My dream build

chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

This is the start. I don't have any pics of before the dirt work but he moved lots of dirt to make the pad. He took seven feet off one side and added it to the other. This pic is the view of the pond. I should tell you that this project started may of 2012 and is still under construction. It's a 60x80 building with a 40x60 building off the side. The 40x60 is my house and wife's garage. The 60x80 is going to be split up and have a shop, a man cave and storage.

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Here they started drilling holes and putting poles in the ground

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spoonsports86 · Mar 2, 2014

sounds like a huge project lets get some more pics

chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

here they started putting walls up.

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Here they have the walls on the house done and the trusses set for the house. They are two foot on center the last twenty feet by the pond the trusses are vaulted

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Here they are setting the trusses on the shop they are four foot on center. The shop has fifteen foot sidewalls

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

I paid for the building to be put up but I did most everything else myself with the help of my dad and friends. Here is the start of the septic system. Not very good pics but the only pics I have. My mom took the pics when she came out.

these are the tubes in the sand filter

this is the base for the tank

. Sorry this is all I have on the septic but we had the tank set on a Friday and had the whole system in on sunday

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Well when we were working on the septic the guys were setting the big trusses with a crane.

They were also moving them around with the lull when this happened

The guy in the lull tried to jump out then back in when he couldn't get out of the way. It landed on his ankle and pinned him under it. We had to use the backhoe and skid steer to lift it off of him. He broke his ankle but he got lucky that was all that happened

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

We tried to pull the lull over with the back hoe but the hill is to steep

So they called a tow truck

He had to hook the front of the truck to a tree to keep him up on the hill but he got it turned back over

Three trusses, some broken wall boards, two pulls, and a busted up lull later we called it A day and drank beer

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Here they have all the doors and windows set on the house

And are starting on the metal

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Here all the sides are done working on the roof

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Putting on the five garage doors

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

here's my dad with the last two doors going on the "wife's" garage

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

While the house was getting the finishing touches me and my dad are working on draining the pond to dig it out for the loops for geo

Here are the loops 300 feet of two inch to the pond 3500 feet of 3/4 in the pond and 300 feet back to the house

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Here is the tie in

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Sunbimmer · Mar 2, 2014

Wow man I'm impressed and following this, looks awesome :thumbup:

Thanks for sharing !!

BTW I don't think chad is to slow

chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Well I started this project June of 2012 and still not done. We did move in to the house April of 2013 . I am just getting time to put all these pics up on here. I will try to keep up on the progress as I keep working on it so it doesn't look like I am so fast

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

here's me getting the dirt out from where we dug the rat footing

me and dad working on the plumbing for the house

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Floor graded and the foam down

all the tubes for the in floor heat

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

here is the mechanical rm / shop bathroom

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

House and wife's garage have concrete

next we got sidewalk and approach ready and poured

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Then I rented a foam trailer and spray foamed the house and wife's garage

that was a long day

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Next we framed up out side walls and the wall from house/ small garage to the big shop and sheet rocked one side of it

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Next we framed all the walls in the house ran electric plumping and started sheet rocking

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Next came mud

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Here we are in the big shop building the mechanical room/ shop bathroom. We built it out of block rodded it and poured it full so we would have a tornado shelter

me and my dad again

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Here is the mechanical with the heat pump and hater heater in floor heat all hooked up.

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Here we are in the attic running are air duct for the house thanks Shawn for all the help with this

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Well the girls painted the house we put the cupboards in and started on all the tile floors

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Next we got the countertops in black splash on finished electrical tiled the master shower and all the wood work

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Then we moved in that was around ten months. I had to put the shop on hold because I ran out of money. Fast forward to oct of 2013 and I started to get half of the big shop ready for concrete.

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

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chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Then the cold came and I didn't get my concrete poured. So this is how it sits waiting for the cold to go away so the frost will go out of the ground. I hope you all enjoyed my journey of my dream build. I wil try and keep everything up to date now that I started this tread. Thanks

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JimL · Mar 2, 2014

Nice!!!!

chads2slow · Mar 2, 2014

Thank you

Stuart in MN · Mar 2, 2014

Very impressive. Are you happy with the hydronic heating system and foam insulation? This winter has been a good test for them.

Sunbimmer · Mar 2, 2014

chads2slow said:
I wil try and keep everything up to date now that I started this tread.

I really hope you will keep us posted, I really like where this is going I'm following.
Very nice RV BTW :thumbup:

(you got some pics of that)
You never see one of those here in the Netherlands, just love these things.
I'm dreaming of owning an RV one day but it will be (a whole lot) smaller

My dream build

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