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    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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It is a fair sized coyote, and they do like domestic critters like cats and smaller dogs. A pair of larger dogs will run them off, because an injury is death in the wild so they are quite cautious. b...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 01-27-2025, 04:54 PM
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[Video: https://youtu.be/vXP1BKMueh0?si=XKDE6aRxhlQ7JUdq] I'll have to secure my pets up here for sure.
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 01-24-2025, 04:24 AM
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(01-19-2025, 11:34 PM)pattylt Wrote: What brand and attached service are you using?  We want to install a motion camera but they always seem to be tied to some paid service. Tia…$31 at Amazon, a...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 01-20-2025, 04:15 AM
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I was a little leery of leaving here for the holidays so I purchased an inexpensive wifi extender and a camera with motion detection to watch the driveway. That camera has been on the RV bumper since ...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 01-19-2025, 10:25 PM
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I was on my phone and did not realize I was not logged in. Odd that a guest can post.
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 01-17-2025, 04:52 AM
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It's been a month since I posted. We have been busy and I do not want to upload all the photos to a service, so here it is. This was the last and most difficult ladder to reach, the highest corner fro...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 01-15-2025, 08:21 AM
    Thread: Hobbies and pastimes.
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Everything fun is on hold while the house is getting built. That said, woodworlking stuff is my happy place. This 20" bandsaw followed me home in March and waits for the shop to get set up for a reb...
skyking Getting to Know You 54 889 01-01-2025, 04:09 PM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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We have a little spot of dry now. [Image: https://i.postimg.cc/SxdTthgv/PXL-202412...-NIGHT.jpg]
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 12-13-2024, 04:20 AM
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It is the OSB sheathing that also has the vapor barrier built in, hence the green color. It gets taped at the joints to complete the envelope.
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 12-12-2024, 02:31 PM
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The framer built the gable end lookouts and framing as a ladder, down on sawhorses, and we set them with the telehandler in one piece. That was a really nifty method. [Image: https://i.postimg.cc/gJ...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 12-11-2024, 04:31 AM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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first floor walls went up in 5.5 working days. It's great to have a crew.
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 12-09-2024, 12:59 AM
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the holes are centered in the web, and if centered in the span the shear forces are the lowest. I used the manufacturer's software to validate the hole placements. Here is a screenshot of an example o...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 11-27-2024, 07:27 AM
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That got done and the pipe draped with insulation. I will close that up when the house gets a roof and eveything dries out. [Image: https://i.postimg.cc/tgCZ3nDz/PXL-202411...817474.jpg] The other tr...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 11-26-2024, 07:49 AM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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We started with bearing walls in the basement, and then  constructed the first set of stairs, wrapped around the elevator shaft. [Image: https://i.postimg.cc/6qWkHw2n/PXL-202411...133417.jpg] The tre...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 11-26-2024, 07:38 AM
    Thread: What it means to have good education?
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"A good education " is very subjective. If a person goes back on their own time and cost as an adult, they have different reasons than a young person fresh out of preparatory school. Frequently the la...
skyking Off-topic 22 431 10-20-2024, 06:06 PM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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(10-07-2024, 12:03 PM)brewerb Wrote: I see civilization around you in those pics. For some reason I thought you were farther out in the boonies.No, we purchased this property in the city limits. It ...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 10-07-2024, 03:01 PM
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Those are Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF). They are expanded polystyrene forms that are a total of 13.5" thick, with 2.75" of insulation on either side of the poured 8" thick wall. This is a good link ...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 10-07-2024, 02:56 PM
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We got the walls poured Friday the 27th. [Image: https://i.postimg.cc/HWh6VRp1/PXL-202409...722672.jpg] It seemed to be going OK, we trued them up when we had more than 2/3rds of the concrete in. Unfo...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 10-07-2024, 03:24 AM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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the wall pour was scheduled for today but it became apparent that we were not going to be ready. The concrete company is also the pump truck company, which is very handy. They found a time for us at 9...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 09-26-2024, 04:32 AM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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(09-23-2024, 05:47 PM)SYZ Wrote: As someone who worked in the civil/constriction industry as a designer I'm more than impressed with the amount of planning, coupled with your engineering knowledge ...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 09-25-2024, 03:43 AM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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(09-24-2024, 12:16 PM)Gwaithmir Wrote: Will your new retirement home include an elevator?of course. That is the elevator pit framed in the floor in the picture above.
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 09-25-2024, 03:37 AM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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(09-22-2024, 01:38 PM)Fireball Wrote: Very cool! Are you running the plumbing inside the slab?everything was cut down so the concrete guys could do the best they could. I go in with a hammer and bre...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 09-23-2024, 04:22 AM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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Heat sheet insulation Tuesday [Image: https://i.postimg.cc/RFzStfwZ/PXL-202409...851044.jpg] 1500' of pex tubing for hydronic heat Wednesday. [Image: https://i.postimg.cc/B6cqB6Cc/PXL-202409...318055...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 09-22-2024, 01:33 PM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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Daisy the neighbor dog helped me dig that plumbing in. :D [Image: https://i.postimg.cc/TPSq9Nhc/IMG-2641-jpg.jpg] Plumbing was inspected, then I pulled an electrical permit and remoted my service, s...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 09-22-2024, 01:19 PM
    Thread: Making our new retirement place
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I then stripped and stockpiled 130 cubic yards of the organic containing clay  to put back down on top. [Image: https://i.postimg.cc/Zn02XdjP/PXL-202409...759866.jpg] It is a tny pile of what was to ...
skyking Blog it here! 103 3,494 09-22-2024, 12:48 PM