Champion Hill house plan help
iljakew
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Back wall of house built into hill - need advise, please.
Comments (1)You'll get a better idea of moisture issues once you start removing the cabinets. You could even cut some holes into the drywall to see the condition behind, especially looking for any cracks, etc. where water could enter. Might not even be necessary to replace the entire wall after all....See MoreSouthern Living Oak Hill Lane Plan?
Comments (10)I built Oak Hill Lane four years ago with the help of this forum. I did not build the two story plan. We have a walk out basement with a south back. With the 3500 sq ft on the first floor and the app. 2500 sq ft finished in the lower level we have more room than we can use. We love our house. We bumped the family room out four feet and had a local architect make the kitchen larger and then redraw it ,which IMO improved it a lot. The original kitchen has very few cabinets. I took a little space out of the garage and made the 'Butler's Pantry' another walk in pantry. The garage is a little shallow overall. Should have had the local architect (yes, he was a real architect :-) tweek our plan and make the garage deeper, but I was afraid I would screw up the symmetry of the house. Have never been 100% sure that our truss co. got things absolutely right. The only thing I really dislike about the house that did not bother me at the time is the laundry room entrance. Despite the fact that I have a lovely circle drive that should invite people to use my front door, people end up coming to my side porch which takes them to my laundry room. Spent lots of time with architect at Spitzmiller & Norris on the phone (no charge) when I had questions. They were very helpful. Great house overall. Let me know if I can help. I'm having trouble posting a link from photobucket. Hope this works. [URL=http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v691/blsdgal/?action=view&current=OakHillLane.jpg][IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v691/blsdgal/th_OakHillLane.jpg[/IMG][/URL]...See MoreSouthern Living Shook Hill Plan?
Comments (6)We are in the planning stages right now. We want to move the stairs into the foyer, but not sure this is going to work out. We walked through one being built in Newnan Georgia, Redwine Plantation, there is about 100 sq ft upstairs behind the jack and Jill bath that is wasted space. We plan to add a laundry room upstairs, this way the kids can do their own laundry without carrying up and down. We will also add a walk in pantry downstairs, probably by extending the area between the kitchen and garage. We will add a door off of the side of the front porch, and turn the laundry into the 1/2 bath, and move laundry to the back of the house off of the kitchen. I have quite a few pictures of the home being built in Newnan Georgia....See MoreDrainage, hills and flooding help needed
Comments (13)I would be very hesitant to think that RAISING the grade around my house would solve a drainage problem. Water flows underground too. But I would have no way of knowing unless I had a map that showed the overall grade of both your property and adjacent properties and what kind of soil you had, the dimensions of the lots, location of paved surfaces, etc. Your property does not exist in a vacuum as you have discovered, and anyone who designs anything on your property that does not consider how it relates to the whole area is not showing you signs that they are competent enough to handle your problem. Could they be, yes, but no guarantees. Best bet to find someone with a very long track record of handling drainage problems EFFECTIVELY. Everyone will tell you they can and have done it, you need to diligently check their portfolio and speak with references. I deal with water managers all the time and the good ones are few and far between. What you get is common solutions to common problems which do not always work when applied to every situation....See Moreiljakew
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