We’re finally doing it!!

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You're moving right along! Will you sleeve a wall for the water line to come in underground? Might beat the heck out of drilling it, lol. I just discovered that around here, it is now code that you have to bury a small copper wire with any poly pipe so that it can be located in the future if need be. If you have a well, you'd be doing that anyway, but now you have to do it on city water too. I wish I'd done it on my septic lines when I built my house. I dug several practice holes finding my cleanout lid a few years ago because the tank wasn't where I "just knew" it was! LOL. Enjoy your build!
 
JDMopar said:
You're moving right along! Will you sleeve a wall for the water line to come in underground? Might beat the heck out of drilling it, lol. I just discovered that around here, it is now code that you have to bury a small copper wire with any poly pipe so that it can be located in the future if need be. If you have a well, you'd be doing that anyway, but now you have to do it on city water too. I wish I'd done it on my septic lines when I built my house. I dug several practice holes finding my cleanout lid a few years ago because the tank wasn't where I "just knew" it was! LOL. Enjoy your build!
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Yes, infact it’s already installed. There will also be 2- four inch drain tiles around the perimeter as well, back filled with gravel and sand, then the clay on top. Plus a sump pump. Once poured, the walls will get sealed even though we’re using the additive that they usually use on concretewater towers to seal that concrete, then closed cell spray foam insulation on both sides.

Hopefully that’ll be enough to fully seal it. Should be overkill when you look at our codes.
 
The way I see it, there's no such thing as overkill when sealing below grade basement walls. Mine are concrete blocks on footers. They were parged with a coat of concrete, then I put on 2 coats of Thoroseal, then 2 coats of black mammy. I used two 4" drains in a couple feet of washed gravel. It's been there since 1987 and never a damp spot. :)
 
JDMopar said:
The way I see it, there's no such thing as overkill when sealing below grade basement walls. Mine are concrete blocks on footers. They were parged with a coat of concrete, then I put on 2 coats of Thoroseal, then 2 coats of black mammy. I used two 4" drains in a couple feet of washed gravel. It's been there since 1987 and never a damp spot. :)
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Nice.

Theses will be poured walls, 8 inch thick, solid with fibers, m10 grade(the same stuff they used to make gov bomb shelters) with steel reinforcement wire and 5/8 rebar.
 
After 6 weeks of waiting, we finally have water on site! Electric comes tomorrow. Eventually I’ll drive a well but I don’t feel up to post driving a well 200 ft nor paying 150-200 dollars per foot to drill one right now

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County water tap? When I first glanced at the pic, I thought it was a 5 gallon bucket buried, but then I saw the metal lid, lol. Is the line from the house to the meter already in? That was the line I mentioned in a post above that you should bury a copper wire with the pipe, so it could be located in the future.
 
JDMopar said:
County water tap? When I first glanced at the pic, I thought it was a 5 gallon bucket buried, but then I saw the metal lid, lol. Is the line from the house to the meter already in? That was the line I mentioned in a post above that you should bury a copper wire with the pipe, so it could be located in the future.
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It’s ran but not buried. I was waiting for the meter drop to be installed and connected so I can check each T and connection for leaks before burying.

What size copper wire?
 

It doesn't need to be big. It will just lay with the pipe unless you ever need to use it for someone to hook a locater to it to mark your water line. Just leave a foot or two in the meter box and zip tie it to the water line on your side of the meter. It doesn't need to be hooked to anything. You can zip tie it to your water line every 6 or 8 feet before you toss the line in the ditch. Then just run it up the wall where the water line enters, or just tape it to the water line and poke it thru the sleeve into the basement. Its sole purpose is to be in the ditch with the plastic water line, so there will be something metallic to hook to with an electronic locater to find exactly where the line is 20 years from now, if you need to dig and don't want to cut it. A locate machine is pretty much a transmitter and receiver. You hook the transmitter to one end of the wire, then use the receiver to follow the path and mark. If you ever have to use it for locates even once, it will be worth the cost of the wire. If you know any guys who work for the cable tv or telephone company, they may be able to snag you what you need. Gas company guys are even better sources, because they have rolls of wire specifically for that purpose because they us it on all plastic gas lines. Home Depot probably has spools of #6 copper. I've suggested it because I wish I'd done it when I built my house. I needed to dig up the lid of my septic tank a few years ago to have it pumped and thought I knew exactly where to dig. It had been way too long since the last pumping.....and I dug 4 or 5 practice holes before I gave up and ran a long piece of guy wire down thru a cleanout and hooked a locater to it. I was off by 10 or 15'....lol. I kinda/sorta know where my water line is, but I hope I never have to dig it up. Everything you can do now to make it easier on the "Old" you 20 or 30 years from now if this is your forever home, you won't regret.

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JDMopar said:
It doesn't need to be big. It will just lay with the pipe unless you ever need to use it for someone to hook a locater to it to mark your water line. Just leave a foot or two in the meter box and zip tie it to the water line on your side of the meter. It doesn't need to be hooked to anything. You can zip tie it to your water line every 6 or 8 feet before you toss the line in the ditch. Then just run it up the wall where the water line enters, or just tape it to the water line and poke it thru the sleeve into the basement. Its sole purpose is to be in the ditch with the plastic water line, so there will be something metallic to hook to with an electronic locater to find exactly where the line is 20 years from now, if you need to dig and don't want to cut it. A locate machine is pretty much a transmitter and receiver. You hook the transmitter to one end of the wire, then use the receiver to follow the path and mark. If you ever have to use it for locates even once, it will be worth the cost of the wire. If you know any guys who work for the cable tv or telephone company, they may be able to snag you what you need. Gas company guys are even better sources, because they have rolls of wire specifically for that purpose because they us it on all plastic gas lines. Home Depot probably has spools of #6 copper. I've suggested it because I wish I'd done it when I built my house. I needed to dig up the lid of my septic tank a few years ago to have it pumped and thought I knew exactly where to dig. It had been way too long since the last pumping.....and I dug 4 or 5 practice holes before I gave up and ran a long piece of guy wire down thru a cleanout and hooked a locater to it. I was off by 10 or 15'....lol. I kinda/sorta know where my water line is, but I hope I never have to dig it up. Everything you can do now to make it easier on the "Old" you 20 or 30 years from now if this is your forever home, you won't regret.

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Gotcha. I’ll look into it. Needing 600 feet of it though might get pricey. I’ll definitely check though
 
Actually far less expensive than I expect. 100 bucks for 500 feet for copper burial tracer wire. I will definitely go get that today before I bury the rest of the line.
 
Loads of progress today.

We have electric on site finally.

Form walls for the basement are going up. Finally

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That's great that you got power. Is that the temp meter base, or a permanent one where you run power from there to your house? I'd love to know how many of those transformers I've set, hooked up, opened and worked in the 45 years I worked as a lineman for the power company. You're moving along well. Hopefully you can get it in the dry before snow flies!
 
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That's great that you got power. Is that the temp meter base, or a permanent one where you run power from there to your house? I'd love to know how many of those transformers I've set, hooked up, opened and worked in the 45 years I worked as a lineman for the power company. You're moving along well. Hopefully you can get it in the dry before snow flies!
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Both. Temp panel right next to perm one.
 
We had some weather delays and material back orders to work thru but the basement is finally completed. Plans are for framing to start sometime late next week or the week of Halloween. Slightly behind my initial best case scenario timeline but overall happy with the progress.

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Septic going in finally. Framing possibly next week! One slight hiccup to figure out is do we move the trusses since the delivery driver didn’t follow the brightly colored signs directing where we wanted them and decided to dump them right nowhere the septic hook ups to the house go :BangHead: . Not really got anything capable of picking that bundle up so we may just have to wait it out

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It is fun to watch the progress. I have not built a house but we did some major remodeling. It is a slow process sometimes.
 
toolmanmike said:
It is fun to watch the progress. I have not built a house but we did some major remodeling. It is a slow process sometimes.
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It’s definitely an experience to say the least. I’m just anxious right now. Once the skeleton is up, I can take it the rest of the way if we have too. Till then, I’m stuck
 
dukeboy440 said:
It’s definitely an experience to say the least. I’m just anxious right now. Once the skeleton is up, I can take it the rest of the way if we have too. Till then, I’m stuck
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Just wait till the framing is up and it get's weather tight with sealed walls etc. Then all the fun begins. Drywall is another milestone. The finish work takes forever. LOL
 
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