What home improvement work did you do today?

Looks good!!! Is that work you are doing or having done???

 

That foto #2 and #3 completely bogs my mind. That wall is in the air. Is the roof that sturdy that I can hold all that weight? I mean all those walls, being suspended in the air, that is some serious weight!

How do you install baseboards if there will be almost 2" movement?

 

Yeah, that blows my mind! Those don't exist around here.

 

Agreed, I haven't seen anything like that on socar or fl either! My logical part of the brain is thinking, if the whole slab is reinforced and moves up or down as one single piece together, why not just have it as a foundation and let the walls be built on that slab? Let the whole thing as a whole move up and down.

Is the slab separate construction from the foundation?

probably driving @T-Rex266 nuts with all these questions..

 

I think it has a lot to do with their soil, I think it’s bentonite, it expands and absorbs like no other

 

Would move too much. Think of things that meet or attach to the house, stairs, driveway, decks, etc… Be trip hazards everywhere depending on the season. Slab is separate so it can float, foundation is engineered, helical piers etc. are common. Expensive to build a house in Colorado.

 

Baseboards attach to the green plate attached to the floor only. They cover the gap and allow the up and down of the slab to be hidden. Door frames are attached with slots allowing the frame to go up and down, door trim is only attached to the frame allowing it to slide up and down. Huge pain in the butt, almost impossible to do the doors correctly.

 

low maintenance landscaping for our residence where i keep the 2nd gen. finishing off the gate and fencing is next.

 

What brand and type of floor is that? Looks great.

 

Did some adulting today. Been sick of looking at my fence with all the rot and such. Too the pressure washer to it today. Only got maybe a 1/3 done today. Will finish and then need to stain it.

 

My neighbor came over with his backhoe and dug a hole in my yard.

 

...should we ask what the hole is for???

 

More progress today.

 

I’m going to build a mostly underground greenhouse. Being mostly buried, it will keep it cooler in the summer and warmer in the spring and fall. Should make for a longer growing season.

 

Yeah, it's a real drag getting busted halfway through a growing season...

 

For their other neighbor.

 

The photos explain everything, thx. I never heard of floating walls till these posts.

 

The floating walls thing was amazing to see...never heard of such an animal...thanks!

 

It’s taken a few months, thanks to the joys of having a day job, three week vacation, those weekends with lack of enthusiasm or better things to do blah, blah, blah, but I can finally see the end of the first major honey-do job on the list since we moved into the place a year ago. It’s not as though I haven’t done a load of snotty little fixes, had the back corner of the house underpinned and insulated and boarded out the garage (not that that counts as a honey-do. ).
No, I have finally gotten close to finishing the freestanding 25’ X 10’ deck that ‘we’ agreed upon when we moved in. Phew!

 

Over the week, finished paint and quarter round in the guest bedroom and cutting materials for the Murphy/wall bed for it. Today first try at veneer banding... did the birch, still needed to do the cherry. Still just a couple big piles of wood at this point...would've rather faced it with solids like custom cabinets or furniture, but never done one of these and it has some mechanicals, so I just straight followed the kit instructions.

 

Replaced the ceiling fan in one of the bedrooms. Motor was toast but lights still worked so I just moved it into the spare room and swapped the fully functional fan in its place. Glad I don’t install fans for a living, my shoulders were burning.

 

Seems a few of my pics dropped off my earlier post. So here are a few of the serious grunting stage…

back on April 9th…

Next day, with added pint of Kentucky mule.

Under shot before I finish the vertical soffit next weekend. Not yet sure whether I am inclined to create an access point where the photo is taken from to give me storage/access…
Got just enough lumber and decking left to make a nice dedicated storage spot for our trash can

 

This is wild stuff. My first time seeing it too. What state are you in?

 

That's an interesting floor.

Murphy beds are great! We have one in our "lounge" to use for overflow guests when the primary guest room is already being used. You're going to love having it.

 

Thanks! I had bamboo flooring for a project that didn't materialize, but it wasn't enough for the room needed more. Found a little darker correct depth/tongue and groove on clearance, so decided I'd make a pattern. Turned out nice, but won't do THAT again!

That room looks GREAT! Looking forward to having a room that is useful for other things 50 weeks of the year, and a decent bedroom the other two.

 

It’s HOT today. Good day to test the new solar. All the usual things running, plus all ceiling fans, both work PCs, 3 PC monitors and a portable AC unit. Not toooooo shabby…. lol