NorthMan
08-09-2020, 09:46 AM
Doing an addition on our home, took the class 6 years ago. Sadly couldn't do the log thing for a multitude of reasons.
We had a porch that had alot of water damage and was in ROUGH shape so we demoed it out. I HIGHLY recommend the Axe sawzall blades not from Diablo but the other brand that fleet farm carries. Can't remember. They cut through the shingles like crazy!
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that was day 1, took about 4 hours after work. Filled a 20 yard dumpster with ease, got another dumpster and cut through the tile floor, that ate some sawzall blades! I managed to only have to cut 2 of them thankfully and picked them up with the tractor and dumped them in the trash.
4230
After that it took a while to get excavators in, I went with an ICF basement, it was awesome. I did the drain tile and waterproofing but nothing else. The quote I got was so ridiculously low I felt it was worth it to get the foundation part of it right and get the project moving so I could spend more of my time on other more bang for my buck projects. I did get to watch the process though and learned alot, I could have done it myself but it would have been pretty slow with just one man.
I've been doing all the framing. Its 8' walls and I put the trusses on top of the walls. I wish I had gone deeper and done them on hangers, I'll elaborate later as to why. My wife really wanted to have the first floor level so little kids aren't falling down all the time.
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We had a porch that had alot of water damage and was in ROUGH shape so we demoed it out. I HIGHLY recommend the Axe sawzall blades not from Diablo but the other brand that fleet farm carries. Can't remember. They cut through the shingles like crazy!
42294229
that was day 1, took about 4 hours after work. Filled a 20 yard dumpster with ease, got another dumpster and cut through the tile floor, that ate some sawzall blades! I managed to only have to cut 2 of them thankfully and picked them up with the tractor and dumped them in the trash.
4230
After that it took a while to get excavators in, I went with an ICF basement, it was awesome. I did the drain tile and waterproofing but nothing else. The quote I got was so ridiculously low I felt it was worth it to get the foundation part of it right and get the project moving so I could spend more of my time on other more bang for my buck projects. I did get to watch the process though and learned alot, I could have done it myself but it would have been pretty slow with just one man.
I've been doing all the framing. Its 8' walls and I put the trusses on top of the walls. I wish I had gone deeper and done them on hangers, I'll elaborate later as to why. My wife really wanted to have the first floor level so little kids aren't falling down all the time.
4231