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Our current home goes on the market tomorrow. I have a feeling we’ll have to be out asap & living in a camper for months with two Rotties.
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It’s going to be tough seeing neighbors, losing a shooting rifle and pistol range, and hunting plenty of deer behind home.
There are only three other homes in a gated neighborhood. Two of the three neighbors also have a pistol range in their back yard.
We built this as our last and dream home six years ago in Moncure.
There are only three other homes in a gated neighborhood. Two of the three neighbors also have a pistol range in their back yard.
We built this as our last and dream home six years ago in Moncure.
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I understand the feeling, while not as grandiose as yours, I miss our house in Hugh Point, a bonus room that could hold a pool table, double ovens, and a GD dishwasher that I’d give a testicle for among other things. We’re soon going to be in a trailer too, pending a renovation. It sucks being homeless.
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I just keep chanting, We’re glamping, we’re glamping, it’s great in an industrial scrapyard.
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We are, we rented and searched for a place to build in the area for over a year and a half.
Here’s a great sunrise. That’s the straight path to the river, and 200+ yards with steel plates on the left.
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It’s coming along!
This is our bedroom
This is our bedroom
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Very nice. Much different than I think of a log home being 40+ years ago, assuming that’s what you’re doing from memory.
edit to add, those are some MASSIVE hangers on the ridge beam.
Whats the equivalent wall thickness (windows / doors)?
edit to add, those are some MASSIVE hangers on the ridge beam.
Whats the equivalent wall thickness (windows / doors)?
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These aren't traditional log homes, they're passive solar. There's an 8" air gap in the roof and north wall with a full basement. On the south side there's an 8'-10' deep sunspace the length of the home. In the winter when the sun's lower in the sky, it hearts the space, creating a convection air flow to heart the structure.
We had the hangers fabbed by a company in MN, we really like the way they turned out.
The logs are 6" thick and the envelope/air gap is ~8" making the E, N & W walls ~18".
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I think the walls are ~20” thick, 6” log, 8” airspace, 6” log.
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The SIP roof panels (10” of foam sandwiched between OSB) are almost all on. The house looks and feels quite different.
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Looks amazing, Andy! Keep posting pics!
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We walk through it stunned and laughing, it doesn’t seem real. We need to get our house sold so we can finish it and move in.
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It’s killing us. Our home has been our dream home since we were teenagers. I still work for someone else turning a wrench each day on heavy equipment. It was never a plan to flip houses, but every few years we would come across a deal to good to pass up, our neighbors I had to get away from. We designed and we’re the GC for the third time in our current house. We’ve made more building and selling our homes than I have working. Here’s where my wife gets all the credit.
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Current front view
10’x60’ Sun Room
10’x60’ Sun Room
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Yes, the walls are solid 6”, and doubled. There’s a 8” air space in the roof and north wall that flows through the basement and the 10’ sunspace. In the winter the sun’s lower and clears the roof overhang. It heats the sunspace, via convection airflow, the heated air circulates around the inner shell heating the home. The massive amount of timber helps maintain consistent temperatures for a while.
Years ago we had one of these homes go up in Redwing, MI. The customer called after they’d had two weeks of snow and no sun, Tue house didn’t drop below 70 degrees. They never turned the backup heat on.
Here’s what the walls look like going up, and the width of the exterior door frames.
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I have a booklet here somewhere from NC State I got years and years ago on passive solar heated home.
All the luck for/(to) you on this. It looks like a great opportunity and endeavor.
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I remember Mike told me these homes were in NC State textbooks. If you find it, I’d love to see it.
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Thank you sir.
His widow just ordered a 5 axis CNC machine to cut the homes. They estimate we can cut a 5k sq/ft house in a few days instead of 3+ months.
Way beyond my knowledge...
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Computer draw the home in CAD, it calculates all the logs and cuts for minimum waste, feed the logs into the machine, it cuts, grooves, notches the logs to then be stacked in bundles for delivery.
Krusimatic G2 Automatic Log Milling Machine
Combines CNC timber wood joinery with high-speed log milling capabilities
www.krusi.com
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Our 3rd forever home is now under contract. We’re supposedly closing mid Nov.
The roof will be installed in a couple weeks, the windows have been ordered.
We got the OK from the inspectors to have a temp CO (certificate of occupancy) so we can live in the garage apartment while we finish the home. I don’t have to live in a camper with a rotten shower floor, YAYY!
I do hate to lose this place, I’ve got a Tom and two jakes that walk around the property twice a day, deer hanging out in the yard, bald eagles, river otters, and a chootin’ range. Thankfully the buyers love to fish and hunt, the land and river will be appreciated.
The roof will be installed in a couple weeks, the windows have been ordered.
We got the OK from the inspectors to have a temp CO (certificate of occupancy) so we can live in the garage apartment while we finish the home. I don’t have to live in a camper with a rotten shower floor, YAYY!
I do hate to lose this place, I’ve got a Tom and two jakes that walk around the property twice a day, deer hanging out in the yard, bald eagles, river otters, and a chootin’ range. Thankfully the buyers love to fish and hunt, the land and river will be appreciated.
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The first coat of stain is on, the chimney’s almost done, the winders are ordered & hopefully they’ll start the roofing this week.
NCSU built a passive solar house in the early 80s. I remember it was completed around the time I started school. Here's a link:
NCSU Solar House | NC Clean Energy Technology Center
nccleantech.ncsu.edu
I have an uncle who graduated from the NCSU School of Design, and he built his own passive solar home in Raleigh, also completed in 1981. He called it an 'envelope house', since it was kind of a house within an outer envelope, and there was a multi-story sun room that heated air and optionally circulated it throughout the home. He had a very open floor plan, basically no interior doors.
NCModernist Charlie Woodall
www.ncmodernist.org
ETA: Wikipedia has an entry for envelope houses, and indeed there's a strong connection to NCSU.
Double envelope house - Wikipedia
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We’re going to have the 5 Axis CNC timber cutting beast in a couple months. There’s two building companies that want to put these up, a guy is buying 300 acres in the Asheville area to put up a bunch of single walled small homes for AirBnB and a large clubhouse. It’s moving forward at an amazing rate right now.
The higher front window trim got installed today & I got some pictures by elevating a guy with a telehandler.
The higher front window trim got installed today & I got some pictures by elevating a guy with a telehandler.
Good, that's at least one door and window issue resolved.
Looking really good, too!
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We're blown away, my wife & I keep walking around this beast mumbling, "This is stupid...".
I'm a mechanic & she was a home schooling mom for over 20 years. We're really having a hard time grasping this is real, while living in an old broken camper and working 70 hours/week.
The mfg & a couple European consultants are telling us this machine will cut a 6,000sq/ft double walled structure in 2-3 days, accurately. By hand it was taking five skilled people four months.
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weren’t just the footers being poured the last time you were here?