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Love your content and super happy to have found your channel! Do you happen to have a copy of this detail? I'm struggling with how to frame an eave detail like this.
Ive seen something similiar in this rich guys house in Palm Beach, idk the name of it. But it had these separation lines in vertical and horizontal directions around the perimeters of the walls. Really cool look.
I'm giving this a try on some cabinets I'm making for my house after watching your video. Any recommendations for avoiding the end of the beading getting tear out when notching? It's driving me nuts.
I like the idea but see one major flaw, a 10" passive return duct with no fan will not make up any more than maybe 1/3 at best the air being pulled out by that exhaust fan.
I don’t know the hosts or their channel but the “Master” carpenter strikes me as the type of guys to need to bring you down to make himself feel on par or as good if not better than you if that makes any sense.
@nikkikiska 0 seconds ago I don't know what chemicals are in this guy's hair product and leaching into his brain, but the rendering of that house looks anything but "nestled into the landscape" or "settled into the site." The rendering shows a house that looks likes its right half is perched atop a bunch of pushed up/graded dirt and the left half is about to collapse into that hideous void reminiscent of a high rise's rear service entry. Then he goes on and on about the "relationships" and "considerations" for the foundation layout, then a couple minutes later we find out that that footprint is just the same as the prior house but "extended in the back left."
You touch on it briefly, but I don’t think it’s covered enough regarding CLT. It is more than framing, but can be the finish surface for walls, ceilings and potentially floors. All wins for cost and schedule. You can balloon frame a single family home in a few days with fewer joints to detail. With exterior insulation long rain screen screws don’t have to hit studs blind and can be at any spacing. It just seems like a, elegant solution with a big upside structurally, aesthetically, and logistically.
A lot of engineering happening here. Although consider that a hundred years ago and beyond they made curved roofs all the time and didn't go through half of this work or lumber to do so. And most of those structures are still standing.
Wow I don’t know where you found him I’ve worked with several architects over the years on cape cod and none of them seemed half as smart as him and never seem to relate well or have a good l to the actual construction of how it all goes together he is very very impressive. I’ve always said every architect should have to work a year in the field to really see how it all work. You can have the highest quality subs and carpenters but without proper planning and knowing how everything works together you can never achieve the highest levels of quality. Heads up I think you might be even pickier than me on the framing or at least the same plan on days of power planning walls flat and modifying walls to fit right. I know it saves a lot of time but I just know you won’t be happy with the quality it’s not as bad as a modular home it’s right between that and a custom stick home it’s not even all their fault you just can’t calculate so many wall sections to add up to the exact measurement you want it’s not possible with the lumber available today.
I think all the guys here in the chat that have been saying how the trades have sucked for a while I'm missing the point I think you can all realize that the last probably 35 years have not been great for people in the trades unless if you own a business or are in a certain area where you can charge a lot but the next 20 years are going to be a lot better because of supply and demand and there's a huge under supply of people that can do that work we're not talking about the past or talking about the future.
great video & great design /engineering, yet simple and eliminates a lot of equipment needed. Just one question.... you mentioned the backdraft shutter on the intake vent... is this a manual flap, or motorised & linked to the fan switch ?
I would feel right at home in a school like this to do things by hand again wow! Fortunately I cannot stand now for long periods of time like to have had a school like this when I became a coffin to the United States Union carpenter that was strained for 4 years, to become a journeyman carpenter. Need this in the United States. The coffin says junior should borrow from the Swiss all of these ideas
That's going to be an awesome house but so far outside the reach of most people money-wise that I would personally hesitate to call anything about it as redefining builder's grade. But best of luck with it, and I'm going to be following the project with interest regardless.
Fine looking roof, might look into it as a weight saving option for my trailer. Few Q's: __1 square weighs? __White stack going to be skinned with copper or shingle color sleeve? __probably need DaVinci to answer but, IF one must cut a shingle vertically, is there a solvent to meld 2 cut pieces together? __IF a piece needed shortening and maintain a flush look, will it belt sand down or will the belt gum up? __Woodpeckers a problem on roof tiles? I've seen them bang through plastic siding. THANKS!!!
What is exactly did you used to spray the top of the footing with to act as the capillary break? I remember being on a jobsite and seeing a cube of block on the ground but covered and the block was still soaked from the moisture wicking up from the ground.
