AZ ranch

Dr Dave · Jun 8, 2013

Around here a full basement is not taxed as living space untill finished as such. After the home is up, what they dont see, they dont know about.

Can you add 3 feet to the stem wall height, and raise the grade around it? Then you could have some large egress windows.

Lots of storage, man cave, workshop, utility room, laundry room , storm shelter, etc.

Dave

BoFuller · Jun 30, 2013

My engineer drew a diagram for the concrete contractor saying he could use #3 rebar in the support columns for the porches instead of #4. Well, on Wednesday my contractor called for inspection and guess who forgot to take that drawing to the County to update their copy of the plans? Yep, yours truly. He called me and gave me a little lecture on proper protocol.

I spent most of Friday driving to the permit office (110 miles one way) and straightening it out. He was also upset that I cleared out that corner of the footprint for a mini-basement. Now the dirt was gone from the inside of the footer. We made a form, but he wanted detail from the engineer on that missing soil. While in Prescott Friday, I stopped at the soil engineer's office and asked about the lack of soil. He said "no big deal" and wrote up a letter saying that we could pour with the forms and then fill and compact it up to at least the top of the footer later. So I have everything ready, again, and called for an inspection. We'll see what happens Monday morning.

Meanwhile, my concrete contractor is really nervous about delivery of the crete, as it is a two hour drive to get it here and the plans call for 4000!. I don't think the driver will be stopping for coffee on the way.

dstig1 · Jun 30, 2013

Bo, I'm surprised you haven't buried the inspector in your footings by now. The things he is riding you on don't seem to be realistic, at least from what I'm reading here.:confused2: Government gone wild.

tommu56 · Jun 30, 2013

BoFuller said:
My engineer drew a diagram for the concrete contractor saying he could use #3 rebar in the support columns for the porches instead of #4. Well, on Wednesday my contractor called for inspection and guess who forgot to take that drawing to the County to update their copy of the plans? Yep, yours truly. He called me and gave me a little lecture on proper protocol.

I spent most of Friday driving to the permit office (110 miles one way) and straightening it out. He was also upset that I cleared out that corner of the footprint for a mini-basement. Now the dirt was gone from the inside of the footer. We made a form, but he wanted detail from the engineer on that missing soil. While in Prescott Friday, I stopped at the soil engineer's office and asked about the lack of soil. He said "no big deal" and wrote up a letter saying that we could pour with the forms and then fill and compact it up to at least the top of the footer later. So I have everything ready, again, and called for an inspection. We'll see what happens Monday morning.

Meanwhile, my concrete contractor is really nervous about delivery of the crete, as it is a two hour drive to get it here and the plans call for 4000!. I don't think the driver will be stopping for coffee on the way.

Can't they send it dry and add water at site?

BoFuller · Jun 30, 2013

I suggested sending it dry as I have plenty of water, but they said they can't do that, especially with 4,000. The computer sets all the ingredients and they would not allow a driver to try to figure that out.

BoFuller · Jun 30, 2013

dstig1 said:
Bo, I'm surprised you haven't buried the inspector in your footings by now. The things he is riding you on don't seem to be realistic, at least from what I'm reading here.:confused2: Government gone wild.

Yeah, I should start calling him "Jimmy" (Hoffa).

BoFuller · Jul 1, 2013

Woo Hoo! We passed our first inspection. The inspector showed up this morning and we spent about 45 minutes going over the plans. He pent time explaining why a lot of things are required, and a lot of it actually made sense, although the primary factor is still to CYA.
After we were done with the plans, we spent about an hour talking about AR-15's and hunting and stuff. We're off to a good start!
Concrete trucks are scheduled for 6:30 AM on Wednesday, July 3. Sweet!