Construction start to finish of a modern ICF mountain cabin.
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- This video documents the one-year journey to complete the construction of a modern mountain cabin. As an owner-build, the goal was to create something high-end, unique, maintenance free, and modern, using only the best materials.
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Construction materials:
Exterior ICF (insulating concrete forms) walls (12 inches thick)
Black 16"inch wide, 26 gauge, standing seam metal roofing and front wall.
trex decking
Feeney cable rails
Stained concrete slab with variegation and mottling
Stem wall foundation/gravel backfill
Fiber cement siding
Zip wall system
Low E double paned windows
Interior wood frame
Special features:
Eco-Luxe
Architect Designed (Modern exterior, minimalist interior)
Diakin 18,000 Btu 17-seer ducted mini
split heat pump with 8 kw heat
strips. Unit is ducted so there are no hanging wall units.
Propane powered Navian tankless water heater (NPE-210A2) with a recirculating pump (Instant hot water)
Passive solar design
Smart home technology
Modern black stainless steel appliances
Trimless recessed lights
Floating vanities
Built-in Electric Fireplace
Modern Tile
Triple Bunk
For questions, you can contact me at johnwolson79@gmail.com
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I'm a now retired residential and light commercial builder with 30+ years of custom construction experience. That said, I am very impressed with your building of this mountain cabin for you and the family. Great Job!! Like others, I will be eager to see your cost breakdown. Hopefully you'll have multiple categories and break out labor and materials in those categories. It is obvious that you spared no expense in doing everything in a high-class manner and succeeded in an outstanding finished product.
I love to see no expense spared.
What a joy this cabin will be for the family.
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@@beefquiche Sparing money is stupid, why else are they needed?
for sure costed over $800k
The cabin looks great and solid. It will last a long time! The outside terrace in the back is amazing.
Yes, we love the terrace.
i am wondering if the floor will shift and sink in the middle. This gravel will settle, so what will happen to the floor?
That was so interesting i actually sat through the entire thing. I sometimes think I may have chosen the wrong career as a software developer because i love building things and working with my hands. This was very impressive. Beautiful build. I love Northern GA so that was a plus. That foundation is SOLID
Me too. :)
I've done both programming and building and it really is surprising how similar they are. You work with your hands for both, but it's mostly decision making. The result is a tangable thing that's hopefully very useful and valued by people.
Very nice. Thanks for sharing. The foundation is massively strong for this location. For what you spent to make a flat slab, I think you could have had a crawl space or a partial basement for storage and utilities. The bedrock is good insurance that the slope will not move under your house.
That was the perfect opportunity to double the sq footage and add a walkout basement....
That's what I thought, why not a future basement??
I thought the exact same thing. 2-3 more feet up or down and you have a walk out. That could have been ICF as well at least on the exposed wall but even all the walls. For the cost of all those truckloads of gravel fill and the concrete form work it would have cost less plus you would have had a suspended floor that would be much warmer on the main level especially if there's not a radiant floor. Maybe it's a warm climate, I might have missed that. If it's a cold climate that exposed concrete wall will transfer all the cold to the slab. All that being said, this work was an excellent execution of the plan!
The best construction 🚧🏗️ video by far. I absolutely loved it. The commentary is very audible and every single step of the construction have been covered. Well done.👌🏿🤜🏿
Should have put in a crawlspace as you had the height, makes it a lot easier for electrical and hvac runs. Hope your front wall was designed for all that gravel load.
Cool place John, thanks for sharing. I appreciate how you “overbuilt” the place, should be solid building for a long time. Good luck!
Thanks 👍
Fantastic! Extend that deck out another 12'. Perfect outdoor space.
Even another 2 feet of width would make a huge difference.
I really like the overall finished cabin. Very chic. I might have actually built it on the upper level of the driveway with the deck extending over the current driveway so instead of dead ending the driveway at one point into the house, the deck would act as a car port and extra level of usable space. Basically shift the whole thing about 25 ft up the mountain slope. That is, if you owned the property. Of course, there's a reason behind everything. Kudos! Enjoy your new seasonal home! The Firespit is great!
I was thinking the same thing but then they would not get the great views from the deck, unless you mean building the deck top of the car port
I love the cabin, Thanks for shaing all of the details of your build! I'd also love to hear a recap of what it cost to build.
I LOVE the yellow entrance! And I love the build. One of the best I’ve seen
Beautiful sturdy construction…well done, love it!
Strong and great looking foundation! Well done 👊 I love the ZIP System. The whole project is amazing - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
With that much digging, why didn't go ahead with a full basement?
Wish you would have calculated for a cantilevered walkout deck. The hangers are nice, but you would have gained two feet on your deck with a superior design.
That last opening seemed like it could have used another support. 😅
slate rock entry would be killer!
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Love the roof. When is raining inside will be like disco ball. No matter from insulation inside is crazy to live from experience I'm saying.
Nicely done. I was fully expecting that foundation to be a 'basement-with-a-view' ....
And after we've passed 1:16:49, aren't we going to see a video of how everything turned out inside? That is not fair, we are waiting for the final result inside the house!!! Thanks a lot!!!!
Yes, there is a final walk thru that was posted this week. You can find it on my channel.
@@johnwolson ...I'm waiting for that!!! Thanks lot 😍❤️😍
That hillside looks like it's made out od sweet potato. The house looks pretty awesome. Hope to have a home myself one day.
nice use of space only thing I would change is putting a gutter of some kind on the bottom of the roof thats just way to much water to be dumping on that slab....
Gorgeous. We in the EU are living in a open prision. Nothing is allowed here. A cabin in the woods forget it. Sleeping in a tent is even not allowed.
A very nice cabin. The surroundings are very fresh.
That's a monster cabin, that's big bro
The gravel will just roll out from the foundation?
You need risers for both lids on your septic tank because you need to remove and clean the filter twice a year with a garden hose. That yellow Tuff-Tite effluent filter clogs very easily.
A lot of Gravel , a lot of Volume that could have been a Basement , at least a third of the 19x 60ft ..Perkins Bros often does a Stem Wall on the Roadside and 12 ft sideways and the rest in 2x6 construction on the slope side..less backfill, less concrete, more space to park your Gear or Do a Ping Pong Room or Something for the kids. Good design is also thinking beyond your own immediate needs.
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What a great build! You documented and captured it fantastically. So much thought and planning to make this house work on the lot, impressive. This home should survive many many years to come. Congrats!!
Thanks! Im glad you enjoyed it.
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Yes, the planning had to be mind boggling at times. Especially the logistics at first with getting men on site and all thr equipment.
I think it might have been wise to have a small window on the eastern wall so that you could see who is coming up your driveway.
For those watching, you can put a crawl space and eliminate all of the gravel fill. I have built many homes in my 44 years in the business. Gravel is getting crazy expensive and you can use the crawl space for hvac and plumbing access also. I am building a house right now like this. (videos on my channel) Also, with the price of concrete going crazy, floor joists and subfloor are less expensive that concrete. They could have saved about $15-$20k on this house I would say.
Was funny when the tree did ya a favor and dropped its branch randomly to improve your view mid comment about it lmao
Very solid foundation! That’ll last 4 lifetimes 😮
AND a nuclear war...
@@SteenHolm134 😆😆😆
Nice build. Ngl, I was hoping for a 2nd floor n more retaining walls instead of the slope. Great vid!
Fajny dom Pan zbudował. Wręcz zintegrowany z Naturą. Kapitalna kolorystyka, współgrająca z otoczeniem. W którym stanie powstał tak piękny dom?.
Pozdrowienia z Polski🤗❤👋
You could’ve used the ICF floor and saved all that money used for backfill!!! And you would have gained a crawlspace
He wanted a concrete floor that he could stain. Also the high side was solid rock, so he would’ve spent a fortune excavating it. The flooring made out of wood probably would have been similar in cost anyway by the time he built a sub floor and added an attractive flooring.
Longevity over what’s cheap at the moment….just saying. Some things you shouldn’t be cheap with. And also he’s building on a mudslide-prone area if the rains hit hard enough. I think he made a wise decision.
@@tennesseetexan1957Icf floor is concrete
Cudn’t it be turned into a Basement without spending so much on aggregates?
I agree. And plumbing and electrical would have been much easier
lol dood my fav is @22:42 "what you see here is all the prep work we did to prepare that"
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Imagine they dug out a bit more, poured a concrete floor as well, thus creating a basement underneath....
I would have wrapped the outside of the foundation in rigid, closed cell insulation. R-20 at the least.
It would be good to power wash the stones dug up and used as seats.
The cabin built on the mountain is very modern
Hi John, you did wonderful job, verry classy. I wonder if you have the breakdown of the cost for foundation, electrical, etc.
I will appreciate if you can give me idea. I am about to build a 1500 sqf. in a slop lot.
enjoyed the first 15 seconds of video
Beautiful ❤
Place looks amazing..it’s to bad you couldn’t of moved outside retaining wall over another six ft so you can have vehicles side by side but not sure if there’s enough room
Wow, wait until your first heavy rain. No gutters or over hang on the low side where your entrance is will be a waterfall for sure. Hope it works out as you planned.
I understand why you did it ....but it broke my heart to see you fill in what could have been a usable basement with solid Concrete walls.
To me the extra cost to make a full height basement would be well worth it.
But Great build, great cabin ...well done.
I sat next to you on the plane!!!
Looks like the Missouri Ozarks.
When you stand on that site and look at the scenery what leads you to install a black box with yellow highlights?
Really nice, love it.
Why not use space under as storage, crawlspace? I guess I need to watch whole video to see if that answers
at the entrance you should have put 2 concrete/steel barriers that recess into the ground to stop nefarious people. i watch way too much scary movies and this cabin is built in the mountain.
Beautiful home.
Great work
Very nicely done. May I ask how much it costs to build?
no es hate, pero si pregunta: volviste a sembrar las misma cantidad de los arboles que tumbaste ?
Really nice house, I'm doing something similar.
The slap should maybe had radiant water heating and ground source heat pump to make it a plus house
@ 40:00 those engineered trusses on the roof would have been better used to be the floor above a basement level and trusses for roof engineered to hold insulation
Seems you have a ton of content ready to be uploaded. There is a huge gap for ownerbuilds and shed style houses on UA-cam. You have a solid start to create a profitable UA-cam page with house content. I'm tuned in.
You can check out our build. 😉 Owner builder, passive design home with a shed roof.
Thanks for the comment. I will certainly check out your channel. I didn’t mention it in my video but my goal is to go off the grid with this build and add solar sometime next year. I would love to see how your making this happen with your project.
this was cool. Only question is how you plan on getting water away from the foundation?
I LOVE ❤ this place! When can I move in?
I don't understand if you guys have plumping under slab what do you do if pipe bursts under slab?
Lovely. 👌
Gorgeous. Would love one for my wife and I? Any chance you care to build another (or similar)?
You did not install any vertical rebar to tie the foundation to the ICF walls. This violates code as I understand it. You do mention there is rebar in the ICF walls, but is it tied to the footer and foundation?
Yes we did. The ICF contractor did this. But it wasn’t shown in the video.
I bet for the price of all that wood in that deck in the long run maintenance wise a 4 inch slab would have paid for it's self
Nice video
Very nice build & worthwhile video. But, "cabin"?
Why did you use gravel to fill the foundation?
Great job to everyone involved ❤
Wow that backfill is a waste! You could have poured a floor and just had a basement opening out. Full access to services on the main floor.
Ill check out your breakdown costs.
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@ 15:20 please don't tell me next you have to dig up to put plumbing in that would all have fit in the basement with all the other mechanicals !!!!!
Nice
Nice job
200 tons of gravel brought in just to fill what could have been a basement
Exactly my thoughts
I'm curious of why so much gravel and not dirt.
Wow! This came together spectacularly well. I really like the deck and the hangout space with the fire pit. Well done!
Thanks. Glad you like it!
Thank you for sharing and good job on the video. :-)
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This solution works, but it could have been solved in a more elegant way.
I will explain myself. Was it necessary to kill all those trees or could the house have been built somewhere else?
The foundation could have been resolved with drivers or structural walls in direction of the slope to allow the water to flow under the house in case of heavy rain.
why didn't you just use the dirt from site to fill at least half back fill?
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I am surprised you didn't have to place the electrical/telephone/cable line in pvc pipes; not just drop them in the trench.
What views, it's mostly a heavily dense tree area. People Don't realize how damaging trees can be to housing and property. Most property were roadways are in heavy tree area, create many problems, roads stay damp from no sun penatration, create problems where heavy snow.
So are you suggesting we all move above the tree line? This place has great views and it looks like there has been plenty of tree removal to allow the house and driveway to dry out. Some folks might clear a bit more of a view but that is simply personal preference. Clear cutting itself produces plenty of its own problems, particularly erosion and space for invasive species.
Yes, we should all move to the desert where there are no tree. Trees are bad...
DSL? Why no Fibre Optic?
Great looking cabin! Love the black/yellow combo. Congrats! Man, that concrete is beautiful :) Can you do a video with the budget/how much did it cost to build the cabin? Thank you!
Thanks for the complement. In regard to cost, I do plan to get something out there on my channel. So subscribe and stay tuned.
Are you ok with how the trim was done around the outside of the small bathroom window? (1:13:03)
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metal fireplace/oven.. in case power disappears in a winter storm.. you've got lots of trees..
- also a water tank
#Armageddon
Жёлтый вход подходит для супермаркета, странное решение. В целом не плохо
It is the modern look to contrast the dark siding.
What state is this? I moved from Socal to outside Chattanooga. Can't find a lot of builders who do ICF out here.
Seems like an odd choice to not put under slab insulation in?
Why didn't you go with one large window x 3 l8ke the one back kitchen. The view side is obstructed some with the wood frame. Just curious why you would do 5hat
How far are you from civilization? It’s convenient to have internet and power nearby to hookup.
Good overview of the build process, you didn’t talk about any French drains, if they were needed.
What was the reasoning for wood trusses in roof rather than doing a concrete roof.
You should have extended the deck out 16’ instead of 8’. 😊
Very inspiring, enjoyed watching, all the best.
Enlarge the deck and above all a roof over it!
I like the yellow entryway. That's it. the rest sucks.
1:06:30 THERES A PLACE IN FRANCE WHERE NAKED LADIES DANCE, THERES A HOLE IN A WALL... 🎵🎵🎵
did you dig any bedrock anchors or anything? Seems like if there's an earthquake or something, that house would be on some horizontal dirt skies. ⛷
Spraying for termites? Was that sarcasm? I saw compacted gravel with a vapor barrier and wire mesh.
Great Video. Thanks for sharing. Just curious as to the decision to go with a slab foundation vs. a crawlspace. I assume this had something to do with the the overall ICF design and energy efficiency but wanted to get your feedback on that. Obviously you had to bring in a ton of material to backfill the foundation so I was curious as to the tradeoffs. Thanks.
Can someone explain why he couldn’t back fill with soil? Half the foundation was filled with soil. Which he topped with gravel, why could he have used the soil from the uphill part of the house and then topped it with gravel?
Nice build and great commentary. The only thing lacking IMO would be radiant heating in the slab floor.
Makes sense especially since he already installed a recirculating h20 pump for the hot water tankless.
Agreed, have it heated from a boiler and or fireplace
YES INDEED! and i wouldnt have minded exposed ductwork, which i find imho very beautiful.
..thin i would have used wood board & batten siding to soften up the feel of the entry