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Created: Apr 12, 2008 by SKHK1
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Project Summary

With six people in the family we needed extra space. Once we made the decision to add on we started making phone calls. The original estimates were 35K - 40K, that was out of our budget. We then started getting material estimates with us doing as much of the work as possible. Our estimate was now about 15K which we could handle.

It took us about 5 month to complete, my wife and I did all the work with a few execptions. If you had not seen the house before you would never know that we added the addition.

Project Journal

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Prepration

We were adding to the side of the house and luckly there was no utilities on this side of the house. We removed all the siding from the side and set it aside for later use. We also had to remove the fence (before photo taken when first moved in before fence was added) so the cement truck could make it back.

Slab

After several calls we found a local cement company that would pour the foundation at a reasonable cost. They did the site prep work and poured the 24' X 24' slab.

Framing & Roofing

Over the next two month my wife and I did all the framing, roofing and installed the windows.

Siding

I took a piece of the siding taken down earlier to several siding companies until I found a match. We only needed to purchase enough to do the front of the addition. Since the addition fit under the roofline of the existing house and was 4 feet narrower, the siding that was taken down earlier was enough to cover the end. For the back we took down the siding that was on the front and used it for the back of the addition. We then put a faux brick siding on the front.

HVAC & Electrical

Due to local building code I was not allowed to do the HVAC and electrical work. To keep cost to a miminun I installed all the outlets, fixtures, and junction boxes. I then pulled four wires from the main circuit breaker box in the garage on the far side of the house to the addition. The electrician then came in and simply made the connections. So that I would not have to deal with gas lines, we added a heat pump unit for the addion. We had two rooms of the exisiting house taken off the existing system added to the new heat pump system to reduce the stain on the existing HVAC system.