House build thread

[Onkel Neal]

Lately this has become my new obsession: building a country house. I am still several years away from doing it but I am very interested in the process. In my time, I have helped build a couple homes/garages and a barn, so I know a little (very little) about construction. The nail gun sure makes it easier, I know that

I found several threads here and here in this tractor forum that are super interesting. I thought I would share them with you.

Anyone here built their own place? Or are planning to/in the process of?

[Sailor Steve]

Be lazy like me. Just hire Jeff.

Those are pretty cool threads.

[Betonov]

If finances allow I'll start making my mountain retreat, called a ''weekend'' in my parts, next spring. Using only material that grows on site. But it's going to be more of a shack and temporary. But the chimney and fireplace will be stone. I'll post pictures and do's and dont's as they occur
It'll be interesting I tell ya, I'm clueless

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Nailgun is good tool as long as it works properly. When it fails its good to not have kids/grandkids around.



Signed by: Kid in hearing range...

[kiwi_2005]

I built my own decking with roof out the front of the house still standing or hasn't blown away in a storm so I did something right that was 6yrs ago, no plans just pictured it in my head what it would look like & hammered away. Use to put down foundations & floors for brotherinlaw he builds log houses for a living which has taken off over here. 20yrs ago he was lucky to build two per year. But no haven't built a house on my own.

[geetrue]

Don't forget underground bunker for paint gun battles yet to be played in the future wink* wink*

include water purifier for swiming pool
alternate energy plan for off grid living
double lined plastic storage barrels for
dry goods (stored off concrete floor)

varmit rifle for dinner

candles

one of those wind up am/fm/weather radios

zero degree sleeping bag

folding utensils kept in pocket at all times

led flashlight

scent spray to cover your tracks back to bunker after hunting

Here's a link to another country retreat being built in Russia: http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/yamantau.htm

Oh Boy!! Now here's a thread I can get into.


Built or remodeled quite a few Homes for others but never my own home.
Favorite NailGun is a Paslod Cordless Frameing Nailer.
For a regular hammer nothing but an EstWing will do as far as I'm concerned.
Been useing the same one for over 10 years now and a new one has been sitting on a shelf in the basement for nearly 5 years.

We're big users of cordless Tools and have built several homes with nearly nothing but cordless Tools. The only thing with a plug was the Compound Radial Arm Saw and the chargers for the batteries.

I probably have alot of pictures from past projects if you'd care to see them.

[Jimbuna]

Put decking down in the rear garden about 6 years back and have just completed a wooden frame to stand my model aircraft display cabinets on if they count

[Syxx_Killer]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Lately this has become my new obsession: building a country house. I am still several years away from doing it but I am very interested in the process. In my time, I have helped build a couple homes/garages and a barn, so I know a little (very little) about construction. The nail gun sure makes it easier, I know that

I found several threads here and here in this tractor forum that are super interesting. I thought I would share them with you.

Anyone here built their own place? Or are planning to/in the process of?

I can't be of much help with the construction aspect of things, but I could help with picking a tractor if you ever need it. TractorByNet has a lot of very knowledgeable people. I've been a member on that forum longer than I have been a member here. I check that site every day, like I do this one. You can't go wrong with TBN.

[AVGWarhawk]

If I were inclined to build a house it would be a log house. The land would have plenty of acreage. Probably on a mountainside.

This particular model is prefabricated. Just simply assemble the logs until it looks like a house. In all seriousness, this is what I would look into if I had building my own home in mind.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

. In all seriousness, this is what I would look into if I had building my own home in mind.

I'm liking this size and style:
http://www.tranquilacrescabins.com/t...-log-cabin.php



Only, I don't neccesarily need actual "logs" for walls, simply stud wall construction would be fine. But I like the size and layout

[Catfish]

Hello, nice thread !

we live at the edge of a forest, almost at the end of the street. The last house next to "no man's land" is a wooden house built of logs just like that on your picture. It looks very nice, and the interior is beautiful, but it's a house to live in and big enough, not a weekend one.

The heating and water system is very modern, a wood stove with a water cassette inlet and heat exchangers for a second water circle to heat water and the central heating system. Certainly, you need electric pumps for the circulation of the heated water in the radiators, but it's not needed, the stove can heat the house without it with some of the surrounded rooms being a bit (!) cooler then.
Maybe a stirling engine could drive a pump, this would be my favourite solution, no electric current needed then altogether, maybe a backup generator somewhere.

In the first floor there is a "passive stove"; where the funnel from the base stove goes up through the floor there's a flap wher you can divert the heat into an "oven" which is not fed by wood, but just by the hot gases coming from the stove downstairs, so the first floor gets as warm as you want as well.


Our own house is a strange mixture, a frame (half timbered ?) house, where the skeleton is made of oak, and the fields between the timbers look like bricks - but they are not. Instead they are very thin and fastend on styrodur insulation plates, with three layers of wood criss-crossing behind that. On the inner walls there is an additioanl 30-centimeter-thick insulation, finished with wooden boards towards the inside. The whole outer walls are thus almost 50 centimeters thick, and insulate very well.

You do not need the heating installation if a few lamps and the computer are on, unless it gets real cold and windy.

We also have a sun collector water heating system on the roof for supporting hot water and heating, and plan a wood stove with this water cassette. Not cheap unfortunately ..
The first floor is not yet finished, but i also plan this passive stove up there.

I have built the whole house almost myself, including heater, water system and all, certainly with the help of 1 friend permanantly for the inner wall insulation, and another being a carpenter which certainly helped a lot !

Greetings,
Catfish

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Catfish

I have built the whole house almost myself, including heater, water system and all, certainly with the help of 1 friend permanantly for the inner wall insulation, and another being a carpenter which certainly helped a lot !

Greetings,
Catfish

This sounds worthy of some pictures

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I'm liking this size and style:
http://www.tranquilacrescabins.com/t...-log-cabin.php



Only, I don't neccesarily need actual "logs" for walls, simply stud wall construction would be fine. But I like the size and layout

For me, if I'm in the middle of the woods or on a mountain top the log cabin is the house to have. The inside should also be the bare logs. Some have used stucco for the inside of the walls. Looks like plaster board. But, yes, the size pictured should suit.