I just got an excited phone call from my fiance' that a "digger thing" just pulled in the driveway to start digging the foundation. Weve been working with a builder and he was supposed to call us a few days before they started work, but I guess he missed us. Either way, theyre digging the hole now. The "room" will be 28x30 and part of a total 28x30 addition. Pics will follow.

If I would have known they were starting today, I wouldn't have mown that part of the lawn yesterday!!!

Hugh

Now that the have stared you wont have to mow untill they are done!

I suspect by the time the addition is finished, you will be used to contractors not doing what they say they will. It's the nature of the beast.

But good luck and keep us informed, I have a simular project planned.

Hugh: What's the square foot price going for in Michigan these day? Just trying to get an idea. Thanks, jorge

jorge,

Im in the UP of Michigan, so my prices might not be typical. But were putting up a 50x28 addition with a two car garage underneath it, a master suite and great room. The entire addition and old house will be log sided and a drainage system put in to alleviate an existing water problem. We also are adding a new furnace and air conditioner system. And a new roof over both structures.

Sit down for this one.

$85/sqft for the whole package.

You should have told the FBI that Jimmy Hoffa was buried there . They would have dug it up at no charge.

And I am from Michigan! Dang!

Thanks Hugh. That's a great price! jorge

I was told by a builder to figure close to $200 sq ft for an addition in central florida. The bigger problem is my property taxes would almost triple!

Its not much but heres a start. I should mention that the well is on the left of the hole (you can see the pipe) and the house is on the right. The remnants of the pipe connecting the two is somewhere under the mound in the center of the picture, leaving us with no water. Yes it was marked.

gotta love home improvement

It looks like a perfect spot for an addition, nice and square. Glad to know Florida is not the only state that has workers who cut up marked pipe

85 bucks...wow. You can't build anything in Phoenix for less than 150/sq...

Here in the "new Hamptons" of the upper Hudson Valley the staggering number is $240/sq for a custom home. I'm cryin not buyin however.

More work in progress photos

Hughiam,

Looks like your trophy room is going to be bigger than the whole house! Now your thinking!!!

Well, there is a bedroom in there as well. But its in a loft over the TR, so I call it part of the whole room.

We have a roof!

i see that you have nearly completed my hunting lodge for future us hunting trips

Nice trophy roo(guesthouse, it will prrobably scare the shit out of a P.E.T.A member when its finished.

If there was anything left in the U.P. to hunt it would be a great lodge. Given our low deer densities and high doe/buck ratio, hunting is pretty dismal. The high point is our growing bear population. In one of the previous photos of the back of the house, Im standing in a spot that I have video of two bears.

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Originally posted by 308Sako:
Here in the "new Hamptons" of the upper Hudson Valley the staggering number is $240/sq for a custom home. I'm cryin not buyin however.

240x1000= 240000, for only 1000 sq ft home. Wow do they at least provide lube before they screw you?

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Originally posted by Widowmaker416:
Looks like your trophy room is going to be bigger than the whole house! Now your thinking!!!

There is a Jeff Foxworthy line in there.

If your trophy room is bigger than the rest of your house ....

You know the ending.

You gotta' like a guy who hass the brass to have a trophy room bigger than his house.

I like the picture by picture progress of the house. Keep us posted.

Thats probably just his gun room , the trophy room will soon follow, he just has to buy the neighbours property and ask Donald Trump for advise first .

Looks like to me that Widowmaker416 has his priorities right in line!!

366torque, Regarding the lube... don't we all wish. It is one of the many reasons I have got to get out of this Communist run state. I do understand supply and demand, but to demand money for the sake of it is also known as robbery.

The cut out of the person on the roof is pretty cool!

Nice size room. Think about all the hunts you'll need to go on to fill it up.

We finally got the siding up on the TR. I can see almost see the mounts hanging now!!!

Hugh

Looking great!!!!!

Excellent choice of siding! Coming from a person that lives in a log home, solid log! I like it!

I would have loved to do the real log home project. But with the taxidermy business located on the same property it wasn't a good idea. Moving a business is too costly in terms of lost customers.

I SEE you have shingles on the addition instead of the steel. Tired of dodging the avalanches and digging out?
I have had a steel roof on the house since the late 70s and will never have shingles again. Not with the snow and ice buildup we get.

What part of the UP?


I went the other way and when I did my house remodel. I made sure I will never have to work outside on the house again.

a troll close enough to Grayling to have the guard guns vibrate the house on occassion.

Yes we ditched the steel roof for a few reasons. The avalanche that happened in 2001 took the deck right off the side of the house. If your doors are under the avalanche side of the house you can end up with a 4' mound of snow as hard as concrete to shovel out. If your doors are on the gable end of the house its not bad, but Im getting old

FOR THOSE scratching their heads... In snow country a steel roof is great because you don't get the snow load problems and the ice on the eves can't crawl under the shingle and bleed back into the house.
the downside is that when the weight gets to be too great or the weather warms, the steel sheds the snow ALL AT ONCE. you can have hundreds of pounds of snow clear off in a couple of seconds. Then as soon as it hits it sets up like avalanche snow, basically concrete.. If you don't have your doors planned right you can wind up having to dig out.
It makes a great roof for heavy weather and will last almost indefinitely compared to shingles.

Here are some updated pics from the project. This is the staircase that goes up to the bedroom and south wall of the trophy room.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v437/Hughiam/staircase.jpg

Here is the south wall

North wall. There will be a fireplace between the two windows and the wall will be tongue and groove

Here is the north wall viewed from the bedroom loft

Northeast wall with french door to patio

View from loft bedroom to North wall

What a great trophy room this is going to be. Keep us posted on the progress.

Nice space. Are you installing any plywood backing between the studs and drywall to screw the heads into?

Actually, most of the room will be tongue and groove on the walls that will take the mounts. For the drywalled walls, we will be careful to hit the studs.