Guest cabin

[Darren Wright]

They got it ready for footings today and stubbed in drainage and water lines, hopefully will pour tomorrow before it rains.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

Roller compaction but not wetted first?

 

[Ted Calver]

They got it ready for footings today and stubbed in drainage and water lines, hopefully will pour tomorrow before it rains.
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Make double sure that drainage is going to work for you. You don’t need to have to deal with it on down the road.

 

[Darren Wright]

Roller compaction but not wetted first?

Sounds like the back 3 footers will go in first on solid soil, then he'll dig down to the footer to the front wall as he's using the skid steer to move the concrete to the forms on those first 3 to save some money and not use a pumper for them..

Make double sure that drainage is going to work for you. You don’t need to have to deal with it on down the road.

Yeah, both are where I was expecting them to be. These are mostly for getting under the footings, the plumber will come next week to get the actual lines in where they need to be for the kitchenette, bath, and mechanical room.

Edit: The back wall is a retaining wall about 48” tall, which will help with rolling any water out and around the building. The wall will be about 1 1/2’ above the current slope and we’ll fill it to slope away. He’s keying the wall into the footing to prevent any leakage too, along with proper drain tile and fill.

 

[Darren Wright]

I was in meetings most of the day, so didn't get to catch the guys before they left.


I think they ran short on concrete. At least that is my guess. They need to form the back and front walls, I'm guessing they will finish the unfinished footer when they do that. along with it's stub wall.

 

[John Bartley]

I would just like to express my envy .... you can actually pour concrete in the middle of January without having to use calcium to keep it from freezing .... awesome !!

cheers,

 

[Darren Wright]

Well, we are in a "warm" spell right now, not usual for us. Just coming off a spell in the 50's, we're in the 40's and mid 30's for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully it continues long enough to get all the framing/exterior done too.

 

[Tom Niemi]

Hopefully it continues long enough to get all the framing/exterior done too.

Are you doing the framing and such? Or are you hiring that out?

 

[Darren Wright]

Are you doing the framing and such? Or are you hiring that out?

I'm (we are) hiring it out. My wife can't wait that long to get it done. Probably wise on her part. Also hiring out the insulation, which might be spray foamed.

I'll be doing the interior (electrical, plumbing, drywall, and finishes...and maybe the decking. Most likely just buying pre-built cabinets for the kitchenette and vanity since I don't have all my woodworking tools here yet.

 

[Darren Wright]

They came out today and stripped forms off the footers and started forming walls. He had a dr appt, this is it for a couple of days as the snow is flying now.


He did run out of concrete, but that footer has just the slab on it, so will fill it as part of the slab.

 

[Vaughn McMillan]

I hope they do a better job of vibrating the concrete on the walls than they did the footers. Looks like a fair amount of voids on the outside of the footer. (Sorry, the concrete inspector in me decided to show up out of the blue, lol.)

 

[Ryan Mooney]

(Sorry, the concrete inspector in me decided to show up out of the blue, lol.)

I was wondering where that guy was haha...

 

[Darren Wright]

Yeah, hope to be here during that pour to make sure they do..

 

[Peter Rideout]

They came out today and stripped forms off the footers and started forming walls. He had a dr appt, this is it for a couple of days as the snow is flying now.
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He did run out of concrete, but that footer has just the slab on it, so will fill it as part of the slab.

That looks like a nice location Darren. From the pictures, there also appears to be enough room on the uphill side to create a slight reverse slope, to allow surface drainage away from the building and around each end.

 

[Darren Wright]

That looks like a nice location Darren. From the pictures, there also appears to be enough room on the uphill side to create a slight reverse slope, to allow surface drainage away from the building and around each end.

Thanks Peter. Yeah, the back wall should be higher than the current slope to level and drain away.

It’s been in the 30s here, so don’t expect to see them back for a day or two more. I got the missing ridge cap and extra trim picked up, so hopefully they have all they need.

 

[Chuck Ellis]

You could have saved yourself a lot of work and probably some money too if you'd gone the Tennessee way.... get an old decrepit camp trailer park it in the location and call it your guest cabin....

 

[Darren Wright]

That’s progress.

First good view I’ve had of that old barn. It’s a beauty! Looks very square and plumb from here and the roof is saving it.

So Grandpa mentioned today that he thinks the barn was built about 1903 according to county records. We originally thought it was built in 1919 as there is a license plate nailed to the beam inside and the main house was built in 1921.

 

[Peter Rideout]

So Grandpa mentioned today that he thinks the barn was built about 1903 according to county records. We originally thought it was built in 1919 as there is a license plate nailed to the beam inside and the main house was built in 1921.

120 years! A good run and still standing tall by the looks of it.
Rural wisdom around here states that the second most important thing in keeping old buildings standing, after a good roof, is keeping them closed up with doors secured and wind damaged cladding repaired. Old barns that have gone down in hurricanes or winter storms have often had big doors open or maybe an end permanently opened up so cattle can run in.

 

[John Bartley]

120 years! A good run and still standing tall by the looks of it.
Rural wisdom around here states that the second most important thing in keeping old buildings standing, after a good roof, is keeping them closed up with doors secured and wind damaged cladding repaired. Old barns that have gone down in hurricanes or winter storms have often had big doors open or maybe an end permanently opened up so cattle can run in.

Yup, it's probably a universal truth that in order to keep a farm building standing, you have to do the above, and ..... keep it's feet dry. Plenty of good solid buildings have been lost simply due to slow collapse from the ground up. That's what happened to the hand-hewn, timber frame 100+ year old barn on my dad's farm. The people ahead of us simply left old wet hay in the barn without ever cleaning it all out to let the floors and sill beams dry regularly. Ultimately the sills rotted away and the barn started to spread at the bottom.

 

[Darren Wright]

Concrete guys were back today. They wanted to bring in a pumper to do the walls, but he doesn’t think they can get the pumper in the driveway and there are too many trees along the road. We decided we’d regrade the hill a bit and put down 2” gravel so the concrete truck can back up to pour. Since he had the dump truck bringing gravel for that, I hired him to go ahead and put down 2” base for the whole drive.


Once it gets packed down by all the construction traffic I’ll have him come back and cover it with 1” gravel. I need to also regrade in front of the garage and will plan on some concrete pads there when we can move the trailers.

Btw…$2500 for the pumper truck vs $350 for the gravel and regrading of the hill. We’ll scrape the grave down to the parking area later and reseed the hill.