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skyking

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Today was the day. It rained a bit and I and the concrete company were concerned about access, so I picked up 11 tons of 3" minus and made a pad for the trucks to back into the pump.
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I remembered a sleeve for the future EV charging station. I hole sawed inside and then used the end of the pipe to bore into the other side of the block, then foamed that in and pinned it with a couple of screws.
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It penciled out at 29.2 yards but 3 trucks was not enough and they sent out 1 more yard.
We plumbed up the walls after the second truck, and figured we were good on that. The alignment system was outside and we had preloaded it out to have it properly prepared.
 
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skyking

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we were wrong. That last couple of feet and the vibrator moved the high east wall about 1.5" out of plumb and nobody spotted that.
We were cruising around with the scaffolding, setting in the anchor bolts when I spotted it.
Pulling on it with the alignment system just pulled the stakes out, and our efforts with wedging it in from the inside were fruitless.
I've done a whole lot of strange and crazy things as an excavator operator for the last 35 years, but never did I imagine this.
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I had to knock down the 200 yard pile enough to get close, and I pulled on the wall in 3 places. Jacob held a 2x6 against the wall until I got pressure on it and we pulled it back into shape, then reset the alignment.
We got it done.
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skyking

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nothing 3d, here is the south elevation.
That 4x5 window is in the well there.
Because of the hung joists in the east end, all doors are roll in with no steps and that window is right up near the joists. It will get a cover.
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iRONic

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A wheelchair bound person's dream house!

Seriously, aging in place is a very smart philosophy for home building.
 
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skyking

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after witnessing all the struggles my brother in law had ( and my sister), I would not create a space that did not accomodate everyone possible.
Ideally it would be a single level slab on grade rambler, but the site did not speak to that.
 
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skyking

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So here is what it looks like when you go find the sanitary pipes below the finish.
Tap tap tap where you know they are, the sound is different. Break the thin concrete and vaccuum it up as you go, and pry up the cookie.
There is the coupler ready to continue piping. I will stuff a rag in it and the framer can hole saw for the pipe, and put the wall up. I'll glue a short piece in there after the wall is up so he does not have to frame over it.
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I leave the ones I am not concerned with below grade and out of the way of the rolling scaffolding. These ones are in a bearing wall we need to frame to get the first floor subfloor in.
I'll locate and bring up the conduit and pipe as we build out those partition walls later.
 

skyking

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walls are going up and building the basement stairs today.
I had to choose a finish for them to get the heights right, and we are going with rubber industrial on those.

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They are behind a basement door. I will transition behind that door to a glue down LVP product to be determined.
The glue downs vary in thickness from 2MM to 5 MM.
the back edge of the stairs I am looking at are 9/64" or about 3.57 MM. I can feather that either way if needed.
 
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skyking

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We have the bearing walls up, ready for beams and tomorrow we'll build the basement stairs. I had a great chat with the inspector and aired out all the changes and questions I had. He was quite happy that I was sharing everything with him, I suspect folks are trying to "get one over" on the inspector and that gets old.
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I got some great pricing from my local lumber store on the I-joists and made a command decision on the upgrades to stronger joists.
I also spoke with a local HVAC contractor who will supply me with the ducting that I will put through the joists. That was a huge relief.
They can get 7x14 premade in 5' sections, which I can easily design for.
 
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herm0016

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are you planning for a eventual drop celing in the basement or for drywall on the bottom of the joists?
 

skyking

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No drop ceiling, that is the whole plan on putting the ducting and plumbing through the joists.
To meet code the joists must have a fire covering on them so I get to finish it.
Same goes for the ICF walls. They must be covered by code.
I may drop the equipment room down 10" so I can run ducting around above a nice finished lid. It may be handy for consolidating the return air ducts cleanly.
It would still be 7' 6" or better in there.
 
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The first set of stairs and all the bearing walls are up, both sides of the elevator shaft, etc.
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We added a West coast style stringer to the open side to capture the stairs for installing a wire type railing.

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That is not exactly the style I will be building, but you get the idea.

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We got a good start on waterproofing this afternoon, after a long day of drying shit out. The rain has just been enough to keep things too wet to work.

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