One of Nick’s greatest strengths is surrounding himself with highly skilled people. He doesn’t need to know everything. He has a team that collectively has it covered. It’s been great watching his company grow and evolve.
I think it would be crazy to have the house even or below the grade of the street. Some elevation with a gentle slope to the entrance tends to look best. Accounting for the height of the floor framing, it will be a little bit over a foot above the sidewalk. That should look good.
I watched this video just to see how the foam was secured to the form boards. Outta luck. I've got to do that in a month and so does a fellow builder. The force of the concrete falling down the pump hose is enough to rip the foam off its fasteners. I could put a thousand screws into the foam to hold it in place. It would leave a thousand holes in the form boards, but hey, they aren't my boards. 🤔😵💫
Are you guys going to be removing the foam, before you're installing the bricks? I'm assuming you are, based on what you were saying, but how are you guys going to be doing that? Separately, I'll admit, when I read "foam at the top of foundation", I was picturing you taking, say, 1" thick foam, and laying it on top of the foundation, presumably below where you would be putting the sill place, so it would be in between them, as a thermal break. That does sound nice/workable, but I have no idea whether it's even possible or legal (according to the Code), and all of that.
It's not my house, but he mentioned grade, drainage, groundwater, etc. at 1:25 I don't know what state this is in, but frostline may play a part in how much cover the footings require.
One of Nick’s greatest strengths is surrounding himself with highly skilled people. He doesn’t need to know everything. He has a team that collectively has it covered. It’s been great watching his company grow and evolve.
I think it would be crazy to have the house even or below the grade of the street. Some elevation with a gentle slope to the entrance tends to look best. Accounting for the height of the floor framing, it will be a little bit over a foot above the sidewalk. That should look good.
With an overclocked CPU you can get some errors occasionally...
please use a gimbal when walking, pretty shaky camera at the start of the video, great content
I watched this video just to see how the foam was secured to the form boards. Outta luck.
I've got to do that in a month and so does a fellow builder. The force of the concrete falling down the pump hose is enough to rip the foam off its fasteners. I could put a thousand screws into the foam to hold it in place. It would leave a thousand holes in the form boards, but hey, they aren't my boards. 🤔😵💫
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Are you guys going to be removing the foam, before you're installing the bricks? I'm assuming you are, based on what you were saying, but how are you guys going to be doing that?
Separately, I'll admit, when I read "foam at the top of foundation", I was picturing you taking, say, 1" thick foam, and laying it on top of the foundation, presumably below where you would be putting the sill place, so it would be in between them, as a thermal break. That does sound nice/workable, but I have no idea whether it's even possible or legal (according to the Code), and all of that.
1600 yards of fill, about 160 dump trucks!?
That's about 5 ft. layer of dirt on the entire property. Well, okay....
@@stipcrane Why so high, flood zone, water table?
It's not my house, but he mentioned grade, drainage, groundwater, etc. at 1:25
I don't know what state this is in, but frostline may play a part in how much cover the footings require.
Lots of corners on that foundation.
I went to my sink today and placed water in my cup. I then placed it in my mouth and drank it. 👍
Sounds like a great day Mark.
Break below grade is not very good. It wick la water and deteriorates
I really wanna see the waterproofing of this wall and slab. I think it won’t be as good as it should.
You think? LMAO
I’m too important
Somebody get Doug a stabilizing gimbal for that camera.
Drone shot
@@NSBuilders I was dizzy watching you guys walk around to the back of the site at 3:45. That’s what made me comment.
Looking like quite a house. More Mike, less Nick please.
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