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33999 Re: Barn Update:
   [b]the stairwell comes too close to the foundation wall when you go do... 		nacl01   POPE 5   14 Jun 2019
 5:00 PM
33924 Re: Barn Update:
   De, That is a very nice floor plan and I love the bedroom sizes as... 		micro   POPE 5   13 Jun 2019
 1:36 PM

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Re: Barn Update:

By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Thu, 13 Jun 19 1:43 AM
Msg. 33902 of 62138
(This msg. is a reply to 33885 by capt_nemo)
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Nemo:

Re: "look good de,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thumbs Up"There's a lot going on.

I'm planning on replacing my electrician since he's extremely slow. The electrician who's been recommended hasn't been returning calls, though. I hear that his father died a few weeks ago and he's not taking it well. So, one of the contractors reached out to still another electrician and at least got an answer to one of my most pressing questions: How far can a home be from its transformer?

The short answer is 150 feet. I got that answer from the internet. But with thicker wire, stepped-down power can go considerably farther. The answer, obtained from this new electrician, is 400 feet.

I have two potential home locations in mind, both uphill and pretty far from the transformer. The one I liked best was at the very top of the hill, 500 feet away. My second choice is 300 feet up the hill, where it plateaus a bit before resuming its climb. Looks like that's where we'll be putting the house. And with THAT decided, now I can call a well company and have a well dug between the barn and the house. (I want the well to be closer to the house than to the barn, so I needed to know where the house would be.)

I'm also working with a home designer to get my modified magazine plan turned into the real thing. He found a stairwell flaw that needs fixing, but I don't like the solution he recommended. Here's the modified magazine plan I sent him:


The issue with it is that the stairwell comes too close to the foundation wall when you go down it. It wouldn't be to code if it were built as shown unless the basement itself had a low (6') ceiling, or the stairs were very steep (which probably also isn't to code.) The designer proposed lengthening the stairwell by moving its main floor entrance toward the front of the house and, consequently, expanding the whole back of the house at the expense of the front. In other words, all the rooms at the back of the house would get several feet bigger in depth and the ones at the front of the house would get several feet smaller. He sent us a draft so we could see what that would look like and . . . nix on that. We want a large master bedroom and not a gargantuan master bathroom.

We're going with Plan B, which is to leave the front of the house alone and enlarge the back of the house by two feet. That makes the home dimensions 70' x 30' which is a lot bigger than we intended when you take the basement into account, but we'll live with it.


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