Fly's Compound

[FlyHiFlyLo]

The start of some crazy ass house project.
Lord help me.

[FlyHiFlyLo]

Little Progress Update.

I have been in plan check and regional planning approval for over 7 months now. Thursday I finally got approval from the county for my project!!!!

I had originally submitted for two houses (Primary 3200/secondary1200) but got shot down because I didn't have a 50 foot wide street in front of my lot. So I had to merge the two houses. Basically I took the kitchenette out of the secondary residence and pushed the two houses together and connected the them with a turret and stairwell.

The end result was 5280sf of living space and a total structure of 8900sf.




The 8" 700 foot water pipeline is now all approved and they are starting to install Wed. 14+ months for water!

I still have Building and Safety, Fire Dept and Health Department approval pending...

[3RRL]

Thursday I finally got approval from the county for my project!!!!
I was wondering what was happening to your construction project. Good news you got over some of the hurdles already Scott. Most county bureaucracies are a real pain to work with!
We want to see you using your new Jinma 554 and all that other cool stuff you bought. Go move some dirt now that you can.
Rob-

[FlyHiFlyLo]

3rrl said:

We want to see you using your new Jinma 554 and all that other cool stuff you bought. Go move some dirt now that you can.
Rob-

I want to get the pad graded then there will be tons of dirt to sculpt... Because the lot is generally flat I want to make sure every inch of it is finely tuned.

[3RRL]

Holy shit!
You killed that land!

[FlyHiFlyLo]

[GuglioLS]

Oh man that's ambitious, you sure you can do that? Seems I saw you throw your back out installing the canopy on your 554

Bet it was cool operating that CAT!

Larry

[FlyHiFlyLo]

That CAT was so fun... Cleared 2.5 acres and ripped it in a day and a half... Being able to take 20 foot swipes at a time sure made short order of turning my 20'x700' wide street into 40'x700'...

[red]

flyhiflylo said:

That CAT was so fun... Cleared 2.5 acres and ripped it in a day and a half...

And who saiz size doesn't matter! ;D -Ed

[FlyHiFlyLo]

Went out and inspected the first phase of my Pipeline install. They had to intercept an 8" main and shut down the water-main to many people. They were able to cut the main and install tee and valve in less than 2 hours. We had a little bit of rain so they are going to start laying the pipe on Monday.










I have the same contractor doing the main also doing my pad. The pad is pretty nuts... After removal and re-compaction they are moving a total of 4000+ yards and the total graded pad area is .95 acre. The house was just too big to get away with just clearing a spot and putting in deep footings.

So once I was required to do a fully engineered and compacted pad I just went for the biggest pad I could without getting into Cal State involvement. Like Hydrology reports, massive bonds and state inspection.

Scott

[FlyHiFlyLo]

Got some pipeline update pics today... They got 400' done today and yesterday.

[biggkidd]

Scott,

Looks like things are headed in the right direction. ;D I can't wait to see all the great pics and posts coming in the future.

KIDD

[3RRL]

How long will it take them to finish that water line up? What's the length of that run with that 8" there, looks like a long ways?
How much longer before you house is done?

[stumpy]

Scott,

What do you do with an 8" water line? How much do you have to pay for a water meter that big. That's huge.... Are you feeding a lake or something.... I use 2" PVC from my well to the homesite about 2000' away. Are you in LA or Kern county? What a pain in the rear to have to deal with LA county.

Tom

[FLICK]

flyhiflylo said:

I hope that's a tree root sticking out of the left side of the trench and not the local telephone cable??

Interesting pics Scott

Matthew.