Building house, house plans?

[Hillbilly Beast]

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I was wondering what was the factor, he choose pex for the water lines.


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Pex is relatively cheap and easy to work with. Also if it freezes for some reason it won't bust as easily as pvc. I did my shop/house with it and love it. When I go to build my new house in a few months I will defanatly be goin with pex

 

[TacomaJD]

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I like the craftsman look, but the 19 rooflines, intricate exterior wood, and stone work could get ridiculous.

Most of the new spec houses going up here are like "craftsman lite", regular houses in earthy/darker colors(vinyl), small stone bases on tapered columns, maybe one small stoned or shake siding feature.

Looks pretty nice without looking trendy or overdone

The "craftsman lite" you speak of is exactly the style I'm after.

Here are a couple I've ran across and liked the design of. There are a cpuple houses in town I really like better than these, but haven't found any good matches online. Tempted to stop by one day amd just ask them if I can tour the house and take some measurements lol.

 

[TacomaJD]

I really like this place, it's for sale listed for $179,900 but it's on the front side.of a sub division and I really don't want to be in a sub division. I like the way the side load garage and detached garage all connect by the driveway. Really digging the overhead room in the garage too for storing **** like holiday stuff, old toys, parts, just any random junk.

 

[Lampley]

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I hope to start building another house (gonna call it my wife's house, since I get to reclaim the shop house) in a few years.

Really for us a basement is the most important feature we want.

I've been looking into basement construction, block vs poured vs prefab walls... opinions/experience on any?

Only thing I have been in were block, and they all leaked or had problems. I know this can't be the case with every block basement...

My parents block walls leaked until they put drylock on them. When I built my house I painted drylock on my walls as soon as they finished laying the brick. Heck they hadn't even put the first floor on when I painted the walls. I did this so I had the drylock behind every plug, and anything else on the wall. I've been in the house for 6 years and never had a leak.

 

[Lampley]

When I designed my house.
I had all inside doors made to 36". Wheel chairs and walkers can get thru all doors if needed
Extra 2x4 around window frames. So my wife can screw curtains to wood not drywall.
Saferoom in the basement under the front porch, with poured walls and a steel door.
Walls between kids bedrooms are insulated. For some sound deading.
Dimmer switch in master bedroom room so I don't wake up the wife getting ready for work.
Ceiling fans every where for air movement.
Generator plug on sub panel, so a generator can be plugged in during power outages.
Ceiling, and walls in master bedroom insulated..... in case wife gets a little load

 

[TacomaJD]

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Anybody got any numbers on the cost difference between brick and block? As of now, I'm not much of a fan of hardy board.

 

[TBItoy]

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Anybody got any numbers on the cost difference between brick and block? As of now, I'm not much of a fan of hardy board.

You mean brick and vinyl siding?

 

[BustedKnucklefilms]

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Anybody got any numbers on the cost difference between brick and block? As of now, I'm not much of a fan of hardy board.

they make Vinyl Siding that looks like Cedar Shakes or Hardy. That is what is on my house. That and Rock.

 

[TacomaJD]

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You mean brick and vinyl siding?

**** balls, yes. I was half asleep when I posted that. Just had woke up haha.

they make Vinyl Siding that looks like Cedar Shakes or Hardy. That is what is on my house. That and Rock.

Awesome, yer house is badass! I like the rock and vinyl mix!

 

[ROKTOY829]

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Guy that is going to black in my house, told me 400 +/-$ per 1000 brick.

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[jeeptj99]

What do you have against hardie? besides its a pain to install?

 

[TBItoy]

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**** painting a house.

 

[TacomaJD]

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**** painting a house.

This.

I heard insurance companies will usually give you breaks like a brick house if you use hardy, but I'm not down for my soding looking like a giant turd and needing painting every 10 years or less.

My current house is over 11 yrs old and vinyl still looks brand new. Which it's still early in age though. Ideally, I want brick, but if it comes down to having to downsize the house in order to afford brick, I had rather go vinyl and have the house size that is sufficient for our needs. Plus - I can build a nice shop for the difference in vinyl and brick.

I will probably opt for paved driveway instead of concrete to save a little too.

 

[halcat]

Guy that is going to black in my house, told me 400 +/-$ per 1000 brick.

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I don't know anybody that will do brick for 400 a k, you better hire him. I pay the spaniards $600 plus extras. With any window outlining and quoins you can have as much as $1,000 a thousand plus the brick which is , with mortar, also $500 a k . vinyl, the good stuff, is about $140 a square to buy and about $70 to install. Your 1700 sq ft house will take about 15 to 17,000 brick ad about 20 sq siding. I would defiantly recommend a brick house if you had to build a 800 sq ft house to afford it. If in any neighbor hood with traffic or noise it really helps. Plus if you use the spaniards to lay your brick, they lay a 17 k house for me in about three days.

 

[5BrothersFabrication]

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I don't have much to add other than make sure you put an electrical outlet near this crapper. Taking a dump and your phone dying can be pretty traumatic.

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Troof.

 

[ROKTOY829]

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I don't know anybody that will do brick for 400 a k, you better hire him. I pay the spaniards $600 plus extras. With any window outlining and quoins you can have as much as $1,000 a thousand plus the brick which is , with mortar, also $500 a k . vinyl, the good stuff, is about $140 a square to buy and about $70 to install. Your 1700 sq ft house will take about 15 to 17,000 brick ad about 20 sq siding. I would defiantly recommend a brick house if you had to build a 800 sq ft house to afford it. If in any neighbor hood with traffic or noise it really helps. Plus if you use the spaniards to lay your brick, they lay a 17 k house for me in about three days.

That's what he was saying, so I will see. Insurance told me it would be cheaper and since I will be building in no mans land ( 5 miles from a fire dept for the iso rating ) I will be doing it, if I have cheap out on other stuff

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[TacomaJD]

So probably about $15k difference in brick over vinyl. That's not too bad at all. We may go with something like 1500-1600 sq ft living space, 600 sq ft attached garage, and something else I've been looking into is concrete porches. Hell with wood porches that look like **** after 10 years from me never taking the time to stain/seal them...lol. I want to build as maintenance free as possible. I hate always having **** to fix/repair/rebuild. I want to do it once and be done, which is another reason to try to incorporate brick over vinyl, I suppose.

 

[halcat]

I used vertical vinyl on the easy side (morning) of the house to break it up a little (my house is two story in the back and 5500 sq ft) it look pretty plain with solid brick that big. I used brick and stacked stone on the front and looks real good. Trex decks and stamped concrete. I built this in 07 ad all I've done is painted the exterior doors. I have a gated subdivision that I'm building 1500 ft on the first floor with 250 ft bonus room upstairs, all brick, Good vinyl windows, custom cabinets with corian tops, pecs water with on demand water heaters, tile in all wet areas, alarm system, fire place, concrete drive, mailbox, sodded yards, landscaping, concrete back porch, double car garage, open floor plan , in a gated community for $205,000.00 and making money. you can be in these houses and not hear a thing until somebody rings the doorbell. Also blown wall insulation with calk package, that helps the brick knock out all the noise. noise is a big factor in older people.

 

[TacomaJD]

I used vertical vinyl on the easy side (morning) of the house to break it up a little (my house is two story in the back and 5500 sq ft) it look pretty plain with solid brick that big. I used brick and stacked stone on the front and looks real good. Trex decks and stamped concrete. I built this in 07 ad all I've done is painted the exterior doors. I have a gated subdivision that I'm building 1500 ft on the first floor with 250 ft bonus room upstairs, all brick, Good vinyl windows, custom cabinets with corian tops, pecs water with on demand water heaters, tile in all wet areas, alarm system, fire place, concrete drive, mailbox, sodded yards, landscaping, concrete back porch, double car garage, open floor plan , in a gated community for $205,000.00 and making money. you can be in these houses and not hear a thing until somebody rings the doorbell. Also blown wall insulation with calk package, that helps the brick knock out all the noise. noise is a big factor in older people.

That one for 205 sounds about like what we want.

I didn't think about composite decking, that may be an option! I love the look of a wood deck, just don't like the maintenance. Reckon the Trex would be cheaper than concrete porches with wooden bannisters?

 

[halcat]

If your back porch is on the ground, no. If you have to dig a footer and lay blocks to get the right height, yes. Your composite deck still uses regular p.t. Lumber for framing just the decking AND railing is composite. If you use a concrete porch with railing it needs to be composite anyway. You can get it in any color and remember even IT comes in good, better, and what you really need!!