It's January 2025. How's Your Build Going?
Another year rolls by and I'm as blank as--
...our 19' 10" library wall in sore need of design and finishing.
Yours truly underestimated the speed of the excellent drywallers, tapers and painters.
But trim is scheduled to arrive next week, along with trim carpenters and tree planting that was scheduled in December. Hydro now promised for mid January vs. mid December--C$14,529.48 for a 400 AMP service connection. (Our first TO home had 60 AMP.
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Comments (38)Hi all -- bit of a newbie here. We have gotten our approvals from 3 village boards re: architectural and coastal review and environmental control (a fancy name for the tree police). We're waiting for our architect to finish our plans for submission to the building dept. I need the bldg inspector to sign off on the trees I've marked for removal which were previously approved. Unfortunately, every time I make an appointment to meet him at the site, we get a blizzard!! We're tentatively scheduled for this morning, but as of 10:30 a.m., I haven't heard from him. Whoa-ho, athensmomof3 -- if I'd seen your plan before now, I'd be having a serious redesign conversation with my architect. I absolutely LOVE that house!! How many square feet, and if you'd care to share, what do you think it's going to cost to build? We haven't gotten bids for anything other than tree removal, and even that is only one bid (snow keeping everyone offsite for now). I keep worrying that I won't be able to afford to build the house I've spent all these months planning and getting approvals for. long sign ... another sleepless night looming .......See MoreIt's January 2014, how is your build?
Comments (150)lori-woo hoo yes, your chanting must be paying off. ;) Chant away girl! Happy bday to your dd! We are carpeting stairs, first off less expensive and hopefully will help with sound reduction and third only the kids are upstairs so they will be using them most and hopefully they will be less apt to slip and fall. I know I do like the stonecraft one also and believe it or not that wasn't actually our first choice! We have struggled with it between coloring and budget. We originally liked the split stone but what we had seen was way over budget. So then we picked the stonecraft but thought it was too dark so a different blend, then back to the blend I posted here, then I found split stone that we could swing ($7.50/sq instead of $18 - stonecraft stuff is $5 something). Anyhow it also saves us some installation time and since most of the DIY stuff is hitting all at once it does make the split stone more appealing. I honestly like them both. Dh is still saying he likes the split stone so that's the currents status. :) I kind of feel like the stonecraft is a bit country and the split face is a bit contemporary and I feel like we are transitional. ? ontariomom-the laundry cabs are from HomeCrest and the color is sand dollar. I liked it the minute I saw it. The darker cabinet is for the master bath. The laundry has 2 uppers above the washer and dryer and then a small sink base and that's it. It won't be a lot of color in there but enough. askshars-so would you believe today I get a call from the tile store that my Jeffrey Court samples came in...??? They ordered them from the distributor that told me they pulled them. So I picked them up and they are very nice but I think I'd need a different color. Anyhow I don't know what to think. I mentioned it to the retailer and he said he hadn't heard a word of that and would double check to be sure he could still get them. We are reviewing budget tomorrow to see just where we are sitting for counter tops. I'd love to get that narrowed down too! mlweaving - we also have a ton of leaves trapped in our garage stairwell that leads to the basement. I will need to get those out when they pull the temporary treads. I can't get to them for now. I am wondering how many hours in clean up there will be after drywall. What a mess that will be! Hubby loves landscaping, loves it. He'll be the one planning all that out. I don't know too much about it but I love to look at our lawn after he's finished mowing and it has a checkerboard pattern 'burned in'. :)...See MoreIt's January 2015- How is your build progressing?
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Comments (42)It’s been a while since I’ve updated. Masons are still putting up stone, my outside guy got the dormers just about done on the house, tile is completed, hvac just finished YESTERDAY. My husband completed the crawlspace with this special crawlspace tarp and he’s wiring up the dehumidifier now. Garage doors have been ordered and due to arrive next week, so I’m assuming a new year install. We decided to keep the interior doors they sent us that were wrong. They were half price and I was trying to make save some money where I could. I’m glad I did (today at least haha) because a month and a half later, my interior trim guy finally returned and hung the first doors. They look good. They’re solid wood and heavy when you open and close them. We got a heck of a deal on them. We broke ground 2 years and 4 months ago. The painter has given up setting a date to come and do have I. Haha. Was suppose to come Nov 1, then again Jan 1 . My interior trim guy won’t come and stay long enough to make that happen....See MoreRelated Professionals
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12 days agoIt WAS going good, too good.
We stood the last straight wall on the left on Friday.
We built and then stood the bigger portion of the east rake wall too.
Unfortunately that was the last productive thing the telehandler did. I rather quickly lost all pilot controls to the boom and it is stuck about 5' up. Thank goodness it waited to break after we got the wall off the forks.
When I worked as the boom truck operator at the Seattle job, I brought home various materials that were heading for the dumpster. These 5 stainless handrails are an example. My wife has arthritis and climbing stairs is a challenge. I asked her today which hand she wanted to climb with and it was the left. Not shabby for temps.
The timing is really bad for the telehandler to go down. I can't reach anything that high with the excavator. We have a 500 pound beam to set and I have no interest in trying to hand job that up scaffolding 12 feet.The crew can do a whole day of hand jobs, maybe two and then I have to get a machine there.
worthy thanked Kelly M- 12 days agolast modified: 11 days ago
Neat rails! The handrails on our temporary stairs are barely tacked on, the run is irregular and you'd better duck going to the second floor if you don't want to knock yourself out.
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Library inspiration!
- 10 days ago
Forklift is down? use alternate methods. That was about as high as I could reach.
Keep moving forward. A replacement forklift is on the way up tomorrow.
PRO10 days ago- 9 days agolast modified: 9 days ago
- 8 days ago
We got the
rafter joists on, and framed the west cupola yesterday.
I ordered the metal roof and will order the windows today. We can get it sheeted and dried in by Saturday, and then we can finish up those tie ins and little patches of sheeting here and there, go over shear nailing, and start framing interior walls while we wait for the metal.Timing is looking good for windows and roof by the end of the month.
- 7 days ago
Newbie here! We've got a road in and started moving along. This is our second custom build, and using the same builder. Our last build was in 2019 and I was always looking and getting helpful information here--but never commented. Excited for the new home and to work with the same crews as before. Also expecting it to go slow.
worthy thanked Lulu 
7 days ago- 3 days ago
two rows of sheeting left and it will be dried in tomorrow.
Framer pre-built the cupola on the ground and we sent it up in pieces.
- 2 days ago
all dried in.
I finally got windows ordered after several messed up orders. 3 weeks out, and roof metal is two weeks out.We are on interior walls now.
This is looking from the first floor main bathroom, out an imaginary interior window to the cupola. That window is still in the imagine phase. Sometimes it is stained glass or similar.
- 17 hours ago
Today was the best so far. I was standing in spaces and moving walls here and there, and generally messing with the framers. It is hard to get a feel for a space that you built on paper.
I took some more from the main floor powder room and gave it to the built in area for the fridge. Couple that with a counter depth fridge and I can either make a 6" bigger island or have 6" off the end of it to the fridge, or any combination thereof. I am building my own cabinets.
I found a pinch point upstairs that I could not live with. The CAD guy/framer had made an awkward wall jog to get a 3'0" door in. Then the hinge side was jutting out in the flow past the bathroom. It was technically OK, but not cool.
Pardon my crude paint, but you can see what I did after about a minute of pondering. This is so empowering.
chispa