tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83315175764947812042024-02-07T20:05:08.833-08:00Cottonwood MeadowHannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18390170965001254897noreply@blogger.comBlogger318125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331517576494781204.post-56657439488203572202016-03-24T12:09:00.002-07:002016-05-09T15:56:19.850-07:00Stairway to JoyIt is a stairway to joy because both these second floors pre-stairs were miserable to get to. The first second story area in the Workshop was for my office. It already existed when we bought the property on the west side of the shop but was open and just covered the top of the bathroom below.<br />
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We enclosed the second story, insulating it in order for it to be efficiently heated and cooled to use it as my office. After that we built the rest of the second floor on that side of the Workshop. The stairs to get to upstairs were already built and were AWFUL. Every step was a different height, VERY narrow and very steep. It was crazy and if I had a nickel for every time I cracked my shins on one of those steps blah, blah, you know the rest.<br />
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Ziggy was the only pup to venture up the stairs, even then it was a tad hairy for him, he didn't really like it. I carried Chinny up to hang out while I worked but I never let her walk down them and it made me nervous that one day she would try to get down herself and get hurt (yes, ridiculously hovering fur momma).<br />
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A little while ago we built the second story on the other side of the Workshop, the east side, for additional storage to free up more floor space on the main level. Since finishing that side we were using a ladder to get up and down which in itself is not convenient but also was tricky when carrying things up and down.<br />
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So we devised a plan to build two sets of stairs that were longer and with even risers but to do this the stairs would fall further into the open space of the main level. So we planned to cut the stairs and hinge them so we could flip them up when not in use and then flip them down to get up and down them.<br />
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It is definitely tricky building stairs and calculating everything you need to account for including the landings, length of the run and rise, number of runs and rises, total length of stringer yada, yada, yada. Fortunately there are many online tools to help with the calculations but sometimes you have tweak little things here and there and it is always hard to account for how little changes will effect the overall dimensions and layout. Sighhhhhh.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Well the great news is it all worked out in the end. We got both staircases built and hinged and they are AWESOME - cue angels singing in heaven. It is so cool that they are hinged and that works out so well. They are great to walk up and down and one more big project done!!</span></div>
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The other great thing about the stairs being done is now we have bonus storage underneath. The West stairs will be home to a new paint/caulk cabinet and the East stairs will house the new GIANT compressor and the dust collector. It is great to get more and more stuff off the main floor. Phew, glad this one is over.</div>
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W<span style="text-align: center;">e have also been insulating the shop, building new exterior doors, re-framing the north and south wall with new windows and the doors. Will post that progress next.</span></div>
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Apparently we aren't shy around here and doors for privacy are optional. We did get a door on the guest bathroom though prior to its installation it didn't seem to deter visitors (shows what kind of company we keep).</div>
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Anyhooo, after a few guests and a few issues we decided it was time to get a door on the spare bedroom. We are talking some petty crime of dog treat stealing, some early morning wake up calls up close and personal and secret bed sleepers that would sneak in there and help themselves to any and all spare pillow real estate. This is not the place to name names but in the spirit of Cottonwood Meadow MOST WANTED we are looking at you Wolf (rest in peace beautiful boy) and Ziggy!</div>
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So back to the door. Kyle has been dying to build a door out of the wood we salvaged out of the old hay barn. Great idea, with big metal hardware it will really be an amazing creation. </div>
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And it is, but it weighs 1,250,334 lbs....it really does. Good thing our walls are a foot thick with 6 inches of that is all concrete baby. Anything less and I am not sure it would hang. Heck I am not sure how we picked it up and got it hung.</div>
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This thing is a beast. Made from four planks from the old hay barn floor and is an inch and a half thick. It really is a thing of beauty and most importantly serves as a stunning entrance to our visitors oasis.</div>
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We planed the boards, cleaned up the edges and then burnt them Shou-sugi-ban style and then waxed the door. The metal straps and hinge supports were made by Kyle from recycled metal.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">The best part is the door handle that Kyle made - this was made from a salvaged valve he found. The door threshold on the side is made from angle iron and keeps the door from swinging back and forth.</span></div>
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All the door needs now is a door lock which is in the works and will be AWESOME! Stay tuned.</div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18390170965001254897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331517576494781204.post-46469783376782592592015-06-23T16:13:00.000-07:002015-06-23T21:07:32.891-07:00UpliftingKyle told me to name this post 'Uplifting' - I apologize in advance for the bad pun.<br />
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So you may remember many moons ago when we installed the center structural beam for the ICF portion of the house Kyle very smartly had the foresight to add two metal straps for anchors for lifting. He figured that in the future we may have the need to haul some big pieces up to the second floor and this would provide a lifting point. Details of this install are <a href="http://cottonwoodmeadow.blogspot.com/2013/01/hello-2013.html?m=0" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><br />
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Well low and behold we just had our newly refinished salvaged claw foot tub and a storage armoire that we needed to get to the second floor. Take my word for it - picking up a large cast iron tub that has been newly enameled, read slippery, is not easy nor light and that dang armoire weighs a ton. So those straps to the rescue!!<br />
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So the straps are permanently attached around the main house beam and have anchors attached to them. We used an electric winch to attach to them and then Kyle rigged the tub to attach to the winch so it would safely haul the tub and armoire up and keep it balanced and even on the ride.<br />
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It worked perfectly, the tub went up in mere minutes and the armoire took a little fiddling with the rigging but then we got it over the railing and it is in place. It was so easy and saved years on our backs from having to carry them up the flight of stairs.<br />
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Next post will be all about the bathtub - bet you can't WAIT!Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18390170965001254897noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331517576494781204.post-32158012991501728722014-06-25T14:01:00.001-07:002014-10-07T13:15:46.764-07:00Put a Hat on itWe all know how key hats are to keep warm in winter or keep the sun off us in the summer. Or if you are lady on Derby Day you KNOW how key a fabulous hat is.<br />
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Well it is the same with our house, the hat is key to both look and performance. We knew pretty early on in the planning process that we wanted to go with a standing metal seam roof. This was for a few reasons, the first and most important was solar reflective index (SRI) which is a measure of a surface’s ability to reflect solar heat. I wrote more about this <a href="http://cottonwoodmeadow.blogspot.com/2011/08/up-on-hot-tin-roof.html" target="_blank">here.</a> <br />
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Not having air conditioning in the house, we needed to jump through hoops to make sure we minimized as much heat entering the house as possible. A lighter colored roof was key to reflect as much sun in the summer as possible and this could be best accomplished with a standing metal seam roof.<br />
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They also have great longevity, it should last over 30 years, it has a minimum of 25% recycled metal content and is 100% recyclable at the end of its life, has little to no maintenance and looks great. We went with a galvanized metal roof that has a light silver look and high SRI. White would only have been better.<br />
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We are really happy so far with the roof, a few angles made installation tricky on the spare bedroom roofline but we worked with a local roofing contractor and got 'er done.<br />
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Roofs are one of those house parts that you don't want to think about much after installation but investing in a good roof is key to that being possible. As with many of the other parts of the house we chose to invest the bulk of our money in pieces that won't be replaced in our lifetime. We will remodel kitchens and bathrooms and redecorate but getting great windows, roof, insulation was vital and hence took the majority of our budget.<br />
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One of the important pieces to a good roof is sealing all the protrusions through the roof like vents and the chimney. Though the chimney rises on the outside of the house we still worked hard to seal the area where it penetrated the roof as the roof structure is wood and we didn't want water seeping and compromising the framework.<br />
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And so far this spring/summer we have had some quite warm days and that house is cool as a cucumber!!<br />
<br />Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18390170965001254897noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331517576494781204.post-80518857195375521582014-05-05T12:22:00.000-07:002014-05-05T12:22:30.149-07:00Latest and GreatestEven though I have a few more posts to get you to where we are now there are many, many requests to see pics of what the house looks like now, so here are a few latest and greatest shots.<br />
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Master Bath Shower and vanity- still awaiting a soaking tub but it is pretty nice with a great view.</div>
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Master bedroom - yeh, we need a bed and the temporary railing will go out to the deck eventually.</div>
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Loft area overlooking the living room</div>
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Kitchen where you can see the container walls</div>
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Rear view of the house and back patio. The metal posts are going to hold the deck off the master bedroom.</div>
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Side back view of the house with the second bedroom off to the right</div>
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You can see the dream isn't quite the reality and if you are brave enough to crack open the International Building Code to look for some clarity on some of these bizarre code requirements - good luck. It is pretty much written in Na'vi (that language from Avatar) and if you are REALLY brave and start to look at the Electrical Code or god forbid, the Plumbing Code, your head will just spin off and fly across the room. You wonder who writes this gobbledygook because it isn't decipherable to the average human. </div>
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They say each code requirement is a result of some idiot doing something stupid and filing a lawsuit to someone over it - you know, the American way. So as we come across each code <strike>limitation</strike> requirement you sit quietly to ponder the event that resulted in that code addition. Of course most of them are not PC enough to repeat so I will leave it with your imagination.<br />
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I do get frustrated at these glorious pictures of beautiful homes in magazines and online only to realize they must be built in southern Zimbabwe because there is no developed or half-developed country that would allow half these blatant code violations to fly. And then you see homes in our area that have so many dangerous issues but have been grandfathered in and are just a heartbeat from a 911 call. But we are required to jump through more hoops, spend more money and lock down more stuff, add more precautions and I am sure the ones that come after us in years to come will have to do even more to make sure they, their neighbors and visitors don't EVER get hurt hurling themselves through a 4.01" gap in the stair railing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/best-room-ever" target="_blank">Source</a> - as long as you aren't a sleep walker</td></tr>
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And all those beautiful restored timbers that we love to reuse out of old barns and factories - just for show. Don't even think of using them structurally, that won't pass code.<br />
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Yeh, not be Debbie Downer here, but keep dreaming, this bedroom ain't never passing code. Of course many of the code requirements do in fact exist to save lives and have made our houses so much safer over the years.<br />
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And yet there are still building approaches out there that won't stand the test of time as seen in Charlotte, NC the other month. If you are condo shopping in the southern NC area, steer clear of this builder.<br />
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So it is a balancing act, the building code works so well in so many ways and has made us safer. It is a tad slow to adopt new building technologies but the entire building industry is sloth like in adopting anything new and is way behind the times and many other developed countries in adapting to new building techniques. But there are some codes that just make you chuckle, scratch your head and shrug your shoulders and surrender to it.<br />
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As we get close to our Certificate of Occupancy - I have to laugh that our county is concerned with how shy we are - requiring bathroom doors before signing off. Go figure.</div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18390170965001254897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331517576494781204.post-75007659122948564532014-01-31T08:50:00.001-08:002014-01-31T08:50:43.317-08:00Decency please - Covering upYou will remember the big road trip we went on to pick up the plaster material we would be covering the ICF with both interior and exterior. Well you can always refresh your memory and relive our adventures <a href="http://cottonwoodmeadow.blogspot.com/2012/10/on-road-with-gigacrete.html" target="_blank">here</a>. It was actually a really fun trip and Adam at <a href="http://gigacrete.com/" target="_blank">Gigacrete</a> was a great help both when we were at their HQ and on a few follow up calls we had with him. You can read more about our decision to go with Gigacrete and what they are <a href="http://cottonwoodmeadow.blogspot.com/2012/08/finishing-icf-walls-gigacrete.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Well we were very excited to get started with the plaster, particularly on the exterior to protect the ICF from the sun and because, well, yellowing foam wasn't a look we were going for long term. So Kyle and I figured we would start by plastering a small portion of the front wall that would be ultimately set under the porch.<br />
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We began with a test wall on the inside that we ultimately will be covering with a cool second cover but needed to have a fire barrier in the meantime, and that is what Gigacrete serves as. The interior poduct is <a href="http://gigacrete.com/plastermax/" target="_blank">plastermax</a> which requires a special admixture instead of just plain water. You need to mix the admixture 24 hours in advance to let it "rest", poor thing, must be exhausted from having to merge with all that water. While it was sleeping we got on with prepping the wall by cleaning it and then rasping it with a rough rasp that breaks up the surface like this one. It isn't the hardest job as it glides over the foam pretty easily and digs into the surface uniformly. The hard part is that you end up COVERED in little foams bits, and I mean covered from head to foot, up the nose, in the ears, you are sneezing out white bits for days.<br />
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With this done we gave the wall one more vacuum to remove said white bits and add edging to the seams between the wall and the door and windows to give us a gauge as to how thick to keep the plaster on the wall to ensure we didn't taper off and create a week transition.<br />
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With all this work done we were excited to get ready to actually plaster. We decided to apply it to the walls using a hopper gun run through our compressor. Kyle would handle the hopper gun, get the product on the wall and I would follow him troweling. The process is to lay on a coat of about 1/16" thick, then add fiberglass mesh, trowel that in and then go back over with a second coat of about 1/8" thick. Sounds easy enough.<br />
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We collected all our equipment, hopper gun at the ready (just used a regular drywall hopper), trowels, edging tools, hawk and trowel for those little areas where we wouldn't be able to get the hopper into easily. And we were off. Mixing up our first batch of product, looks good. Not too sloppy, not too firm. Do a test spray on an old piece of plywood.<br />
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the product was too thick, wasn't coming out of the hopper at all. Okay, add more admixture to thin it out.......a little more admixture........a smidge more. Okay, it is coming out of the hopper now and not even reaching the wall but slopping down the hopper to the floor. Up the compressor psi, more power - GRUNT, GRUNT, GRUNT. Okay, it is reaching the plywood surface and dripping all the way down to the ground.<br />
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okay, little more tweaking with adding more dry product, upping the psi - okay seems like a good balance. Time to the hit the wall for real.<br />
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Fast forward 3 hours, we had finished about 23 square feet (we had about 3,500 square feet to plaster, at this rate it would take us 456 and a half hours to plaster the whole house, 19 days working 24 hours a day....hmmmm, what were we doing wrong, why did it take so long and we were EXHAUSTED after those 3 hours. How would we feel after 453 and a half more hours?<br />
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So we left it for a few days, went to work on other things and then decided we need a bigger hopper to get more product on the wall faster. So we ordered an industrial hopper. This would solve EVERYTHING! The answer to our dreams. It was delivered and we were excited to give it another go. We prepped more wall, mixed more admixture and left it to get its' ZZZzzzzzz. And we were off again.<br />
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Wasn't going on any faster and we ended up with more product on the floor than on the wall. Cue cartoon deflated music here. This was the answer to our dreams, our key to cutting our 453 and a half hours down to 20-30.....what happened. We now were also almost a bag of product in the whole with all the waste that ended up on the floor even though we tried to scrape it up and re-trowel onto the wall.<br />
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Maybe we can just trowel it the product onto the wall with the hawk and trowel like the experts do. Doesn't look that hard.......scoop onto the hawk, scrape onto the trowel, apply to wall in large sweeping motion. Easy.<br />
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This stuff wouldn't stay on the hawk, every time I moved it rolled whichever way the hawk was tilted. Getting it on the trowel, virtually impossible and keeping it on the trowel OR the wall for that matter was IMPOSSIBLE. Again, pounds of plaster coated the floor and that white foam just stood there staring, laughing, mocking.......<br />
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Needless to say we gave it to the good 'ole college try in 3 separate attempts to rid our view of white ICF foam, 13 hour investment and only 69 square feet covered. Only 3,431 square feet to go. And the outside product wasn't any easier. The exterior Gigacrete product, <a href="http://gigacrete.com/stuccomax/" target="_blank">stuccomax</a> is easier to mix as it just uses water but it didn't magically go on the wall any easier.<br />
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Plan B - get help.<br />
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So I asked our concrete guy - Tim Crews if he knew of any plaster guys. I had called a guy off of Craigslist which was a disaster on the phone alone so I needed more resources. Tim recommended calling <a href="http://www.vistabuilderssupply.com/" target="_blank">Vista Builders</a>, a concrete supplier in Auburn, CA, who were SO UNBELIEVABLY nice and gave me a few names of local guys. Called guy #1 and he got right back to me, came up to check out the project and laughed at our feeble attempts to imitate his skill, and rightly so.<br />
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Needless to say within a 2 weeks we have a crew of 5 guys up at the house plastering their hearts out with amazing skill and talent while Kyle and I worked feverishly to mix product and keep their hawks full of plaster. It was a crazy 3 days working non-stop to keep up with the guys and then another 3 days to do the interior with a smaller crew.<br />
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So a few lessons learned from this experience. Plastering is not really a DIY project and it actually takes a village. Mastering the hawk and trowel takes years, is an art in itself and the next time I am cocky enough to think that I can just twist my wrist and gracefully smooth plaster on my wall - WHACK me over the head. If it took 5 professionals 3 full days to plaster the exterior with us both mixing full time to keep them supplied, what on earth would it have taken us to finish up.....we were nuts.<br />
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I am glad that we didn't waste too much time trying to figure out the plastering world ourselves and that we were able to use our little network to source these great guys that came up and knocked our place out in no time. Call me humbled!<br />
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I can tell you this Gigacrete stuff is amazing. It is harder than anything I have ever seen yet has a soft, natural look. We love that it is a green product and so far is holding up perfectly. We are really impressed and would recommend Gigacrete to anyone looking to plaster inside or out.</div>
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We have gotten a lot of the tools for the ICF block and foaming from <a href="http://www.wind-lock.com/" target="_blank">Wind-lock</a>, and they are great to work with. Especially when you are ordering cases of foam and foam cleaner;-)<br />
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The ICF side of the house comes pre-insulated but we needed to insulated the containers and the roof over the whole house. So we found <a href="http://www.sprayfoam.biz/" target="_blank">Spray Foam Energy Solutions</a> and George, Pedro and Dave hit the ground running on some of the hottest days of the summer and started spraying foam. It is a rough process as first off EVERYTHING has to be covered with plastic. Dave worked like a fiend getting plastic over everything and Pedro donned the big white hazmat suit and breathing apparatus and was armed with the spray gun and got started spraying foam into the roof and under the containers. <br />
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It was a few hot, hot days and I felt for Pedro in that suit and holding a spray gun with product coming out at insane temperatures. It was sure rough going but those guys powered through and got the whole house insulated in about 4 days. <br />
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It made the house pretty weird looking, like it was full of butter but it sure filled the voids and puffed up to fill each cavity.</div>
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The insulation was sprayed in between the metals studs right to the container sides on each side of the containers as well as in the roof and underneath the containers.</div>
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And you can still see the white foam blocks of the ICF on the right, the OTHER white foam. We also sprayed foam in between the beams in the roof of the ICF portion of the house. We have rigid foam on top of the roof between the plywood sheathing, ice and snow cover, felt and the metal roofing. We also added the spray foam on the inside which will get covered up by different materials depending on the room, stay tuned!!!</div>
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This weekend we knocked out a big project that has been in the planning from the beginning. Remember <a href="http://cottonwoodmeadow.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-challenging-3-d-world.html" target="_blank">THIS</a> post where I attempted to design and locate our propane tank pad which will also house the generator and hold the hot water solar panels?<br />
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Tim Crews from Precision Concrete poured the pad and retaining wall, more on that <a href="http://cottonwoodmeadow.blogspot.com/2013/02/we-got-ourselves-stoop.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. And this weekend we got to town on finishing the structure so we can get the solar panels up.</div>
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This little house gives shade to the propane tank, our backup power generator and a water pump. All the piping to the house comes in through the middle of the back wall. It will be easy to maintain and protect this equipment from the elements. You can tell we wrapped this project up just as the sun was setting on Sunday night.</div>
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18390170965001254897noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331517576494781204.post-50045886035894115932013-08-14T21:58:00.000-07:002013-08-14T21:58:19.817-07:00Hold on to your pants - we got us some plumbingReally can't gush on this post, can't go on and on about the joys of plumbing and indoor running water and flushing toilets. It really is NOT glamorous, exciting, adrenaline rushing or remotely interesting at all.<br />
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But nevertheless in the name of full disclosure and just because I went to the trouble of taking the pictures I will share this momentous milestone with all of you.<br />
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The plumbing has proved to be a challenge as all the 'water' appliances are in the container side of the house and having sandwiched two containers together we don't have the luxury of an interior wall to chase plumbing pipes through. Hence there were a few renditions of the plan but Kyle finally came up with a layout that fit the house, that we could work with, with the finished look of the house and most importantly a plan that the County Inspector signed off on.<br />
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We needed to get all the plumbing pieces installed before we could have the spray foam insulation applied as it would be a huge ordeal to cut through it after the fact to run the plumbing through both in the walls of the exterior of the container and underneath the containers. Kyle also ran all the conduit for the electric underneath the containers so all we need to do is run wire to connect the dots.<br />
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The other thing we needed to do before we could even put most of the plumbing and electric in was to clean up the underneath of the containers. Sounds easy enough, it is cleaning........WRONG!<br />
THIS WAS THE MOST DISGUSTING JOB AS OF YET ON THIS HOUSE BUILD. Did you hear me, DISGUSTING.<br />
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It involved laying on my back on one of those wheeled boards that car mechanics use with a metal grinding wheel in hand, eye glasses, gloves, a face mask, a face shield in 90+ degree weather and on the second go around, a doo rag as it took me days to get the rust pieces out of my hair. Grinding the rust off the underneath the containers was miserable. It went everywhere, in every crack, nook and cranny. I came out from that 2' crawl space each time covered head to foot in brown filth, I was filthier than any time from the horse days. So glad that, that job is behind me and done and the black widow spider was relocated (to the vacuum).<br />
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Anyway, onwards and upwards after buying about 200+ plumbing elbows, turns, angles, connectors, reducers and multiple other parts and pieces that seemed to have no name but all come in black ABS plastic.<br />
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So once all the plumbing and venting network is in place the openings to the fixtures get covered up and then the entire system gets filled with water to ensure that there are no leaks. Here is Kyle filling the whole system from the roof top. It was actually kind of fun and SUCCESS first time. Way to go baby, nice planning and install. Who needs a plumber and we have INDOOR plumbing. It was all worth it.</div>
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Of course Jim couldn't be nicer and it is very cool to see some of the projects he has going at his shop. We are pretty small potatoes compared but he still did an amazing job.<br />
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The wood panels are big 8' by 4' and 2" thick cedar panels that lined the living room and some bedrooms in the mobile home that was on the property. They were originally milled from trees on the property so it was important to integrate them into the new house in some way and what better way but the front and back doors.<br />
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The back door (technically side door that is on the north wall of the house) also needed some special installation in the form of a doggy door. But no ordinary doggy door. It needed to be tall enough for Denali to get in and close enough to the ground that Ziggy could jump through. We also worried about energy efficiency as some of the dog doors don't close very well after repeated use and we wanted something that would hold up to all four, yes four dogs now, using it multiple times a day.<br />
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After a lot of research we came across this door.<br />
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So with the new doggy door in-hand, Jim got to work on the doors. And in no time we had a front and back door ready to go.</div>
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We also had to source the hardware for the doors. The hardware we really wanted were handmade from Chili and about $700 per door. So we had to settle for something a little simpler and we went with simple black hinges, hey, you gotta make compromises here and there and pick your indulgences.</div>
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Now we are good to go and it is time to get caught up with your favorite <strike>soap opera</strike> home building project. When we last left you I was touting that spring has sprung. That lasted about 2 days and we hit full blown summer. It has been 90+ for about all of June and July but fortunately we have a pretty steady breeze which has made it tolerable for working and the house is really cool (temp wise) so it is nice to have inside jobs during the hottest part of the day.<br />
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So I won't update the whole progress in one post but drag it out in true blog-like fashion. But we will kick it off with the stairs. They were the next big install chronologically and what a step forward it was.<br />
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RTs Mobile Welding welded the stairs offsite and then delivered the treads and stringers for final install on site. We prepped for the stair install with two things.<br />
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One was installing the electric for stair lights, little LED lights that will sit recessed in the wall and light the stairs. It was a bit tricky getting the placement right that would match the angle of the stairs and be a even up the stairs. Because of the placement of the stairs that turned halfway up a few of the lights are set in the container wall studs and the others are set in the ICF wall. Phew, things are never easy.<br />
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So we rough set the stairs in place and held them up with stands and come-alongs to get a rough idea of where we wanted to place them.<br />
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Once this part was done we needed to protect the ICF wall from the welding that was needed to install the stairs. Not good to have sparks like that hit ICF foam blocks. So we jumped in and started plastering that wall to get a feel of the plastering product - Gigacrete, and how easy it would be. Of course there was was along learning curve in the mixing and application on the wall. Upshot is, it looks fantastic but we didn't get it thick enough. Easy enough to remedy with a second coat but good to know and we also know what doesn't work. </div>
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Kyle made some chisels and a beautiful leaf. The talent and things that can be created with metal is astounding. One criticism is that there are too many grape vines, but then we do live in California.<br />
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Enter the $15k farmhouse sink. Yes, $15,000. Shown here in bronze but does come in other patinas. It sure is pretty but this goes up there with those <a href="http://lacornueusa.com/products/chateau"><span style="color: #477fb2;">Château Series from La
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<span style="text-align: left;">Spring has sprung in N.CA and the walnut trees are gorgeous and the tulips are out in full force. The weather (touch wood) has been amazing with temps up in the 70's and bright sunshine.</span></div>
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Got a boat load of snow yesterday with HUGE snowflakes. It was neat to see the house draped in snow, for an hour, tooks pics and then the snow can go away. Of course this is a mere dusting to my New Englander friends.</div>
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We also had them pour the propane pad where the propane tank and the generator will live and the solar hot water panels will form a roof over the top of them. Remember <a href="http://cottonwoodmeadow.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-challenging-3-d-world.html" target="_blank">THIS</a> skillfully designed, amazingly professional blueprint of the pad....well Kyle and Tim were actually able to decipher it and build something.</div>
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Pour day came and we got <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pumper-Dude-Concrete-Pumping/161841970507706" target="_blank">Pumper Dude</a> back to pump the concrete and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Georgetown-Precast-Inc/161073187248143" target="_blank">Georgetown Precast</a> supplied the concrete.</div>
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On the propane pad Kyle set in some holes in the wall for the gas, electric and hot water piping to run through. You can see the trench they will sit in in the background that runs them to the house. They will pop out on to the pad and connect to the propane pad, generator, back up water pump and the solar hot water panels. </div>
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As the last of the roof was completed the guys helped Kyle out putting on the Ice and Snow cover which means our roof is now waterproof. </div>
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After that they only took another a day or so to knock out the rest of the steel stud around all the containers. They are really amazingly fast, they work so fast poor Kyle had trouble keeping up and it resulted in me making a 5am trip to <a href="http://www.scafco.com/" target="_blank">SCAFCO</a>, where we have sourced all our steel stud and they have been great to work with, to get the final pieces they needed. It was really just a great excuse for me to be able to hit Starbucks for breakfast;-)</div>
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This is my favorite shot of the house. Jim Briggs is working on the doors as we speak, we need to get Dave Duncan back to put in the rest of the doors and windows, source a door handle for the front and back door, find a decent doggy door that doesn't let all the heat out.....the list goes on and on.</div>
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We got Evans Construction in the house and boy have they hit this house with a double whammy. In just one week we have just about all the containers framed out and......wait for it.....a ROOF on the containers. Just awesome to see so much progress everyday, these guys take no prisoners.<br />
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The Hardy Panels are installed in the upper level containers, these puppies weigh a ton, no idea how the guys got them up there.</div>
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A shot mid-framing of the containers. The exterior Hardy Panels are larger so are built a little different. You can see the windows framed out where we need to cut the containers out to match.</div>
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Now that roof framing is up they are finishing the steel stud framing to meet the roof line on the east, west and south sides. There are four windows that go in the south wall.</div>
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And on the west side, the door side of the containers, the framing and Hardi Panels will go in tomorrow.</div>
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Stairs are being completed at <a href="http://rtwelding.com/" target="_blank">RT Mobile</a> in their shop and I am working on finishing all the sanding and oiling of the wood mezzanine, my arms vibrate even when I am asleep, it is non-stop but I got a new Makita sander that is fantastic, so I am armed with 3 different kinds of sanders, bordering on professional at this point.....</div>
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The roof over the ICF portion of the house is pretty much complete. We put a covering over the plywood called snow and ice that is protecting the roof until the final roofing material can go on. Of course there was a delay in getting that on the major part of the house roof which caused it to not adhere in the colder weather and we have had some humdingers of storms lately where the winds caught edges and ripped it all off.<br />
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Kyle and I got up on the roof and after re-applying the covering we got it to stick really well and so far it is staying in place nicely. Let's hope it sticks until that final roof goes on.<br />
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Kyle has ben working with Dave Duncan from DAD's glass to get all the ICF windows installed. <br />
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Obviously when placing rebar and pouring concrete there is little room for error so upon finding out the doors were bigger than we anticipated required some cutting and trimming which was messy and tedious. It took a while but we eeked out those few extra inches we needed so should be good to go.</div>
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Kyle was able to install all the reinforcing steel beams in the master bedroom. We had to weld these steel bars across the ceiling of the bedroom before we cut the ceiling out. The current ceiling of the containers is working hard to keep the container together and square and we don't want that compromised when it gets cut out so the steel bars will do the ceilings job of keeping the walls together and square.<br />
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With the news windows IN THE HOUSE, pun intended, I spent a day and a half cleaning, scraping and foaming the frames to ready them for accepting their new mates. We temporarily put one window in its house to see what what they will look like, and they look pretty good.<br />
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We also started pulling the wooden floor out of the old hay barn and have found two local guys that will be able to mill them down to the thicknesses we need. It is a tad heartbreaking to cut them down but they really aren't of much use as they currently are anyway. <br />
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With the roof framing the ICF completed the mezzanine (loft) is going up and our welding guys are coming out to take measurements to build the stairs-yeh, no more ladders. <br />
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The picture below of the house in the evening doesn't even capture how it looked when the sun was setting and shining so orange through the windows it looked like an inverted jack o'lantern. Then later in the evening wheat was dark Kyle started welding and the windows lit up with that unnatural blue light and sparks, then it looked like a scene out of a horror movie.<br />
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Signing off for tonight,<br />
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Hannahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18390170965001254897noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331517576494781204.post-75554420334189062822012-11-18T17:51:00.000-08:002013-03-20T20:55:32.321-07:00Window deliveryWindows are to be delivered today. Talked to the truckers this morning and all was good. <br />
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While we wait for the delivery we get a call, the truck was pulled over by CHP for being too long - 83'. Apparently not something the trucking company checked beforehand.<br />
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So back the windows go to a warehouse to be loaded onto a smaller truck to try to get back up here. <br />
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Wait, no warehouse will take them as they are not palleted. <br />
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So contact a small trucking company to pick them up, same problem, no one will take them as they aren't palleted.<br />
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Our fabulous window guy, Mike Hartman of Cavolt & Sons, contacts another window contractor that agrees to take the windows and then deliver them the next day. The trucker won't go to his shop for fear of a fine.<br />
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Windows still sitting at a truck stop on the side of Rte 80 for over 24 hrs now.<br />
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So off Mike goes with his own window installer to pick up the windows themselves on the side of the highway, load them into their car/truck/trailer etc... and bring them to the house themselves.<br />
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Thanks to Mike Hartman, Dave Duncan of DAD's Glass, James and Karl of Anderson Pacific Builders for helping to unload them at the house.<br />
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Keeping in mind that these pieces would be a permanent part of the beam forever he made some pretty cool brackets that fitted around the entire foot deep beam and had holes at the bottom for attaching lifting rigging.<br />
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Then we attach the little lifting machine that carries 1,000 lbs and lifts by climbing a cable, like a winch.<br />
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The roof cover over the spare bedroom is on so hopefully no more repeats of the <a href="http://cottonwoodmeadow.blogspot.com/2012/10/wanna-build-your-own-house-think-again.html" target="_blank">plastic debacle</a> from last week.<br />
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They got started by moving some of the bigger beams moved into the house and positioned for building the loft/mezzanine.</div>
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<a href="http://andersonpacificbuilders.com/" target="_blank">Anderson Pacific Builders</a> in the house.<br />
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Moving the plywood roof sheathing up to the roof of the containers so they are easier to move into place.</div>
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<i>Diamond Crane - "Fighting gravity for 25 years"</i></div>
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And this is the back of the <a href="http://andersonpacificbuilders.com/" target="_blank">Anderson Pacific Builders</a> truck.....I would say they hold true to this.</div>
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