Mostly rebar work this time around.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
Some pics from a different vantage point
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Almost ready for main lower slab pour
Pictures from this past weekends trip. The main slab that supports the large retaining wall is almost ready to be poured.
Monday, December 16, 2013
Weekend visit pictures
More timelapse fun!
I've been playing with the settings on the speed of the timelapse. Here we are still at 1 pic every half hour. But the framerates I'm uploading have been squished somewhat. The latest one I'm showing 5frames/sec. The prior one I'm showing 1 frame/sec. Since Youtube has controls to speed up and slow down I think this may strike a happy medium. Let me know what you think.
This is at 5fps:
1fps:
This is at 5fps:
1fps:
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
3rd material shows up!
Concrete, steel .. now WOOD. Unbelievable amounts of wood are used for setting up forms for concrete. I'm hoping some of it can be recycled for something else on the build. Its starting to look like a structure finally!
Monday, December 2, 2013
Trenching for grade beams
After thanksgiving I went up to take a look at the progress..
Concrete has been poured for all the piers. They are now trenching and prepping for the forms for the interconnecting gradebeams. It will be quite a structure when completed. I was suprised at how much wood they will be using for the forms. I have to think of ways to re-use those forms for something.
Concrete has been poured for all the piers. They are now trenching and prepping for the forms for the interconnecting gradebeams. It will be quite a structure when completed. I was suprised at how much wood they will be using for the forms. I have to think of ways to re-use those forms for something.
Monday, November 25, 2013
Pumping day!
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Monday, November 11, 2013
Native resident..
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Drilling has started!
Monday, October 28, 2013
Shoveling gravel!
We had a 5 yard gravel delivery come when no one was around. Of course it was dumped in the wrong place. The family and I spent the day moving the gravel to the right spot. Nothing like a good day of hard labor shoveling rocks to keep the family together!
Gravel up on the building pad. |
Gravel now spread on the driveway with my little helper on top |
Whats left of the gravel on the pad |
How the driveway looked when complete |
Friday, October 25, 2013
On site with another SIP build.. (not my house)
Yesterday I went and visited a site that was using SIP's for their walls because I was curious as to how these panels go together. Below is a photo sequence showing them putting up 2 panels. With this method an entire house's exterior walls can go up in a day or two. Just to be clear this is not my house. We're probably 2 months from being to this point with my project.
Just seeing this one go up so fast gives me confidence that I made the right choice going with SIP's. A couple of people can raise all the perimeter walls in a day or so.
one person carrying a small panel |
making sure the first panel is plum |
Laying mastic and inserting panel on top of 2x6 on subfloor |
Ensuring panel is sitting correctly |
squaring panel before nailing |
Screwing the panel in place |
Applying mastic & standing up next panel |
clicking the next one into place etc... |
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Timelapse Construction
We put a time lapse camera on a tree to test the location. It was set to 1 picture per hour. The total video represents a week of captures. I think its about the right rate for a multi month video. As you can see there wasn't much activity at the site the past week.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Final Grading
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Soil conditions
One interesting aspect of how engineers decide on how deep piers must be dug is based on soil conditions. These recommendations are usually based on small soils samplings taken by a soils engineer.
Once those tests are done the structural engineering is based on those results. Now in our case we have specced some pretty deep peers partly because we are ignoring the top 4 feet of soil as being expansive clay. Once the site is excavated you can clearly see the composition of the layers and how deep they are. Based on what we actually see now we're going to try and see if we can ammend those recommendations because the clay appears to be very shallow. So shallow that almost all the clay is gone from the initial excavation work. I'm hoping this can save us some time and money for the foundation work. We're having the soils engineer come out to take a look. Wish us luck!
The picture below shows a cross section of depth of the unmolested hill. the dark dirt is clay the light is sandstone. note how the small roots are above the sandstone layer.
Once those tests are done the structural engineering is based on those results. Now in our case we have specced some pretty deep peers partly because we are ignoring the top 4 feet of soil as being expansive clay. Once the site is excavated you can clearly see the composition of the layers and how deep they are. Based on what we actually see now we're going to try and see if we can ammend those recommendations because the clay appears to be very shallow. So shallow that almost all the clay is gone from the initial excavation work. I'm hoping this can save us some time and money for the foundation work. We're having the soils engineer come out to take a look. Wish us luck!
The picture below shows a cross section of depth of the unmolested hill. the dark dirt is clay the light is sandstone. note how the small roots are above the sandstone layer.
driveway section |
Friday, October 4, 2013
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
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