governorsam Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 When I did my deck at home it was about a grand cheaper to use threaded rod instead of bolts. Stainless is spendy stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 Tell me about it, tho the price on threaded rod is comparable.. might've saved $100 if I'd gone that way but then that would've been lost in the cutting time of 300 bolts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 Discovered today that firth fucked the concrete order up and gave me 40mpa concrete instead of 25.. shouldn't snap in a hurry. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted October 29, 2016 Author Share Posted October 29, 2016 Bam..     Took all of 1 1/2 hours for 2.5k.. could have done it myself but they were ready to go 18hrs after I enquired..    Still had to do a small amount of pushing it around today to align it properly.. now just have to stitch it together, and plumb it, and wire it, drainage, sewer, gib, insulation, cladding blah blah etc etc..  Traced most of the wires in the rear half back to the db, went to do the front half and discovered that after being marked and cut when the house was split that some awesome cunt had cut all bar three cables, awesome. As annoying as it is it should be a fairly simple rewire thanks to my great asbestos friends removing all the gib from the ceiling in the living areas.. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted October 30, 2016 Author Share Posted October 30, 2016 Just put a pic up of it down..   Doesn't look so imposing now.. the old lady's been doing some pretty solid work down there while I do my real job, stripped all the lino of the floor in the bathroom/toilet, cleaned up all the mess around the house and stacked all the stye timber up the front, pulled out the existing oven, started stripping the old wall paper and the cork flooring from the kitchen/laundry.. she must really want us out of  her house..      Also finally sat down and actually made a list/timeline for all the jobs left to get it to code..   Not sure if you can see but god damn there's allot to do in 3 months.. think I might be living in a caravan soon.. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 .. pics no worky worky.. does someone know why?  Dammit.. just wrote a big post and it got deleted so I'll start again..  November for some reason was a very quiet month on the house, got a few things done but fuck all really, was busy buying taps and plumbing shit, bought a lot of taps.. choice is good. Also bought a rimu sideboard as a vanity for the bathroom and an acrylic slipper bath.. hopefully that will arrive on the 3rd all going to plan..  Did manage to get the beam up in the lounge.. took all of 2 hours..  {img]http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y301/yetchh1/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG2787_zps7zdkoadn.jpg[/img]   Ceiling joists are tied in with 90deg ceiling ties  Gives a much better feeling of space,    Also moved the door in the bathroom to a more central position to allow for the vanity on one side and the bath on the other,   To this   Also got the drain layer in to let me know what and where to dig trenches, didn't get a pick of the bomb site that ensued.. well there's a half pick with the drains in..  But I found the storm water and sewer, trenches followed,   Sewers below the old storm water,   This is the only real shot of the trenches after the sewer was put in,   Suffice to say it was a fucken mess, and come December I decided I wanted to get a preline inspection and power on before Christmas.. I was miles off. Did get the sewer and half the storm water in, originally I wanted the stormwater hugging the found but the drainage guy squids the council preferred it about a meter out from the house, so I dug a trench there, when the plumber laid the stormwater he said there wasn't enough fall in the trench and I should fill in around the house so I could lay it in close to the found.. #@%!! Annoying, as I got the digger three times to do other shit and could have smashed that out quick as.. anyway.  Engineer wanted straps around the bracing modules and to link the original bearers together,  On The opening studs of every window, and braced corner   A double row on the bearers,   Shit shot, but you get the idea,  Dug a trench to the boundary for power and coms etc, spewing about not getting power in earlier, luckily I have a fucken great elderly neighbor who's selling me power. Getting a three phase connection as it's $400 dearer that single, and the cables cheaper for some reason.. sparkies happy for me to run all the cabling which is fucken great as he's expensive, good/fast but expensive and likes to talk..   Had to leave extra in the trench for when the garage goes in, also an extra 12m at the boundary for Orion to connect to the pole, 62m all up.. So up till now, I levelled out most of the rest of the section except for the sewer, and just today finished 90% of the ecoply barrier. As the house is older and set up for masonry, all the studs are centered at 450mm which is fucken annoying, wasted a couple of sheets cutting them to 900s, then realised I'd have to go with a structural horizontal cavity batten as there's no nailing for 1200 sheets of ply.. that stressed me the fuck out for a day until I discovered the company's making such battens and my architect saying its all good. Works out much better anyway as he had my windows being set right out on the casings which meant no reveal.. no reveal=shit. But now that the cavity battens are 45mm I should get about 35mm of reveal... you'll get it when I start that bit..  House looked a fucken mess,   But family in to lend a hand which resulted in this,   And this,   Also had to add nail plates at 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 That's a lot of work. Not sure why the pics don't work - even the IMG link from PB doesn't work like usual   Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 Yet all the other pics seem to work.. hmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheepers Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 id love to see some pix so i really hope you figure it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 They work if you click on them.. they just don't show up on the thread page.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bling Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Got a water heater location sussed? (chuck a pic up) Good idea to have a bunch of timber in the wall for fixing for that. 200mm wide by 1m or so, to allow for the height to be adjusted to suit, water heater will be 600mm high roughly. Pics look good when clicked, a lot of work involved eh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 Yeah bro, heaps.. as for the califont there's two locations for the heater, Â both are accessible from the inside, if your happy to come out and scope it you could give me an idea of where to put it.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bling Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 That's all good then, should be able to come for a squiz before I go back to work. Will see how house chores go here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Sweet, I'll be around everyday up until about the 23rd when i go back to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kws Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 The issue you are having with the photos is that photobucket sucks now. Use a different host like Imgur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Didn't suck that bad.. found it easier than Flickr, only now have issues with new site, won't even let me post an image from a URL.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Try Imgur. It is an OS problem as I just tried your photo links on an old phpBB forum, a SMF forum and an AMASS forum and they worked perfectly on all. Â But at the end of the day Photobucket sucks crusty ass. Just playing around with your image links I've been informed that I've won billions of dollars, there's sexy singles waiting for me and it turns out the Lindbergh baby is my grandfather Imgur is easier to use than PB and works well, iforce is super simple and just straight out works. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raizer Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Spent 4 seconds copying the link you posted and uploading to imgur  2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yetchh Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Hah, that was a test of an existing pic.. maybe I should change hosts, tho I had a go with Flickr and found to slow and fiddly. As shit as pb is its real easy to post pics.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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