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Title: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 13, 2016, 08:45:55 PM
So some of you know that I sold my house a few months ago and im living with my inlaws. We got a pretty good check for selling our house here in the town of Poulsbo WA. So now it's on to bigger and better things. My wife and I have a 2 1/2 year old son who wants nothing to do but dig in the dirt, throw rocks, break shit and kill things. So we're looking to build a new house on some land. The housing market in Seattle/Puget sound area is fucking nuts.


Plan, 5 acers, 2200ish square feet, 4 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage and a shop.

We put a offer in on 5 acers. Right now we are pending feasibility. So everything is up in the air until everything checks out.

Anyways on to pics and I will update this as I go. The 5 acers is around 690ish' × 350'ish. Surrounded by a bunch of other 5 acers lots. With pretty much no houses on them.
The property is located in Kingston WA. It's about 1 hour from seattle. 30min ferry ride and a 20 min drive.

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: crxvtec91 on May 13, 2016, 09:32:11 PM
Oh shit congrats!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: turbohf on May 13, 2016, 11:10:24 PM
jealous.


that is a pretty awesome floor plan. and from the picture of the outside it looks like it might be small.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 14, 2016, 09:50:14 AM
Yeah it's a dope ass floor plan. I've actually waked through this same house b4. It has a small footprint but maximized the square footage with livable space. Dustin, once I break ground you will have to hop on the ferry and come over for a BBQ or something.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: turbohf on May 14, 2016, 10:13:24 AM
sure. I would love to check it out.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: highroller54 on May 14, 2016, 09:56:36 PM
Tree wise it looks like here. Anyways this plan is full win, you can't loose.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Tim on May 14, 2016, 11:19:31 PM
5 acres full of trees and no neighbors. Heaven
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 15, 2016, 12:33:24 AM
The property was logged probably back in the late 70's early 80's I'm guessing. I'm going to turn all my trees that I cut down into fence post and split rail fencing.

And yes tim. No neighbors is what I'm all about. Since it's 5 acers and im not in a city it also means I get to shoot on my property. So I'm going to make a range in the next few years to come as well.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: turbohf on May 15, 2016, 01:07:04 AM
whats the plan for the shop?

shooting range will be badass  :noel:
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 15, 2016, 11:30:48 AM
Shop will probably 24×36. Nothing to huge. With a 2 post frame lift.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: highroller54 on May 15, 2016, 11:31:17 AM
I would have a sxs, tractor, quad, dirt bike, bob cat lol
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 15, 2016, 12:31:42 PM
First things first. I need a truck....lol Gonna probably buy my wife's step dad's ford truck. It's a 94 or 95 4×4 with a 300 straight six and a 5 speed. Should be good enough to move the shit around that I want. Just dump runs and dirt and shit like that.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: brine04 on May 16, 2016, 11:54:39 AM
Wicked should be great. Do you or wifey need to commute into the city for work or are you based in the area?
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: 92CXyD on May 16, 2016, 12:46:38 PM
Are you build the house like Whitey?

If so will this be the knew trend for RHMT

Build honda D's b/c FAKLAD
Then LSXs
Now Houses from ground up

This could be a very good trend, expensive but a good trend.  :noel:

Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 16, 2016, 02:03:33 PM
Both of our jobs are on town. But our town isn't huge. It's about 9500 people. And it's about a 12 min drive from the peoperty. The next town over is about 8 min away. So we're kinda smack in the middle. The elementary school that my son will attend in a few years is only about 2.5 miles away. And was rated to be one of the best elementary schools in the state. It has placed in the top 10 for  public elementary schools the last few years.


Yes russ this is a new trend. I build my last house too. This one isn't going to be as hands on as we are trying to open another location for our coffee shop, but I will still be there every day to check the overview of how things are going. I will do all the dirt work and clearing of property and trees. And I will do all the finish trim and door work. All the painting and some of the building.

Right now I'm just waiting for the appraiser to come out  and do his appraisal. Once that's done then the financing can start. Not real excited about dropping my life savings into a down payment, but you got to do what you got to do.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 21, 2016, 10:43:05 AM
So the latest. Our fesabilty time was suppose to expire on sunday. Which means if we found out for some reason that the septic system was going to cost 100k (just using as a example) and we couldn't afford it then we could walk away and take our down payment with us. The owner of the property is trying to get all the well paperwork and whatnot to me. This is a shared well between 7 lines. Only 3 are in use. The other water lines are not hooked up, but just ran the the property. There is a very small (and I mean so small they can't find it) leak somewhere on the water line. So they are trying to get a letter stating that is is still usable and it nothing to worry about. The company that were dealing with. Company A reports the results of the test to the county. Company B does the testing and gives the results to comapny A. Company B has been wainting for company A to give them the go-ahead to do the test. Company A says they gave the goahead. So now that everyone is sitting around with there thumb in there ass, and everyone now knows it they are going to go ahead and do the test. But this could take up to 30 days. So we filed for a fesabilty extention. Instead of asking for 30 days (because that sounds like a long time I guess) we asked that once they deliver the results from the county to me that we have 5 days to make a decision. They agreed to that and we're still just sitting around thumbing eachother ass....lol



Morgage company called for a appraisal but because the market is booming so much here we might not even hear what the results of that is until June 7th.


So just hurry up and wait.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 25, 2016, 02:52:17 PM
I bought a chainsaw.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: brine04 on May 26, 2016, 11:23:40 AM
I like chainsaws
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 26, 2016, 01:33:53 PM
Me too. Now if I could get this old girl to start with the sweet sweet juice of starting fluid I would make love to some trees with it. Gonna pick up a carb rebuild kit for it. It has a walbro carb. It's a 1983 husqvarna 50cc with a 20" bar and a skip. She sure rips through the 12" rounds I've been cutting. Had to fatten the high setting on the carb. She was spinning a little fast with not much torqe. Richened it up and now she don't spin so fast and has alot more grunt.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: brine04 on May 27, 2016, 11:12:01 AM
My firewood saw is a 1986 Husky 266XP with skip on a 28" bar it's a great saw but a bit tempermental with temp and elevation changes. I just sold my 3120XP that I was going to hotsaw but lost interest in it.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 27, 2016, 01:59:41 PM
My husky is just fucking temperamental about starting. I think once I rebuild the carb and change out the pickup tube and fuel filter it will be just fine for what I need. If that don't fix the problem then I'll probably just do a full rebuild on the whole saw and still be into it under $200. That 266 is a nice saw. It's a perfect size between large and small saws. And a fair bit of power too.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 22, 2016, 01:22:31 PM
Ok, so saw runs tits!!

Appraisal came back 8 days late, also came in about 2.5% lower then we needed it too. But it's ok because the appraiser even said that there is nothing in the area to really compare it too. So once it's all built we will call for a re appraisal and wee will most definitely appraise for above what we need it too. That being said we will have to carry morgage insurance while building which raises our monthly cost about $50 on our payments. Now, the easement has been recorded with the county, and company B has completed the well pressure test and reported it it company A. Company A sent out a engineer to look at said testing/work and said to fix 2 minor issues. Property owner had the 2 issues fixed by the next morning and all paperwork turned back into company A. So now company A should have reported and filed for the "special letter" from the county. Once all this shit is done and I get the paper work showing all this I can then start closing on the loan. My bank is ready to close now. I'm trying to meet up with property owner next Wednesday or Thursday to go over what he would charge to do building site clearing.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 25, 2016, 01:46:54 PM
So I spent about 3 hours sending emails and making phone calls on Thursday to find out that the engineer that has been working with the property owner is on vacation. He was suppose to turn in the completion letter b4 he left on vacation. He did not turn it in  :'( :hotrex: So he emailed me from vacation telling me that he is going to turn the paperwork into company A on wednesday. Nedless to say, the realtors buying/selling are really doing any homework and I straight up called everyone out on there shit! They all have kissed my ass and im no longer going to just sit back and wit for answeres. Im going to be the asshole that calles every other day until I get results and answers.



Tuesday we meet with underwriting out at the property to start signing the closing papers to start process of closing shit out.

Thursday we meet with the property owner to get a quote on site excavation. If its to much I will just rent the machinery and do it myself with the help of some family. My sister is a journeyman heavy equipment operator and packs a .40 cal and is cute as shit and will punch a mother fucker in the throat if they cross her.

Thats my weekend update
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 30, 2016, 01:49:14 AM
So the county/department of health (they are the ones that deal with Wells and septic) has recived the paperwork from the company that manages the well. Looks like everything they did corrected what the county wanted done. Hope it's just a simple inspection and then we recived our water availability letter. Then we take that to our lender, and we close on the property and start applying for permits and buy our blueprints/plans.

Tuesday we met with our underwriter out at the property and he said because we're putting so much money down and since we have killer credit that it shouldn't be a problem getting funded. (All these construction loans are privately funded from local credit unions and they have to be accepted by there board)

We're meeting with the owner tomorrow to get a estimate on clearing the building site.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 01, 2016, 11:27:21 PM
So we met with the property owner last night, he told me that I needed to stake out the area I want it cleared and that he would then come out and give me a quote. So today I went out with a T post spikes, I measured everything out and drove the stakes on home. I staked out an area 100'×100' for our buying site.  10000sq ft doesn't sound like very much space but when you're standing in the middle of it it's a lot of room. But when you think about it it's actually only about 4% of the property. Once I had everything staked out it really put in perspective how large is 5 acres really it's.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: highroller54 on July 01, 2016, 11:49:33 PM
I grew up on 5.5 acres. It's awesome.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 03, 2016, 06:53:00 PM
So I went to the local rotary auction yesterday. People donate shit to them all year and then they sell all the shit off like a big rummage sale. Some shit is over priced, some shit is fucking deals. I know what most this shit is worth so I always score when I go.


So I got a stihl pro fs85 brush trimmer/weed eater. For  $10(needed a new carb primer bulb but it runs), a log bar/cant bar $20, post hole digger for $8, a Sledge hammer for $5, cultivator rake for $5, pickaxe $8, a splitting maul for $1, a like new garden tractor sprinkler for $15 and then a bunch of other odds and ends. Needless to say i scored a fucking deal on that stihl weed eater. It even has the brush blade on the end. So today I went and picked up the sholder strap/harness for it and a primer bulb for $34. So I'm a whopping $44 into this thing. It's like a $300 weed eater new. Gonna go out and sharpen the blade and put the new primer on.

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 05, 2016, 11:50:29 PM
Meeting with property owner tomorrow night to get a estimate. Will go from there I guess.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: DSharp on July 06, 2016, 04:51:25 PM
Nice.  I have about 5 acres and its real nice to have the space, just don't build at the edge of the lot, or your neighbors may wind up closer than you think.  I dont work late in my shop cause its close enough to the neighbors house to disturb them if i'm running something loud.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 07, 2016, 08:55:45 PM
Nice.  I have about 5 acres and its real nice to have the space, just don't build at the edge of the lot, or your neighbors may wind up closer than you think.  I dont work late in my shop cause its close enough to the neighbors house to disturb them if i'm running something loud.

Good point, and was thinking about that last night when I was walking the property with the owner. And though..... it will be years b4 anyone else builds back here. Well low and behold, he's putting  the surrounding lots up for sale after the sale of this one is done. So I might be moving my building site. But the owner did give me a loose quote of about $3000 to clear all the timber, and undergroath. We're gonna push the trees over, cut the rootball/stump off and limb the trees. Put all the limbs in a pile, shove all the stumps in a big ravine and then I will chip all the branches down to a pile. Then he's going to move about 50 yards of dirt and pile it on top of the stumps and then I will have a nice level flat building site.


Also talk to another guy about how much land I can clear with out getting hit with impact fees and he said as long as I keep it under 1 acer of clearing for every 5 acers I'm good. I just have to keep the impervious surface under 10000 Sq ft.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Ntrain2k on July 08, 2016, 07:01:16 PM
You might look at a lumber company. Some of them will come in and cut the trees and pay you for them.

Someone around here recently bought around 5 acres. He made enough selling the trees off of it to pay it off.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 08, 2016, 08:18:34 PM
And that's a great idea, except for the fact that this entire property was logged back in the early 1980's or late 1970's. What they replanted was fast growing trees which don't grow large in diameter but grow tall. Therefore I have these tall spindly stick trees that aren't worth anything except maybe some homemade fence post.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: brine04 on July 11, 2016, 11:12:52 AM
Post pics, you'd be surprised what is considered merchantable timber these days. Why not burn the limbs and debris instead of chipping? Also are you not concerned with the stumps rotting over time and affecting the backfill?
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 11, 2016, 11:24:29 AM
Ill try and get some pics next time im out there staking off the land the septic site. Well in our Tree hugging fucking state were not allowed to burn "clearing debris" Which includes limbs and stumps. Not to worried about it rotting and sinking down. Where I'm putting them is kinda out of the way and I won't be doing anything with that section of property anytime soon.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: n/a mike on July 11, 2016, 05:17:02 PM
Just saw this, congrats man
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 18, 2016, 01:51:34 AM
So I went out to the property on wednesday7/13, and friday 7/15 and staked out the whole drainfield and the reserve area for the septic system because the owner felt that I might have had the building envelope for the house on top of the drain field. Nope, I didn't so we're good to go there.

That's all for now. Kinda keeping this build as a log of everything on the land and house so I can go back and use it like a journal/log of the whole process.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 27, 2016, 08:09:30 PM
So the health department is going out to the property today to inspect the well. If all goes well, they will sign off on it and we can close on the property and I can start pulling permits. I should find out more in the next couple of days
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on October 22, 2016, 02:42:05 AM
Oh FUCK what a shit show this has been. But it's finally ours. We closed on october 17th. Went on Tuesday the 18th and hung up some no trespassing signs. Also picked a whole pile of chanterelle mushrooms. I'm working on all the permits for it right now. Gonna try and have them all done and turned in Tuesday the 25th. Pretty much all done with them except the swppp. It's a fucking racket what the fucking Tree huggers want.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on November 22, 2016, 03:45:05 PM
Okay so we're about a month later now. I submitted our permits on the 25th of october, all has gone well until November 11th when I received an email from our Builder. He stated that if we did not have the footings dug out and ready to set forms by the 26th of December that our price lock guarantee was no longer valid, and that our price would be going up $6,000 due to the rising cost of materials and labor. So I haven't gotten our permits back yet and they're not due back until December 16th. I called the county on October 14th and inform them of all of my recent events. I politely asked them if I could start clearing my building site and Excavating the dirt so we can have it ready to pour are footings once the permits came back. They gave us their blessing and on the 16th we started removing trees. Next Monday we're going to dig a trench for utilities widen in the driveway Road a little bit. I'm crossing my fingers we don't have any hiccups along the way and we get our permits back in time to set up our footings and I won't have a $6,000 overage and cost. I'll post some pictures of everything here shortly.

I recived  a email from the county stating they needed a sieve soil analysis @ 75 microns. And our permits are on hold until they receive those results. So last night at 6 o'clock at night I'm out in the middle of the woods with my headlamp on digging a 4 foot deep hole to get this soil sample turned in today and hopefully get the results back to the county on Wednesday the 23rd before Thanksgiving.

Also found out that are excavation cost and tree removal in driveway install is going to be about $5,000 over budget. Fuckmylife!!!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on November 28, 2016, 12:11:40 PM
So the added $5,000 overage was going to pretty much be the disposal of stumps. And here In Tree huggers land you can't burn them. So...... I rented a 30,000lb excavator and we made a pile in the woods. Only cost about $675 for it with delivery and fuel cost. So now hopefully we went go over budget on the rest of our site excavation.

This week were going to trench for utilities and next weekend I'm going to install conduit and water line and backfill everything in. Once that is done we can bring in some rock for our driveway and start planning on getting all of our Timber off our property. It's crazy,to think that this big ass pile of trees is only going to net me about $400 I'll post some pictures later.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: turbohf on November 28, 2016, 01:27:33 PM
only $400? can you sell it off to private locals for firewood for more? or just keep it yourself for firewood?
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on November 28, 2016, 01:32:16 PM
The problem is, it would take me years to cut it up and chop it for firewood. Plus it in the corner of my building site. Plus I'm going to be cutting down so many more trees it's not even funny.

The $3-400 I make is me selling it off to a firewood outfit. The biggest expense is trucking it out of there. This is not timber that you can mill for boards. It is strictly firewood or pulp timber. Which isn't really worth shit. Secretly I'm just glad I won't have to pay to have it removed.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on December 06, 2016, 06:08:47 PM
Okay, so last thursday, friday and Saturday(December 1st, 2nd and 3rd) after work i went out and put in our conduit in and water line and meter. They back filled the trench on monday the 5th. Today the 6th l&i came out and signed off on my temp power pole and I've called PSE to come power it up but it looks like 10 business days b4 they can get out there. Met with our boulder and they staked off our foundation to be dug out. Next week gravel driveway gets put in and the timber guys will come out and get all my down timber. At that same time the guy doing all our excavation is also going to put in our septic system, grade our building site nice and smooth and dig out for foundation. I keep forgetting to take pictures because I'm taking videos and posting them on facebook.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: n/a mike on December 07, 2016, 12:29:17 AM
I don't check in here, but I'm watching on fb
Shit is awesome, I'm super jealous.
I'll be buying land in the next 2 years, but I'm going with a double wide and a nice garage/shop.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on December 07, 2016, 03:07:21 AM
I post more details on here then in the videos because when it's all said and done, I'm just gonna hit print page and let it all go. Kinda like a journal.

If I was a single guy I would have land and then just a big Shop with 2 bedroom apartment above it. But I have a family and convincing them to live in a 2 bedroom apartment above a shop that smells like gear Oil isn't gonna happen...lol
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on December 12, 2016, 06:00:31 PM
So not much to really look at because they are screens shots of video, but some are actual pics I took today.


Had a friend come fly his drone over my property and got some pretty cool shots of it. Here's what I got. Will have lots more to come.

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Taking Tree with red x down.

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Bringing in another 12 yards of gravel b4 we excavate for our foundation. Then another 12 after we backfill and that will take it right up to our garage. Then I need to bring in about 60 yards of five is he'd gravel when it's all said and done and compact it all down.
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Also don't know why it's hot linking my photos but what ever.

Also here is my Facebook page if any of you nigh want to watch video of my dumb ass explaining what I'm doing on what steps.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009551341753 (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009551341753)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on December 29, 2016, 01:05:12 PM
I had a hell of a time trying to get the firewood guys to come pick up this timber so we could make our deadline. Called and called for weeks and kept getting the runaround. Pulled a few strings and spoke to a guy with a self loading timber truck and he took all but about 30 sticks to the mill. I had to cut the rest of the stick up into 12 chick's so I could move it off the build site. What a pia!! But it's done. So then the guys I hired to do the site excavation showed up and kicked ass!  So we made it. Everything had to be dug out and ready for them to come set up rear and forms by the 26th. We were done on the 23rd. Contacted the build he said that someone should set up a meeting with me in the next week or so to talk about the foundation and what's next. I'm pretty pissed off that I had to fucking kill myself trying to get this shit done in a quick manner for him to tell me they builder is gonna take there sweet fucking Tim to get shit done!

Anyways pics....

First lumber load, just pulp wood.
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Leftovers after first load, this is going to be chipping n saw wood
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Second load of timber chip n saw
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Left over stick I had to move by hand. What a fucking bitch to do.
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Guy's out doing the cut. Got it all done on December 22nd.
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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: crxvtec91 on December 29, 2016, 03:58:34 PM
Looking great, so did you hit the 24th dead line?
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on December 29, 2016, 05:42:33 PM
We did make the deadline. So we avoided the $6,000 extra charge.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 18, 2017, 07:34:37 PM
Okay, So the saga continues.....

Builder called me finally on the January 6th saying he wanted to set up an appointment for the 9th at 9am. (mind you its been done for 2 fucking weeks now and I have been calling and email since it was done and getting nothing but the runaround) I show up at 8:55am on the January 9th with my 3 year old. At 9:30 this mother fucker still isnt there. I call the office to track his ass down and he tells me he has no idea who I am, or where my property is at. I about loose my fucking shit. Im trying to keep my cool and not blow up in front of my son. I have to give him directions to my place. He shows up 1 hour after originally scheduled. He has none of my paperwork, has no idea what house, what options or anything. This mother fucking hillbilly backwoods cunt is about as smart as a fucking fence post. I ask him how he has my fucking phone number but none of my info, he babbles out some shit explanation about how he has 20 other houses hes building and hes over worked bla bla bla. He tells me that they foundation guys wont be out on the property until the January 23rd because they are so backed up because of the cold weather. Alright, now Im fucking hot, my kid wants to leave and is not listing because hes done hanging out at the property for the last 90 min. I write a fucking nasty email to the head of the company after the meeting telling them this fucking hillbilly is retarded. I get a apology email back....bla bla bla

So yesterday January 17th, I receive a email from the county saying ive got an inspection for the footings for January 20th. Im like WTF? So I jam out to my building site and the fucking concrete guys are there setting up forms. He tells me that the hillbilly is retarded and that they arnt just gonna wait for the ground to thaw out. So while they are waiting for that they start setting up footing forms. FUCK YEAH!!

So it looks like they might pour the footings hopefully next week. and then they will strip the forms the day after they pour, and then start setting up rebar and forms for the stem walls. Hopefully I will have a foundation in the next few weeks. I can then do my footing drains and my downspout drains for my infiltration pit. and then back fill. Once the back fill happens, the build has 140 days to finish the house. every day after 140 days they have to pay me $100 until they complete it.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 20, 2017, 11:53:18 PM
So this morning Jan 20th I get a call from the foundation guy. He asked me if the construction manager Paul has called me ? I say no, why. He tells me that the footing inspection is today and they need all the county paperwork. He told Paul to call me and tell me this so I could take it out to the property. Did this dumb mother fucker call me? Hell no he didnt. I swear to God, I'm gonna knock the rest of this fuck Heads teeth down his throat. Guy is just,dumb as rocks. So I bust my ass and run the papers that I have out to the site.

County guy shows up today and signs off on our footing forms. So we're pouring concrete footings on Tuesday.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: rawr on January 22, 2017, 07:29:45 PM
That shit would stress me the fuck out. I hate having to rely on people especially when I have a gut feeling they're incompetent.

Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 23, 2017, 02:59:40 AM
That shit would stress me the fuck out. I hate having to rely on people especially when I have a gut feeling they're incompetent.



The good thing is I'm on site almost daily checking the state of things and directly communicating with all the contactors.

On a side note I went to home Depot yeaterday and picked out exterior colors, flooring colors, interior paint colors, counter top colors, all our site drainage(footing drains and downspout drains that go to the i-pit) Also picked up a set of French doors.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 25, 2017, 02:20:08 AM
Well they poured the footings today. Stripping the forms tomorrow and hopefully start setting up stem wall forms next week.

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Tim on January 26, 2017, 03:09:07 PM
Its looking good.

That's one thing that I struggle with, when you're forced to pay incompetent people to do something that you don't know/or aren't allowed to do.
It forces you to have to learn it/do it anyway just so you can babysit them.  It makes me bitter to have to spend that time and then still write that check.

I do it so often at work that it doesn't surprise me anymore.
I look at it as paying for my continuing education so that next time I will find a way to cut them out of the loop.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 26, 2017, 03:40:58 PM
Yes, it pisses me off to no end. I won't say that I know how to do everything when comes to building a house, but I have physically pounced nails on 10 houses from start to finish. Things I haven't done a lot of, plumbing, electrical, and concrete foundation work. Doesn't mean I wouldn't give it a shot, but time is money and I can't afford to do something that would take me 1 month to do when it would only take a sub 3 days.

The hard part is I'm financing all of this, so the lender/bank has a hard time forking over money without knowing who is doing all the work. So if I'm going to do the work they pretty much tell me no, we're not giving you the money. But, the dirt work, site drainage, water line to the property, and power to the property I was/am in charge of. I pay for this shit on my credit card, and then at the end of the month I request a draw and pay the shit off. Banking so many fucking airline miles on my card right now. Probably go on vacation with all the miles/points I'm getting....lol

When it's all said and done, the house will be fucking awesome. But I'm will probably do about 40 hours of work on it b4 I ever grab a moving box. I'm going to change out counteracts, hardwoods, and rear door. I just don't feel like paying for there overinflated prices when I can do most of it for 1/3 the price.

For example,
I wanted French doors off of the dining room instead of a sliding glass door. They told me it would cost $3000 more to install French doors. I about lost my shit. For those who don't know, the French doors only cost about $150 more then a sliding glass door and only take about 1 extra hour to install. So if your paying get the carpenters $100/hr for example, and it takes 2 of them your looking at a added cost of maybe $400 more. Not $3000

Needless to say i bought French doors and I'm going to install them b4 I even move in. Then I'll probably sell the slider and hopefully make a little money back.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 30, 2017, 01:11:43 PM
Sooooooo, inspection of stem walls on Wednesday Feb 1st. If all goes well they are set to pour the rest of the foundation on friday and strip forms sat morning. I'm going to go out there on Saturday afternoon around 1 and hopefully start doing downspout drainage and cleanouts. Then on monday I'm going to finish up what I didn't get done on Saturday and then do footing drains and I hope to have everything done by Monday afternoon. Gonna be a pretty good push for that to happen. Might also get up early on Sunday and go out for a couple of hours in the morning and do work.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on February 05, 2017, 03:26:28 PM
They came, they poured and they stripped!! Poured on friday Feb 3rd and stripped on Saturday and we're gone by noon.

Now I'm doing a little drainage work. All of the gutter downspout drains enter into 4" solid wall pvc pipe and go to a sump basin and then get pumped to a infiltration pit. I got most of the pvc done Saturday afternoon.

After i finish up the rest if the pvc, i have to do footing drains around the footing of the foundation. I have 4"×100' rolls of ADS perforated drain pipe to put down, then i put down drain rock over the top of it and cover it with silt barrier.

Im going to take today off and head back out on Monday. They are calling for 3-6" of snow today which is going to fuck me for tomrrows drain work. I'm suppose to have 10 yards of 1.5" drain rock delivered Monday. Don't know if the dump truck will be able to make it in the snow.

Anyways on to the pics.

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: turbohf on February 05, 2017, 10:38:33 PM
thats awesome  O0  im sure every step is cool, but concrete. shit is solid and getting real.

Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on February 06, 2017, 05:17:00 PM
Well kinda got fucked by the weather today. We got 6" of snow overnight and I can't really do shit when I can't even see the fucking ground. So I won't be able to finish up drainage until next weekend.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on February 10, 2017, 01:46:57 AM
Okay, so I lay pipe like a pro!! Finished all my infiltration pit piping. Got 10 yards of 1.5" drain rock delivered today. Called for inspection from the county. They will be out Monday the 13th to check it all out. I'm going to head out after work for a few hours and lay down my footing drain pipe and gravel.

Here's some pics from today.


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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Tim on February 10, 2017, 10:08:27 AM
I assume you don't do basements in Washington?
Do you put your floor on top of that cement wall, or pour a pad right on the ground?

Most people put a basement around here unless its a developer putting in retirement homes they pour a cement pad.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on February 10, 2017, 10:47:20 AM
They do do basements in Washington State. It's just that this house is almost 2300 square foot, and if I did a basement I would be over 5000 square feet. And my property taxes are already going to be $5,000 a year as is. So if I doubled my square footage, my property taxes probably be somewhere around the $7,000 mark. That being said, not very many slabs are poured up here and then built on top of. I don't know if it's because of earthquake code, or because it would be cold year-round because a ground temperature never gets above 55 degrees.

And yes, we will bolt a pressure treated 2 by 6 down on top of the concrete, and then we will set are 10 inch BCI floor joist on it
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Tim on February 13, 2017, 01:48:34 PM
gotcha, don't think the basements count as living space in taxes here if left unfinished.  Then the homeowners go back and finish themselves later
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on February 20, 2017, 03:48:34 AM
Okay lots happening.....
After my last update we have had a bunch of fucked up shit go down.
On the 2/10/17 I went out to the site to do a little drainage work and this was happining.....
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Lumber! I was pretty pumped for it, but I didn't know why we were getting it. Our site foreman said once we back filled our dirt, we would then get our lumber delivered. Can't backfill until our drainage gets signed off on. Talked to the foreman of Friday the 10 and asked him what was going on? He said framers were going to start building the floor and have it done by the 14th. So once we passed inspection we could backfill because framing would be done and lumber wouldn't be in the way of the dirt guys.

I though okay, we will just be a week ahead of schedule. Well, sat the 11th comes, no framer. I took sunday off. Go out to the site on Monday to finish pipe work. Foreman shows up to check progress around 930 am. Still no framer. Foreman says he will call him and see where he is. Inspection happens and we pass. I call dirt guy up. He tells me that he can be out there by the end of the week. Call foreman and let him know dirt guy will be out there to backfill by Thursday. He said it won't be a problem because the framer is on his way out and should be done with floor framing on Tuesday night so the lumber won't be in the way.
Monday afternoon framer shows up. Opens the lumber stack and moves about 10 boards and then goes and smokes cigarettes in his truck for an hour. I finish my drain shit and ask framer when he will be done. He says he will have it all banged out by Tuesday.

Tuesday the 14th, show up to the site around 515, music playing, tools everywhere, and no framer in sight. Hung out there until close to 545 and he wasn't coming back. Hardly any works was done. Only about 80% of the mud sill was complete. On top of that it looked as if he hadn't set the boards up right and a few of them didn't have the correct amount of bolts holding the mud sill down. Though okay, maybe he will show up Wednesday and finish.

Thursday the 16th, I pull onto my road and pass the framer leaving as I'm pulling in. He has his trailer with him so I'm assuming he's all done and taking good his job trailer with him. I get to the site and see this shit.....


Crushed my drainage pipe
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Missing studs on my pony/cripple wall
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Missing bolts
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So now I'm fucking pissed!! Call the foreman paul (who I have felt is a fucking retard this whole time) left him a voice mail. Called the local office and left a message there too. I'm steaming pissed and I'm getting ready to leave when I get a phone call from Paul's cell. Turns out its not Paul on the other end. Paul walked in dropped his keys off and quit. So now they have a temporary foreman from another project to fill in while the new foreman is getting trained. Dirt guy shows up to check to see progress b4 he brings in all his equipment. Calls off back filling until next week when no lumber is in the way.

Friday the 17th, I speak with new foreman. He tells me that the framers will be done with the framing by Saturday. I asked him who I send the bill for the broken pipe to. Because I'm charging the fuck out of these guys for sheer neglected. I mean who stacks 6 fucking floor joice's on pipe that suspended in the air. He says to hand it to the framer and email him a copy. He then tells me the dirt guys will have all of next week to get everything done. Because the framers will be done and all the lumber will be out of the way.

I call dirt guy and let him know he has all next week to dirt work. He says ok, and to call him Monday and let him know for sure if the lumber is moved. I go out to the site on friday. Framer is there with his flunky employee. He tells me he will have everything framed and all lumber moved by sat afternoon.

Sat the 18th, I show up and I'm in a full fucking rage. Nothing is done since Friday when I was there. I'm so pissed I'm ready to call my lender and tell them to put a stop to everything. Just as I'm getting ready to leave I get a email from our new foreman asking me how things are going. Told him I'm done with the emails and he needs to fucking call me. 5 min later I get a phone call from dale, our temp foreman. I explained to him that I'm done with it all. He sucks up and tells me he will take care of everything and whip them all into shape. He apologized and told me how this isn't the normal for there company. So, on monday the 20th, I'm going out in the afternoon. If shit ain't down. I'm going to padlock my property and they can all get fucked. I'll hire someone else.

Here is how it looked when I left.
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There is maybe 6-8 floor joice's that are actually nailed. But not completely, just one one end.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Tim on February 21, 2017, 12:27:34 PM
This type of shit is why I am the asshole I am today.
Makes it hard to write the check to pay someone that is incompetent, especially when you had to put the hours and legwork in to make it happen when it was their job.

Good luck.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on February 21, 2017, 01:48:37 PM
This type of shit is why I am the asshole I am today.
Makes it hard to write the check to pay someone that is incompetent, especially when you had to put the hours and legwork in to make it happen when it was their job.

Good luck.

Met with our new foreman yesterday out at the site. Told him if the framers didn't have the floor framing done by yesterday that he would have a hard time getting anyone into the site because I will draw the chain and padlock that fucking place down. And then I would fire them and hire a different company to take my money. I mean it's not like I'm just putting a double wide down and calling it a day. I'm building a custom fucking home!!

So today I'm heading out to the site after work, picking up a little trash and fixing the broken pipe that the framers crushed. Once that is done, I'm going to inspect every fucking inch of there work.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: rawr on February 23, 2017, 08:16:01 PM
I'd burn the framers trailer down
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on February 24, 2017, 02:04:38 AM
Well the fucking lightning bolt from God came down and smashed the framer in the head!! He fixed everything except he missed putting the nuts on 3 bolts that hold the mud sill down. He fucked up on like 3 floor joices and set them low and the rim sill on one corner is kinda fucked up.

New temp foreman said he would address those items with the framer and make sure he fixes them even though the county inspector signed off on the framing already.

Onto the pics
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170223_155004_zpsozgvlbtt.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170223_155004_zpsozgvlbtt.jpg.html)

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(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170223_135534_zpsdlmumwot.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170223_135534_zpsdlmumwot.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170223_135305_zpszx4iyriq.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170223_135305_zpszx4iyriq.jpg.html)

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on February 27, 2017, 07:52:54 PM
So I stopped by on Saturday 2/25/17 to see where we were at. Pretty fucking cool to see most of the dirt moved around. They were back filling the foundation and it looked like the framer laid down most of the plywood sheeting on friday/saturday morning. He kinda fucked the dirt guys by not cutting the plywood off and just ran it long past the rim joist. So because of that, they couldn't compact all the dirt down tight right next to the foundation. Also saw that our inspection sheet was back and that the inspector had written down some notes on the back saying that the framer needed to fix the missing bolts and take pictures and send them to the county b4 completing the sheeting. Anyways, onto the pics and videos..

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170225_123110_zpsto9upceo.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170225_123110_zpsto9upceo.jpg.html)
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170225_123159_zps1bgop8lu.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170225_123159_zps1bgop8lu.jpg.html)
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170225_123655_zpsbrarkpku.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170225_123655_zpsbrarkpku.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170225_124632_zps2t1utsf9.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170225_124632_zps2t1utsf9.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170225_130226_zpsq0bxie5i.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170225_130226_zpsq0bxie5i.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170225_130233_zps3qujz0nw.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170225_130233_zps3qujz0nw.jpg.html)

https://goo.gl/photos/36SphB8RHbFEJkqR7 (https://goo.gl/photos/36SphB8RHbFEJkqR7)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on March 03, 2017, 02:36:49 AM
Stopped out on Tuesday the 28th. Framer had top and bottom plates for exterior walls framed setup. All floor sheeting for the most part was done. Guy still moves slow as balls.

Went out today 3-2-17, dirt guys are finishing up the septic, infiltration pit, and grading and tree removal.

Dirt guys said framer wasn't there on Wednesday at all, and then only worked about 3 hours on thursday and bounced. I showed up a little after 2 and in 2 fucking days the framer managed to frame 1 exterior wall. And it wasn't even the big wall. Dude is such a dough bag.

Anyways, crawled under the house to check 1 wall that didn't have all the bolts on the mud sill down. Still missing bolts in that mud sill, so I guess he will be under the house running a rotor hammer. Just don't understand why he thinks I'm not going to check this shit? Anyways, onto the pics.


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(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170302_222119_zps6hka9hsg.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170302_222119_zps6hka9hsg.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170302_150708_zpsomaedydu.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170302_150708_zpsomaedydu.jpg.html)

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(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170302_150655_zpsrpzcj2gz.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170302_150655_zpsrpzcj2gz.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170302_144617_zpsb3fqwtll.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170302_144617_zpsb3fqwtll.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170302_144617_zpsb3fqwtll.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170302_144617_zpsb3fqwtll.jpg.html)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: HiProfile on March 03, 2017, 05:15:54 PM
I'm not sure what your beef is, really. I'm mean it's all MADE IN AMERICA. lol

It's like complaining you got the herp from a $20 hooker.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on March 03, 2017, 05:32:17 PM
I would happily employee some :mexi: for exchange for a quality built house.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: rawr on March 04, 2017, 08:29:43 AM
Sounds like you have a drunk POS on your hands
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Tim on March 06, 2017, 01:13:48 PM
I'm not sure what line of work has more functioning addicts around here.  Home construction or landscaping.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on March 08, 2017, 09:04:46 PM
Well, got a call on friday the 3rd from our septic guy. Told me they installed a 1000gal tank and not the larger 1500gal tank I wanted. Said he could refund me the $500 differance in cost or pull it and install the 1500 tank on monday. We plan on adding a shop with a 1 bedroom apartment eventually and I don't want to have to do this shit 2 times, that's why I wanted the larger tank to begin with. So they pulled it out and had to wait for the new one to come in.

Came in on monday, installed and hooked everything up. Inspection was Tuesday March 7th for it and the infiltration pit. We passed everything and they are planning on backfill everything and smoothing it all out today.

We get our roofing trusses delivered tomorrow and those should hopefully be done and stood up by next weekend. And then he can sheet them. Once the roofing sheeting is done the framer is out and I can go in and screw everything down. I got 2 buckets of 2.5" screws last week and plan on knocking all that shit out after the framer is done.

New larger septic 3/6/17
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Framing as of Monday morning 3/6/17
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And as of Tuesday afternoon 3/7/17
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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on March 14, 2017, 01:56:50 PM
So are Roofing trusses got delivered on Thursday. I spoke with the foreman on Friday 3/10/17 and asked him when he estimated everything was supposed to be done as far as framing. He said on Monday 3/13/2017, we are going to have our roof sheets deliver. He then told me that the framer told him everything would be done by Tuesday 3/14/17. That's today. I'm going to go check this afternoon and see, but I fucking doubt he will be done with even rolling the trusses into place. After the framer is finished with everything, our foreman is going to the site and go over all the framing corrections that need to be addressed before he even calls for framing inspection. I'm currently trying to get ahold of him so we can meet at the site with him on that day so he/we don't miss anythin that needs to be fixed.

Wednesday he will deliver our paper work to the flooring/countertops company and on thursday 3/16/17 we will go pick out all of our countertops and flooring and see what/if we want to upgrade. Friday 3/17 our windows will be delivered and on 3/20/17 they are set to be installed. Then we are set to have a framing inspection sometime in there as well. That's all I have for now. Will update more when I know more.

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on March 16, 2017, 02:00:32 AM
Showed up on Tuesday. Still a shit show. Have a meeting with our foreman on thursday 3/16 @9am. Where I expect for him to fire our framer. I'm going to unload a shit storm on our foreman. There are interior walls that are not framed yet, there are headers on the exterior wall that are not installed but there is roof trusses that land on the top plate and there is no support for them. Therefore the wall is starting to sag and it will be reflected in the roof. There is so much more wrong. Doors framed on wrong walls, doors not framed at all, closets that aren't framed, walls that are 4" off of where they should be to the point that the tub won't even fit in the spot. It's all fucked. On top of that he was suppose to be done on Tuesday, but he has at least 1 week worth of fuck ups left b4 he's completely fucked everything.

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170314_170344_zpsfn2rpikx.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170314_170344_zpsfn2rpikx.jpg.html)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Tim on March 16, 2017, 10:28:17 AM
just bury him with that CAT under where the driveway will go
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on March 20, 2017, 01:30:21 AM
So we had our meeting Thursday the 3/16. Our project manager/foreman showed up and so did his boss. But the framer was a no call/no show.i had nothing but fucked up things to say. I pretty much lost my shit and told them everything is totally fucked up. Unfortunately they can't fire him because Washington state has some fucked up law in place to where if they fucked up and they are willing to fix it (and it's not totally completed yet) Then they can't fire him.

I pointed everything wrong that I saw out to the foremans, and they showed me some shit that was fucked up. My foremans boss called the framer, my foreman called the framer as well and no answer. But he has the balls to text my foreman back and tell him that he wants his money. They tried to make him quit so we could just get a new Crew in, but he ended up showing up around noon. He told my foremans boss that he would fix everything and have everything finished by monday. The foremans boss told him that he needed to have all the fuck ups fixed by Friday morning. The head foreman tells him they will cut him half his money if he is done by monday. My foreman goes out Friday morning and the framer is there fixing fuck ups. So they cut him half his money he's owed.

I went out Friday afternoon, 3/17. All off the missing headers were installed, and the door to the closet had been reframed, but the framer was not there. Nor was any of his tools, ladders and trailer. He has been leaving all of that there every day. So hopefully he quit.

I contacted my foreman Friday afternoon and said the framer was there Friday morning when he stopped in to check in and see how things were going. I informed him all if his shit was gone.

I also asked him what happens if he isn't done by monday. He responded saying at that point they can fire him because he hasn't held up his end of the contract.

I'm going to meet up with my foreman Monday morning 3/20 around 10am, so hopefully the framer isn't there/finished and we can cut our losses with this piece of shit.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on March 23, 2017, 02:50:07 AM
Monday the 20th comes and no framer. Dude hasn't been there since Friday. So we can start to cut our loss. Have the meeting with the foreman (Shannon) on monday, he tells me the framer Brian Edstrom is a total fucking snowflake. He had called the framer Monday morning because Brian said he would be done and the roofing guys were there to start the roof and there isn't any sheeting to roof....lol

After Shannon was asking him wtf was going on he hangs up on him and will only text him. Guess he was texting about how his feelings were hurt and now he didn't want to go to work. So Shannon's boss went ahead and put a stop payment on Brian's check.

As I'm leaving around 1130 the framers showed up pulling his trailer.

530 my wife goes out to the site and nobody is there. She Skype's me and walked through the house and nothing is done.

Tuesday 3/21/17
My foreman, and his boss and his boss all have a meeting at corporate.
My wife calls the general manager and Leaves him a voice mail stating if something goes isn't done with this framer she is going to loose her shit. She waits a few hours and then calls our foreman shannon. He tells her he's on the way,to our site. I meet him at the site. He tells me the framer has locked himself in his truck and won't talk to shannon. He's just playing a game on his phone and won't look up. As we're sitting there talking about it, he gets out of his truck and starts to grab a piece if wood like he's going to cut it or something. Shannon asks him what's up and the dude looses his shit. States screaming at him about how he was on the phone with the hospital trying to figure out what's up with his mom. He then tells Shannon if he says 1 more word that he's gonna do something stupid. As he's holding the 2x4 and acting all crazy. Then he says if Shannon wasn't always calling him that he might actually get some work done. Then I pipe up and tell him if he actually showed up to work he might get some work done. He didn't have shit to say and we walked away.

Wednesday, I get a call from Shannon's boss saying that he's at our site and trying to get ahold of the framer to have him remove his trailer from our property.

New Crew is suppose to start next week. They have a bunch of shit to fix, and finish. More pics and videos to come soon.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: rawr on March 23, 2017, 04:27:49 PM
this story is going to end with the framer hanging himself on your property
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: crxvtec91 on March 24, 2017, 10:20:39 AM
Fuck............... I just read the whole 3rd page..........

I think I would have thrown him off the property a long time ago!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on March 24, 2017, 02:23:56 PM
So I went out to the house yesterday Thursday 3/23. I get there and Brian the fuckup AKA snowflakes trailer is still there. I call the general manager of the company and ask him wtf is up. He didn't know it was still there. He said he would call the snowflake 1 more time and if it wasn't removed within 1 hour he was going to have it towed. 2 hours later I get a call from snowflake asking why I didn't like his work....lol needless to say he was pretty much begging for me to let him back on the job because now that he has been fired he's not going to get payed. So now he's trying to play kiss ass. I tell him his work is shitty and he's a fuckup and that when he decided to get combative with Shannon, in my eyes he's way over due to get fired. He then got all defensive and and tried to tell me that the floor in my house is gonna be fucked because it's getting rained on and he only has 2 more day of work b4 it's dried in and it's going good to take months to get a crew out there to finish it off and Yada Yada yada. I tell him again it's over and I'm done with it. I hang up and get a giant text from this guy. I'm not looking thinking to myself I'm gonna loose my shit if dude tryst to fuck with me.

Anyways here's the screens shots of his dumb ass uneducated messages.

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: DSharp on March 24, 2017, 09:27:53 PM
Well, fuck.  They started clearing a driveway on a wooded lot last week in my neighborhood and on Wednesday the damn house was up.  Looks like it could be lived in now.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Tim on March 27, 2017, 11:58:44 AM
this dude a late blooming addict? I've received messages that sound like that when someone is sliding off the deep end and is trying to sell shit.  just incoherent ramblings.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on March 27, 2017, 03:11:04 PM
Well, fuck.  They started clearing a driveway on a wooded lot last week in my neighborhood and on Wednesday the damn house was up.  Looks like it could be lived in now.

It's crazy how quick shit can happen when you don't live in a place that isn't crazy restricted. Around here it's a act of Congress just to cut down a fucking tree.

this dude a late blooming addict? I've received messages that sound like that when someone is sliding off the deep end and is trying to sell shit.  just incoherent ramblings.

We were pretty sure he was a meth addict.

Just went out today to see if the new framing crew was there and they weren't there as of this morning. But the dirt guys were there moving a little more soil around. Told the Operator that he was fired and he said well it's about time. I guess one of the truck drivers was out there dropping off a piece of equipment and the framer was there that time and was getting out of his truck and low and behold a glass pipe fell out of his pocket and smashed on the gravel driveway. And from what he was told it wasn't a pot pipe. So I'm almost 100% sure dude is a method head. Just glad he's out of there.

Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 06, 2017, 02:59:32 PM
New framers showed up on thursday morning march 30th. Took a look around and got to see what a shit show it really was and had to go set some trusses on another job. There was 3 of them on friday the 31st. They did more work in 8 hours then the other snowflake framer did in 8 days.

1. Thwy pulled some if the external sheeting iff and plumbed the walls and made them square.

2. Thw braced all the walls off.

3. They then resheeted the external walls.

4. They mived all the interior walls to there proper location and finished building the clisets that were not yet built.

5. They tore most all the sheets off the roof and moved the trusses.

6. They then braced the trusses properly and respected them.

And all that happened on friday. They then set the rest of the trusses over the next few days and finished most the other stuff off. They should be done with everything today besides fixing the pony wall studs (adding more in the correct places), and adding 1 more mud sill bolts that was missed. Here is a picture of its current state.

Front of house
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Side of house
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Rear of house with 16x12 covered area that I'm going to build a deck on.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170405_185343_zpszevv7yna.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170405_185343_zpszevv7yna.jpg.html)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: rawr on April 06, 2017, 07:18:08 PM
The roofers are going to love you compared to most new construction.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: turbohf on April 06, 2017, 10:56:09 PM
AWESOME AJ!!! glad shit is progressing properly for you now! got to be exciting again?

The roofers are going to love you compared to most new construction.

yeah it does look like a simple one, compared to most.


speaking or roofers... place im renting (duplex) needed a roof. landlord contracted that shit out. 3 dudes showed up, busted out stripping the WHOLE THING, laying new plywood (or fixing some, i seen sheets gone), papered it. in ONE DAY. was like, shit. next day they they hammered out all the shingles....DONE. 2 days. duplex 2 miles away on the way home was going on a week or so lol.... you should hit those guys up  :mexi: :mexi: :mexi:
my place has one central peak, with total of two small ones (done over each unit). so damn simple.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on April 11, 2017, 02:31:59 PM
This framing thing reads like the fucking Odyssey. Glad you got some decent fucks out there to finish it off, I was about to offer to fly out and do it just to get it over with!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 12, 2017, 01:39:22 PM
Dude, I'm not a framer but I could have down 100x better then this fuckup. I'm about to sneak out tonight and do a little reframe on 1 wall. Don't like the way the studs look. They have some mold on them and I ain't about to stuff that behind my sheetrock.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 14, 2017, 09:32:11 AM
Okay, so let me see if I can get my timeliness right. A lot of progress in 1 weeks time.

Friday 7th of April,
Roofers finished
Rough in plumbing started
Tubs and showers installed
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Sat April 8th
All exterior sheeting finished
Garage door opening size was fixed (opening was framed to tall)
French doors installed
Clean up the building site and organized the outside piles
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Monday April 10th
Windows installed
More plumbing

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Tuesday April 12th
Rough in Plumbing finished

Wednesday April 12th
Hvac installed and finished
Siding delivered
Interior framing finished(vaulted ceiling upper wall tie in to ceiling)

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Thursday April 13th
Front door and the door from the house to the garage delivered
All the wood piles out in front of the house completely gone through and organized.

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That's it for now. Will update later with another post. Siding should start today after the doors are installed and then I can get some fans rolling in the house to get it dried up in there.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 14, 2017, 08:20:06 PM
Electrical rough in has started today. They said they should be done with that by next Wednesday. Siding starts sometime next week.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 20, 2017, 09:10:20 PM
Rough in wiring done, larger than normal breaker box intalled, larger outside meter box installed, hvac fans installed, window insulation in, all external holes/gaps where wires pass through the walls to exterior sealed up or plugged, exterior walls caulked where they meet the floor along with all the corners (makes the house air tight and more efficient) and siding has been started. On to the pics

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Ntrain2k on April 21, 2017, 06:07:47 AM
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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on April 21, 2017, 11:05:16 AM
She's coming together! Mind if I ask what you're spending on the build? And are you doing a buy and build type loan or are you just throwing the green around?
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 05, 2017, 05:17:55 PM
April 24th
Dump run done. All the trash from our whole build only cost me $55 to dispose of it.
Btw here is my free truck that was given to me
93 f150, straight 6, 5 speed 4wd.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/Resized_20170429_162327_zpssg5w8ezj.jpeg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/Resized_20170429_162327_zpssg5w8ezj.jpeg.html)

April 31st
Mechanical, plumbing and framing insections. Passed mechanical, failed framing and plumbing.

Plumbing was failed because the water line to the gauge was not turned on so it reads zero....lol

5 small things with framing.

2 brace boards across 2 roof trusses  were not installed

1 hole that was drilled for plumbing was abandoned and was not filled with the fire foam

Moisture in the wood was still too high

And there was 1 missing hurricane clip for the trusses in the garage.

Saturday May 1st
cleaned the entire inside of the house floor. Disposed of all the trash inside the house.

Sunday May 2nd.
Set our post at the top of our driveway for our gate. The boy helped me do work.
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Now it's Friday the 5th of May
Dirt work is getting finished up, siding is done(except for wraping the posts) garage concrete was poured today.

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Tomorrow I'm renting a ditch digger and I'm going to trench a line from our temporary power pole to our house and drop my conduit in it, also trenching for water supply line and a trench all the way up the side of the driveway to drop in some direct burrial wire for power for our gate lights and the motor for our gate.

Power company will install permanent power next week and I need to talk with the phone company about getting there lines brought into our house so I can have some internet.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on May 08, 2017, 03:42:08 PM
Nice progress! And glad you're making the kids work for that roof over their heads, haha.

I need me a free truck right about now...
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 09, 2017, 12:04:52 AM
Nice progress! And glad you're making the kids work for that roof over their heads, haha.

I need me a free truck right about now...

No meal ever came for free. Got to work for things that you want. And that's something I have engrained in him from the time he could start doung stuff.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on May 12, 2017, 12:05:27 PM
What's the size of the garage? My dad built himself a big ass shop a while ago and picked up a used 2 post lift from a guy for $2500 I think. So jealous of that thing. Life goals.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 14, 2017, 07:38:04 PM
Garage is pretty small. Just 22x22. It will host a parking space for my nova and for my wife's car.

So last Saturday I rented a ditch digger. Last time I do that. Big waste of money. In this soft sand all it seemed to do was sink itself and I had to dig it out. So I dug all our trenches by hand. One was 25' and the other was 35'.

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Then on Sunday we set shit on fire and put a fan on it to vaporize it. There was next to no ash or anything left. Fan+fire=Good! Hooked up my water line on Sunday so now we have water to the house.

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Monday I wired the whole house for coaxle cable and cat6 wire. Our builder wanted $75 for each line for each room. Told them to get fucked.

Wednesday May 10th morning, power company called and asked if I was ready for hookup. Told them yes, they showed up and and called me a hour later and told me that I needed to move my conduit over 3'. Which means I had to dig out my conduit and dig a new trench next to it and lay it in there. FML!! So I did, he called Thursday and said he would be out in the afternoon to lay the wire. He showed up and used up all his wire for hos last job. So he said he would be out Friday. Called Friday morning and said it got bumped to Monday the 15th because of some power outages or something. So on Saturday 13th I build 17 vent wells to keep the dirt and water from making it's way in through our foundation vents. Going to install them on Monday. Anyways onto the pics
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Oh forgot, Wednesday the 10th the put the garage door in.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 16, 2017, 08:58:47 PM
So power was hooked up yesterday the 15th. Was told insulation would be in today. Well turns out that's next Tuesday. So the weather is suppose to get nice this week so were going to paint out fascia trim so we can get our gutters installed and hopefully get the puddeling around our house gone.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 29, 2017, 02:29:01 PM
Sunday may 21st. My wife and i Got all the fascia where the gutters go painted. Just backed the truck up and stood in the bed like it was a mobile scaffolding unit. Worked great.

Monday May  22nd and did in our insulation. They didn't do the normal bats of insulation that I was expecting. They stappled some sort of breathable cloth sheathing down and blew all of our insulation in. Turned out killer.

Wednesday May 25th they did the resinspection for everything and we passed. Also had gutters and downspout put in.

Sunday May 28th. Got all the windows/doors taped off and ready for paint. Wife and I painted the fascia that were the peaks(where gutters don't run)

Monday May 29th. Here I am, sitting in the porta potty writing this post. I just got done priming all of our eves and now I'm getting ready to shoot some paint on the body of the house. I'll post pics tonight.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 30, 2017, 12:49:20 AM
Well I got about 2/3rds the body of the house sprayed. Then the fucking sprayer I was borrowing died. Has a short I  it or something. It keeps blowing the breaker. Didn't have any torx screw drivers with me to take it apart to see what's up. My cousin is goo g to come up tomorrow with his airless and knock out some work.

Anyways, here is where it died
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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: crxvtec91 on May 31, 2017, 11:42:14 AM
Glad to see you been making progress!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 31, 2017, 06:39:05 PM
Thanks, cousin came up and knocked out some work. Here it was at the end of yesterday after waiting for the rain showers to pass.

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(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170530_173919_zps7s1mlmk4.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170530_173919_zps7s1mlmk4.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170530_174004_zpsi9zljtx8.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170530_174004_zpsi9zljtx8.jpg.html)

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Have a ton of trim work to do now. Also have to paint the Dormer/doghouse on the roof and then we're done with the outside paint.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: crxvtec91 on June 02, 2017, 02:58:58 PM
Slowly getting there!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 08, 2017, 11:44:59 PM
June 2nd
Lumber for the front porch and rear deck showed up.

June 4th
Most all the trim is done. Wife and I knocked out most of it on Sunday. And I finished up most of it on Monday. Only have a little more touch up work to do.

June 6th
sheetrock work has started. Should be done rocking next week, then another week of mud, tape, sand and texture.


Well Here's some pics.

Front porch wood
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170602_191841_zpsr9kaftns.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170602_191841_zpsr9kaftns.jpg.html)

back deck
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170602_195504_zpsyrhmpalw.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170602_195504_zpsyrhmpalw.jpg.html)

Painted
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170605_153248_zps9yhlwle6.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170605_153248_zps9yhlwle6.jpg.html)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 11, 2017, 12:47:57 AM
June 10th
Started on the front porch deck today. Its 8' wide and 6' deep

Also started on the rear deck. It's 16' wide and 12' deep and it's covered. Because it rains 8 months out of the year here.

Setting up the ledger flashing was kinda tricky. Started off by cutting the siding with my worm drive and only cutting through the siding about 3/4 of the way, while trying not to cut the vapor barrier behind it. Then Just snapped the hardie siding.

Set a z flashing at the bottom, then rolled out my dynamat, I mean peel and stick aluminum backed flashing. Then I slid my ledger flashing up under the top of the siding.

Once my ledger was tacked into place I made sure to use a piece if 2x6 to make sure it was nice and tight against my door sill. Checked it for level and once I had it set I just tacked it in place with some nails. Once it was all good I used some gsk 4" torx bolts and rocked them down with my impact driver.

Then I set my outside joists. Once all level I used the same bolts. And ran it down tight. Now I need dig down to set my pier blocks in place and dropped the adjustable saddle in place and crank the nut until they move the beam up to the bottom of the joists. Then just pull my layout for the rest of the joists, bolt down the ledger the rest of the way and start laying down joists. Hope to get to that tomorrow.

Anyways, onto the pics

Front
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170610_171124_zpsnlvm3upp.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170610_171124_zpsnlvm3upp.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170610_175837_zpswq7eidyd.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170610_175837_zpswq7eidyd.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170610_180144_zpsrb0omlhq.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170610_180144_zpsrb0omlhq.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170610_191207_zpsvzpx3spq.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170610_191207_zpsvzpx3spq.jpg.html)

Rear deck
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170610_125537_zps0rkeojjx.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170610_125537_zps0rkeojjx.jpg.html)

In this picture I have the outer rim already set but that was just to check to see if everything was plumb and level. I'm going to pull it off to set my beam.

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170610_165924_zpsf8kn25tw.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170610_165924_zpsf8kn25tw.jpg.html)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 12, 2017, 10:42:02 PM
Finished up the front porch/deck today(June 12th 2017) Besides the step, but I waiting to get my 50 yards of gravel spred and rolled before I set my step in. Hurt my back today. Pretty surr its just a pulled muscle. Just need to take it easy for the week and I'm sure I'll be fine. So it was real slow going today.  Felt like forever just to move around.

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170612_102902_zpsqhamdlo2.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170612_102902_zpsqhamdlo2.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170612_120614_zpstug8t9pt.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170612_120614_zpstug8t9pt.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170612_120628_zpsj9tyfoit.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170612_120628_zpsj9tyfoit.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170612_120628_zpsj9tyfoit.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170612_120628_zpsj9tyfoit.jpg.html)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170612_164146_zpsw9wg1tnq.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170612_164146_zpsw9wg1tnq.jpg.html)

It's dirty here but you get the idea....

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170612_164159_zpsoa4slz6x.jpg) (http://s1223.photobucket.com/user/ratcityrex/media/20170612_164159_zpsoa4slz6x.jpg.html)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 19, 2017, 11:13:08 PM
Had a meeting with our foreman on Tuesday the 13th. Kinda got a timeline dialed in and it looks as if move in date was suppose to be around the 20th of july as long as everything went smooth. Well it didn't. Sheetrocker is fixing a bunch of shit b4 doing the rock work because our first framer was a flake and fucked all kinds if shit up that nobody caught. So sheet rock won't be done until the 30th. A week later. So we won't be moving in until the end of July.

Anyways onto our work.....


Sister and her boyfriend showed up Saturday June 17th, I was having 50 yards of 3/4" basalt crushed rock delivered. Along with a cat 257 skid steer and a 5 ton roller. We knocked it all about in about 8 hours. My sister is a fucking pump when it comes to running machinery. She is a union operator by trade. She did this job 100x better then I would have ever done.

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 23, 2017, 03:54:15 PM
Sunday June 18th

Went to home depot and picked up a bunch of landscape stuff, plants flowers ect...
Cleaned up and condensed our piles of trash and scrap wood.

Monday June 19th

Did a dump run, picked up 2 yards of top soil, planted all our plants and spread the compost in the backyard so we can get ready to spread grass seed.

Thursday the 22nd,
Sheetrocker text me in the morning letting me know he was at our house until 10pm on Wednesday trying to feather and fir out or ceiling so the sheetrock didn't look like shit. Canceled the inspection because he's not done hanging rock. Scheduled inspection for Wednesday june 28th now. So now were another week out. Went and got 2 more yards of compost to spread in the yard. Then called it a day. In light of the extra time, we're taking this weekend off and gonna go fuck around at the water park since it's suppose to be in the 90's this weekend.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: LawrenceM on June 26, 2017, 05:05:34 AM
Sunday June 18th

Went to home depot and picked up a bunch of landscape stuff, plants flowers ect...
Cleaned up and https://www.the5x5project.com/hydromax-x30-review-results (https://www.the5x5project.com/hydromax-x30-review-results) the Hydromax X30 condensed our piles of trash and scrap wood.

Monday June 19th

That's a lot of space. Congrats. Thanks for posting pics as it's very inspirational!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 29, 2017, 08:58:01 AM
Well our sheetrock inspection was yesterday, we failed it due to the fact that it wasn't finished. I spoke with our sheetrocker yesterday afternoon any told me that he was just too busy fixing all of the fuck ups and wasn't able to finish in time. We have another inspection set for tomorrow June 30th and he'll be done with everything by then. I'm appreciative of everything he's doing because our sheetrock is going to be dead nuts. He's fixing a lot of the framing issues we had with the first framer that would show in the sheetrock
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on July 11, 2017, 02:12:00 PM
Updates?

And it looks like photobucket fuct you, btw
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: turbohf on July 12, 2017, 12:52:00 AM
Updates?

And it looks like photobucket fuct you, btw

he parted it out, and sold it...



upload to imgur.com
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on July 13, 2017, 12:46:11 PM
Updates?

And it looks like photobucket fuct you, btw

he parted it out, and sold it...



upload to imgur.com

haha in true RHMT style!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 15, 2017, 12:01:50 AM
Man, fuck photofuckit. Bitches want a whole heap if cash to keep my photos. Sucks because I have 2 accounts and hundreds of pics. Attached to build threads.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 15, 2017, 12:28:12 AM
So where do I start with this fucking shit show of a house build?

June 30th
we had a reinspection for sheetrock. Troy, our sheetrock hanger ended up running out of time, so he just hung the rock for inspection. We passed. He then pulled a bunch of it back down to he could correct the draining fuck ups. He ended up finishing that night and all was good.

July 6th
Mut and tape guy shows up(no work done from the 1st-6th says everything will be completed by the following Thursday the 13th) by now I'm use to shit just sitting stagnant. On July 5th I emailed my lender and freaked out. Told them this has been the worst build ive ever wirked with and i will never recomend this company hiline homes. As of April 30th, the only things that have been done were. Garage door install (3 or 4 hours of work), insulation installed in walls and crawl space(6 hours of work) and we have had our sheetrock hung (40 hours of work with out all the framing corrections). So in 70 days we've had about 50 hours worth of work done. It cost us $82 a day to operate this build site.

Monday July 10th.

I finish setting all the rear deck joist and blocking them in. I Set my rim and now all I have to do is screw my deck boards down and trim it out.

Tuesday the 11th. Mud and tape guys asked if the furnace works. Said idk, try to start it and no luck. Tells me he needs it to dry all the mud for the corner beads. Talk with project manager, tells me he's on his way out @ 430pm to take a look at it. Dude never shows.

Wednesday the 12th
I get a hold of the mud and tape guy Greg and tell him I'm going to go rent some heaters. He tells me don't worry about it, it's to late and because no heat we have to wait for shit to dry. My plan was to have my wife and i lait everythi g this weekend. We had child care Set up and everything. Well now we're told it will be done Monday. My wife looses her shit and goes down to the office and about choked the sales guy out. We have a huge communication issues with this company. Wednesday I left voice mails and text for our project manager and no response from him. Needless to say I'm fucking just bummed out.

Thursday 13th
I go out check progress, going to start working on my back deck boards and low and behold my fucking tool belt is missing. Pretty sure someone swiped it. Not to big of a deal, only about $200 in hand tools. But the real kick in the dick is that I've had my hammer 15 years and build 10 houses with it. It was worn in just right. And my 12" old school crescent wrench(that was my grandfathers) is missing too and it's only one of a couple off tool I have of his. And he's no longer around.

Moral of the story, this week and lick my assume and suck my balls!!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/eFNQh96EgZwe9FB13

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Random Hero on July 15, 2017, 09:52:29 PM
damn.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 18, 2017, 04:49:18 PM
Sat July 15th
Went and got 4 yards of compost and spread it/mixed it in with our current soil. We already got 4 yards a few weeks ago so this was the last of it.

Sunday July 15th
finished up the cherry tone timbers around our front flower beds to give them a boarder. Did some touch up paint on the exterior of the house/trim. Spread grass seed and firtlizer and watered it.

Mud and tape guy showed up sunday evening and worked from 5 or y until 11 at night trying to get finished up.

Monday July 17th
I knocked out most of the rear deck. Now I just need to pick up 1 more deck board and screw it and about 500 more screws into the decking boards and it's done. Besides the stares for it and the front deck that is.

Mud and tape guy finished all the interior mud, tape, sanding, priming, and texture. Now he just has to finish fire taping the garage.

I hope to have all our paint work knocked out by friday the 21st. Gonna be a long few days.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 21, 2017, 04:00:30 PM
Tuesday July 18th.
Swept the floor and vacuumed all the edges when sheetrock will be painted. Didn't want to blow dust up I to the paint when I'm spraying with my airless. Started shooting primer. I got all 4 bedrooms, the hallway, both bathrooms and master walk in closet sprayed and backrolled. Started around 5pm and ended arou d 1115pm.

Wednesday July 19th
finished shooting and Rolling all the primer. Took almost 30 gallons of primer to do all the sheetrock. Might have maybe a half a gallon left. Started shooting ceiling paint. My cousin told me I shouldn't have to back roll because we primed so well. Just spray in a north south patter and then spray over it with a east west patter. Well...... looks like shit. The paint is like honey it's so thick. It kept leaving tails on the fan pattern. So I had to back roll it. First room turnout out like shit. Gonna have to redo it and the guest room. But I finished half of the ceiling that night. Stopped around 1130 or so.

Thursday the 20th

started shooting the rest of the ceiling paint. Things it with water the first night and it sprayed a little better. But today I turned the pressure all the way up on the pump and watered it down a little more. Well...... that was the secret. I used ever last fucking drop to spray the celing. Like i pumped what was left in my line out into the pai t tray so i could fi ish rolling that last little section.

Taking Friday and Saturday off from painting. It's my wife and I 10th wedding aniversary. Gonna hit it hard on su day and knock out all the wall paint and touch up the celling in the 2 bedrooms that need to be  re done.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: rawr on July 21, 2017, 05:18:09 PM
This is probably the worse case Ontario for getting your own home built that ive ever heard.


I feel like i would have already stabbed a few people to death.  I see houses go up around here from braking ground to live in in like 4 weeks.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 21, 2017, 05:49:45 PM
This is probably the worse case Ontario for getting your own home built that ive ever heard.


I feel like i would have already stabbed a few people to death.  I see houses go up around here from braking ground to live in in like 4 weeks.

Dude, the building market up here is fucked. So much work and not enough people to build it. At least not enough qualified people that is.

But with that being said, our house loan is for $327k ish and will most likley appraise for $450-470ish. Once i build our shop in a few years, it should push us up another $75k in value. If this house and land were on the other side of the water (Seattle suburbs) we would be looking at about $650-700k in value.

Houses are retarded expensive up here. This house and land in Arizona would be worth about $275k

I've watched a few houses be built in about 1/10th the time ours has gone up. But then again, the company doesn't sub contract anything out. It's Joe blows construction and he has, framers, plumber, electric and, sheetrocker, roofers ect..... All on his payroll, and they don't work for anyone else. But then again those houses are 2 stroys and about 2/3 the size of our house on zero lot lines in a housing track community.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 25, 2017, 01:45:50 PM
Sunday July 23rd

finished all interior painting. Also repainted the ceilings in the bedrooms because they looked like ass.
Text, and emailed our project manager to let him know that we were done painting. (He was shooting to have cabinet guys in on monday morning)

Monday July 24th

I receive a email and a text staying that they can get guys will be there today. I show up around 115, no cabinet guys in sight. I email asking what was up. I get no response at all. Now I'm fucking pissed. Send a email off 5 hours later stating that I'm pissed and that I was killing my self trying to get shit done because I was told last week that cabinet guys were going to be in on monday. (We're allowed 10 days for interior paint and we knocked/rushed it out in 5)

Get a email back within minutes stating that cabinet guys will be there first thing in the morning. Going to go out this afternoon and see if it's another lie or not.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 27, 2017, 12:26:01 PM
Tuesday July 25th
 cabinets got installed and so did some of the subfloor Looks killer!!

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July 26th
heat pump installed.

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: rawr on July 28, 2017, 06:37:09 AM
No dishwasher or is that what the wife is for?  :Jew:
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on July 28, 2017, 09:16:36 PM
No dishwasher or is that what the wife is for?  :Jew:

Lol, no there's a spot for a dishwasher. That will be installed next week. It's nice as fuck too. Only like 45 db loud.

Friday July 28th
Window screens showed up. The electrician showed up today and put in almost all the wall outlets and some of the light switches.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 02, 2017, 02:14:10 AM
Saturday July 29th

got all of our cat6 wall plates wired up along with our coaxial cable. Saw the cabnet guys must have dropped our cabnet and broke the corner, but they installed it anyways. So a new one is on order. Flooring guys showed up to see what they were up against.

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Monday July 31st
showed up to water the lawn. Flooring and countertop guys were there. They installed all the subfloor for our vinyl flooring. Got the cou tattoos installed and the backsplash tiles in. They ordered the wrong tiles for the bathroom and installed it. Glad I was there to catch it to tell them. The popped them off and fucked up some of the sheetrock.

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Wrong tile, suppose to be the lighter one like in the kitchen
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Tuesday Aug 1st
plumbers showed up and installed a bunch of trim in stuff and our water heater. Which is fucking crazy, it is a heat pump water heater and is suppose to be super efficient. Flooring guys wasn't there so I don't know wtf happened to them but they better show up soon. Also works on some of the back landing for the stair risers.

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Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: crxvtec91 on August 02, 2017, 08:41:32 AM
Damn solid work!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 02, 2017, 11:38:49 AM
Should be moving in here in the next couple of weeks.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 05, 2017, 11:56:01 AM
Thursday August 3rd,

Electricians showed up today and knocked out most the lights and light switches in the house, some more outlets too. Carpet guys showed up to smack that down and told them not u til everything else is finished. They said they were going to lay down tac strips. They did 1 room and bounced. That's thing we want is trashed carpets from contractors stomping all over it.

Friday Aug 4th
Electricians showed up again and knocked out some outside lighting.

I went and picked up 2 yards of mulch/bark for the flower beds. Spread a little and dimpled the rest on a tarp. Also changed my mind on the steps for the back deck. Was going to cut some stringers/stair risers but decided to just build box steps instead because its only 2 steps and i want it solid and it will look much better too.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 07, 2017, 01:15:12 AM
Saturday Aug 5th
worked on the back steps for the deck. The Mrs got up on the ladder and did a bunch of touch up work on the paint. Got one set of steps finished.



Sunday Aug 6th
got the other side of steps knocked out. Now I just need to finish the corner step. And build steps for the front porch.

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Flooring and countertop will be done tomorrow then the only thing left is trim and doors, finish plumbing, a little electricical work and carpet. So........... like next month's or something we will probably move is. Fucking shit show.....
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 09, 2017, 02:34:56 AM
Monday Aug 7th

Finished the corner step. Turned out good. Flooring got finished off as well looks great.

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Tuesday Aug 8th
mirrors went up in the bathrooms, and all the closet shelfs have been put in.

Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Random Hero on August 09, 2017, 07:53:59 PM
When can i move in? i'll pay for the shop! lol
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 11, 2017, 12:09:24 AM
When can i move in? i'll pay for the shop! lol


Lol, that's funny because I'm planning on building a 32x62 shop with 16' walls and take the last 20' and build a 1 bedroom apartment. With storage over the top if it.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on August 11, 2017, 02:31:18 PM
Lookin' good! One of these days I'll make a thread on our current house project, which has completely taken any time I'd ever get to spend on the car project...
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 12, 2017, 11:26:47 AM
Tuesday Aug 8th
plumbers showed up and set our kitchen sink, set the toilets and the dishwasher. Looks so good!!

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lw1V2lQkNSSdU1iZnmQs7PQ7P3HylcJFnZkGCV1Ugpaw3jCXcGNSZE_B4wnGeh9foIe93hxVNqvIvwm6IU4ISLpbcbvrFEfq_LNB-_7GN9lhMqbTO9rv-sg0YCAjaK9cavm_kPQevBg)

Thursday aug 10th

4 Mexicans showed up and busted out all the trim and interior doors. We have lots of touch up work from these guys. They kinda beat the shit out of the place. I just don't understand how you can be so careless of other people's shit?

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tjfy67hCjHUiFQcFnkee-euF8jXtkzM6RsW6f_5eU-Q3YnlFTIF-7my8APg_xf_PSYrj71CEPW9lJ9ljejbfIf3mxNVS1mbbPU-GrhbLrM9SdtuoEiIGE37bEcQmtgw0SYj0b8reYh0)


Anyways, I had 2 separate wires ran out towards our septic tank. 1 for an alarm, and 1 for a pump. Found out we didn't need a pump until afterwards. So I just installed a double outlet on the back of the house with 2 dedicated 20amp circuits. So I should be able to run just about anything I want to off of them.
Also Did a little more landscaping.


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Friday Aug 11th
Carpet install has started. Looks pretty good for the most part. They will finish up on Saturday. I also finished screwing down all the deck boards so the rear covered deck is completly done.

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lA1NHdEJQp6hkN7ANbIrf4Oa98Bxe6rqm7O1saWPsaOLVjdXw_eiVc3WSWQ7mcF1spkBbQQO0wFaDihW3XuSSjr15oKhnfqwkpyV_K1zLdop_r73YoU_3mB7u1Vnp-lQvkBVXXVqGrc)

Plans for the weekend....
1. Dispose of all our scrap lumber and siding
2. Dispose of all of our cardboard
3. Install front steps on porch(already built, just need to attach them)
4. Install about 300' of field fencing to keep my dog from trying to impregnate the neighbors dog(she's a little slut)
5. Finish landscaping bark and put down some more grass seed after I mow our lawn.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 15, 2017, 07:17:25 PM
Saturday Aug 12th
Went to the dump, loaded the truck up for the next day to drop off all the scrap lumber

Sunday Aug 13th
installed front steps and we did a little raking and spreading of bark.called in inspection for front and rear deck for Thursday.

Monday Aug 14th
Dumpled all the wood and got another 2 yards of bark/mulch
Spread some bark. Built the step for the door entering into the garage. Mexicans showed up and caulked all our trim and filled all the nail holes. Found out our final inspection is set for Friday. So fingers crossed all goes well and we can start moving in.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: turbohf on August 15, 2017, 08:30:09 PM
awesome. almost there.  :noel:
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 16, 2017, 12:08:56 AM
We were almost there until we showed up today and saw that our "electricians are going to make your house a property on Tuesday" didn't show. So we don't know if it was a lie or not. But L&I has to come in and inspect our electrical work before the county will issue our occupancy permit.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: crxvtec91 on August 16, 2017, 10:34:10 AM
Getting super close!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 17, 2017, 10:33:00 AM
Wednesday Aug 16th

got a email from the county saying that we had a health department inspection for our septic. Then 10 min later I get a email stating that the inspection failed because they didn't not have the final course of construction paperwork for our septic. Call septic dude up, said he must have forgot to file it. So today I'm going to get the final paperwork from him and then hand deliver it to the health department. They said it takes 24hours to process. Hopefully I can sweet talk someone into signing off on it right when I hand it to them so we can still get a go a head on the final for Friday. Otherwise were at there mercy.

Also pulling out of the parking lit yesterday in a frenzy I forgot to put my seatbelt on. As I'm driving down the road I reach up to put it on right as I'm passing a motorcycle cop. Fucked pulls me over and writes me a ticket for $136.00 GAL.

Go out to the house after work. Sheetrocker has showed up and finished firewall tapering the garage wall. Electricians showed and finished everything off. We installed our fridge and our stove last night, mowed the lawn and cleaned up our whole side yard where we had all of our supply staged. Hopefully the try and fuck with us on erosion control considering we have no grass over there.

Hopefully today goes better then yesterday.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 18, 2017, 01:05:13 AM
Thursday Aug 17th

Got the paperwork from our septic guy. Turned it into the health department with a box of doughnuts. 15min later shit was approved and the county had signed off on it.

L&I came out to inspect our power. It's all good.

County came out to inspect my deck and porch. It's all good and signed off as well.

Went to the dump to throw away all of our building suppys. Picked up another yard of bark. Spread some of it and put the rest in the woods in a big pile. Also hooked up the power cord to the oven and the water line to the fridge. Plugged everything in and so far so good.


So our final inspection is on for tomorrow. So fingers crossed it all goes well.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on August 19, 2017, 02:10:46 PM
Well, that's it. We passed.


Friday Aug 18th 2017

I got off work around noon. Our inspection was between 12-4 On the way to the house my wife text me and asks if the floor vent cover not being in place would cause us to fail are inspection? Our project manager was in charge of setting those in place. He forgot to enlarge the hole on one of them located in our mud room. I called and asked him if that would fail us and he said yes. So I called up my buddy Ed who only lives 2 miles away to borrow his jig saw and a extention cord. As I was coming back from his house the inspector was riggt in front of me. I pull up right behind him at my house. I go straight to cutting out the hole just a touch larger. He didn't even give a shit....lol His name was Pedro and the guy was hella relaxed. Only thing was our exhaust fan in the master bath wasn't working. Turns out the hvac guys unplugged the fan when  putting the cover on. Plugged it back in and not a problem. The 1 sheetrocked wall in are garage(fire wall) wasn't completely sealed up and said we needed to do a little fire blocking/caulking around our furnace on the ceiling and on the corners where it met the wall. Also needed to pull the keeper pin on our hinge for the door that leads into the house. That way it auto closes behind us as we walk into the house. It's a fire code thing.

Pedro said since we were the home owners he wasn't going to request a reinspection since he had faith that we would do it. Told him to leave his email and after I do it I would send him pictures of it.

So today we have the moving truck and were packing up our storage unit. Fun y thing is the in-laws are going out of town and we have to house sit for them so we won't be staying at our house until next Friday.

Thank fucking God this build is over.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: turbohf on August 19, 2017, 10:03:22 PM
 :o
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 05, 2019, 12:31:24 AM
So quite a bit if stuff has happened around the house in the last year and a half...... so hang on, I'm about to dump a whole heap of an update .....


House was signed off on in Aug. We didn't actually move in and stay in the house until the 2nd week of September.

After moved in and settled, here's a picture of how good the grass came in

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20170911_154906_zps4yf7thc4.jpg)

Just kinda hung out and unpacked and put shit away for a few weeks and then all of a sudden my father in law passes away on September 27th 2017.

Hit the family pretty hard. He was like a best friend to me. He would skype us and most the time it ended up being just me and him talking for a hour or so. And that was a couple of times a week. Was pretty tough. Still think about how hes not around to see his grandson grow up and it kills me.

He lived in NV and we live in WA. Went down the end of step to take care of a bunch of stuff. Fast forward 3 weeks. I fly down alone to turn around and drive back up the next day in my father in laws truck. I get a phone call from my wife at about 1130 @ night in a frantic voice I hear her say "Theres a fucking bear on our front porch!" I tell her to grab the caf keys and hit the panic button and it should scare it off. My wife's step dad comes over to check things out that night and all is good. Bear is gone but he stole our pumpkins off our front porch and was popping them open in the woods and eating the seeds out if them.

Needless to say, we have lots of wildlife around....
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20171021_140603_zpsxkwnl4bi.jpg)


Nov 2017
Built a fire pit in the backyard. Made it big enough that I could fit a pallet in it. As you can see in the background I dont have a shortage of wood to burn.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/IMG_1510877120836_zpsb8z9cuti.jpg)

We had our first party at the house the weekend b4 Thanksgiving 2017. Had a big fire deep fryed some Turkey. Had about 30 people inside the house at once and it didn't feel cramped at all. Was awesome!
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/FB_IMG_1511051460282_zpsigm94zas.jpg)

First defect of the house. ...  well not really, it was bad from the start. The blinds are mounted between the pains of glass and it was always stiff to move up and down. Then the weekend b4 Thanksgiving the blinds caught the glass and got all fucked up
Door manufacture sent out a repair guy and he replaced the whole piece of glass with new blinds mounted inside.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20171204_192916_zps7igafawg.jpg)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20171021_140640_zps7kw4se4o.jpg)

December 2017
Christmas lights up
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20171204_190903_zpseg1qbjbn.jpg)

First snow
Was pretty fun to go out and hike around in it.

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20180218_102639_zpswq4jcyfk.jpg)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20171224_230047_zps2irnunvw.jpg)

New years eve 2017.....
Lit off a few fireworks and had another bonfire.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 05, 2019, 01:20:45 AM
2018.....
Jan
Built some overhead storage for all the totes and shit we have
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20180106_171347_zpsjezmhink.jpg)

Bought the boy a quad to kick around on. China Honda copy. Was $580 shipped to my door. It's a 110cc with a key fob that I can click and it kills the motor. Works pretty good. It will do 30mph with the throttle opened up all the way. Have the throttle stop se to where it only does about 10mph though. Need to cut some trails now.....

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20180120_154853_zps0wunqxfl.jpg)

Feb 2018
Get a call from my sister on the 4th @ about 10pm. She tells me that our brother wrote a suicide note on Facebook and said dont come find him or anything like that. (Hes super fucking smart to the point to where hes kinda crazy) he parked his car at our parents house and walked away. Searched all night with about 25 other people looking all over for him. Next day he is found in the woods about 2 miles from my house with a gunshot wound to the head. He walked about 5 miles on backroads and trails to where he finally decided that was the place. Crazy thing is, he lived. He can talk, walk and has some use of his right arm and hand, but he is defiantly disabled now. He will probably never work, or drive again. Pretty wild to be 27 years old and think shit like that.

Spring 2018
Put in some work in my garage. Built a bench, put in a bunch if outlets
Installed 8, 8' T8 High output lights in my garage.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/received_2060379240957101_zpscmnwn7uh.jpeg)

Put my electric gate opener on. Also wrapped my gate posts in siding and wired up lights and a outlet.

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20180312_120536_zpscscqcece.jpg)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20180312_120548_zpstxxsjtgw.jpg)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20180312_153513_zps08pvw3o7.jpg)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20180312_170356_zpshs3wxkvz.jpg)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20180507_201351_zpsrdqghfet.jpg)

 Also installed a cam up in the trees with a 10db Antenna so it can shoot the wireless signal down to the house (about 200' away)

Built my wife a arbor for her birthday out of some downed trees that we had laying around.

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20180507_184935_zpsnhndqvau.jpg)

Fall 2018
So we got neighbors,
They built a house and moved in around september/October. I built a fence between our property and there's to keep my dog in. Fuck..... do you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to roll fencing up hills, around trees, through the woods and make it look nice? All by yourself at that? Oh but it was only about 300'....lol

Oh fucking trees..........
They are falling everwhere........ came home to this little fucker laying on our house. 2nd time this has happened.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20181129_145452_zpsxbutv1q4.jpg)

So....... I fired up the saw and went to town. Must have cut down 50-70 trees/saplings or anything that was leaning. Needless to say, I have lots more to burn now.

So this is pretty much where were at now.

I ordered up a chainsaw mill to start cutting my own timbers. Were gonna start buding a tree house come February.

Oh, and my wife is pregnant with our daughter. And shes due in may. So here starts the rollercoaster all over again....Haha
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 26, 2019, 01:34:08 AM
Well I haven't milled any lumber yet, but I have started getting ready to build a shed.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190125_163730_zpsaisiq9mb.jpg)


 Doing a 10x16 with 12' wall on one side and 8' on the other for a lean to roof. I got all the plywood for the subflooring for free and the metal corrugated roofing for free. Still gonna cost probably $1500. Oh....... and I picked up a dewalt 12" dual compounding sliding miter saw. Picked it up on sale $349 @ home depot.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190123_201557_zps6ghdpc48.jpg)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 28, 2019, 12:21:10 AM
Couple more shots. All of the pier blocks leveled out and set down in the dirt all plumb and whatnot. Gonna knock out the floor joists and floor joists blocking tomorrow and then start priming/sealing the plywood too.


Oh and of course I had a helper...lol

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190127_135246_zpswbdhwz6h.jpg)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190127_150430_zpsvimui3ip.jpg)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190127_150440_zpsotukhuao.jpg)

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190127_170606_zpszow6g4xj.jpg)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 30, 2019, 01:13:32 AM
Well I only have 5 more boards to cut and slam into place to finish off my blocking. I put a whole lit of blocks in because of the plywood I got for free. I received a whole shit load of 5/8 marine grade mahogany plywood off cuts. They are all left over pieces from a project my neighbor had. They are 20 1/8" x 48" So I put a whole shit load of extra blocking in that way is supported on all edges. Plus it stiffens the floor right the fuck up.

Anyways, onto the pics
Here I tagged the 10' side (closest to me in the picture) then pulled my diagonal measurement and pushed the other side until they both pulled the same from corner to corner. I ended up with it dead nuts square.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190128_124303_zpskfcw3uic.jpg)

After this I started pulling my layout for my joists. 16" on center. Here you see them all laid out and screwed into place.
You can see my 5 year old son setting the blocking on the lines where I'm gonna set them.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190128_151052_zpsvygan8dz.jpg)

Fucking union workers and there required breaks.....
Also you can kinda see my pallet work station and my jig I have setup for cutting all my blocking.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190128_153859_zpshsqwjqbn.jpg)

Here you can see some of my blocking in place. I'm doing every other joists and I screw the blocks in through the joists with 3" long screws. Then the other blocks I use a kreg jig and drill pocket holes (think IKEA furniture...lol) Way better and more solid then just toe nailing a screw or a nail into it. Which is east to do when you have a nail gun, but a pain in the ass when you are doing g it with a hammer and a nail.

(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190129_170656_zpspwrltypt.jpg)

Here is what I'm talking about if you've never seen a pocket screw hole.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190129_170651_zpso6qbmdzs.jpg)

And here is is all done besides the 5 boards I need to cut.
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/20190129_172719_zpsfgu2bfwa.jpg)

Next is to start priming and sealing the plywood so it doesn't mold or get all fucked up while getting weathered by winter.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 30, 2019, 01:21:47 AM
Oh, and in the next few years the plan is to start banging out my shop. Something similar to this....
(http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/dd518/ratcityrex/Screenshot_20190129-084257_Gallery_zpsjvqaermx.jpg)
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 17, 2022, 11:26:25 PM
Well the time has come. Going to hopefully start on building the shop come spring time. Plan as of now is to do 40x72 with 16' walls. Going to put a apartment in the lower section on one end. It will be a 2 bedroom 1 bath 800 sf (40x20 with storage above it)  Rent for a apartment here in town is nuts. It will pay for the shop and then some. Thinking $1500/month plus utilities. I've told a few people about it and I have a waiting list already.

Shop is going to cost me about 80k. I will end up building it myself. I got a quote for a turn key shop and it was 147k with out the apartment. I asked for just a bare bones pole barn in 40x48 and they wanted 100k. I recived a quote on lumber today and it came in at
18k for the lumber package.
10k for metal roofing and siding.
10k in concrete
5k for a septic
5k in power
3k for radiant heat
3-5k for insulation
4k for a 2 post frame lift
3k for garage doors
2k in windows and man doors
10k for apartment stuff
3k for gravel driveway
2k for water runoff/infiltration pit
2k permits

Gonna look something like this. Location of doors and windows is a rough estimate.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: 92CXyD on January 18, 2022, 12:34:12 AM
Crew coming in to build?
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 18, 2022, 01:20:49 AM
Crew coming in to build?

Probably not. I'll probably take a month off work and bang it out. Gonna submit permit paperwork once our refinance paperwork is done. Once its approved I'll go rent a big excavator and clear the area on a weekend. Then pull my layout and dig my holes for the piers, drop my rebar cages in and pour concrete. Once that's done I will do my official layout and square everything up, drill holes for brackets. Bolt the brackets in place and start the process of building.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on January 31, 2022, 09:37:36 PM
Are you financing the shop/apartment build or paying out of pocket for it?

I ask because I want to build a garage/apartment combo in my backyard, too.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on January 31, 2022, 09:43:41 PM
Are you financing the shop/apartment build or paying out of pocket for it?

I ask because I want to build a garage/apartment combo in my backyard, too.


Refi, and taking cash out. Using cash to build. 2.875 % on a 30 year. Not a bad deal. Way less than trying to finance just the shop.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on April 05, 2022, 03:49:54 PM
Are you financing the shop/apartment build or paying out of pocket for it?

I ask because I want to build a garage/apartment combo in my backyard, too.


Refi, and taking cash out. Using cash to build. 2.875 % on a 30 year. Not a bad deal. Way less than trying to finance just the shop.

Nice. We did a cash out refi last summer to pay off our renovation costs and have some cash for future investments. Wish I'd taken more out while the rates were still so low. You start building the shop yet?!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 06, 2022, 02:36:08 PM
Are you financing the shop/apartment build or paying out of pocket for it?

I ask because I want to build a garage/apartment combo in my backyard, too.


Refi, and taking cash out. Using cash to build. 2.875 % on a 30 year. Not a bad deal. Way less than trying to finance just the shop.

Nice. We did a cash out refi last summer to pay off our renovation costs and have some cash for future investments. Wish I'd taken more out while the rates were still so low. You start building the shop yet?!

Yeah. Kills me to watch the money just sit in savings and get eaten up by inflation but I need to have access to it and not tie it up for a year or 2.

Not yet. I did get back my drawings from my engineer and im gonna need to redo my plan on how I want to build this. I live in pnw so the ground is constantly getting wet. I didn't want to sink post/columns into the ground because I didn't want then to rot in 20/30 years. So my plan was to pour concrete piers and fasten the posts/columns to a bracket that i set into the concrete.

Engineer came back with drawings and has me pouring a pier every 8 feet for my posts. The piers are 42" across and 48" deep. After all said and done it will be almost $10,000 just for the concrete piers. Also said I can't use 6x6 post because of wind load and I needed to up the size to 8x8 post or 4 ply gluelam post. About to blow the whole budget of the build on posts/columns and concrete piers. So now I'm back to the drawing board. Might be going with a steel building instead. We will see. I had a bunch of questions for my engineer but he was out of town and said he will get back to me when he comes back to the office.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Eggylshatch on April 15, 2022, 05:28:44 PM
Those piers and post specs from the engineer sound excessive but who am I. You guys don't get crazy wind in the PNW anyway, do you? Plus your lot seems pretty sheltered with all the trees. That is a big ass shop though!
I wonder if you could find recycled steel trusses and beams that would be close enough in size to what you need? A guy I know built a huge structure that way, just designed the rest of the building around the steel trusses he sourced for cheap.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 16, 2022, 04:53:51 PM
Talked with the engineer on Tuesday. Turns out he missed the part where I said I was going to pour a concrete slab inside the building. He was essentially weighing the building down and keeping it from blowing away with the piers. So we will pour smaller piers(once he reruns the calculations we will know exactly how big) and when I go to pour my slab we will tie the piers into the slab to make it 1 solid piece.

We get some 60-70mph gust from time to time. But that's like once a rest type of thing. Most our storms have sustained high winds of 50mph or less. Our wind load is 110mph, and our snow load is 25mph. And we live in a seismic area. All of these things basically compound on eachother. We have to meet all of those factors at the same time.

I've looked for stuff like that but because I have to pull permits I need to have documentation of who engineered what. So I would have to track down the original engineer for that shit.

If it all goes to shit I will just work the loophole.

You can build a "agricultural building" as long as its under 864sf. And it has to be 10' away from the closet structure. So I will build three 40×20 buildings 10' apart from eachother. And when the county is out of my hair I will just conect them together for 1 40x80 shop....lol

trying to do things the properly way so I don't get bit in the ass in 30 years when I have to sell my own property because property taxes are too much i can't afford them.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: MTZ on April 22, 2022, 12:08:15 PM
I built a 24x24 greenhouse/cabin (clear greenhouse roof) on 9 8inch sonotubes with a big foot pad and it’s held up some harsh storms and crazy snow loads (that eventually clear up from the hotter temp inside 😅)  I did all the calculations and construction though the first roof design 1 pitch roof didn’t actually like the immense snow load 4ft of snow on top without me finishing all the support columns and collapsed but I redesigned and it’s been doing great since. I went with a diy permit and composting permit because sewer costs were outrageous at the time.

Not growing weed in it anymore it’s now just a winter getaway spot for the fam .
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: 92CXyD on April 23, 2022, 12:47:11 AM
I built a 24x24 greenhouse/cabin (clear greenhouse roof) on 9 8inch sonotubes with a big foot pad and it’s held up some harsh storms and crazy snow loads (that eventually clear up from the hotter temp inside 😅)  I did all the calculations and construction though the first roof design 1 pitch roof didn’t actually like the immense snow load 4ft of snow on top without me finishing all the support columns and collapsed but I redesigned and it’s been doing great since. I went with a diy permit and composting permit because sewer costs were outrageous at the time.

Not growing weed in it anymore it’s now just a winter getaway spot for the fam .

Badass!  :noel:
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on February 05, 2023, 04:18:50 PM
Well, sring, summer, fall and now winter has come and almost gone. Now we're onto this spring. Fucking permits taking forever. Almost ready to break ground.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 29, 2023, 01:24:51 AM
Well let's see. Permits got issued March 1st. Rented a 60k lb excavator 2 weeks later and started clearing. Got 1/2 an acre cleared in 2 days. Spent the 3rd day cleaning up brush piles and stumps.

About a month went by and I was trying to skid 100 or so 38' logs into a spot where I could have a log truck come in and get them. After figuring out that it was gonna take forever to do that I just went a rented a mini excavator for a weekend.and moved them all to where I can pile them up and have the log truck come grab 40 or so at a shot. I could then drag another 40 a real short distance over the hill and they could grab the next truck worth. Got about 25 or so piled up right now. Need to throw another 15 or.so out the pile and the truck will most.likely be a round next week to grab them
 
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 29, 2023, 01:35:56 AM
Here is some photos
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: 92CXyD on April 30, 2023, 02:37:27 AM
Looks like a good excuse for playing big guys Tonka toys    :noel:
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on April 30, 2023, 12:07:18 PM
Skidded another 10 or so logs up yesterday. Was going to do more but they are just gonna be in the way. As it is I don't think he will be able to grab all of these on a single load because he will be over the gvwr.

Only have about another 60 or so to drag up the hill. Hoping that once the lig truck shows up he will tell me that we can choke the logs that are on the hill and drag them up with his grapple thats on his truck.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: Stealthmode on May 08, 2023, 09:53:03 PM
I'm pretty sure this guy can afford a turbo kit.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 09, 2023, 03:58:20 AM
I'm pretty sure this guy can afford a turbo kit.

I'm sure I could put it on the credit card but I sure as fuck would rather wait until the shop is finished and my lift is in so I can work on it with a little room and weld up some bird shit goodness.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on May 12, 2023, 02:39:54 AM
Log truck showed up on Tuesday. Looks like i need to widen the access back to the logs. About 1' too narrow for him to get past the garage. As soon as his back tires started to go up onto the edge of the hill, it rocked the cab gard and it was twisting the cab. The cab guard was gonna hit the eve of the garage. Gonna knock out a little landscaping with the loader on the tractor and hopefully get him back in next week to take out a trailers worth of timber.
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 28, 2023, 11:21:47 PM
Log truck showed up on June 5th to take the first load out. We cleared almost $1,000 off the 1 truck. Took about 10 days to get our check. Have at leat another trucks worth!
Title: Re: My most expensive build yet......FORT REX COMPOUND
Post by: ratcityrex on June 28, 2023, 11:25:35 PM
Dragged some more logs up yesterday. About half way done. Definitely getting faster. Only took me about 2 hours to pile up 35 or so logs. Most all of them are about 37-38' long and 10-14" in diameter. Only a couple of saw logs in this load. Not gonna make as much as the first round but will still be a decent haul