fresh home build coming soon

[skyking]

When I got this plan going, I set a goal of not having any ducts or BS dangling below the floor system. What a PITA that has been! I've been learning sheetmetal along the way and did a 4" panel reducer on this bend, which required cutting the long way bend. I wanted stuff that just plugged together. No, Not so much.


That long run of holes is filled up now.


Not a fancy elegant reducer, just a dirty old end cap transition to 8" round. I will cut in a 6" to 3.25x14 wall riser near that area to get up to the sunroom on the 2nd floor. It is a bit locked in from other routes so I figured out a shortcut.

 

[Micrornd]

49 years in construction and I still enjoy the hell out of seeing tradesmen that actually know what they are doing and do quality work.

 

[skyking]

@Micrornd if those tradesmen are available let me know

 

[skyking]

slowly but Shirley ( Don't call me Shirley ).




Ducts are in and we closed it off with the last joists.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Any reason you used the TJI over open truss style beams? I wonder if that would have made the hvac easier.

 

[Greenman]

Any reason you used the TJI over open truss style beams? I wonder if that would have made the hvac easier.

Because TJ's are readily available, span and load information is published and accepted by pretty much every building official, they're inexpensive, light and easy to handle, and you can hack massive holes through them. The question should be, why would anyone use anything else?

 

[skyking]

^ pretty much all of that.
Looking back, I would have been better off with 14¨s
I did 11 7/8" because it covered all the bases, but the added material cost going to 14" might have been $2500.
That is such a nothingburger in the whole scheme of things.
The guys were putting down subfloor and I was putting rail around the stairwell and covering the shaft for safety. I set it back 7/16"from the edge of the hole so we can frame those walls and leave the railings in place.
I did not want a scenario where the railing had to be removed and then you are working at an open hole again.



The floor feels great! all of this is where I put in the enhanced I-joists, and it is quiet and solid already, without the sheetrock below.

 

[Sukhoi]

Because TJ's are readily available, span and load information is published and accepted by pretty much every building official, they're inexpensive, light and easy to handle, and you can hack massive holes through them. The question should be, why would anyone use anything else?

Fire resistance. My dad is a retired firefighter and said their department would stop any interior attack in a house they figured out had TJIs because they burn through so fast compared to solid joists.

Now I can certainly see the logic in saying a partial interior fire stopped by direct attack is a niche case and you'd rather save the material cost.

 

[Greenman]

Fire resistance. My dad is a retired firefighter and said their department would stop any interior attack in a house they figured out had TJIs because they burn through so fast compared to solid joists.

Now I can certainly see the logic in saying a partial interior fire stopped by direct attack is a niche case and you'd rather save the material cost.

Never thought about that side of it. I guess that half inch web wouldn't take much to burn through.

 

[skyking]

Code says they must be covered with sheet rock over a basement and below an occupied space for that reason.
This is a happy coincidence for us.
The EPS foam of the ICF foundation must be covered because it would emit noxious gasses in a fire.
The house value per sq. ft. is $167.37
The unfinished basement is $31.50
It will have a rock lid with can lights, sheet rocked walls with outlets, and still be "unfinished".
I must also sheet some of the structural walls on one side with OSB. It is a shop, so there is my tool hanging space.
I can finish the full bath down there without changing the "unfinished" status of the basement.
We are good with all that.

 

[skyking]

Framers were building window and door buck assemblies to plug into layouts tomorrow.
Brother and Brandon and I got the footing drains done, using a bank board to get the rock where we wanted with no shoveling.
Daisy asked up so I spun the cab to the bank and she ran right in. The girl's not shy

 

[skyking]

My carpenter friend is able to work all next week with us, so we will get a lot done.
He is sharp and always ahead of the game. The framer gave him a cut sheet and he just took off with it and knocked it out. I'll be busy doing takeoffs and keeping materials in front of them.

 

[BoomerD]

You COULD really give the neighbors something to talk about...

https://www.pinterest.com/jhlui1/upside-down-houses/

 

[skyking]

9' exterior walls under the 2nd story are up.

 

[skyking]

I salvaged the header 10 years ago from a bridge job.

 

[skyking]

Moving right along. This end of the house is the main suite with vaulted ceilings to a 12' beam, and also a guest bath and our main floor laundry. Tomorrow we will build that last rake wall in two sections and set it with the telehandler.








That ballon framed rake wall is 22' or so high and we framed it that way because it is adjacent to the stairs. If we had framed it as two walls, it creates a hinge point with no support.

The 4x6 window is a fixed one for light down through the stairs and open elevator shaft.







That was all I could reach to set it.

 

[skyking]

Other fun stuff. I have access to a nearby quarry and have been cleared to load my own material and write load tickets on Saturdays. The site is getting hammered with the telehandler, so I am patching it up with 3" minus crusher run rock. They used to have a 966 to load with, but now all they have is this 980. It is a bit big for the 12.5' bed I am running.

 

[skyking]

A week ago Saturday morning no walls, to Friday afternoon all the first floor bearing walls are up.
Pretty damn stoked about that! We got a few partitions in there as well. Joists are cut for over the west wing for Monday morning.