IdahoJaci

Once again, y-g-m-n to the rescue......

I saw a post from about a year ago similar to my issue, but I didn't understand the response....So here I go. We are changing the siding on part of the house to q/w walls with stone and board and batten. But we are leaving the 2 back walls with the existing cement board lap siding - which we will paint something besides the yucky beige it currently is. We want to audition a few colors to see what will go best. Is it possible to change the color of the cement siding to something besides the few colors offered? None of the colors are even close to what we are shooting for. I did change the exterior wall to plain to get the color I want. But, so much of the character of the wall is lost when it is flat and not showing the laps. The attached picture is the best options in wood lap and cement lap - neither is even close.....Any suggestions?

Thanks y-g-m-n. I am not sure what I did that fixed it. I changed just about everything I could find. Seems different walls were set up slightly differently. One issue I had was I had wall covering on one wall. Plus on one wall it has one slat of a cement lap exterior that showed up on the inside. I built all the walls one afternoon. and I THOUGHT using the same settings on each wall. But, somehow I dotted my T's and crossed my I's someplace. Only took me another 2 hours to get it all corrected. Now I know to pay better attention when I am doing something.....look deep on every option there is.

I have exterior pony walls. The rock extends out farther than the wall above. No problem so far. I want 4.5" deep window sills on the inside. When I set the window to be aligned with the exterior wall I get proper trim until it gets to the pony wall. If I set it to be flush with the inside wall, I get about 1" window sill and the outside has framing showing at the pony wall. I do have 6" exterior walls. I really don't care about all the building stuff in the middle of the wall. This is only for aesthetics - placement, style, color, etc. It is not for plans, or structure. Where do I make corrections so the window shows with a 4" inside sill and sitting correctly on the exterior wall? Do I change the size of the building material within the wall within the wall specifications? Do I change something with the window? Do I change the lower rock wall to only 1" thick so it matches the upper part of the wall?

Just had a meeting with our contractor. He suggested we drop our raised deck by 6" to leave a step-up to the threshold of the entry door. I designed the new raised deck from the existing rooms. But the entry door is part of an addition from 10 years ago and has less than 1/2" from the top of the steps to the threshold. Our contractor says that needs to be corrected when we move the entry door to be under the covered raised deck. It is not critical to do this in the design because the contractor says he'll work it out. But he thought it best we try it out to see if we like this or come up with another solution. Since there is a lot of framing, posts, and such under the deck, not sure the easiest and best way to do this since everything was autogenerated by HD when I added the deck. I'm using Home Designer Pro 2025. Lowering Deck.zip

Spoke to Tech Support. I was doing it correctly, but for some reason the program is not transferring the change to the rendering. Have sent my plan off to Tech Support and they will check it out for me.

I'm using Home Designer Pro 2025. Not a big deal, but I would love to try out a couple different layouts for the deck planking layout. I want to show the boards at 90 deg, possibly a picture frame layout, or a diagonal layout. Is this possible? I thought I saw something like this the other day, but can't find it now. I did change the planks from automatic to 90 deg, but nothing changed.

I have to say. It was a slow start and I am thankful I don't have to get into the nit and gritty part. I thought with 15 years in construction (all in the office and customer service), building shed and garages that I'd be familiar enough with terminology and basic understanding how buildings are put together, but it wasn't that easy. Maybe because very little of that was done on computers and fairly straight forward. But, I'm happy to say I've finished the plans for our remodel, even with gable roof lines intersecting. I only have one thing I have not been able to find an answer for. But that is on another post. Next week we start pricing it out and meeting with our contractor....

I know it is me or something I have done incorrectly, but I am doing a deck and trying to decide if I like (and can afford) a full wall of rock or just the pony wall. First, I built these walls and changed things a few times, so it is likely an error I have brought forth. I ran the materials list and everything looks correct except some are 3" thick and some are 1/2". I'm trying to identify why the difference. The one thing that is curious is when I look to find the location on my plan, some of them indicate the open ends of the deck where there is no rock. I'm confused. I'm guessing all of this is my not understanding how the program is actually describing it. But, it does make it hard for me to know if I order 700 or 800 or 1400 sq ft of the rock. Thanks for any guidance you can offer. Jaci Home Designer PRO 2025 full Rock Entry Rock Issue.zip

Why do you say that...sounds a bit rude. I guess I just need to find a different software that has people that help instead of snarky remarks.

I'm using HDPro 2025. I finally got my roof and entry steps all correct. I have the roof build set as automatic. I next added the 14' wide deck to the front. I added the roof over the deck and using the front deck railing I put it as a gable roof. Now I have some weird roof line. And, now part of my roof no long touches the top of the plate. The pitch on long original roof is 3" and on the short line it is 2.5". But they seemed to work together until I added the part over the deck. top of plate: red, grey, and black wings 91 1/2 green -14 1/8 heel height: red, grey, and black wings 9 11/16 green 115 5/16 baseline height: all 101 3/16 ridge top height: red, grey, and green 139 1/4 black wings 139 1/4 fascia top height: grey green, black wings and inside red 98 15/16 outside red 98 11/16 I have played around on a copy of this plan and anything I do to the numbers or joining planes together just seems to make it worse. I don't want to continue with posts, beams, or even doors and windows that will be under this roof until it works....Any suggestions or ideas? Do I just go to manual panels and move it around until it works? Also any suggestions how to share the whole plan. I've followed the instructions, but zipped the file is still the same size.

With 1 training session with Stephen, he solved all of these problems. I now have all of my roof lines set correctly and the house is finally coming together. I do have a couple odd, minor things popping up and will post them separately. But so far, this program has been everything I wanted and needed.

Sorry, I was so frustrated I forgot to mention I'm using HD Pro 2025. I have removed everything from my plan except walls, doors, and windows, and it is still too large to attach. I finally took a training class with Stephen. In 30 minutes he answered all of my questions and issues. On this wall issue, I did something very special. Somehow I managed to make the screenshot as a new material and it changed everything. Once we got rid of that it all went to the siding it was supposed to have.

I have no idea why when I built 3 walls exactly the same....pony wall 36" rock and over that brown metal. It is fine on 2 walls, but on one wall it shows siding to the left of the wind....except a small piece of metal below the siding. This thing is driving me crazy. It was correct until I change the foundation. Then this one wall changed. I finally got the door placed where it belongs, height-wise. But now need to change deck height and the wall covering.

I appreciate the input. My slab is set at 0". But I can't figure how to set the height of the deck. I don't see anything on slab specification or Deck specifications to help. Maybe, I am misunderstanding the measurements offered. I changed Deck Post Footings 24" Above the Terrain, but that did not raise the deck any. I've avoided anything that said ceiling - don't even want to go there! The guy that built this addition could not measure! He put in vaulted ceilings, but they are not consistent and on one wall he totally forgot to account for the drywall thickness, so I have one side of the ceiling off by 5/8" where it butts up to the mobile home ceiling.....So, if I change my ceiling height, to take care of the exterior, later on IF I need to deal with individual rooms, can I put in the correct ceiling measurements then and not cause an issue with my exterior? I don't need to get too technical on the inside. We are adding a raised deck, and possibly swapping windows and entry door on different walls so we get to actually see the mountains.