And the rep himself told me that the installation...

We've considered renting our house out, and are really considering it, by renting it we will make a couple hundred a month more then what the new mortgage would be. But I don't like the idea of having to worry about fixing stuff they break. But we are still weighing that as an option. I'd just...

With my current house i bought it for 30,000 4 years ago and its valued at 100,000 now. Sure i wont get that much out of it, but thats what its appraised at right now. With what i've saved up recently at the sale of the house i should be able to build the garage and set the new house with no...

Im located in central Kansas. The home will be sheathed in osb, then the house wrap, then the lp smart siding. We're really hoping to make this our home for good. The lot we're building on is actually on the outskirts of town, but still located in town. We wanted to build in the country, but...

The panel is already placed in the laundry room, and my thoughts were the same, I want the 200A service. At that point should i run a sub panel in the garage, or would it be safe to just wire the attached garage threw the 200A service? The house has 8' sidewalls sitting ontop of the 2' stem...

I would much rather own a custom built home, but financially, i would rather buy the modular and build the garage, and still hopefully not have a house payment. Rather then having to go into debt of 100K. Because im sure thats about how much more it would cost to build this house compared to...

House is going to be constructed with all 2x6 exterior as well. With interior walls that are framed with 2x4. This was a big importance for me, i grew up in an old double wide that was all framed with 1x3 interior walls and 2x3 exterior. The house will have all vinyl windows with low-e glass...

This is the Modular homes lay out (as close to scale as possible). I laid all of this out on Visio. We've traveled to all the plants around to see what they offer. This lay out conforms the best for us. Sure, there are things i would change. But like i told my wife, we can always remodel...