fresh home build coming soon

[Micrornd]

I almost forgot the Ufer ground.

Not familiar with that term, but here all driven grounds must be copper clad steel AND must be less than or equal to the max ohms allowed, rebar would fail the inspection.

 

[Micrornd]

It's just work. With the right equipment it's not even all that hard. I did it every day for 47 years. The only bad part about it is accumulated damage. Bad knees and shoulders, a little arthritis, a few scars and some fingers that might not be all the same shape as when they started out.

Agreed, although I only had 39 yrs. in "heavy" construction, spent the prior years as a mechanic, back when the mechanic was the diagnostic tool.
"Ground up" is just "work" if you have the right equipment and skills (and the bloody subs show up on schedule)

 

[Greenman]

Agreed, although I only had 39 yrs. in "heavy" construction, spent the prior years as a mechanic, back when the mechanic was the diagnostic tool.
"Ground up" is just "work" if you have the right equipment and skills (and the bloody subs show up on schedule)

I skipped most subs since most of them stank. Instead I trained my people how to do the work. The only subs I used were drywall, insulation, stucco, and often tile. Everything else was done in house.

 

[skyking]

Not familiar with that term, but here all driven grounds must be copper clad steel AND must be less than or equal to the max ohms allowed, rebar would fail the inspection.

cool story bro. Guy named Ufer came up with it. Now you must put one in if you can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ufer_ground

Boomer is correct about remoteness.
1 mile door to door from Safeway.
1.3 miles to Costco, 1.4 to Home Depot next door to each other.
I am getting a cargo E-bike to go to Costco. I will save money by NOT having a car with me.

 

[deadlyapp]

I don't think his building site is all that remote. Just a bit outside of town, but close enough. It's not like he's building out in the Alaskan wilderness.

I meant in terms of many home plats, the distance he's had to bring utilities in is pretty extensive. You're right he's not that remote otherwise he'd be on well / septic / non grid power

 

[skyking]

yes it has been a pain in the ass. My cost to get power to the door?
17.7K
That is with me doing 450' of primary trenching and digging for a fuse ped and the transformer ped.
The engineer, the field foreman and I are walking that job this morning.

 

[skyking]

plumber is in the hizzy fo shizzy.

That is the kitchen drain coming across to the equipment room wall. Vanity plumbing in that bathroom, and lads?
We left it set up for an easy urinal installation in the equipment room. Ladies, stay out of the equipment room if you are disgusted by a urinal.
I had made some arbitrary decisions at the foundation level for the walk out doors.
Sometimes a guy gets lucky. The wall step down was just in time to get the kitchen sink plumbing in the wall and not out in the toe kick.


Wife wanted to flop the washer dryer and this sink to get it closer to the kitchen. It was all good until it was not. There is not enough room.
This led to some discussions and now we will put a stack WD in the corner of our closet, and that whole space becomes an extension of the kitchen proper.
now picture an ADA sink like this one:

Centered more or less in this space in a 34" high counter with a cut under section for knees.





The stack W/D goes in the corner marked X. That leaves 9' of closet rods, and it is 12' high in there so I can use motorized drop down tech to double stack.

The neat feature here is I can install that countertop so it can be easily raised up if I so desire, and I do the cabinet work. I can have doors and a 37" high counter and any sink I want there in a couple of days work.

The key is don't nuke that countertop in place with a bunch of adhesives. Fasten it enough, but not too much and you won't break it.

 

[skyking]

All of this is made possible by this OTHER Washer dryer we plumbed yesterday in the basement. It can be a big heavy duty for my wife's quilting, etc.

that bathroom is a little different than pictured. My draftsman guy has snap ins and the vanity will be a corner unit there I think, and the toilet is on the other wall.

 

[skyking]

Two mornings ago junior coyote showed up like he was getting paid.
He hits his mark: " send the check to my agent"

It has only been 5 weeks and the baby quail are growing fast too. I wheeled in and spotted them and shut the car off.

 

[skyking]

Today's mission was set the 2HP Liberty grinder pump package. I had run that line out earlier, and a 2" vent. The inspector thought it did not need a vent, looking at the submittals but I knew better and brought one out.
Sausage grinder.


Wet vent with Wye and 45.



There is a 6" riser on backorder, I can grade things to that elevation OK.



Assembled and ready to shoot the poops.


We will trench about 100' of the discharge pipe and all of the conduit run to the house.
There is one rule in underground utilities:
Deep Stuff Goes In First.
That sewer line will cross over the primary power that I will get trenched and installed midweek, then I will complete the sewer and CATV.

 

[IronWing]

Today, I learned about poop grinders.

 

[Greenman]

I've never seen a waste ejector setup like that, looks more like a standard sump pump. The isolation and check valves inside the tank are going to make for a very ugly repair should that pump ever fail. Or is that a service union down near the pump and no check valve?
It seems so sensible and so odd at the same time.

 

[skyking]

cut and couple on that horizontal pipe, spin the assembly back on the new pump. It's your complaint seem so odd to me.
I could have tossed down for a rail system and built a float tree and what not, but I do not expect trouble in my lifetime.
I have installed big duplex storm systems in hi rises, sewer lift stations, etc.
Not my first rodeo.

 

[Micrornd]

Assembled and ready to shoot the poops.

I see the grinder cord and the float ball cord, but where does that 3rd cord go?
Is it for an alarm float?
(We do have a lot of single rail ejector/grinder systems at homes around here)

 

[skyking]

Yes, that's the included alarm.

 

[Greenman]

cut and couple on that horizontal pipe, spin the assembly back on the new pump. It's your complaint seem so odd to me.
I could have tossed down for a rail system and built a float tree and what not, but I do not expect trouble in my lifetime.
I have installed big duplex storm systems in hi rises, sewer lift stations, etc.
Not my first rodeo.

Wasn't complaining, just commenting on system I'd never seen before.

 

[JTsyo]

Today, I learned about poop grinders.

Co-worker a few years back had a masticating pump for his basement bathroom that clogged up, that was the first I had heard of it.

 

[Greenman]

Co-worker a few years back had a masticating pump for his basement bathroom that clogged up, that was the first I had heard of it.

I've installed three of them, had one clog rapidly because of wet wipes. Owner swore they never used them, the plumber showed them the huge wade of them wrapped up in the pump. They of course had no idea how those could have gotten in there...

 

[skyking]

plumbing artwork in the chase. I dropped that closet lid to 7' for this purpose.



Big digs, 500' from the house to the main vault.


Inspection is called in for the service entrance equipment.
One disconnect for the future shop, the other for the house. 320 amp service.

 

[Greenman]

I always put OSB on the wall above a dropped ceiling so I didn't have to draft stop. I'm not sure if it was any easier, but it was faster as long as I remembered to do it before framing the ceiling.

 

[skyking]

We framed that out to give the plumber the firm idea of where he could work with .
I can draft stop and fire block with rockwool.

 

[Greenman]

I had no idea rockwool was an approved draft stop.

 

[skyking]

I have no draft potential there anyway, the way it is framed. Complete subfloor diaphragm and then drilled holes we will fire block some day. No balloon framing except for one rake wall to make it stronger.

 

[skyking]

yesterday was truly epic. I had all the trench ready for the PUD and shortly after they got there the electrical inspector called. I walked back to meet him and he liked everything, all the trenching to the sewer pump and the outside main disconnect wiring, and we chatted about the future stuff and solar.
Great guy.
Go back to the PUD crew and feed them crushed rock dipped out of the truck to build the fuse pedestal next to the 600 amp vault.

I had to track back to the house and do the same for the transformer. These guys had nothing else on the agenda so they came out in force, I think 8 of them.
We did things that normally take a couple of weeks of timings and returns in one day, really cool.
My responsibility is for the wire from meter to transformer, then after a year the PUD takes over and warrants it. Weird setup.
I ran to Platt and got 2x : 4/0 4/0 2/0 and 3" conduit. The crew was so cool they glued that together while I was running for the wire, then they totally pushed that bundle of crap to the meter slick as can be.
We laid out the two twists and then made one huge twist of the 6 cables. Then they rigged a snatch block to the excavator and I held it right over the meter pedestal so it was pointed the right way, and it just shoved through there with two guys pushing. I was duly impressed.
It was in and wired up in no time, then they used the excavator to set the transformer.


They green tagged that ditch for backfill and I can get the carport prepped for a footing after I backfill all this.


First thing I have to cover the 500' of 7200V line before they will energize it.


That was interesting listening to them figure out a strategy for that. I had no idea, but that 600 amp gear is main haul stuff and is not scaled like the typical 200 amp hardware.
It is not plug and play at all, so they had to scheme a way to tap it safely. The 200 amp is just plug and play by comparison.

 

[skyking]

They shut down that main run and only turned one customer off on the phase I am now connected to.
I have probably chatted with the people out on walks in the neighborhood.
Power is to my transformer and I will get a meter next week, and construction power out of my second 200 amp panel. The one to the house I will tag out/lock out.