jsasker007
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Thanks for sharing the process TC. You have a damn nice place going there.
New House Build
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hunts_with_stick
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Question, what is the purpose of the steel beams? And why only have them held up by wood? I would have thought you would have wanted the I beam going all the way across? Just goes to show how much I know!! Trying to learn and thanks!
Foggy47
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You can span larger distances with less deflection with steel vs wood beams. This is especially true if you don't want to have as tall of a beam structure (who wants a 36" tall truss?). Both have their place.
Turkey Creek
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I think straight out GC fees vary anywhere from 6% to 25% of the cost of the build. Keep in mind that is just the straight out fee. You can save yourself additional money by willing to shop the pieces and parts for the build. A GC has no incentive to do that if they are doing your build.... the more you spend the more they make. My lead framer is typically the GC for the builds he does. He is just trying to reduce the amount of work he is taking on so was willing to help with the framing. He told me he charges 6% up front. He has been very frugal with the wood so far and if there is a question on how we are going to do something he might make a suggestion, but he always leaves the final call to me.
Turkey Creek
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Steel beams can be more shallow (more head room) we have 9' walls. Our beams are 10" tall. To span the same distance would require bigger dimensional lumber. Where the beams are there are large open areas where there will not be walls to carry the upstairs load. The beams are carrying our trusses. Our trusses are only 14" deep. The deeper the truss the higher your house is going to set above the soil grade, but the more weight it can carry. Our house is 43' wide at the widest area. While wood is not as strong as steel post wise the wood is more than adequate for the load it is carrying and it makes dry wall installation easier.
Turkey Creek
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Most of the trusses are 19.2" oc. Leave it up to some pencil pushing engineer to figure out the spacing..... sometimes we just shrug and say WTF was that guy thinking as there was probably a better and more efficient way to lay out something. But they go by what the computer tells them and generally dont have any actual building experience. Like today we stick framed the mud room floor in the garage.... why they didnt just cantilever the trusses out 5' onto a beam in the garage made us shake our heads. You figure when a company specializes in something they should know. We pulled a tight line once we had the plates laid out and then measured each individual stud. From the plates resting on top of each other to the line. Really the only way to do it as a concrete floor is never perfectly flat.
Turkey Creek
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Thank you! A lot of years waiting to do something like this!
Looks great,Is there drain tile inside and out?I used those trusses and the only problem I have is on the far toilet line,plumber didn't get enough slope from one end of house to where sewer lift is and I have had to clean that line a couple times.Crazy house prices now compared to 28 years ago when I was general on my house.I would think about running hard wire CAT 5 or 6 to TV locations as it's just better.May also want to contact internet company to get prewired
Turkey Creek
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Yes external and internal drain tile.
Turkey Creek
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We fell short of getting all the subfloor down yesterday. Had just enough of the Advantech flooring with damage to the tongue and groove that we had to monkey with fixing that it slowed us down.
Turkey Creek
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Finally got rolling on the wall framing today. Rain showers have not been our friend and then my framing help had other obligations 1 day when I really hoped we would be working on ours.
Turkey Creek
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With any luck we will start setting roof trusses tomorrow.
Turkey Creek
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It allowed some water through. In a perfect world it would probably let through very little, but with damaged edges in spots here and there it isn't a perfect fit. I would not trust it to be water tight by any means.
Turkey Creek
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Progress for the end of this week. Great room ceiling is 15' to the peak of the ceiling. I think that will probably be my favorite room when it is all said and done.
T-Max
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Turkey Creek
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Progress, but not as much as I was hoping for by today. Weather, holiday, missing a couple of timbers for the porch beams, realizing that when we laid out the interior walls someone measured from the inside of a room instead of over the bottom plate. 5 1/2" is not workable when the trusses are already built. Still need to build a small dormer in the front between the larger gables. Piece in on some openings in the trusses where the different slopes tie together and finish the roof over the front and back porch.
Inside my office above the garage.
View from my office. I will have to take down a couple of trees to the left of the larger ones and then I will have a 200 yard shot from my office to one of the main food plots.
Inside my office above the garage.
View from my office. I will have to take down a couple of trees to the left of the larger ones and then I will have a 200 yard shot from my office to one of the main food plots.
Catscratch
5 year old buck +
So awesome! Keep up the updates!
