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Yep, build a house and flip it back on the market.

Come visit the mad house here :lol: :gig

No an actual second house will be tossed in the truck. This one of only 1600 square feet for a property we own in town. Modest starter home that will be affordable is what we are going for. Yeah I have a list of homes we need to build. One of the properties we bought out here were going to put a...

After 5 quotes for our house build over a month of bantering back and forth trying to get quotes from ICF suppliers to get the best deal we have finally made a decision. Price per a block Shipping costs Delivery time Delivery to here Do they have ICF roof panels too if so how much Is there...

I somehow have gotten the name "man on the mountain" stuck to me when they ask for my services out here, creepy. Power put in to two structures, firebreak created around a house, and prep work for a slab done that is going in this Friday. That's just week one, this guy claims if he was living...

Nothing better than sitting here on a warm Sunday morning drinking coffee and our cat brings a live bunny upstairs into the house. Yep cheap entertainment.... round and round they go :lol:

The wife keeps calling me the black knight and showed me one day what she meant.

Going to be sore in the morning... Replacing a bushing on a trailer axle, no not your Harbor Freight trailer axles. One on those cattle pot trailers pulled by semis. Welp, was knocking bushing out and it fell onto my right knee the one the pig bit and tore into. All 400 plus pounds was enough...

Thanks, I'm sure if the people with million dollar homes knew of me I would be doing work for them too. Just not many of such clients and I'm unheard of for the most part. Kind of nice since I am busy without being known.

Remember that over half a million dollar home that sold up the road from me... Yeah I'm tearing the place up and getting paid for it :gig Took out about 40 trees for clearance from the house for firebreak and running over 300 feet of trenches for power I will install later. New owner said I was...

I'm going to try to buy a grader this construction season, I've had enough of their lackadaisical ways of back here. After 10 miles from the interstate they figure us "peasants" as they see it don't need services. Could net a $10k fine, but I'm going to "accidentally" drop the grader blade on...

Nothing better than to get a call from the wife saying she slid off the road in a snow storm. They redid the road awhile back as in slap stick job so if you get anywhere near the edge within a foot you lose it snow or dry. She got over for some arsehole, stopped and it started sliding sideways...

Snow storm came in last night, nice 4 inches on the ground, yep still winter...

I went even as far as orientating the house 15° towards the west from due south for more heat in the winter time based on our latitude lines. Radon system will be installed, thermal mass that the winter sun can hit inside the house and that's why it looks like a funnel in the front, gather much...

I have thought of that. Problem with a flat framed structure is nowhere for the wind to go except push equally on all windows/walls. Now look at the two buttresses on the side of the house, that creates what I would call truck bed effect, wind fills up the cavity (truck bed) area and any excess...

You can thank the wife for that one. She wanted a bay window to sit by to read so I took what materials I have on hand and designed it as such, just came out to larger than usual bay windows at 92 inches tall by 75 inches wide.

On the happy side of things.... I tossed Revit out the door, too cumbersome. Looks pretty sophisticated on Revit, but I can do just as much if not more damage on SketchUp for eighth of the price. Burned through about 80 gallons of diesel to do that, cheaper than paying a contractor.

I'm the dumpster fire that brings light to the darkness :lol:

That is how this whole problem came about. I applied to get it, called asking a question about well drilling and they didn't like I was doing so, so they dug up my well log I filed and my water rights. Must do 1 year apprenticeship with a licensed well driller in which one of the two is the head...