Nights and Weekends for 2 years (pic heavy)

[redxblack]

but red is the fastest color!  [moto]

[Slide Panda]

Very cool! Got to be a great feeling getting into the home stretch.

Fan of the exposed beam look. One day...

[mitt]

Awesome job and nice house design and taste as well.  I thought the same thing about the radiant manifold in the first pic being too low, but I don't know anything?

How did you decide to do timber instead of frame?  Seems like a challenge for a first timer?

mitt

[DucNaked]

A beautiful job, and very well done! (And that's from a carpenter with 23 years experience)
Question;
In pic #5, it looks like the manifold for the radiant floor heat under the basement slab is too low. You brought it up before the pour, yes?

Nope.... I boxed around it and removed the "form" after I poured the floor.

[DucNaked]

what is the platform on the roof in the last pic? some sort of connecting deck?

It's a small deck over my front door

[DucNaked]

No basement?  I know a lot of stated don't do basements depending on the area..

Looks great man.. like it all cept for the red..

I have a full daylight basement. It's pretty cool I can drive the Ducs right in the french doors for the winter.

[DucNaked]

Awesome job and nice house design and taste as well.  I thought the same thing about the radiant manifold in the first pic being too low, but I don't know anything?

How did you decide to do timber instead of frame?  Seems like a challenge for a first timer?

mitt

In all honesty I did it to save money. One lamb beam cost more than all of the hemlock beams. My uncle showed me a barn he built and said he'd give me a hand installing them on my build. It cost me only $600 for all the hemlock beams I used. I had plenty of hands on deck the day we put them up.

[Randimus Maximus]

Looks great!

Well done!

[Doctor Woodrow]

In the first thread you asked us to cut you some slack . . . You don't need slack, you need a hand, you need a commendation, you need a slap on the back. Thank you for all your hard work. I plan on building my own house one day and you have helped to inspire and fuel my dream. Plus seeing your heated floor using PEX has only more firmly cemented in my mind that I want to do the same, and now I have some real-life reference pictures to refer to.

The Doc

[DucNaked]

In the first thread you asked us to cut you some slack . . . You don't need slack, you need a hand, you need a commendation, you need a slap on the back. Thank you for all your hard work. I plan on building my own house one day and you have helped to inspire and fuel my dream. Plus seeing your heated floor using PEX has only more firmly cemented in my mind that I want to do the same, and now I have some real-life reference pictures to refer to.

The Doc

I'm really glad we went with the radiant heat. The pex is a pain in the ass to work with. My wife did most of installation because at that point in the build my patience had worn very thin.  
We got our plans and material from radiantec.com

[DucNaked]

Form for masterbath vanity sink


After form was stripped


Mock up

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Kitchen counter right after I took the form off


Sink and counter in action after my pit rolled in turkey shit




Counter tops I did for a friend

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Tiling masterbath

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Front Steps


Testing

[DucNaked]

Done, for now



Fuel