Remodel of our new old house

[TomcoPDR]

In before Christmas?

[Buster]

So awesome. keep the updates coming.

[killramos]

How bad have the overages been with services and materials this summer?

[ThePenIsMightier]

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Dude connecting the new sewer and water lines in the back alley:

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No shoring in a 12' trench. Complete insanity. So close to death and yet so far.

Castle looks absolutely incredible! Good for you!

[vengie]

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No shoring in a 12' trench. Complete insanity. So close to death and yet so far.

Castle looks absolutely incredible! Good for you!

I'm shore he was confident in the trenching

[suntan]

Pfft, Calgary has plenty of extra workers.

[eglove]

What’s the charging setup in the garage for the teslas!

[benyl]

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No shoring in a 12' trench. Complete insanity. So close to death and yet so far.

Castle looks absolutely incredible! Good for you!

It was only for a few minutes…

Was $15K for 3 hours work. I need to get into the sewer line connection business.

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What’s the charging setup in the garage for the teslas!

It will be dual gen 3 HPWC. One on each wall.

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How bad have the overages been with services and materials this summer?

My original wood budget was $45K. Came in at $130K. I heard my framer talking on Friday that no one in the city has 3/8th or 5/8th plywood (can’t remember which one) in the city.

Pressure treated wood is still crazy expensive.

Ground works had to wait a week as there was no 4” pipe available at the time.

I can’t get a Goodman or Lennox furnace. Have to go with Trane as Goodman is sold out indefinitely and Lennox is saying they might deliver at the end of October. Trane is available now.

Can’t get the kitchen faucet my wife wants. Tub in the basement is going to be different than the others as its on 18 week back order. Windows were supposed to be delivered on site at the beginning of August. Still don’t have em. Some world wide glass shortage.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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It was only for a few minutes…

Was $15K for 3 hours work. I need to get into the sewer line connection business.

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$15k and they still can't do it, safely.
If you're not attached to it, there's not much you can do. But it's important to not be attached to that.
https://globalnews.ca/news/3839845/e...ench-collapse/

Don't let me derail. I've just seen how a simple hole can magically turn to shit so quickly. It's really weird.
Anyway, again - it's a thread about your super neat project. I don't want to detract from that.

[schurchill39]

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My original wood budget was $45K. Came in at $130K.

Holy shit. These wood prices have been out-of-fucking-control but it really hits home when you're doing a whole house and not just a deck or something small.

[Rocket1k78]

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My original wood budget was $45K. Came in at $130K. I heard my framer talking on Friday that no one in the city has 3/8th or 5/8th plywood (can’t remember which one) in the city.

Pressure treated wood is still crazy expensive.

I was going to ask how much more for wood did you have to pay this year, was the extra 85k with some extra add ons or purely just due to the inflated costs of lumber?

House is looking sick so far.

[RawB8figure]

Lumber prices are coming down.
Typical infill lumber cost
2017 =~$20k
2021 July =~$85k
2021 Sept.=~$42k
2021 Oct.= ~ -20% of sept. projection

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Hey Benyl,
Did you hire builder for this?
What did you budget for this build? no land costs.

[eblend]

Where will that line drain connect? Also is there a vapor barrier underneath all that foam insulation?

[88CRX]

Wait, I thought this was a 'remodel'. You weren't kidding about the start over and tear it down comment a few pages back, damn!

And lol (except not really) at the worker in the pit of death. Fucking residential construction guys.

[Buster]

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Wait, I thought this was a 'remodel'. You weren't kidding about the start over and tear it down comment a few pages back, damn!

And lol (except not really) at the worker in the pit of death. Fucking residential construction guys.

can someone explain this to me? I sit at a desk for a living. Do holes like that just collapse on dudes and kill them?

[ThePenIsMightier]

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can someone explain this to me? I sit at a desk for a living. Do holes like that just collapse on dudes and kill them?

Oddly enough, yes. Not often, but it's like an avalanche when it happens.
Here's a video of someone almost certainly being killed:


What's the dirt's motivation to just stand there in a vertical sheet with zero support from its side?

[Buster]

that looks terrible. back to my spreadsheet.

[BerserkerCatSplat]

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No shoring in a 12' trench. Complete insanity. So close to death and yet so far.

Castle looks absolutely incredible! Good for you!

Man I had the same reaction. No way no how would I send guys into that trench. That's some residential cowboy shit.

[bjstare]

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that looks terrible. back to my spreadsheet.

lol, same.

[littledan]

Agreed. Couple guys up here in Edmonton died a few years back in those exact circumstances.