I finally broke ground on my new house construction up here in East TN near Sweetwater. I sold my house down near Sanford Florida last November and moved up to an apartment in Lenoir City in late November while I wait for my house to be built/completed.
The house will have an unfinished walkout basement with about 1275 sq ft allocated to potential model railroad layout. I have not designed the layout yet so I'm not exactly sure how large it will be. I have done some doodling, but so far nothing too interesting has evolved.
The house should be complete in about 9 months. Hopefully. :)
Here are some excavation and basement wall installation photos.
The Van Hoose Envirocast walls were installed in about 5 hours from the time the crane showed up.
The walls are 10 ft tall, minus the ~4" slab heigth will result in 9'8" tall ceiling in the basement.
The next step is to dig foundation pads for the 3 support columns in the basement, install the under slab plumbing, and then pour the basement slab. Then they can install the 24" tall floor truss system.
Onewolf,
Great looking new house! You've got a great opportunity most of us never get -- the ability to plan a train layout room from scratch. (Tell the electrician you want about two thousand outlets in the layout room!
I hope you can continue this thread to let us see how the house and the layout room progresses.
York1 John
Glad to see you back, was following your last build and then you just kinda disapeared if I remember right ?
York1 Onewolf, Great looking new house! You've got a great opportunity most of us never get -- the ability to plan a train layout room from scratch. (Tell the electrician you want about two thousand outlets in the layout room! I hope you can continue this thread to let us see how the house and the layout room progresses.
The previous Ogden & Cache Valley I took about 8 years off/on designing the layout and when I was satisfied with the layout I designed the room to fit the layout, and then I designed the detached garage/workshop to fit the room.
This time the layout space is constrained by the available unfinished basement space.
I will keep the thread updated, but it's going to take at least 9 months for the house to be completed and basically inhabitable.
rrebell Glad to see you back, was following your last build and then you just kinda disapeared if I remember right ?
I lost the ability to login using my old credentials and spent 2-3 months trying (unsuccessfully) to get someone from trains.com to assist with my credential issue. Eventually I gave up and created new credentials by which point I was in "moving to TN" mode and theorizing the disassembly of O & CV Part I.
Page 14 here I go from construction to deconstruction mode: https://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/t/244850.aspx?page=14
Welcome back!
I was watching your previous layout build thread with interest. It was always very informative with excellent pictures to illustrate what was going on. Thanks for starting again for us.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
I second York1's suggestion.
Put outlets EVERYWHERE !
Rust...... It's a good thing !
The previous layout was in a 28 x 32 room and each wall had 3 duplex outlets. That was more than enough. I tended use a 20ft extension cord connected to the center outlet which allowed me to cover about 1/2 the layout area with plugging/unplugging.
Far more important was having specfic outlets wired to a wall switch that allowed me to power up/down the entire layout (minus room lighting) with a single switch.