Building your dream home part 15793

Structure Your Dream Home-- Part 3

Exterior Framing Continues

With the homes sub-floor down and the exterior walls framed and up, the framing crew was on to the roofing. Though the roofing was rather simple in structure with just a 12/12 pitch and no valleys it was a substantial framing endeavor due to simply the size and height of it. Your house was 32 feet wide by 44 feet in length, and the exterior side walls stood 11 feet high in the terrific space. This outside wall height of 11 feet equated into a roofing ridge that was 27 feet off the flooring of the fantastic room. Subsequently staging was required to set up the ridge pole and roof rafters. In addition, considering that the period from the top of the walls to the ridge was so long, heavy 2x12s were needed for the roofing rafters. Within a week, however, the group had finished the setup of the roof rafters and the house began to handle real shape.

I needs to comment briefly about the sub-floor and exterior walls before I move on.

I decided on using tongue and groove trusted plumber Baxter plywood for the sub-flooring instead of OSB/particle board as I was worried that the OSB was too conscious wetness. I was worried about this, both from the building stage and from regular home use. I was concerned that during the building phase that snow and ice could potentially result in harm such as warping. I have actually seen this before when OSB was used on sub-flooring. I was also concerned that during the life of the home, that there could be water events, e.g. a leaking dishwashing machine or washer device that also could likewise lead to water damage to the floor. I also believe that plywood is more powerful which it would attend to a more strong and rigid floor.

Regarding the outside wall framing I utilized 2 × 6 construction. This is typical in New England as the extra wall depth enables greater insulation elements; a should in colder climates.

Sheathing the Beyond the Home

In order to get plumbing and electrical contractors onto a website typically they desire the home buttoned up. This consists of the roofing shingled and the doors and windows on. Thus my framing team moved onto the exterior sheathing once the walls and roofing system framing were complete.

As with the sub-floor, I once again selected plywood for the exterior sheathing for the exact same factors mentioned previously. On the exterior walls outside grade plywood was utilized. On the roofing system 5/8 exterior grade plywood was utilized. I know many home builders today utilize OSB for both the walls and roof, however, I still think for more powerful building and construction plywood is the method to go.

The sheathing effort took about a week to complete. Throughout this time exterior windows and doors showed up on the website. Staging the shipment of material reduces theft and insurance coverage risk in addition to keeps a less messy building and construction website. Nevertheless, as I have shown previously, interaction is vital when you are doing Just-in-Time material delivery.

Installing Outside Doors and Windows

The installation of the doors and windows was a major endeavor for this job as the lake side view of the home was actually a wall of windows; 32 feet in width and 27 feet in height. A lot of engineering had entered into the window design so that the 10 large custom windows would mesh like a jig saw puzzle. This said, when the windows arrived on site and were inspected, it was identified that some of them were not constructed correctly to the measurements specified. After much dispute with the framing crew, the window vendor and me we reached a compromise on sharing the cost of fixing the windows. The window supplier took back the incorrectly sized windows and the framing crew began the installation of the doors and what windows they could set up. Luckily the window supplier had the ability to go back to the site with the appropriately sized windows within a few days and the construction stage did not miss a beat.

Completing the Interior Framing

With the doors and windows set up, the framing team proceeded to complete the Interior Framing. This was an exciting time, as the rooms began to take real shape. You could now walk down hallways and into bed rooms and closet locations. Within just a couple of days the interior walls were total and the framing crew continued onto the roof for the shingling.

I should note that 2 × 4 building and construction was used on the interior walls as insulation was not needed on the interior walls.

Shingling the Roof

The last task to finish before your home could be categorized as Buttoned Up was to install the shingles on the roof. Thankfully my framing team was likewise able to do this task, therefore removing the requirement for yet another subcontractor.

I chose a thirty years architectural shingle due to the quality and look I was trying to achieve on the home.

Though fairly a simple roofing system, it was quite big and the weather was less than hospitable. Consequently it took nearly 2 weeks to complete this job. Nevertheless, with the roofing total, my electrical and plumbing specialists were now able to start their work.

Also, with the primary home now structurally complete, the framing crew moved onto the garage framing and building phase. As an outcome of staging the garage behind the main home building and construction stage, I was able to have subcontractors operate in parallel without getting in each others way.

Rough Electric and Plumbing

With the house Buttoned-Up, my Electric and Plumbing professional subcontractors appeared to begin the roughing in phase of their respective tasks.

Rough Electric

I had actually fulfilled a couple of days before on site with the Electric subcontractor to talk about the positioning of all the wall outlets and switches, along with where the light fixtures would be positioned. Throughout our discussion he marked the wall studs for the positionings of the electrical wiring boxes so that we might visualize the whole electric electrical wiring scheme. We likewise marked where the telephone and cable boxes would reside.

During the electrical rough in circuitry stage, the electrician installed all the electrical wiring boxes and ran wire from packages to where the primary circuit panel box would reside.

Rough Plumbing

As with the Electrical Subcontractor, I had actually met a number of weeks earlier with the Pipes Professional. During this meeting we discussed the type of heat for the home, along with where the bathrooms and cooking area were to reside in the home. We also went over types of restroom fixtures consisting of tubs, sinks and toilets. As a result, when he appeared on site he new exactly where to run main drain and supply pipes and vent stacks. He also roughed in all of the pipes for each bathroom and kitchen pipes fixture.

Within a week both the Electrical and Rough Plumbing professionals had finished their jobs and had actually effectively passed their particular inspections.