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Today is Valentine's Day, Feb 14th 2007. Mike
Rowdy, in charge of block setting, sent along this photo of the 22nd course of
blocks on the East side of the home. He took the photo. His comments:
...everyone seems to be happy, and usually that's a tall order to fill. The first pic is from today. I took a few but the reflection from the sun made them look a little a little funny. The others are just some I have taken that I like. From the looks of things I my
competition date is not to far off today.
Not counting the elevator shaft, nor the porches,
the house is basically 40 ft x 30 ft on the inside. The porches measure 15 ft x
26 ft. We have three south facing porches. The elevator shaft tower area is 10
ft x 15 ft inside.
As the close-up photo shows, the concrete blocks
really are beautiful in the sunset.
This arch block that you see above weighs between
5 and 6 thousand pounds. It looks like the men are holding it, but even in this
slightly out of focus photograph, you can see the cable that is really supporting
it.
As you can see, some really special ornamental
molded concrete blocks are going over the arches. This photo gives one the idea
of the scale of blocks we are working with here.
We have located our gas lights that we plan to
use on the exterior. They are 15 inches wide and 36 inches tall. They are true
gas lights and each have a double burner. We plan to use four and maybe 2 for
the pool area. We are also looking at travertine for our floors. We have been
shopping hard and have bought our toilets, most of our bath tubs, and
sinks.
We have ordered the elevator, the tankless, 'on
demand' water heaters. We are using Bosch brand. We are getting close to
ordering our roof, which is going to be clay tile, machine made but with a lot
of variation in color to look more like handmade.
At a recent meeting of all the 'major players' in
this project, we discovered that we will be able to add an additional course of
blocks to our top floor without breaking the building restrictions. This will
have a huge impact on the feeling you get in the upper floor. This additional
wall height also means that we were able to reduce the width of the hall by two
feet which add two feet to the length of the upper story room. Adding
height to any ceiling is a wonderful thing.
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04/27/2008
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