Yep, still here. Still working through it. I have a meeting with the city to get my first permits next week. Still planning and plotting, moving forward. The plan thus far is dig and pour the foots myself (I wonder if I need a Chinese mini ex for that, HA I wish!) I have a few block guys I am talking with to lay the block. Hoping to get that done by mid May then a couple buddies are going to come into town and a couple local buddies and we are going to frame it up and get a roof on it hitting the ground running very early June. I will hire out siding, maybe window install.
Will hire someone to put a new roof on the entire structure. But first I need to put eaves (an overhang on the gable end of the roof) on the existing side, right now there is none and that just doesn't make sense to me. I want a 12" overhang on the addition and so obviously the existing needs to match.
Might do some of the electrical WITH an electrician from my neighborhood who has done some electrical work for me. He will pull the permit but let me do a lot of the work, thats what we did on my garage build, obviously this will be a more complex so I will probably have to utilize him a bit more than I did on the garage.
I will hire someone for drywall and mudding, no desire to do that.
There is A LOT of stuff to get done and I realize I can't do it all, I am just trying to do as much as it as I can. I am a teacher so I will have 2 months starting late May to accomplish as much as I can in that time. Once I go back to work in early August I will start needing more help if I want to get it done in a timely manner. As I right now my goal for those 2 months is get it framed, roofed, and the existing wall removed between the addition and the existing.
As that wall goes down we will start the interior work on the existing structure. Changing up an existing bath, a few changes to my sons room, another half bath off the laundry room and then start on the kitchen. During this time I hope to have insulation guys and dry wallers in buttoning up the addition. We will be out of the house staying at my brothers down the road (he will be out of town from July to October). Whatcha think doable?