I’m loving these videos, plodding my way through slowly. Here’s a really daft question for you… so you designed it yourselves, & got a draftsman to draw it all up for council, but where/when/how are the decisions made for the construction details? Like how you made the stumps, putting the nut under them, the type of glue in the bolt holes, etc? In a reply to another comment you mentioned an engineer getting the spacing right - are all these details the job of an engineer? And if so, is organising that part of the draftsman’s job? And then someone from council comes along & signs it off at various stages? 😂🤪 I warned you the question would be daft!
Not daft at all! Glad you’re enjoying. The only thing that needed to be signed off by council once we started was our septics. Perhaps if it was a bigger council with more ppl in the building dept there might be someone to do checks but we’ve never had that on any of our houses we’ve built. Some details were written in by the engineer, and some details weren’t. There were decisions we made on how to do things based on our experience and knowledge of building. It’s surprising how much of the building process doesn’t need to be detailed in the submitted plans but you do have to follow building codes which helps guide decisions too.
@@ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead Oh wow, & thanks again : ) So 1, it pays to be in a comparatively low-population area (here in the city they even want to check off your footings for a basic deck, or so I hear) And 2, it pays to at least be in the industry, since the building code is so complicated & only getting more so! If I was more skeptical I might start thinking that was the plan ; ) So did you have to seek out an engineer or was that part of the draftsman’s job, along with, I think you said, helping with submitting plans to council?
2 meters mate 👍 we were able to do that because of the span of our flooring system SIPs. You’ll see in the flooring video the sips panels are joined by LVLs at 1200 centres on top of the steel frame subfloor. Cheers for watching!
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Excellent videos! You really explain every step so well! Thankyou
You’re welcome!
Great video guys, I am learning so much, thank you for sharing 😀
You’re welcome!
Fantastic video, I learnt alot. Thank you.
Awesome... so glad. Don't hesitate to ask if you have any questions!
Great job, I guess using steel in your area is fairly common. I'm enjoying going through your playlist.
Building with steel is much more common here than over east. Though I’d hate to see what the price of that would’ve been at today’s prices 😳
I’m loving these videos, plodding my way through slowly. Here’s a really daft question for you… so you designed it yourselves, & got a draftsman to draw it all up for council, but where/when/how are the decisions made for the construction details? Like how you made the stumps, putting the nut under them, the type of glue in the bolt holes, etc? In a reply to another comment you mentioned an engineer getting the spacing right - are all these details the job of an engineer? And if so, is organising that part of the draftsman’s job? And then someone from council comes along & signs it off at various stages? 😂🤪 I warned you the question would be daft!
Not daft at all! Glad you’re enjoying. The only thing that needed to be signed off by council once we started was our septics. Perhaps if it was a bigger council with more ppl in the building dept there might be someone to do checks but we’ve never had that on any of our houses we’ve built.
Some details were written in by the engineer, and some details weren’t. There were decisions we made on how to do things based on our experience and knowledge of building.
It’s surprising how much of the building process doesn’t need to be detailed in the submitted plans but you do have to follow building codes which helps guide decisions too.
@@ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead Oh wow, & thanks again : )
So 1, it pays to be in a comparatively low-population area (here in the city they even want to check off your footings for a basic deck, or so I hear)
And 2, it pays to at least be in the industry, since the building code is so complicated & only getting more so! If I was more skeptical I might start thinking that was the plan ; )
So did you have to seek out an engineer or was that part of the draftsman’s job, along with, I think you said, helping with submitting plans to council?
@@s-c.. we worked with a drafty that already had a relationship with an engineer. Just one less job to do fir us
@@ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead Brilliant, thanks 🙃
bravo !
Cheers mate!!
whats the stump spacing for the project, looks the 150x50x3 bearer spans quite big. Looking forward to seeing the finish project
2 meters mate 👍 we were able to do that because of the span of our flooring system SIPs. You’ll see in the flooring video the sips panels are joined by LVLs at 1200 centres on top of the steel frame subfloor. Cheers for watching!
@@FoxRen ah right yeah sorry buddy, 2925
@@ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead great span for 150mm bearer, should be ok for a single storey house
@@FoxRen hopefully the engineer got it right