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This is the story of building a HiLine house in rural King County, Washington. We started with an existing mobile home with an existing, functioning ...
The first step is to spend $14,000 on permit fees and costs. Included in this amount is the study and fees for a new septic system. Although the exis...
The pump from the surge tank pumps the waster water into the actual sand filter. To build a sand filter, dig a hole 5' deep and 22' square, put in li...
The sand filter pumps the waster water to the distribution field. To build such a field, one digs 5 trenches 50' long and 2' deep. Then put in some p...
The pumps along with their floats have to be wired up and coordinated with each step. That will cost $2,000 - part of which is finally above ground! ...
Several steps compressed here. HiLine starts to build the actual house and they are doing a very good job. HiLine has about 10 set plans and used the...
The shingles were delivered with a truck that had its own hydraulic boom assembly. Thus they were able to place the bales of shingles on the ridge ro...
The plumbing is in. They used PEX piping. I was unaware of PEX until about 6 months ago. The joints are similar to hydraulic connections. So the g...
The electrical rough-in is in! Which eventually means heat! The 2 electricians ran 220 v, 110 v in 12 wire and 14 wire, GFI circuits, cable, doorbel...
For heating and cooling we will have a conventional heat pump. The air handler is placed in the attic space instead of the garage. Such a placement ...
It is amazing how much siding makes a house look finished! It is vinyl siding because we don't ever want to paint it. The workers came on Sunda...
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