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jmixon
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 Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:41 pm Post subject: Thinking about a Usonian shed/garage |
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My family has a storage issue at their small home and my father and I have been very into the Usonian house idea for a few years now and we're trying to price out a shed around 16' x 24' or so to house some boxes, a lawn mower, and have a workbench as well. The concept is to make a SW facing Shed/Garage that is basically a usonian great room, with the pillars, and a small car port if we can find the steel.
My question is pricing. We have a friend who will dig us out a foundation and also has forms. Our plan is to dig frost walls, reinforce the slab with steel mesh and rebar, and tint it Cherokee Red.
We want to do brick walls/pillars with glass, a nice door, and hopefully a flat roof. Does anyone have drawings of Frank's brick construction methods, I can't find anything on it? Did he just do a double brick cavity wall with ties?
We are hoping to keep the cost under 8 grand, as my father and I can do a lot of the work (not the masonry work, but we could assist a mason). Any suggestions? |
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jmcnally
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| Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2012 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| I don't have suggestions, but I will be popping some corn and watching eagerly as the other comments roll in. |
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JimM
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Most of the construction plans published focus on the often complicated framing, joinery, and casework details. Perhaps there is an assumption that who knows better than to lay brick than a mason?
Brick and stone were usually shown as massing and dimensioned as required. This photo from Muirhead might not be very enlightening, but brick are shown laid in a single row, back to back, and with wider cavities. Theres's no apparent evidence of ties, which obviously would be required by most if not all codes. $8,000 would seem to be an optimistic budget. Plan to have plumbing, utilities, electrical.....?
Any one know what that device is to the left of the masons? Looks like it's hovering in mid air!
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DRN
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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| The device to the left of the masons appears to be a drain for a low slope or flat roof. My only explanation for its appearance of hovering, is that it is connected to a drain pipe extending away from the camera, hidden by the drain and its slotted leaf strainer. The plumber seems to have done some of his work in advance of the masons and carpenters. |
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jmixon
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| JimM wrote: | Most of the construction plans published focus on the often complicated framing, joinery, and casework details. Perhaps there is an assumption that who knows better than to lay brick than a mason?
Brick and stone were usually shown as massing and dimensioned as required. This photo from Muirhead might not be very enlightening, but brick are shown laid in a single row, back to back, and with wider cavities. Theres's no apparent evidence of ties, which obviously would be required by most if not all codes. $8,000 would seem to be an optimistic budget. Plan to have plumbing, utilities, electrical.....?
Any one know what that device is to the left of the masons? Looks like it's hovering in mid air!
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No utilities, just the structure. It's going to be mostly storage really to replace a horrid chicken coup shed we have currently. What I understand is every 2 rows you put wire mesh in the mortar and every 4 rows you use wall ties to make the brick structural. |
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peterm
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| Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| I remember someone (SDR?...) posting the standard brick detail, but I have not been able to locate it... |
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SDR
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| Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 12:05 am Post subject: |
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Well, there's the Usonian Standard Detail Sheet -- but not much masonry shown other than an 8" brick wall:
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