JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
looks like your floor will be delightfully quiet and stiff.
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looks like your floor will be delightfully quiet and stiff.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Like a dead celebrity.
HecticArt
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SECOND!
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Actually, we're planning on using wood-plank-style porcelain tile flooring, which comes in 48" (4 ft long) strips. So it's fairly important that the sub-floor be rigid. The floor will have radiant heat in it, so we can't use regular wood flooring.
Porcelain tile transfers heat really well, is very durable, and can be used in every room on the 1st floor, including the kitchen, laundry, bathrooms, and mudroom. That means we can just have one continuous floor throughout the house, with no thresholds, which is ideal for an open floor plan.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
That's good to hear. It's very popular at the flooring stores, and I see it in a lot of restaurants and such, but I haven't come across many people who have it in their house, since it's somewhat of a new thing.
We get an odd reaction from some people, about using that kind of tile, because our house is post and beam. So the exposed frame, the ceiling, and the roof rafters are all wood. Why have a fake wood floor? But they got the technology down, so it looks as real as any wood veneered product, and it has all the advantages I mentioned. Plus, in our case, we've got enough wood already.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
That's awesome. Yeah, you can get any kind of look you want with wood plank tiles. Like something much more interesting than real wood, and it won't warp, wear, or stain.Ours looks ultra bizarre. This isn't my house, but this is the tile we have:
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
The subfloor has been built, so now the foundation is ready for a house to be put on it.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Yeah, if you look at the one I posted earlier
you can see that the house is positioned so that it backs into a hill, which allows for the walk-out basement you see in my previous post. But it took a lot of planning and surveying and walking around to figure this out.
This is the outline of the house that was staked by the surveyors.
So on the left about halfway down there's a group of lines close together, between the dark lines labeled 95' and 100' elevation. That's the ledge that the driveway runs next to. And then below and to the right of the outline, the lines are close together, so those are hills. The top of the outline is where the walk-out is, and you can see it's at a lower elevation.
There's a lot of advantages to a walk-out basement.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
The grades are all done with stones, no grass slopes.
JHDK
Release Robin's Bra
That's even worse for the mower.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
At some location on one or two sides, there'll be lawn that makes that grade over a span of 40 or more feet, which is mild. But I appreciate your concern.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
We will have very little open lawn. If you look at the pictures, you'll see that we cleared just enough trees to get the driveway and house in. We're not having a "statement" front lawn, or an open back yard for playing ball. It's mostly just trees.
scotchandcigar
All I wanted was some steak
Truck #1 has arrived, with our post & beam frame on it. Yay!
