My Home

[BillG_in_TX]

Bill,

I think that the shingle look is fantastic, as well as more expensive, and there's very little in the way of "gilding" in a Habitat Home. Just a safe, decent, affordable place to live. Now for my home - we are looking at this feature.

By the way, your patient CAN afford to buy a new home as long as it's a Habitat Home. All Habitat Homes are sold to the homeowner at cost, after they supply enough "sweat equity" for a down payment. They have to be able to make the principal payments and pay taxes and insurance, but there is never any interest charged on the loan. Principal payments are plowed back into building more homes for families.

You're right - a great program, and Habitat is now one of the nation's largest home builders, with more than 100,000 homes built to date wordwide. Check <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.habitat.org/>http://www.habitat.org/</A> for more information.

 

[njrqs]

Bill & Bill !!

Yes Hardieplank is used a lot over here. I had it my last house. Can be got in plain finish but I like the woodgrain look.

Hardies products are used extensively here. Almost 100% of wet area linings are Villaboard, a hardies product, as are all our soffits (Hardiflex) and a lot of architectural projects go for Harditex external sheeting, which is then rendered etc.

I wonder if our products are exported to the states, or if you make it under licence etc.

Sure is HEAVY ! stuff so I can't see it being shipped over there. The cost would be huge.

Good to see some more Aussie stuff over there.

Cheers

 

[BillG_in_TX]

Bill,
I checking out their website, I see that Hardie has HardiSoffit (as previously mentioned) as well as HardiTrim for fascia, door and window trim and outside corners.

Neil,
Hardie has plants all over the US, including one near Dallas in Waxahachie. How do you like that name?/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Thomas]

Very nice homestead.

No photos of your B2410 w/all of your attachments. /w3tcompact/icons/sad.gif

 

[P.K. Burke]

Bill:
I drew the plans after looking at a lot of other plans and deciding what I wanted in a house. The deck runs the entire length of the front and back and halfway down the one end. The hardieplank has to be cut with a shear not a saw so I bought my contractor the tool which was about $400.00 but well worth the little extra money to get that style of siding. The garage is detached but connected by a breezeway. The color is Mariposa yellow and I believe the paint was Kelly Moore. Maybe. Here's another view of the back.

 

[P.K. Burke]

blurrybill:
There were no problems with the installation of the hardieplank. As I told bill49, you don't cut that stuff with a saw, you have to use a special shear tool. The tool works great and you can cut straight or curves with it. I really like this siding because of its fireproof qualities and insulating properties. It is very heavy but then its concrete. Here's another view of the house.

 

[DVerbarg]

Would have loved to use the hardieplank on our house when we built it. The specs on that stuff are great. My wife just did not like the way it looked. Ended up with cedar siding mounted on vertical furing strips. The furing strips created a space behind the siding which allows any moisture that gets behind the siding to easily escape, instead of pushing the paint off the siding.

 

[Knight9]

Hi Neil,

The style of home would be classified as "Farm Country" in our part of Canada. The external cladding is actually vinyl with a wood grain in it. It allows a lot of expansion/contraction due to how it is put on. This is quite necessary for our cold ---> hot weather we get.

Kevin

 

[Knight9]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the complements. The home is regular 2x6 construction (exterior walls). The floor joists are an "I" joist system not dimensional lumber. There is no OSB in the house as the builder we chose only uses Fir plywood. They did a really good job with the construction.

No the deck is not heated!! I just keep it shoveled and since it faces South/West any bit I miss ends up melting off even if it is cold outside. That is one warm deck location!!!

Kevin

 

[Knight9]

Hi Bill,

Almost missed your question in your post there. The camera was $750 CDN including an extra 64 MB memory card. I guess that would translate to about $450 USD (approximately). It has some pretty decent software with it and is a USB connection. I purchased a new computer last week as my last one was 5+ years old and didn't have a USB.

Kevin

 

[Knight9]

Thomas,

I'll be sure to post photos of the B2410 once it warms up around here. I don't want all you guys to see how dirty she is! /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif/w3tcompact/icons/blush.gif Once spring is here I'll wash her up and post some. I have a few things I want to post for sure.

Kevin

 

[BillG_in_TX]

My neighbor has just built his home on the property next to mine. He's a commercial/custom home builder and he says he's building this house for his great-grandchildren to live in (he's 35). The scale is hard to grasp, but it's about 5000sf and sided with HardiSiding all around.

 

[BillG_in_TX]

And for those of you that like porches, check this out. 17' deep!

 

[njrqs]

<font color=blue>Waxahachie</font color=blue>

Only in America......... /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[RobS]

Great looking place Kevin. Looks like you're in the mode we'll be in this fall. Nice new house, not much landscaping. Should be a busy summer for you, eh /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Jared]

Guys Guys Guys, come on you all have nice homes... but we want to see pictures of your TRACTOR ! !

Jared

 

[BKColeman]

How about a house with a tractor in front of it? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

We just moved in late December so there isn't much grass or landscaping, but it's coming along.

--Brad

 

[BKColeman]

Here is a close up of the tractor after its first full day of bush hogging.

 

[Knight9]

Brad,

Is it just the photo or is your soil really that red?? That's something!!! Great house and very nice tractor!!! Looks like you'll have lots of fun!

Kevin

 

[BKColeman]

Thanks!

Yep, it's really that <font color=red>red</font color=red>. But it is soft dirt, not hard like clay. Everything seems to grow really well in it.