It's normal for Concrete Truck Operators to dump excess concrete and clean the tumbler so the concrete doesn't set inside. You can direct the Concrete Contractor to dump the excess concrete and water residue in one spot so it will be easier to control and to remove later time.

Wow. My wallet hurts looking at all that concrete work!!! I'm behind so I get to see the build in sped up time ;)

@This1LifeWeLive

Ай бұрын

LOL, so is Erik's!

The hurricane straps are normal to be set at roughly 4”. Depending on the width of your wall they are easily bendable to conform to any width sill plate. As for the dug out area near the daylight wall… it is dug out deeper at the jump so when you backfill you still have 42” of frost protection on your 3’6” wall. Hope that makes sense. Enjoy your new project!

Great stuff Suzanne, Erik and Earen, taking shape nicely👌👍🙏😎

Yep the cement is normal, use it as back fill. Also the 2x4 vs 2x6 wall studs isn't an issue as well, there will be a bottom plate put down that will be 2x6 and they will drill the holes to match up to those studs sticking up. From my understanding they put them like that so there will be more pressure towards the outside of the house to help stop any water that might try to get in,or at least that is what I was told many many years ago when my house was built.

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

Correct, we found out that it can indeed fit a 2x6 :)

O M G Suzanne !!! You fought hard for this. CONGRATULATIONS 🎉

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

Thankyou!!

Nice video Suzanne. You're off to a good start. It's normal for them to leave the cement when they clean the pump truck out. Take care and have a blessed and safe Memorial day 🙏

Your new home is going to be AMAZING!! 😁😁😁💗💗💗 You asked about the weather. I live in central Mississippi, and we had 96F today, with probably 95% humidity. Summer is definitely here. 🥵 Not a month ago, it was in the mid-70s for highs. 😂

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

Ohhhhh wow! Yeah and for that reason I have NEVER been further south than TN, lol! That weather sounds like torture :o But hopefully the weather makes up for itself by providing lovely winters??

@AgentPepsi1

2 ай бұрын

@@This1LifeWeLive You should come visit around Thanksgiving. The weather is typically incredible... in the 60s, with lots of sunshine and blue skies. The period from early November to late April is my favorite time of the year as the temperatures and humidity are reasonable. I would love to see Northern Michigan though; it's such a beautiful countryside. Sadly the only time I have been in Michigan is to change planes in Detroit.

Great vide Suzanne!!! Plus the concert mess your talking about isn’t a big deal, if you can use it as back fill not against the house but like in the area where you were talking about the board and 9’ tall wall. That way you guys don’t have to have it hauled away

I like the idea of a safe room since the build in a tornado zone. As long as the foundation is up tp PSI specks and is placed well, the extra concrete will be covered over on the back fill. Don't forget waste holes for the waste, water and power. Some people have sheets of channeled insulation added to the outside of foundation for the water dispertion around the building perimeter, depending on the area building codes.

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

So in our area they have to run drain tile and a collection tank on the outside alongwith gravel before they backfill, and the walkout basement wall has to have 2ft of 2" foamboard on the inside, presumably to prevent frost coming through? That one might be a newer code as neither the building supply company knew about it, nor the excavators, but the concrete guys told us :)

Coming along good

awesome, I just love all the little birds house is c coming along

Hi Susan thanks for the video of your new house, how is Erik doing? It's graduation weekend here and all the seniors are done with school 🏫 we've had plenty of rain, my field has some water in it, my riding mower broke down the belt slipped off the spindle, now I have to get that fixed, always something, have a good monorail weekend 🚜🇺🇲🇺🇲

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

Of course the mower broke right as the grass gets thick, hahha! Hopefully it's an easy fix! Erik is doing good, not 100% yet and chomping at the bit to get the stone fully out, but he's happy he's not swimming in pain anymore ;)

Wow, great progress on the home. Dumping excess concrete is normal. They can’t keep it in the truck because it will harden and ruin the truck. However, they really should’ve asked you where to dump it.

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

That makes sense :)

Nice! Enjoy

I hope all those footers and walls have rebar in them for structural integrity? Especially when a few of them will be retaining walls?

@This1LifeWeLive

26 күн бұрын

Yes they do! It might not show up well on video, but they go all the way down :)

I love your video your home is gonna be really beautiful. That crazy pheasant lol. And I love your farm animals lol. Can't wait to see your new home. 👍🏽

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

Thankyou, I appreciate it!

@BigBear-qr4zn

2 ай бұрын

@@This1LifeWeLive ya welcome 😁👍🏽

You have so much going on this year for videos. I really enjoyed this. I don't know about your walls. I thought they set threaded rod in the pour to secure treated boards laying flat on it. You lay your floor trusses across it. The pheasant may be on the roof to avoid the dogs.

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

They do have treated boards on the ends, the brackets are for the walls. Erik did find out they are universal for 2x6 or 2x4 since most are switching to 2x6 for walls these days anyway :)

I wish you the best 👍 Its not like you didn't earn it ,,,,,👍👍🙏

It's 53 this fine memorial day weekend

If your exterior home walls are 2x6, then your basement walls need to be 2x6, no overlapping is exceptable! (In the business its calls cutting corners:)

So nice to see your thoughts and dreams coming to Fruition. Skip the details of construction. Those are not 2x4 brackets. Bottom Plate.

FREE DRIVEWAY GRAVEL, just break up those concrete chunks and place in driveway to ill what holes you may have

*If ever in doubt.... and also going on your 'gut feeling', then call up the company ASAP. But just always be polite to them.... and get the answers that are on your plans. If someone in the company stuffed up... then they have to come out straight away to get it all sorted & fixed. As to dumping off unused concrete... they could have asked you ahead of time, should there be any left over... do you have an area that you would like it placed... so then ahead of time you could have got it prepared for any leftovers. ie: a concrete pad for a small shed... or even for your cabin to go onto. But I would be thinking that they must clear it up at their own cost 🙂nz*

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

Yeah Erik said the same, that had he known there were several things he could have used it for, lol. heck, even putting cement into ONE of the horse stalls, the one I store tack in, hahaha!

I suppose you need a room to store your gold bullion.

So will there be room in the new house to hold all the kids and there families.

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

None of the kids want to move back, lol, but our youngest will like take over! We will likely partition off more land for them if they want to build :)

I hope they gave you a discount on the concrete lol Its normal, when they backfill the washout cement will be buried in the trench next to the wall and footing.

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

hmm, ok makes sense!

Been a while since I have commented, its the dirty old man from alaska. Going from trailer trash to a beautiful home is that step that just warms the heart. Those trailer homes for the most part never lasted near as long as you have spent in it. I think in the future maybe make some small forms for making sidewalk steps or something useful. I know that many companies take the mud home/place of business and make them into giant road barriers to keep traffic from crossing lanes or used for other purposes. But then they are so busy that making a ton of them is redundant for them. So before it sets up, you might just muck it into a place where it might help serve some kind of purpose. You are still as cute as a bugs ear... I too have never seen bugs ears but its a saying that is supposed to make a girl giggle. Looks like the daughter won't be in college before house is built. Remember tho, if your not having fun, then your doing it wrong.... sounds good from here/LOL

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Morgan, good to see you! I'll have to think of areas to use it in, it would have been good in the front low area but Erik already had that mostly filled in ;)

it is normal because they're trying to clean out the cement mixer.

yikes, I do hope they didn't goof with the 2x6 and put in 2x4.

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

no, i guess it works for both.

This is obviously a substantial home...do you have an idea what the property tax increase will be relative to what it is now, after it's built?

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

Sadly no . . . the township would not give us any hints on anything other than they assess the footprint of the house in the winter and base the taxes on that until it's completed. So it will go up instantly. They DID also say if we added a gift shop for our christmas tree farm it would go up too. So we tried to go as minimal as possible with just two bedrooms.

He should be careful standing on the forks.

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

agree!

Your cemet problem is due to the fact you have not provided a clean out area for them. You need to get one area that is a clean out for the cemet trucks to use otherwise they clean out wherever.

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

We have one more fill coming, so maybe it would be worth talking about and trying to come up with a plan. I could certainly use that in my barn's horse tack room ;D

@jasonbusch3624

2 ай бұрын

@WTFarmGirl the small approach ramp by my side garage door is the extra cement from my slab. About 2 wheelbarrows full. We didn't have it formed up so we just dug down a couple inches and winged it.

the concret is normal but you need to start thinking about hawks and Eagles whipe you out over nite

zoom out so we can see more of you...high beams? thnaks Savanna

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

Ugh, yeah it's a new style of camera so I'm still getting used to it. It has an auto follow feature plus zoom plus head tilt, so I definitely don't get it right all the time, lol!

@This1LifeWeLive

2 ай бұрын

you know I swear I have watched your videos before . . . your art is amazing! here in Michigan we have what's called "Art Prize" in Grand Rapids, and anyone can enter their art and win up to $100,000. You should totally make a GIANT wind scupture and put it in the contest!