Another Demo Day

Finished with getting the main demo completed. Just need to get the floor ripped out.
Plenty of room now for construction.


Also checked out the progress on the foundation.
All formed, we should get inspection and pour sometime next week.

Yurt Building Schedule

Here is the tentative schedule on what we will be doing each day to get the yurt up.
I will be providing more info on each task later on. Wanted to get this out there.

Wednesday Delivery and unpack
Thursday Install Floors
Friday Install Walls
Saturday Roof
Sunday Decks
Monday Roof Deck

Raise High The Yurt Carpenters

Wednesday, Sept. 2 -Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009
This is the starting date for getting the yurt materials and putting it together.
I am hoping to get it finished in five days over the labor day weekend.
If you can come, please sign the comments for this blog and let me know what days you will be there.
I will update this page with info on food and lodging and how everything will get set up.
For now, I'd just like to know your coming.

Set Backs or just back in general

I tried pushing the demo too quickly. Went up the week after 4 of July. My body was still pretty soar from the week before. I ended up trying to move a cast iron, wood burning stove. It was just too heavy for my back. Ended up with a strain, and no work done. Took two hours to load my truck back up and go home battered and bruised.
Here's the evil stove. I guess it will be there for the remainder of the project.

July fourth Camping

Took the trailer up to West Point for the long holiday. Coretta came up and we had some time to relax by the creek and bbq. Good to know the place is more than just a project.
Did a little more demo and worked with my septic guy to trench out the stem wall footing.
Another demo pictures

and the foundation perimeter.

Trailer

I went ahead and bought a trailer for people to stay in while we're working. Once we're finished, I guess this will become the guest house. Of course when the days hit 100 degrees, the AC might make this the place to be.
I was planning on just renting one, but the cost is ridiculous compared to buying a used one. After a couple weeks searching, finally found a deal on one in good shape.


Here's the galley and table/sleeping quarter #1

Here's the living room, the couch turns into another bed.
The Commode.

And the bedroom that sleeps two.

Second Demo Day

Tore down the front half of the cabin. I plan to leave the living room/porch area for now. It's covered, screened in, and doesn't seem to have as much damage. If I need a place to store the futon, I think that parts habitable. The cabin came down pretty easy, with three hours, we had the roof and walls off. I got two trips to the dump, before heading home. You can see the damage I've made so far.

Forgot to mention, I did have one problem. While I was loading the truck, I slid a piece of paneling in too far and blew out the back window. Replacement cost $185m, but I did get a sliding rear window out of it.

First Blog

This is the first blog entry. While it's not the first post in order of this project. It's the first I'm putting down. Editor's be damned. I'm just gonna keep typing.

Demo Day 1

Came out to survey the septic and get some bids on the foundation. The inspector came out as well. There's been a question of where I can put the cabin. At first I had planned to put it in the center of the building pad, with the deck hanging out over the creek. After getting the building permit I heard from pg&e that the inspector was asking about set backs. The issue is that the main PG&E supply line runs, directly over the center of our property. When I talked with PG&E, the answer was that we needed a 10 foot set back from the center of the lines. But the inspector was told there are no set back limits, and that plenty of houses have the line running right over them. In the interim of the two answer, I had already moved the location closer to the existing cabin. This meant that we would have to tear it down before we could put in the foundation.
I decided on a compramise, we are allowing a 10 foot easment for pge from the house, but we are moving it closer to the lines. PG&E will have access to the lines if need be. The inspector said that was fine, well actually, he said we could put it anywhere.

After I had talked to everyone, I got working on some demo. I wanted to get the roof off the covered deck. The deck will need to be removed as well to make way for the house. I was able to tear it down and save most of the 2X6 doug fir. It's about 5 years old and in good shape.
Here's a before and after photo of the demo.