Building a House with Wood

[Ripitz]

This guy? Lol.

 

[Harvey]

ugh that's frustrating, unfortunately all too common, giving architects and builders a bad name...

I just don't understand. I have asked for 3 changes. One was the builders idea, two were because of this fireplace issue.

I agreed to pay for all changes. This is more work, why wouldn't you want it?

If it was me and I f'd up on venting the fireplace, I'd do the work for free.

If I felt — for some insane reason — I HAD to charge, I wouldn't throw shade at the homeowner for giving me more work.

FWIW I feel like the builder has to keep 1000 things in his head at all times. The designer maybe 10 or 20.

I am in awe of my builder. He is awesome.

 

[gorgonzola]

I just don't understand. I have asked for 3 changes. One was the builders idea, two were because of this fireplace issue.

I agreed to pay for all changes. This is more work, why wouldn't you want it?

If it was me and I f'd up on venting the fireplace, I'd do the work for free.

If I felt — for some insane reason — I HAD to charge, I wouldn't throw shade at the homeowner for giving me more work.

FWIW I feel like the builder has to keep 1000 things in his head at all times. The designer maybe 10 or 20.

I am in awe of my builder. He is awesome.

yea sounds kind of odd, if he missed or fucked up the venting he should find a solution at no charge, assuming the location and type of fireplace stove was communicated. when I was doing design work we would do changes at an hourly rate all day long, up to certain point where it affects your sanitary or other work. especially if they're using Cad its so frickin' easy.

 

[x10003q]

I just don't understand. I have asked for 3 changes. One was the builders idea, two were because of this fireplace issue.

I agreed to pay for all changes. This is more work, why wouldn't you want it?

If it was me and I f'd up on venting the fireplace, I'd do the work for free.

If I felt — for some insane reason — I HAD to charge, I wouldn't throw shade at the homeowner for giving me more work.

FWIW I feel like the builder has to keep 1000 things in his head at all times. The designer maybe 10 or 20.

I am in awe of my builder. He is awesome.

If the designer is not an architect then the designer might not have the ability to give you a proper answer.

 

[Harvey]

This is how it went down.

Originally I wanted wood for our fire in the great room.

We thought the building was too small to put the fireplace in the middle of the view, so we put it on a non-gable (side) wall.

Because the roof is so steep it required a monster masonry or metal chimney.

I didn't like the look, the cost, or the inefficiency of a huge chimney. Plus I didn't want a penetration of my roof at the BOTTOM of the roof pitch.

So I told the designer to ditch the chimney and make it propane. The next set of drawings still had the fireplace and no chimney. I, incorrectly, assumed he'd figured it out. The reason I shot down the woodstove was because of chimney. You'd think it would be on the designer's mind.

He's definitely using CAD.

I spoke to an architect. He wanted a huge amount of money to do it, much more then I make in a year. Architect's cost was 8x times more then the designer.

And his ideas were too fancy for me. I was looking for a rectangular footprint and a simple roof line. With this fireplace hopefully figured out I will have two simple triangle roofs (rooves?) with one only penetration for the basement woodstove. It will be very close to the peak, a short pipe far back, on the upper roof.

If the fireplace idea is approved by the county, I'll explain it.

 

[Campgottagopee]

Yo, Harv

How you making out with this?

 

[Harvey]

The main part of our foundation was poured two weeks ago. Still to be poured is the basement floor, and the sonet tubes for the porch footings. This part of the job has been delayed because of me, and also the weather.

One of the carpenters suggested adding tubes for radiant heat in the basement floor. It got me thinking and I did some reading. I came to the conclusion that the best use of radiant floor heat is in the basement floor.

So me adding radiant, and then two planned floor pour dates where we got rained out, set us back. Tomorrow, weather looks good, so we should get our basement floor.

After the foundation is poured, you pour the floor. Once that's done, you can set the lally columns to support the big LVL (manufactured lumber) beam that runs down the middle of the house to support the first floor. Then the 1st floor gets added, foundation gets backfilled, and hopefully we are off to the races, framing the walls and roof.

(ETA: the only in floor radiant will be in the basement.)

 

[Harvey]

Can anyone tell me WHY the ends of the floor frames have "catting?" The last bay has a line of short 2x12s going across. Is that to lend more support to load bearing walls? I assume all exterior walls are load bearing.

 

[Sbob]

Can anyone tell me WHY the ends of the floor frames have "catting?" The last bay has a line of short 2x12s going across. Is that to lend more support to load bearing walls? I assume all exterior walls are load bearing.

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Good question, I don’t see bringing. 2x 12’? Are you planning dance parties?

 

[Harvey]

Is it normal to overbuild your floors if you know you're gonna be partying?

We don't often host parties. With this floor we'd need to up our game?