thewrenchkid
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House then garage build
Hey all, been lurking for a long time 6 years to exact and now I am starting the journey to build my own home with a lot of help from family and friends. This IS my first thread so bear with me as I learn how to do this. I realize that this is a garage forum but as long as everything goes somewhat according to plan I will be building a detached garage at the end. I have seen some cool projects come to life in this place and wanted to share mine with all of you. the house is going to be a cape style 28x38. The Garage will be either a 26x36 or depending on funds 30x40 ( im doing everything I can in order to have the money left for a 30x40 which is basically my dream.
A little back ground. My other half and I bought 5 acres in NH roughly 10 months ago. We will be doing as much of the work our selfs as we can, its a lot of work but its always been a dream of mine to build my own place. This past spring I began clearing and cutting the tress, over the next month we got things cleared enough to start digging up the stumps, I don't run big equiptment everyday so it was a blast to spend some quality time with an excavator and couldn't stop smiling. Once that was done I got to digging the foundation and realized very quickly Ledge was going to be my enemy... after scraping around for a few hours my stomach flipped up side down as I had to admit defeat as to the only way around the amount to ledge was to blast. (There is a picture of my dad and I looking down and all the ledge I had scraped away) Now we both had our hearts set on the specific location of the house so no matter what had to be done the foundation was going there. the cost of un forseen blasting really put a damper on our plans and had us at a stand still for a few months. On the flip side we had so much material from the blast that we were able to move it and extend out "lawn" another 60 or so feet out where the mountain was slopping away. We got the forms made for the footings and had them poured. This is when things really started to move for me, had a good friend pour the foundation, as it Sits now we are starting to frame on Saturday! I am going to try and post pictures of the progression so far.
Hey all, been lurking for a long time 6 years to exact and now I am starting the journey to build my own home with a lot of help from family and friends. This IS my first thread so bear with me as I learn how to do this. I realize that this is a garage forum but as long as everything goes somewhat according to plan I will be building a detached garage at the end. I have seen some cool projects come to life in this place and wanted to share mine with all of you. the house is going to be a cape style 28x38. The Garage will be either a 26x36 or depending on funds 30x40 ( im doing everything I can in order to have the money left for a 30x40 which is basically my dream.
A little back ground. My other half and I bought 5 acres in NH roughly 10 months ago. We will be doing as much of the work our selfs as we can, its a lot of work but its always been a dream of mine to build my own place. This past spring I began clearing and cutting the tress, over the next month we got things cleared enough to start digging up the stumps, I don't run big equiptment everyday so it was a blast to spend some quality time with an excavator and couldn't stop smiling. Once that was done I got to digging the foundation and realized very quickly Ledge was going to be my enemy... after scraping around for a few hours my stomach flipped up side down as I had to admit defeat as to the only way around the amount to ledge was to blast. (There is a picture of my dad and I looking down and all the ledge I had scraped away) Now we both had our hearts set on the specific location of the house so no matter what had to be done the foundation was going there. the cost of un forseen blasting really put a damper on our plans and had us at a stand still for a few months. On the flip side we had so much material from the blast that we were able to move it and extend out "lawn" another 60 or so feet out where the mountain was slopping away. We got the forms made for the footings and had them poured. This is when things really started to move for me, had a good friend pour the foundation, as it Sits now we are starting to frame on Saturday! I am going to try and post pictures of the progression so far.
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