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Posted on 4/29/21 at 1:11 pm to X123F45
Posted on 4/29/21 at 1:11 pm to X123F45
As big as possible:
Back porch - I don't think you can ever have too much
Laundry Room - I'm talking like 10x10 - enough room for washer/dryer, sink, working table and ironing board.
Garage - big enough for 1 bay to be for boat, 1 bay for mowers/tools, 1 bay for lady to park
Back porch - I don't think you can ever have too much
Laundry Room - I'm talking like 10x10 - enough room for washer/dryer, sink, working table and ironing board.
Garage - big enough for 1 bay to be for boat, 1 bay for mowers/tools, 1 bay for lady to park
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Posted on 4/29/21 at 1:20 pm to X123F45
-Would design master closet large enough to make it a safe
room/tornado shelter.
-Water heater near every bathroom.
-Car port larger than standard to accommodate built in
cabinets and a workbench on the sides.
-Dedicated 1st floor closet for Christmas Tree and/or
decorations.
-Coax and Cat 6 / Ethernet in every room.
-Sheath exterior with plywood or at least quality OSB.
room/tornado shelter.
-Water heater near every bathroom.
-Car port larger than standard to accommodate built in
cabinets and a workbench on the sides.
-Dedicated 1st floor closet for Christmas Tree and/or
decorations.
-Coax and Cat 6 / Ethernet in every room.
-Sheath exterior with plywood or at least quality OSB.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 2:10 pm to TubsTiger
Why does everyone want coax by every TV? You would do better with HDMI or nothing but your Roku/AppleTV/Firestick.
Some new houses have stopped running coax. I pulled all mine up into the attic in my new house, such a waste.
Some new houses have stopped running coax. I pulled all mine up into the attic in my new house, such a waste.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 2:15 pm to ColdDuck
quote:
Why does everyone want coax by every TV? You would do better with HDMI or nothing but your Roku/AppleTV/Firestick.
Some new houses have stopped running coax. I pulled all mine up into the attic in my new house, such a waste.
Why would you run an HDMI cable to a central location?
Coax is a greatly useful medium. Things I do and have used coax for recently:
1) satellite service
2) Locating a cable modem in any room I want if needed
3) Distributing OTA antenna channels throughout the house from an attic/roof mounted antenna. no need for 3rd party devices and the picture quality is the absolute best you can get for HD.
4) Coax supports up to 10Gbit data transfers with faster rates coming. Coax gives you an alternate network path if for some reason you dont want to use ethernet cabling.
I'm sure there are a few other uses I am forgetting.
This post was edited on 4/29/21 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 4/29/21 at 2:30 pm to notsince98
Absolutely to all of those above! Cheap to install in new construction but pain after walls are closed. Keeps a lot of options open.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 2:48 pm to X123F45
One of the things I don't have photos of in the link I put on page two is the bunk room we added that is part of our kids' playroom. Two twin over twin bunks with lights and charging stations. Never an issue having sleepovers.
Things I suggest--
1. Huge fire place--I'm talking like they have inside Cracker Barrel restaurants. Love our wood burning fire places, but wish they were bigger.
2. This one was just a miss on our part--floor outlet in the office. We forgot.
3. We have water filter for the house--nice feature.
4. We have the Hoshizaki sonic ice machine and it's one of my favorite features of the house--$5,500, but awesome.
5. Outdoor kitchen--builder talked me into wooden door cabinet faces and I could punch him. Do stainless doors and drawers and do several. Keeping things stored outdoors keeps things cleaner.
6. Hot water spicket by the garage--great for bathing dogs and rinsing large pots.
7. Christmas light plugs on a timer in the garage. Landscape lights and house lights on timers. We have this--love it.
8. We have built in dressers in all closets but the guest closet. Allows for more room in the bedrooms. Our kids have walk in closets.
9. Walk in showers--only tub we have is in the master.
10. Laundry room is huge. See pictures. it's also a dog room and craft room.
11. We have lights out in our trees in the backyard so you may ask builder about running wire out there to where your trees will be.
12. Make sure you go over landscape budget and make sure he has enough money there as it sucks to get to the end of the project and not have enough money to finish your yard.
13. yes on mounting tvs and having power supply high on the wall for tvs along with Cat5. All of our tvs are mounted... all nine of them. Ridiculous.
14. Can never have enough garage space...
15. Our attic stairs are ground level through a door in the garage. Full staircase and the entire four car garage is decked above for attic.
16. slow close doors and drawers. Drawers for lower cabinets.
Lots of good info in this thread. That's what I can think of for now.
Things I suggest--
1. Huge fire place--I'm talking like they have inside Cracker Barrel restaurants. Love our wood burning fire places, but wish they were bigger.
2. This one was just a miss on our part--floor outlet in the office. We forgot.
3. We have water filter for the house--nice feature.
4. We have the Hoshizaki sonic ice machine and it's one of my favorite features of the house--$5,500, but awesome.
5. Outdoor kitchen--builder talked me into wooden door cabinet faces and I could punch him. Do stainless doors and drawers and do several. Keeping things stored outdoors keeps things cleaner.
6. Hot water spicket by the garage--great for bathing dogs and rinsing large pots.
7. Christmas light plugs on a timer in the garage. Landscape lights and house lights on timers. We have this--love it.
8. We have built in dressers in all closets but the guest closet. Allows for more room in the bedrooms. Our kids have walk in closets.
9. Walk in showers--only tub we have is in the master.
10. Laundry room is huge. See pictures. it's also a dog room and craft room.
11. We have lights out in our trees in the backyard so you may ask builder about running wire out there to where your trees will be.
12. Make sure you go over landscape budget and make sure he has enough money there as it sucks to get to the end of the project and not have enough money to finish your yard.
13. yes on mounting tvs and having power supply high on the wall for tvs along with Cat5. All of our tvs are mounted... all nine of them. Ridiculous.
14. Can never have enough garage space...
15. Our attic stairs are ground level through a door in the garage. Full staircase and the entire four car garage is decked above for attic.
16. slow close doors and drawers. Drawers for lower cabinets.
Lots of good info in this thread. That's what I can think of for now.
Posted on 4/29/21 at 2:53 pm to notsince98
Why not spray in fiberglass versus cellulose?
Posted on 4/29/21 at 8:24 pm to HeartAttackTiger
quote:
Why not spray in fiberglass versus cellulose?
Cellulose insulates better, reduces infiltration better, insulates outside sound better, and is less flammable.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 10:01 am to X123F45
A big laundry room. Include a place to fold clothes, washer, dryer, water heater, shelf to store larger pots and kitchen things you dont use often, luggage, a large sink to wash big pots and a deep freezer.
My MawMaw had that in her house.
Other smaller things.
A spigot outside for hot water
An outlet for natural gas near patio
All stainless quarter turn valves for sink faucets and toilet and at the main water line coming into the house. Those cheap arse little plastic fricks that break when you go to turn them off can go straight to hell.
My MawMaw had that in her house.
Other smaller things.
A spigot outside for hot water
An outlet for natural gas near patio
All stainless quarter turn valves for sink faucets and toilet and at the main water line coming into the house. Those cheap arse little plastic fricks that break when you go to turn them off can go straight to hell.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 10:33 am to X123F45
Double the size of your laundry room. We did and it’s awesome.
Outlets in eaves for Christmas lights. Split them and put half of the outlet on a switch for Christmas lights.
Gas Tankless HW heaters. 2 if you can.
Spray foam insulation- I know there’s huge debates on this but I decided to do it and don’t regret it at all.
If you do spray foam pre-treat the house with borate for termites. I pretreated all of the high risk termite areas. Best $ I spent.
Double the size of your back porch under roof.
Built in outdoor grill with gas and egg.
Depending on where you live do a transfer switch for generator even if you install generator later.
Outlets in eaves for Christmas lights. Split them and put half of the outlet on a switch for Christmas lights.
Gas Tankless HW heaters. 2 if you can.
Spray foam insulation- I know there’s huge debates on this but I decided to do it and don’t regret it at all.
If you do spray foam pre-treat the house with borate for termites. I pretreated all of the high risk termite areas. Best $ I spent.
Double the size of your back porch under roof.
Built in outdoor grill with gas and egg.
Depending on where you live do a transfer switch for generator even if you install generator later.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 12:00 pm to X123F45
Light switch in the door jamb for closets
Spray foam insulation
Large enough laundry room for a folding countertop/island
Could go on for days probably of all the features I'd want in my house if I was fffllluuuuussshhhheeddd with cash.
Spray foam insulation
Large enough laundry room for a folding countertop/island
Could go on for days probably of all the features I'd want in my house if I was fffllluuuuussshhhheeddd with cash.
This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:34 pm to X123F45
1)auto-on lights in my hall storage closets--the kind that turn themselves on when you open the door.
2)more sound-dampening material in interior bedroom walls, esp those containing plumbing. My home office backs up to the master bath's shower stall, and it sounds like Niagra Falls when it's turned on.
3)supplemental dehumidifier in the central air/heating system. House is so energy efficient, AC and heat don't need to run for weeks at a time in spring and fall. BUT, I live in the swamp; I need to get the moisture out of the air without dropping the AC to 60 degrees. Whole house dehumidifier would keep things drier & discourage indoor allergen growth.
4)standard door to enter/exit garages, not just roll up doors. I have a triple garage with very large storage closet & workbench area. It sucks to have to roll up the double door to walk out--lets in 10000 mosquitos, dirt, heat, etc.
2)more sound-dampening material in interior bedroom walls, esp those containing plumbing. My home office backs up to the master bath's shower stall, and it sounds like Niagra Falls when it's turned on.
3)supplemental dehumidifier in the central air/heating system. House is so energy efficient, AC and heat don't need to run for weeks at a time in spring and fall. BUT, I live in the swamp; I need to get the moisture out of the air without dropping the AC to 60 degrees. Whole house dehumidifier would keep things drier & discourage indoor allergen growth.
4)standard door to enter/exit garages, not just roll up doors. I have a triple garage with very large storage closet & workbench area. It sucks to have to roll up the double door to walk out--lets in 10000 mosquitos, dirt, heat, etc.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 6:32 pm to Wiseguy
quote:
Install switches for the fans and lights on your patio inside and outside. I hate having to go back inside to turn them on.
Why not just make these wifi switches? Adding wifi switches for my outdoor stuff was a game changer
This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 7:13 pm
Posted on 4/30/21 at 6:52 pm to X123F45
the simple things are often forgotten
like TV/cable wires in kitchen, quality ceiling speakers and a home sound system wiring and stereo, adding a separate circuit for the front lights so you can run all your christmas lights without issues, and an exterior faucet on all 4 sides of the house
oh and give some thought to irrigation system if you are going to do landscaping
like TV/cable wires in kitchen, quality ceiling speakers and a home sound system wiring and stereo, adding a separate circuit for the front lights so you can run all your christmas lights without issues, and an exterior faucet on all 4 sides of the house
oh and give some thought to irrigation system if you are going to do landscaping
Posted on 5/10/21 at 2:10 pm to X123F45
We put a lot of thought into our house so there’s very few things I would change. But two things that I am very happy we did are:
One deep cabinet in the laundry room. 30”. Makes it easier to fold towels. Our old house was small and we would fold clothes on the kitchen island. We couldn’t put an island in the Laundry room so we put an extra deep cabinet et with a 30” deep countertop. Bonus in this photo is that clothes hanging contraption I made.
Second is a depressed area with drain next to the patio where we boil crawfish. Sooooo easy when you’re done boiling, just pour it over. Edited photo with hose I use for washing crawfish.
One deep cabinet in the laundry room. 30”. Makes it easier to fold towels. Our old house was small and we would fold clothes on the kitchen island. We couldn’t put an island in the Laundry room so we put an extra deep cabinet et with a 30” deep countertop. Bonus in this photo is that clothes hanging contraption I made.
Second is a depressed area with drain next to the patio where we boil crawfish. Sooooo easy when you’re done boiling, just pour it over. Edited photo with hose I use for washing crawfish.
This post was edited on 5/10/21 at 6:55 pm
Posted on 5/10/21 at 3:12 pm to X123F45
Lots of great ideas. I would also add for security and Doomsday (and laughs as at least one of these is funny).
1. Home run Ethernet cabling to the eaves around the house for Ubiquity Security Cameras.
2. Safety window film on all windows.
3. Concrete Doomsday equipped safe room with escape tunnel.
4. Remote controlled roof hatch on backside of roof for secretly launching my drones.
1. Home run Ethernet cabling to the eaves around the house for Ubiquity Security Cameras.
2. Safety window film on all windows.
3. Concrete Doomsday equipped safe room with escape tunnel.
4. Remote controlled roof hatch on backside of roof for secretly launching my drones.
Posted on 5/10/21 at 3:29 pm to X123F45
If you;re gonna have a fireplace:
1- Makeup air directly back into the fireplace
2- Air circulator that brings in air from one side of the fireplace, routes it around the back (manifold?) and pumps it out the other side to take advantage of heating air in the home. Variable speed fan for this.
Oh and fart fans with the motor in the attic.
ETA: reading about the multiple water heaters, consider a hot water recirulating pump instead. Much less going on than multiple heaters.
1- Makeup air directly back into the fireplace
2- Air circulator that brings in air from one side of the fireplace, routes it around the back (manifold?) and pumps it out the other side to take advantage of heating air in the home. Variable speed fan for this.
Oh and fart fans with the motor in the attic.
ETA: reading about the multiple water heaters, consider a hot water recirulating pump instead. Much less going on than multiple heaters.
This post was edited on 5/10/21 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 5/10/21 at 3:44 pm to Coon
quote:
Second is a depressed area with drain next to the patio where we boil crawfish. Sooooo easy when you’re done boiling, just pour it over.
100% this.
Posted on 5/10/21 at 7:54 pm to Meauxjeaux
not so much something I'd change, but a tip: at multiple steps in the building process: use your phone to take VIDEO of the build and archive it to a computer!!!
especially at the pre-drywall/insulation stage when you can see everything.
I used my phone to video record EVERY single inch of the framing so I could easily see where studs, electrical, cable, cat6, PEX, etc are....it's "paid" for itself numerous times since.
It even bailed out the builder when the bricks went up before the inspector could see the wall ties...all I had to do was email him some video showing them in place and the inspector was happy
especially at the pre-drywall/insulation stage when you can see everything.
I used my phone to video record EVERY single inch of the framing so I could easily see where studs, electrical, cable, cat6, PEX, etc are....it's "paid" for itself numerous times since.
It even bailed out the builder when the bricks went up before the inspector could see the wall ties...all I had to do was email him some video showing them in place and the inspector was happy
Posted on 5/10/21 at 8:54 pm to jlsufan
Although it is code in many places it's not everywhere...make sure the microwave over the range vent goes outside. We made a mistake assuming this was a given. This is pure dumbness on behalf of the builder.
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