thejudges69
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So my wife and I have decided to build a new house. I'm acting as my own general contractor on the build, and before anyone knocks me on that, I tried to hire a builder. I called numerous builders, presented my idea and only heard back from 1, numerous follow up calls to several and still nothing. So for anyone that's followed my Peterbilt thread, if I can build a truck, I can build a house.
So, I'm listening to suggestions of anything I may have missed.
The house is essentially a barn home, it was mentioned in my last thread that it'd be a hard sale if need be. I've already spoke with my realtor and my house on 6 acres with my 40x100 heated truck garage next door will be an easy sale at a good profit, so I'm not concerned about that part.
So onto the house, it measures 36'x108'. The living space is 36'x84'. The house is a slab on grade with no basement. We designed the home ourselves off of a beginning draft I found, we made a good bit of changes and are happy with the design. The house started as a 5 bedroom, 2 bath house with a mud room, foyer, master suite, living room, kitchen and dining room. After we met with the architect, it was changed to a 3 bedroom, sewing room, office, master suite, dining room, kitchen and living room and a 2.5 bath.
The house has partial attic trusses in part of it, which is able to give us a 2nd floor play room for our boys with a walk area around the outer perimeter. Then the other part of the house will have a vaulted ceiling. I'll probably post some of the blueprints, but I need to crop my information out of them.
Down to the nitty gritty. The garage measures 24'x36'. We partitioned part of it into a mechanical room. The new septic will be installed, hopefully in front of the house. The house sits 212' off the road, so should be plenty of room for the septic out front.
For plumbing, I'm wanting to do a home run system with a manifold. We will need to add a circulating pump and line for the hot water, since the master suite is about 80' from the mechanical room. Everything else should be ok distance. All the pex under ground will be sleeved for maintenance. The sewage of course can't be sleeved. After that's all done, we will install the radiant heated floor, all 1/2" tubing for the heat and at this point 5-6 different zones and a propane boiler. I'd like to install extra leads in the dirt to the outside for any extras we may want to add later. And extra sleeves to the kitchen and master suite, just in case.
The foundation will be 8"x24" footers reinforced with rebar, 4-5 courses of block, the top blocks will be termite blocks, except every 4' will be core filled to secure walls to and a footer and block foundation under the front porch as well. I'm still working on how to secure my 6x6 posts to the front patio to support the porch roof. I'm also still working on the heat for the play area upstairs. I'm considering under the floor heat, the heating supplier is suggesting a register. I don't think I want that though
Walls will be 2x6 exterior construction, the interior walls are 2x4 walls. We chose a board and batten siding, with shakes in some areas.
The roof is a 8/12 pitch to allow for the 2nd floor play room and storage area. We've chose shingles for the main roof and we will be doing a 9" exposed fastener or possibly a standing seam roof for the front porch. All the windows are double hung except for the window over the kitchen sink, it will be 8'x4' folding window.
I think that's a good start to the thread, like I said I'll post some of the blueprints, but I need to get my address off them.
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So, I'm listening to suggestions of anything I may have missed.
The house is essentially a barn home, it was mentioned in my last thread that it'd be a hard sale if need be. I've already spoke with my realtor and my house on 6 acres with my 40x100 heated truck garage next door will be an easy sale at a good profit, so I'm not concerned about that part.
So onto the house, it measures 36'x108'. The living space is 36'x84'. The house is a slab on grade with no basement. We designed the home ourselves off of a beginning draft I found, we made a good bit of changes and are happy with the design. The house started as a 5 bedroom, 2 bath house with a mud room, foyer, master suite, living room, kitchen and dining room. After we met with the architect, it was changed to a 3 bedroom, sewing room, office, master suite, dining room, kitchen and living room and a 2.5 bath.
The house has partial attic trusses in part of it, which is able to give us a 2nd floor play room for our boys with a walk area around the outer perimeter. Then the other part of the house will have a vaulted ceiling. I'll probably post some of the blueprints, but I need to crop my information out of them.
Down to the nitty gritty. The garage measures 24'x36'. We partitioned part of it into a mechanical room. The new septic will be installed, hopefully in front of the house. The house sits 212' off the road, so should be plenty of room for the septic out front.
For plumbing, I'm wanting to do a home run system with a manifold. We will need to add a circulating pump and line for the hot water, since the master suite is about 80' from the mechanical room. Everything else should be ok distance. All the pex under ground will be sleeved for maintenance. The sewage of course can't be sleeved. After that's all done, we will install the radiant heated floor, all 1/2" tubing for the heat and at this point 5-6 different zones and a propane boiler. I'd like to install extra leads in the dirt to the outside for any extras we may want to add later. And extra sleeves to the kitchen and master suite, just in case.
The foundation will be 8"x24" footers reinforced with rebar, 4-5 courses of block, the top blocks will be termite blocks, except every 4' will be core filled to secure walls to and a footer and block foundation under the front porch as well. I'm still working on how to secure my 6x6 posts to the front patio to support the porch roof. I'm also still working on the heat for the play area upstairs. I'm considering under the floor heat, the heating supplier is suggesting a register. I don't think I want that though
Walls will be 2x6 exterior construction, the interior walls are 2x4 walls. We chose a board and batten siding, with shakes in some areas.
The roof is a 8/12 pitch to allow for the 2nd floor play room and storage area. We've chose shingles for the main roof and we will be doing a 9" exposed fastener or possibly a standing seam roof for the front porch. All the windows are double hung except for the window over the kitchen sink, it will be 8'x4' folding window.
I think that's a good start to the thread, like I said I'll post some of the blueprints, but I need to get my address off them.
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