Building Our Forever Home DIY: Lessons Learned
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- Опубліковано 10 тра 2020
- Mid-construction, ‘Home Diagnosis’ hosts Grace and Corbett dive deep into 5 lessons learned since they broke ground on their design.
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Thank you guys for sharing this process. I love how involved you guys are. And at the end of it all you can truely say that you guys built this house!
Thanks buddy!
Thank you for answering the question about wood vs everything. I am an owner builder and part of my frustration when getting started last year was to decide whether to use engineered lumber or just dimensional lumber. When I looked at the raw material it is made up of, complexities of making change, I couldn’t find any reason to go with them. Still, ads claimed they are super straight and overall better. Hearing your opinions on this put my mind at ease.
Great to hear, Suparn! Thanks for following.
Yep I can listen to these guys all day. Super interesting and inspirational.. I literally love every single detail of this house and love the reason and purpose of it all. Very cool
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It's called Advanced Framing 24" OC. Studs, floor / ceiling / rafter joists all line up (generally).
Btw, thanks for the vote of confidence in diy. You just helped increase my confidence going into this diy by 100%
Remind me of my families first High-performance house in the 1980 build DYI Hiring a GC to work along with us. The GC thought we were crazy with all the insulation and air ceiling with caulking and heat recovery system in the wood-burning stove for the hot tub and house water heating. With external air for combustion of the woodstove instead of drawing air from inside the house. That house would far exceed any airtightness standards of today and it was designed and built by an automotive mechanic.
Nice, T!
I kinda break it into three groups of skill sets. Technical (ele, plumbing, hvac, network) and artistic/repetitive skill (drywall, paint, layout, design, decorating), and mass labor (concrete, roof, siding) The technical if you have the skills. Not think you do but actually have the skills. Then doing those is always an option and can fall in some ways into the 3rd category. The artistic / repetitive group I'll always recommend people contract away unless you do it... A LOT. The mass group like you said the crew can be done so much faster and they also require skilled knowledge and tools you won't ever need again, it's just best to contract them away.
You guys are so in sync that you have the same speech patterns. It's great haha.
Yeah, been joined at the hip since we were 22.
@ 31:15 this is called "body doubling" its used alot for ppl wth adhd, when im doing big construction projects i have my brother come do this for me haha
Just as a side FYI if you don’t know him, Matt Risinger is a custom home builder in Texas and also has a YT channel is great for best building practices. He’s building his own house now and goes through every step like you guys do. Not diy though but very interesting to see.
Yes, we go back with Matt- he’s actually consulted on this house!
Home Performance ...cool ! although I’m not surprised since the “good building practices” community is quite small, even in this big country of ours.
Hi from Tampa, Fred the “black glove guy”...:)
I would love an episode in the future where you breakdown costs by labor vs material. In my area one is almost forced to do the work oneself as the labor is usually 2-4x the price of materials.
Can I ask where you are located that this is the case?
North texas
This was a awesome video!!
Hey, thanks so much!
I like how you call your construction site a "set". Filmmakers building a house. 👌
We closed on our land this week and are also planning on building a separate studio first. Our thought it we can cash flow that, practice the building science, and also create a place for the family to hang out when we are building the longer bigger house build. Did you say you ended up building your studio first or second?
Not allowed to build separately- there are local rules about square footage, minimum amenities, etc. It’s all one house.
Great vid. I still didnt see the cleanouts in your plumbing i suggested.
Great insight. Have yall put out a breakdown of your expenses?
Was it worth it to design from scratch? Or would you do it again with a premade plan? Meaning try to find as much as possible in a premade plan and then modify vs customize entire things.
You talk about the flexibility in wood. Why didn't you use wood for the foundation?
You guys are awesome. I assume you guys used different types of insulation throughout the home? I’m interested in what you guys did with the attic space specifically.
Aw thanks Pete. No attic- if you keep on down the playlist you’ll find it
@@HomePerformance great thanks!
I talked to Rick today and noticed the ICC sheet was not overtly fond of mounting the MDR into a poured conrete wall usine 6" 1/2 anchors. Have you any experience using MDR against a concrete wall. "Building in HIghlands"
Huh- no, I used these only on this build so far, fastened to wood framing. Sorry Thomas.
Thanks for sharing the cost. Do you still feel that building a high performance house is less than a 25% upcharge?
Btw, what you mentioned is exactly why I decided for my build that exterior insulation is not worth the hassle.
Way less than 25% upcharge, and anyway remember a lot of the extras we’re putting in aren’t EE, they’re for durability and maintenance ease.
Is that a 25% up charge in doing it yourself, or having a GC do the work?
You're going back a really long time to people building their own homes, if it was ever the norm. You assemble materials yes, but your community built the home. I have 2 ancestors who came to Virginia in the 1600s as indentured servants. One a carpenter and builder. One a brick mason. Which at the time meant making bricks and morter before walls. They worked with and directed unskilled/semi skilled labor.
Do you have problems keeping permits active for as long as it's taking?
No, as long as we keep working the permit applies
The trades and mechanicals are typically expensive, like you mentioned for your HVAC bid. I'm surprised you are doing all this work, but didn't think you could take in the electrical. Surely it wouldn't (shouldn't) take you a year. If you can run PEX, read and follow code, and even have an electrician as a friend to phone, you could do the electric.
People demolishing a home then burying it on site, is unfortunately way more common than is should be in Louisiana.
Would you mind sharing the structural engineer contact… thanks!
How long has it taken to build this house to this point?
He said a year and a half.
Fellas, pay attention. Get a woman who looks at you the way Grace looks at Corbett!
I like this stuff, but "We consider ourselves experts, but we are still learning tons..." ?!#*