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Harke Estate
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Watch as Drs. Harke build their dream Bay Area property together from the ground up. It's Katie and Jason and we're taking you along with us on our journey to build our dream property, Harke Estate. Purchased property (2019) ✅, installed all utilities (2020) ✅, building permits (2020) ✅, 3 bed/2 bath guest house (2022) ✅, 5 bed/4 bath main house, vineyard, pool + pool house, ground mounted solar farm.
Day 8 of Main House Plumbing
Day 8 of main house plumbing. We installed the guest bathroom shower supply lines by running 3/4” copper piping from the hallway through the floor joist cavity to the final shower location. One wall stud had to be removed as it was directly in the way of where the shower mixing valve would be installed. We will fix that later and also install some backing wood behind the shower valve location. The 3/4” main supply lines were supported between the floor joists using 2x4 blocks spanning the space. Once the main lines had been extended far enough, elbows were attached and the lines were turned over towards the wall and down. The pipe size was reduced to 1/2” after the horizontal turn and the hot and cold lines were left several inches longer than they would need to be. After the rough plumbing inspection is completed we will come back and install the shower mixing valve, shower head line and bathtub faucet line prior to any drywall work commencing.
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Day 7 of Main House Plumbing
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Day 7 of main house plumbing. We are installing the hot and cold 1/2” water lines for the guest bathroom. The lines are being run through the floor joists under the second floor. The 3/4” copper lines were run along the floor joists and then necked down to 1/2” for the turn and drop down to the sink and toilet. The 2x4 blocks were placed in between the floor joists to support and separate the t...
Day 6 of Main House Plumbing
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Day 6 of main house plumbing. This is the 1/2” copper piping for the second sink in the Jack and Jill bathroom. The plumbing was brought inside the wall from the bathroom below through the floor joists to reach both the sink and the adjoining nearby toilet. Once the copper lines were plumbed and fed through the floor then they were connected to the main hot and cold supply lines. Amazon Affilia...
Harke Estate - Day 2 of Main House Framing
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Harke Estate - Day 2 of Main House Framing
Are the two parallel coppers - one hot and one cold?
Yes, they’re the hot and cold lines.
Few questions: From where did you purchase your building plan? And Did you had to modify it? How did you modify? Did you learn some Architecture software?
We used Houseplans.com. I used a mix of GIMP and Microsoft paint to modify the plans.
What’s the reason of choosing Cooper over PEX pipes? Are you going to do all plumbing in Cooper? Does your plumbing or wiring work block woodworkers from continuing work in any situation? Or the contracted woodwork stays 100% independent?
We did all of our plumbing with copper. Copper is more expensive and more difficult to install but copper outlasts PEX. PEX is cheaper and easier to use but has the potential to leach and doesn’t have as long of a lifetime. We’ve chosen copper over plastic in other areas of our home like our external vents. A lot of new construction is cheaply built and not made to last. We went and overbuilt our entire house with all of the high end finishes and options. We didn’t start plumbing or electrical until a majority of the frame was finished. Jason talks to our framers all the time and they both know what the other is doing in terms of framing and plumbing.
I did buy Black&Decker’s plumbing and Wiring guides to understand DIY home building. It does have everything I might need to plumb and wire a house. Overall helpful but I didn’t read much (not patient enough to read books). How does Jason know all this? Did he work on construction sites when young?
We looked it up as we went. The main thing is to follow the applicable building codes, but once you know the guidelines you’re working within you have creative freedom. Like electrical outlets must be placed at least every 12 feet along a wall, but that’s not to say you can’t place them every 4 feet to have extra outlets. Nope, never worked on construction sites, but plenty of hands on work as an experimental physicist.
Hello! there. I saw your videos and was impressed by the quality of your content. However, after analysis, I noticed there needs to be improvement for getting more views and subscribers. You are working hard but the main motive to reach an exact audience is not fulfilled. You are working for your audience if the video can't reach them. That's a waste of your energy and time also. I will show the problem in your video and share how to fix it. Only say ‘yes’ if you want to grow your channel.
Which places in Bay Area for a Lot do you recommend for settling down with a DIY project like yours? Assume budget same as yours. Did you go with somewhere in South Bay?
Is the wiring being done by you too? Or the county needs certified contractor?
Yes, we’re doing all of the electrical wiring ourselves. It’ll all be inspected by the building inspector and needs to be up to code but doesn’t need to be done by a certified contractor. We’re also doing all of the plumbing, duct work, and sprinklers ourselves.
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Damn this shit blinded me
How much a project like this run?
The whole house is going to run about $470,000 total with us doing a large portion of the labor. We are subcontracting out the framing, stucco, and drywall.
No disrespect, sir, the framing is coming out beautiful, but in America, they make cheap houses come to Europe all cement and bricks
We live in California, and with earthquakes we cannot build with bricks. This is a custom home we are building largely ourselves, and we’ve overbuilt the entire house including the foundation and frame (2x8 exterior as opposed to 2x4). I agree that many other homes are built quickly and cheaply, which is why we are building ours to last. We’ve decided to go with a Mediterranean style home with stucco siding, clay roof tiles, rockwool insulation, all copper water lines, copper vents, etc.
Just when I thought McMansions were a thing of the past.
The main house is 4500 sqft, 5 bed, and 4 bath, but we have 3 kids and an au pair. We’re going to rent our 1200 sqft, 3 bed, and 2 bath guest house. Certainly not as large as the 10,000 sqft homes in the neighborhood. They all sit on 20 acres of vineyards with a 2 acre house pad each.
This video is a bit pixelated for some reason. It is fine. But something changed in your export settings. EDIT: It’s Normal like always. It was my internet data.
Thanks for reaching out about this! It takes about 30 minutes to upload the 4K version after the standard definition version posts. 😊
Jason living my dream. He is way older than me and way more financially stable, and I am jealous lol. He and his wife are an inspiration. Hope one day your kids grow up and they look at my comments 😀.
Lol in Asia the tying and almost every trade is done bare hands. So convenient to live in West - there is a tool for everything. Amazing. Plus houses in North America made up of studs instead of rebar grids+concrete.
The proper tools help so much, that rebar tying tool in particular saved us so much time on the main house. We tied the guest house rebar by hand and it took a long time and was very tedious.
Damn. That owning a tractor and backhoe is really helping you. I thought just renting an excavator might suffice. But looks like a used old $6000 tractor+backhoe is a good investment because $4000 a month excavator won’t always be there other than for excavating compressed foundation.
We’ve used our little blue tractor for so many jobs over the years, from trenching the underground electrical and water lines, digging the 100 foot long septic leach field, digging holes for percolation tests, installing fence posts, moving dirt around the property to grade the land, moving base rock around the property, landscaping, etc. It has paid for itself many times over.
Part 300? Good Lord you're unhinged.
What can we say? A lot of hard work has happened between 2019 and now to take our property from a dirt lot to 2 houses. 😊
Why even post this? Oh wow concrete being poured! The self importance of posting literally nothing of value is astonishing.
Since 2019 when we bought our property we’ve been owners/builders building up our property largely ourselves. We installed our utilities, obtained our permits, built our guest house and are working on our main house. We are both PhD physicists working full time and building our house ourselves (everything besides framing, concrete finishing, and stucco). We cut out labor costs in the Bay Area and are building with cash and are going to build around $4M in equity, build our dream house and rental property. People have been interested in our story, the timeline, the process and the costs, if you’re not interested that’s completely fine, you can just swipe the other way.
Get er done
Making progress everyday! 😊
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@@HarkeEstate Yours work is wonderful.
@@valmirs.dourado Thank you so much! We appreciate your kind comment!
Me who once thought I would also frame the whole house myself. 💀💀
Oh that’s the one job where I immediately knew we’d have to subcontract out. In our timeframe there was no way we’d be able to do that on our own.
@@HarkeEstate yep exactly. Too much work and very dangerous too.
Keep up the good work best of luck 👍
Thank you so much! We really appreciate this kind comment.
No one cares that are building a house Just an FYI
We’re building 2 houses 90% ourselves with cash in the Bay Area while both working full time and raising our family and are making multiple millions in equity in the process. Some people have been very interested in the process, timeline, cost savings of the owner/builder route, etc. If you’re not one of those people, that is completely fine, as no one is requiring you to watch our content.
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Never seen anyone do the j bolts that way
You mean with the blue plastic hangers? Simpson makes them and it holds the anchors at the specific height and spacing per the structural engineering plans.
@@HarkeEstate ya, I think most people just put them in after you pour your concrete and wiggle them in after.
@@concice1843 There’s a way and then there’s a better way! There are lots of ways to cut corners on a build, but this is our own house so we went above and beyond code on every aspect we could.
I love this in a woman! She's definitely marriage material .
We’ve been married almost 5 years now ❤️ Beauty, brains, and a good work ethic.
I applaud you both. That is truly hard to find!!
@@dannynoel6936 Thank you! Truly appreciate that. We’re both physicists by day, house builders by night and have two (almost three) kids under 4 years old. It has been a full family adventure, but we’ve all been embracing and enjoying it.
This is why homeowners shouldn't be doing their own concrete work.
Rest assured the whole foundation was made 100% to the structural engineer’s plans, was overbuilt as compared to the county requirements, and inspected by the county inspector.
Всё грамотно 😊!👍
Thank you!
I didn’t know you guys had this channel. Pretty cool! Where are all the plumbers butt shots? Kind editing? 😊
Thank you! Documenting the great adventure. 😊
How did you search for lots while purchasing? And how did you finally find this one? How far is your lot from SF City or San Jose in car minutes?
We looked at Zillow. Since land doesn’t have an actual address it put it really far (30 minutes) outside of where we were looking. Luckily my husband recognized a sign on the property and we drove down from our rental property and it was actually really close to the area we were looking for land in. We’re about a 30 minute drive.
You have to anticipate what the dozed is going to do and make the blade correction just ahead of it, start looking farther ahead of the machine, good job though.
Thank you! I appreciate the encouragement and the tip.
Ok. Now I need a girl who will help me in dirt.
Leave that throttle alone for starters. No need to lower the idle. Not designed for that.
Great old machine,hand clutch needs to be operated with a little more finesse.
Kids growing up in dirt instead of playing Roblox. I see this as a win.
Our oldest loves running around outside and playing in the dirt. While we were doing rebar he’d ask almost every single day to go outside and play in the dirt. Now he asks to go to the big house to play. It has been a great experience getting to involve the kids when we can. While we were doing rebar, we’d usually get our youngest son down for bedtime before we’d go outside with our oldest, but some evenings we’d start right after an early dinner and we’d bring him outside for an hour to get some fresh air before bed. It has been so nice living in the guest house right next to the job site so we can just put the kids to sleep, grab the baby monitor and go work outside.
Waiting for the day I will worry about aligning a 6ton excavator.
You’ll get there!
@@HarkeEstate thank you!
Operator learning curve video......keep practicing you'll get there.
Thanks! We’ve had our bulldozer for a year and a half now and it has enabled us to complete all of the work we’ve wanted to on our house build. That being said, there’s always room for improvement. Any tips or suggestions?
You have to run the blade by the seat of your pants......feeling what the dozer is doing. It takes time and practice. Your working for yourself on your own property, best place to learn.@@HarkeEstate
That’s a nice cat dozer, nice to see it’s still running and working. Seems most land clearing is done by excavators these days.
Thanks! It has been a huge help during our house build. Just a little maintenance when we first bought it to get it up and running. Took down those sycamore trees so easily, a very powerful piece of equipment.
Thats gonna be a big ass house
4500 sqft, 5 bed, 4 bath, and a 2 car garage.
This is good stuff man… 😊👍
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
@@HarkeEstate if you would like help or suggestions with your D6, I would check out the antique caterpillar machine owners club they should be able to give you tips or tricks, and where to get parts I would also look at your local caterpillar dealer. If you do go there, make sure to write down the serial number of your D6 because if you go there looking for parts for it, they would need to know the serial number
Did the framing+sheathing contractor house wrap (Tywek Wrap) too? Or you did it? And is the same contractor responsible for windows and external doors? Or hired some other guy?
We did the Tyvek wrap on the exterior walls and the underlayment on the roof ourselves. The framers are responsible for the windows and exterior doors for the main house. Also, the sheathing is the wood sheathing closing in the rough framing. Drywall that will go inside is different. At the moment we are planning to do the drywall ourselves for the main house.
Who is unloading those bags with the forklift (contractor? Lowe’s delivery man?)? Is it included in the delivery cost? Also since sheathing was being done by framing contractor - did you making him wait until you finish putting insulatation before he starts with sheathing? I mean how did you schedule them together?
It’s shipped for free with no delivery charge from Lowe’s so the man was a subcontractor of Lowe’s. The exterior sheathing for the house is already done. It’s covered by the Tyvek house wrap. No, you put insulation in after the framing and roughs are inspected (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, and sprinklers). There is in general a rock wool shortage so we wanted to get insulation bought slightly ahead of time. We are nearly done with the garage so we were going to get that inspected and get the insulation in.
Thank you so much for making this video!
You’re welcome! We were happy to do it! Let us know if there’s anything else you want to see.
@@HarkeEstate do you happen to remember which rams you used or the length/bore? my '67 agriculture d6c with 10' toolbar blade has a dual pump so I'd use the rear implement valve. Thanks
Tree is not feeling well
Not after meeting the bulldozer.
Motivándome al 100% con su historia . Trabajo duro , mis respetos para usted y su familia .
¡Muchas gracias! Ha sido una aventura familiar completa y estamos contentos de poder trabajar duro para lograr el futuro que queremos para nosotros y nuestros hijos. --- Thank you so much! It has been a full family adventure and we're glad that we can work hard to accomplish the future we want for ourselves and our children.
You framed main house with contractors? Like guest house? What about sheathing of walls?
Yes, we subcontracted out the framing on both houses. The wall and roof sheathing was included in the framing cost along with setting the windows and exterior doors.
How much did that cost and for how much sqft? I am sorry if you have already mentioned the cost in some other video. I remember total you took $300,000 HELOC for main house build.
@@user-fo5mk6qr1c It was $62,000 for our 1927 sqft (total) for the guest house and $204,000 for our 4444 sqft (total) main house.
@@HarkeEstate hmm. How much did the guest house total cost you? Did you contract out anything else other than foundation pouring and framing, sheathing?
@@user-fo5mk6qr1c For the build it cost around $160,000. This wasn’t including the $80,000 permits. We did the foundation (excavation, compaction, digging the footings, vapor barrier, gravel, rebar, concrete forms) ourselves. We subcontracted the concrete finishing, framing (including sheathing), stucco, and tile floors. We did the foundation, underground plumbing and electrical, electrical, duct work, fire sprinklers, plumbing, drywall hanging, insulation, drywall finishing (mudding, taping, sanding), painting, baseboard, custom window casements, interior doors, trim, kitchen and bathroom cabinets, tile roof, electrical and plumbing fixtures, and tub and showers ourselves. An example of labor costs: the lowest quote we received for electrical for the guest house was $50,000. We saved so much money doing a majority of the build ourselves.
Could you do a walkaround video of the tilt blade modification? I have a d6c with a No 6 toolbar blade from a 9u and would love it to tilt. Also, I was told to have the main central pivot push from the rear of the pin and not the front. Not sure if you had a clearance issue but mine seems to raise fully that way. Thanks :)
Of course! We’ll get the bulldozer fired up and get the video!
That is so awesome! Thank you so much@@HarkeEstate
@@mrneil962 Hi! Here’s the video: Caterpillar D6-9U Bulldozer (1952) Hydraulic Blade Control ua-cam.com/video/GkZ2tB9PDlM/v-deo.html Let us know if you have any other questions.
Comment for the algorithm but I enjoy the video, I love the sound!
I’m glad you enjoyed the video! We’ll keep them coming 😊
Does this $152/yard include labour?
No, $152/yard is pure material cost. It was $38,500 for concrete, $3,600 for the concrete pump truck, and $4,750 for the concrete finishing crew.
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