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[alanf]

I may have missed this detail somewhere, but I assume that with under slab insulation that you are going to do hydronic heating. How do you do the thermal break at garage and man doors? If you are doing radiant heat, what are you planning to use as the water heater? Boiler, on demand or standard water heater?
I don't know what your district has you doing, but I was back to work making up pro d days for the 2 week spring break. Hope you are able to frame walls and get a roof on before the weather goes bad!
Alan

 

[gwellwood]

I will be doing a gas furnace on the ceiling.

The foam is to keep my body heat from being sucked out my boots when working in there in the winter.

We have the option of how to do the 3 days Pro-D. We can make up two of the days with our monthly Tech Ed LSA meetings, and I make up one of the days with whatever teachable-subject-related project I have going on.

 

[gwellwood]

More walls, waiting on concrete:

 

[gwellwood]

We got slab, baby!

Waiting on trusses, which were supposed to be here today.

 

[jbmatth]

Moving and grooving, do you plan to have it dried in before winter hits?
JB

 

[gwellwood]

When the trusses arrive, I can do the lintel above the roll-up door (Because the lintel is part of that order). Then trusses go up (of course). I have all the sheathing and shingles waiting on the driveway.

My hope is to have at least a roof by snowfall (usually late October here).

 

[gwellwood]

Today I got a ton and a half of crush and spent the day leveling and compacting and leveling and I think we got it really good now.

Apparently not good enough - was still about 2" crown, which meant either undoing everything and calling the excavator out again, or just adding 2" more concrete for a total of 6" slab (in places). *sigh*

Noticed that at some point the excavator wacked the foundation wall hard enough to crack it.

Structural Engineer coming out Monday for a professional opinion. Probably a good idea whichever way it swings.

Trusses were behind schedule, now allegedly tomorrow.

 

[jbmatth]

I hope you won't be the one paying the bill on the engineer as it wasn't your mistake the foundation took the wack and if it needs to be repaired beyond some grouting I'd be sending that bill the the driver. Enjoy the build and keep us posted.
JB

 

[gwellwood]

I can give the bill to the excavators, but I bet that $$$ will find its way padded into different areas of the bill. That's how these things work (grin).

 

[gwellwood]

Trusses arrived, so the overhead-door lintel was put in place. This actually took a lot longer than expected, so no roof trusses got done.

 

[gwellwood]

Got the trusses up above the machine shop area. Last doubled truss is a girder truss, which supports the end of the scissor trusses.

 

[gwellwood]

Trusses are up. Have to finish the overhangs and finish sheathing.

 

[gwellwood]

Hoisting trusses:

 

[Styx]

Looking good Greg, Keep the pictures coming...

 

[gwellwood]

Still trying to beat Old Man Winter and get shingles on ASAP. Got a fair bit of sheathing done on the back side, hope to finish sheathing the front tomorrow. Hoping....

 

[1/2 Cup]

Looking great.

 

[theoldwizard1]

Still trying to beat Old Man Winter and get shingles on ASAP. Got a fair bit of sheathing done on the back side, hope to finish sheathing the front tomorrow. Hoping....

You still have 3 or 4 weeks before and SERIOUS snow falls, even in BC !

Losing light earlier and earlier (we are going off Day Light Savings Time this weekend).

 

[jbmatth]

I don't remember what part of B.C. you said you were from or even if you said, but do you mind sharing a rough location? I ask because my parents used to have a house about 100km (~62 miles) east of Prince George in a very small town named Longworth. I've spent a week or two a summer traveling up there to try to get the house livable with them before they realized it was a dream that wouldn't work out as we didn't have the money to properly get residency. Thus we wouldn't be able to go to school. It was a beautiful area and I've often thought about going back up there to see the area again.
JB

 

[gwellwood]

Today I finished sheathing the entire roof, and got half the front slope shingled.

I'm in the Okanagan Valley. Much like California in many ways.

PG eh? The north still calls me - I spent half my childhood even farther north than PG. Very beautiful country.

 

[jbmatth]

I had to look that area up, it does in fact look very nice. PG area is very nice from what I remember, but it has be about 15 years since I've been there. May have to make another trip to show my wife and kids that area when they are a little older.
JB

 

[gwellwood]

Shingles are done. Took me 20 hours.

 

[gwellwood]

So I'm getting close to the framing inspection.

For the framing inspection, they want to see rough-in of doors and windows, rough-in of gas, and rough-in of electrical (no sewer in this build).

Gas guy doesn't want to rough-in the furnace and gas if there are no doors.

I don't want to rough-in electrical if the copper isn't secure.

Construction friend says doors can be installed, as "lock-up" is the what the framing inspection stage is.

Door guy doesn't want to install overhead door until the drywall is done.

Drywall shouldn't be done until the garage is enclosed, and drywall can't be done until I pass the framing inspection.

It's as if none of these people have ever worked together before.

I'm wondering if my own sense of logic and sequence is seriously flawed, and has previously gone undetected.

 

[jbmatth]

It seems as if you are stuck in a do while loop and will never get done. Well that was fun while it lasted. Yeah right, I know you won't quit now! Sorry to hear of the difficulties, might be worth some extra phone calls to let them know you have to get something done and you can't move on until they do their jobs. I'm so glad I've never had to deal with inspections and unless thing change I never will. Keep your head up and kick some of these contractors in the rear if you have to.
JB

 

[Styx]

Some times the subs will give excuses if a bigger job is able to be done if they can put a one time person off for a while....
As for the doors just drywall where the rails attach to the wall and the will be able to go...
It's hard to get some trades to help out unless they not busy... I'm having a retired friend do my build next spring and I'll help out as much as work let's me...
Good luck it will come together... at least no snow for a while...lol...



Cheers Randy...

 

[gwellwood]

Inspector gave me the go-ahead to install doors.

I will be running some 1/2" plywood up the wall and some along the trusses for the door to be attached to, and get a door in there.

Mean time, pops and I got some Tyvek house wrap up.

 

[jbmatth]

Congrats on being able to move forward with this now, you better hurry or you will be freezing your tail off working on the outside this winter working alongside .
JB

 

[gwellwood]

VERY exciting to be inside, dry, while a torrential downpour put my shingling handiwork to the test.

Spoke with the Electrical guy today to figure out what we need for a plan and materials.

Brought home the Man Door today.

 

[gwellwood]

Well, ~that~ took a while. Now waiting on the gas guys while I pull wire.

 

[jbmatth]

The kids look like they are enjoying the new door, that'll at least keep the wind off of ya'lls faces this winter working inside there. What is the plan for getting the outside covered?
JB

 

[gwellwood]

I plan to match the appearance to that of the house.

Except the house has stucco, AND horizontal aluminum siding, AND vertical tongue-and-groove wood siding. Hard to make that look visually consistent.

I may just do horizontal vinyl siding, for simplicity.

 

[Styx]

Or just wrap the house in Tyvek... You would be a real trend setter...lol...

 

[gwellwood]

Styx, I like your style!

 

[gwellwood]

Passed the framing inspection! Yay!

Workshop heater installed. All wire pulled. Also three network drops and a phone line. Gotta pull coax for cable still, and BX for the heater.

Allegedly I can complete the exterior and call it done with an inspection for occupancy since insulation is not required for a garage. But methinks 1) it might be wise to have insulation inspected and approved (doesn't cost me none, and I'm going to insulate it anyway), and 2) I might enjoy some heat through this Canadian winter.

Heater and breaker panel

Further along that wall, moving to the left

The 12x20' machine shop area

Heading back into the vehicular area

Back at the man door

 

[jbmatth]

Congrats on passing the inspection, you will have it ready to play in very soon, try to stay warm this winter.
JB

 

[bczygan]

Just in time and a nice Christmas present.

How did you get the subs to play nice with each other?

When I was building, each sub took delight in destroying the work of all the others, while doing his own.

We used to say that when the construction exceeded the destruction, the project was complete.

Bill

 

[gwellwood]

Soffits half done at this point. Fascias next.

 

[gwellwood]

Soffits all done.

I am 1' shy of enough fascia holder-up-inators, and then ran out of daylight today. Hopefully Fascias this week.

 

[1/2 Cup]

Your soffits are looking great, all the best with your facia.

Regards

 

[gwellwood]

I did the fascias starting along the fence side and working my way around back, that way I could "figure it out" by the time I got to the front where it mattered.

All the sides went reasonably well, except the front. Which sucked. Not sure if I will pull the front off and do it again, or just slap a big gutter on there and try to ignore it.

Started the siding today. This time I started at the front, and it actually went really well - I am very pleased with the results.

 

[gwellwood]

Actually, the siding is kinda fun....