Larry's Farm House Build Thread

[LATB]

Finally getting started in earnest.
Bought the property 14 months ago. Spent a lot of time and a lot of money clearing and grading and forest mulching and brush cutting.
Built a barn and started some fencing while we designed the floorplan and then applied for a building permit.

I can say this with certainty...it will be a long and expensive road to travel.
Material costs are through the roof and every subcontractor I know is covered up busy.

Dug the footers last Friday, inspected Monday and poured them out yesterday. Block is ordered and should be on site tomorrow or Monday. Block layers are
due Tuesday.

Footers are 12" x 24" with three #5 rebars and a vertical #5 bar with hook every 32". Chairs are Hercules 3-rod structural. Total pour was 45 yards of concrete.

















Any perceived issues with code violations or wavy roofs can be addressed to:
DILLIGAF
PO Box STFU
Go Fuk A Brick, FL

[Louie Detroit]

Looks like room for a few certain people we all know.

[GTOguy]

I don't see any edelweiss decorations. Fail.

[Raazor]

Originally Posted by LATB

Finally getting started in earnest.
Bought the property 14 months ago. Spent a lot of time and a lot of money clearing and grading and forest mulching and brush cutting.
Built a barn and started some fencing while we designed the floorplan and then applied for a building permit.

I can say this with certainty...it will be a long and expensive road to travel.
Material costs are through the roof and every subcontractor I know is covered up busy.

Dug the footers last Friday, inspected Monday and poured them out yesterday. Block is ordered and should be on site tomorrow or Monday. Block layers are
due Tuesday.

Footers are 12" x 24" with three #5 rebars and a vertical #5 bar with hook every 32". Chairs are Hercules 3-rod structural. Total pour was 45 yards of concrete.

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Any perceived issues with code violations or wavy roofs can be addressed to:
DILLIGAF
PO Box STFU
Go Fuk A Brick, FL

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[slewfoot]

Yaddy must be on his 4pm nap time

[Kevin68]

Slab on grade beam?
Pour in 2 stages?
No moisture barrier?
No indoor plumbing?
Where are the wetbacks? Where did you find white guys willing to do manual labor?
I advise you to read Matthew 7:24-26. You're going to hell.

This is how they did mine. One pour, 130 yds.

[Big bob]

Looks like easy digging nice to see some proper workmanship for a change. I am glad all of mine were done before the prices went crazy and quality went to hell. I saw a man at the lumber store trying to find some good boards while a snot nosed kid telling him he couldn't dig the pile. Laughed my ass off when the old guy told the kid to **** off.

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by LATB

Any perceived issues with code violations or wavy roofs can be addressed to:
DILLIGAF
PO Box STFU
Go Fuk A Brick, FL

AF2 is scribbling furiously.

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Kevin68

Slab on grade beam? No, not a monolithic slab. A CMU stem wall on footers with fill and then slab.

Pour in 2 stages? Footers - block stem wall - fill - pour

No moisture barrier? Yes it goes under the slab

No indoor plumbing? Yes it will be under the slab

Where are the wetbacks? Where did you find white guys willing to do manual labor? I'm using as many country boys (men) that I can. I anticipate the only brown or black workers on my build will be insulation and sheetrock.
The youngest man on the concrete crew is 40 and the oldest man is 70.
My land clearing and site work guy is 40 something and his two operators and drivers are in their 60's.

I advise you to read Matthew 7:24-26. You're going to hell. Yes sand but in virgin soil and harder than expected. And the reason the footers are 12 x 24 with 3 bars.
And if I go to hell it won't be because of the footers


This is how they did mine. One pour, 130 yds.

Yours looks good.

[ZipZap]

[Yaddy] Mix looks a bit loose. [/Yaddy]

[Kevin68]

Originally Posted by LATB

Yours looks good.

Serious question, why do the stem wall and slab vs. single pour?

We didn't have any black people working on our house. There are only 119 in the whole county and I don't think any of them work.

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by Kevin68

There are only 119 in the whole county and I don't think any of them work.

Well, it is named "White" County. So, yeah, there's that

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Kevin68

Serious question, why do the stem wall and slab vs. single pour?

It is because of the grade/elevation change. The front will be 4 courses of block and the rear 6 courses. It is a bit "hilly" in my part of NW FL.
And architecturally we want the house to be a little off grade.

Originally Posted by Kevin68

We didn't have any black people working on our house. There are only 119 in the whole county and I don't think any of them work.

[Steve_R]

Looks to be 1/8” off. Better have a PE look at it before going any farther.

Gonna post the plans or let us guess?

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Looks to be 1/8” off. Better have a PE look at it before going any farther.

Gonna post the plans or let us guess?

The masons were setting batter boards and pulling lines and squaring up. I heard them call out the numbers and it was about an 1/8th off. I was ok with it but he wasn't.
About LoL'd out loud when one guy yelled "about one eighth off"

[Yadkin]

I'm amazed to see a step in a footing in Floriduh. Nice neat rebar and ties.

[Onebadcad]

Obviously our FLORIDA friend Larry will show and prove that as ALWAYS, in FLORIDA things are done correctly.

[Onebadcad]

You had the stage for like two years, sit up, shut up, wisen up, AND LEARN HOW HOMEBUILDING IS PROPERLY DONE!!

[Onebadcad]

Again, yaddy gets the hourly bootstomp from OBC.
CURRENT SCORE:
OBC 'THE SCOTCH KING' at 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999
yadshitkins 'the illegitimate handyman' at TRIPLE NEGATIVE YOU SUCK HAIRY ASSES

[snide]

Where's the basement?