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Concrete day! Everythings slopes out towards the garage doors. I attached 2"x2"x1/8 angle to all perimeters to guide the concrete guys slopes. They though it was a bit excessive, but it kept everything spot on. In the right picture there is a framed in box. That is for the septic pump. I...

Pex in place and Pex manifold. so the layers are: earth, gravel, vapor barrier, a little sand, 2" aluminized foam, Pex stapled to the foam with plastic staples, rebar, and 6" of concrete.

Stemwalls done and stripped. Starting to get the floors leveled out.

Pic 9: See the beautiful working conditions.:eyecrazy: My "soil" is rock infused with clay. Imagine rock from peas to 18" packed together as tight as can be with mud oozed between it. In the summer it is like concrete, in the winter it is like grease on round rocks. I slipped and had too many...

pic 7: Question? How do you stand up a bit 21' tall 700 pound post by yourself? Pic 8: With a tractor. These 6 posts are 21 feet tall, 6"x6" .25 wall with the bracket bottoms made of 7/8" plate with 5/16" side wall. Local steel yard cut out all the plate sides, bottoms and post bases and put...

Pic 4: some of the pvc I placed in form to allow the PEX a place to go throw the foundation. Pic 5: Initial pour of the footings. This occurred around thanksgiving. The footers under the walls are 8" x 16". Under the six posts that support the ridge beams are 6' x 6' x 16" thick chunks of...

pic 1: initial excavation, pic taken from way up on a man lift. Hired a local guy to bring in his Case Extendahoe for the day. I would have killed my Kubota backhoe. Although the dirt looks innocent, at about 20" it is more or less cemented rock and it takes a lot of weight to get through. I...

Time for my build thread. Been building this for a while and it's hard to come up with a name for a build thread. I chose "Third Place" from Ray Oldenburgs book, The Great Good Place. I'm prefacing it with Flail, me, to show its my third place. The third place is not home, it's not work, it's my...