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CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
September 06, 2009
09:20 PM Post #7034207
| We are adding to our house. We will double the size of the living room & also the master bedroom.
Also will have a 10 ft x 18 ft room. Kind of an extra room. It will have lots of windows facing our flower gardens. Can be used as a family room. It will be my new office. It's in a small bedroom now & that don't work good.
I started tearing off an old porch today. Burned the wood tonight. I was going to finish the mess tomorrow, but both front tires on my tractor took on nails. Can't fix them until Tuesday.
Power company & electrician are coming the 16th to upgrade our electric. We are way under powered.
I'll add some pictures tomorrow.
Bernie |
henryr10
Cincinnati, OH
(Zone 6b)
September 06, 2009
10:30 PM Post #7034501
| Excellent news Bernie!
Well not the nails in tires bit but... lol!
GOOD Luck!
Ric |
adinamiti
Bucuresti
Romania
September 07, 2009
01:36 AM Post #7035020
| Bernie, that's great! Can't wait to see the pics! Be sure to take lots, we don't want to miss anything!
Adina |
CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
September 07, 2009
02:12 PM Post #7036715
| Here's our start. Addition will go on front & part way up the right side. 
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adinamiti
Bucuresti
Romania
September 15, 2009
04:15 AM Post #7065984
| I think it's going to look great! |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
September 16, 2009
02:15 PM Post #7070814
| Will the addition continue the current roof lines? I'm trying to imagine what you're describing. |
CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
September 21, 2009
04:19 PM Post #7088578
| Roof will be a little different, but will look like it was never added on to, just all built at once.
Bernie |
henryr10
Cincinnati, OH
(Zone 6b)
September 21, 2009
08:52 PM Post #7089678
| Well about time you got home and back to work on the addition... ;-)
All rested up and ready to go?
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CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
September 21, 2009
09:19 PM Post #7089818
| Electric things are backed up a week. Supposed to happen Wednesday.
After driving 1992 miles in hills & curves, -----------!
Leaving Davenport, IA Monday morning. Hwy 52 north.
This message was edited Sep 21, 2009 8:23 PM
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henryr10
Cincinnati, OH
(Zone 6b)
September 21, 2009
09:26 PM Post #7089844
| Bernie you need a vacation from your vacation! |
MistyMeadows
Payneville, KY
(Zone 7a)
September 24, 2009
10:48 AM Post #7099298
| Bernie, I can't tell if that water is supposed to be there or not! It's look not...but...there's been a lot of rain this week.
I am so envious of Bertha...getting her house redone. LOL. A farmer AND a carpenter, all in one...she's got a gem!
What will you do with the outside of the house? Paint? Siding?
You are just always such a busy beaver.
Kathy |
CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
September 24, 2009
11:36 AM Post #7099447
| It will match this. Vinyl siding with cedar wood trim around windows.
Window boxes on all south side windows.
I took a picture of a porch I like & will copy to put on the front. Maybe next year before that's done. Got to ration the money & only do what can be paid for.
Bernie
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MistyMeadows
Payneville, KY
(Zone 7a)
September 24, 2009
12:52 PM Post #7099666
| And when can you come to my house and start working on my house? LOL |
CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
September 24, 2009
01:01 PM Post #7099702
| Maybe right after I do cabinets for a couple in Nashville & another south of Louisville.
I think there are another ½ dozen on the list, too.
I'll have to make a portable shop! LOL!
Bernie |
porkpal
Richmond, TX
September 24, 2009
01:17 PM Post #7099754
| I love the look of your house. Even if I could enlist your aid, nothing could make our house that attractive! |
MistyMeadows
Payneville, KY
(Zone 7a)
September 24, 2009
07:54 PM Post #7101133
| Hey, that's a good idea. Bernie's Mobile Carpentry...we go where no one else dared go...Car. Trek!
Well, gosh south of Lville isn't far from us...you could kill two birds with one stone. Problem would be us having the green for you..LOL |
CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 02, 2009
03:02 PM Post #7234200
| House is going fast now.
This is earlier this morning.
Sill plates are on.
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CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 02, 2009
03:05 PM Post #7234214
| Then we lined the inside with pink foam insulation. 
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CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 02, 2009
03:07 PM Post #7234221
| When we stopped for noon lunch, floor joists were all in place. 
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henryr10
Cincinnati, OH
(Zone 6b)
November 02, 2009
04:40 PM Post #7234505
| Looks GREAT!
You all are cranking!
Curious:
What's the practice there in MN on a vapor barrier on the crawlspace floor/dirt?
Do you bottom insulate between the joists?
Ric |
CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 02, 2009
05:30 PM Post #7234640
| No. This will be open to the basement. So will be nice & dry.
We have no building code here, so we can build it right instead of doing some of the dumb things the "Powers to Be" think should be done.
We are even building the floor the old fashioned way. A subfloor & a finished floor. (Spell check never heard of subfloor!)
Floor is all on now & we will start walls shortly.
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henryr10
Cincinnati, OH
(Zone 6b)
November 02, 2009
11:03 PM Post #7235854
| The Corner is turned!
Onward and Upward! |
adinamiti
Bucuresti
Romania
November 03, 2009
05:31 AM Post #7236456
| Great job, Bernie! Nice to see how things are going on.
Adina |
MistyMeadows
Payneville, KY
(Zone 7a)
November 03, 2009
10:53 AM Post #7236994
| Bernie, Will you be taking the walls out where the door is now?
We had an issue this past weekend. Something was tearing up our door jamb. We'd come home and a pile of "mud, wood, etc" was at the door. At first I thought it was these salamanders that I've been finding lately (about 5 inches long). Then the other night I heard digging really loud by the door..looked and couldn't see what was doing it, but it was making a hole into the inside of the cellarway...thought surely it had to be a mouse. Sunday came home from church and our concrete is all tore up at the bottom of the stairs and piles of "mud" all over the place, where the dirt under the concrete floor has been rooted up. Never have seen anything like it. Then out of a small pile of leaves that had blown down there...comes a mole!!!! Not a little one either. Now I'm wondering, how did that thing get into my door jamb and do so much destruction?
Bernie, have you ever seen this happen? |
CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 03, 2009
11:06 AM Post #7237027
| No.
From the door to the left of it the wall comes out. That is the living room.
About doubles the size of it. |
CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 04, 2009
07:53 PM Post #7242109
| Rained on us yesterday. Today started cold. We got going after lunch.
Walls are up, we will try & figure out the roof next.
This will be the addition to the bedroom. Closet goes in the corner where the cross blocking is.
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CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 04, 2009
07:55 PM Post #7242119
| This is the living room addition. 
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CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 04, 2009
07:56 PM Post #7242124
| This will be my new office! 
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CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 04, 2009
08:01 PM Post #7242142
| Tonight I am demo the old bath tub.
New walkin shower going in & no window!
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MistyMeadows
Payneville, KY
(Zone 7a)
November 04, 2009
08:36 PM Post #7242294
| Bernie, What do you heat with? With the addition be heated the same way? In the first picture I saw a blue sided building, what is that building?
Oh, I wish I could build...I know I could, but I would be afraid to live in it.
:) Kathy |
CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 04, 2009
08:44 PM Post #7242321
| The little one on the right is an old single car garage converted to our Antique shop. No longer in that business, so it is storage.
The one to the left is our cabinet shop. We built that about 4 years ago.
We build something every year with garden profit.
Next year we are going to tear down an old hog house & rebuild it twice as big for a tool shop & a 2 car garage.
After that we may have to stop & enjoy it all! |
MistyMeadows
Payneville, KY
(Zone 7a)
November 04, 2009
09:39 PM Post #7242538
| You are so motivated...I love it! |
henryr10
Cincinnati, OH
(Zone 6b)
November 04, 2009
09:49 PM Post #7242567
| Looks great Bernie!
Got a time table to when you'll have it buttoned up?
At the rate you all are cranking it can't be long.
Don't you love the surprises behind those tub surrounds...lol!
I've torn down 4 now and never found anything pretty.
Cast Iron tub coming out?
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CountryGardens
Lewisville, MN
(Zone 4a)
November 04, 2009
10:13 PM Post #7242638
| I put this together a number of years ago. Big problem was the window. Water got behind the sheeting & caused mold.
I have a one piece molded walkin shower. |
henryr10
Cincinnati, OH
(Zone 6b)
November 04, 2009
10:32 PM Post #7242695
| It seems to always find it's way in on the multi-piece units.
Add a window and... we had the exact setup on the one we demo'd last Spring.
Same mold results but termites had found the wet wood.
It's all better now.
Like the one piece units. Much more reliable.
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adinamiti
Bucuresti
Romania
November 06, 2009
04:46 AM Post #7246709
| Bernie, it's looking great and so fast done! And what a great view! |
