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Main Home Current Home for Sale In
Peninsula, Gulf Shores, AL
Rows Eight and Nine--Window and Door
Openings
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| This side of the ground floor has 3
openings that will be filled in w/ fake, non-functioning doors. |
This side of the garage on the ground
floor will have the real garage doors. |
The red thing is a small
concrete mixer. We bought it since no one involved w/ this
job had one already. The cost a little over 200 bucks. We
had to buy a used gas powered concrete saw too. The
blocks are just guaranteed w/ a tolerance of plus or minus
on quarter inch so sometimes you have to use extra grout
or cut a block if it is oversized for the opening. We were
very frustrated about the fact that the electrical outlet
openings were omitted that were suppose to have been
cast in place.
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Inside of the garage under the porch. The blocks that stand out are 24
inches thick and weigh over 1000 lbs each --before they are backfilled with concrete in their core.
The columns for the porches will sit on these blocks. They are sitting
on pilings that are 20 ft deep, capped by a 2 ft thick, 5 ft wide reinforced concrete piling cap.
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The windows will be recessed so that there will be some
sill on both the inside and outside. Here, on the left, you can see the
molded-in raised trim that goes around the perimeter of
the openings. There is a small piece, a bull nosed trim
piece, yet to come that will fit between the sides and the
sill. We just realized that we need to ck to be sure that this
small piece is delivered as we build, and not all towards the
end, as this might require the scaffolding to be moved and
set up all around the house one extra time. That would be
very time consuming !
We spoke to our builder, and found out that since this
small piece has a history of being broken on the job, it is
best to wait a bit to install them. |
This raised edging will go all around the
outside edges of the windows. |
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| Because the crane operator cannot see up
onto the tops of the rows of blocks to know how to set the next blocks,
we are using video cameras. This stand has a camera mounted on it and
can be moved about. It is plugged into a regular 110v outlet. The monitor is in the cab of the crane. There is a
second camera mounted on the ball that hangs from the crane cables. |
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This house will have a lot of light. The size of these window
openings is over 5 feet wide. They also start low on the wall. All of these windows are to be casement windows and
all functional except for the ones in the elevator/stair tower. |
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| This window is in the wall of the stair /
elevator tower. |
First time we were able to take a photo of this corner of the
house without a boom truck or crane in the shot. |
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The sub-flooring on this floor is oriented
strand particle board and has a 50 year warranty. The porch floor is conventional exterior 3/4 in
plywood because it will be covered w/ something like Durarock and will get a poured in place 4 inch concrete
slab on top. The OSPB is more expensive than the conventional plywood. |
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As you can see, we are having excellent
weather for building. The carpenters have their own saws and drills, the table is
just a work table for plans, etc.. We have a list of supplies
that was given to us by Ted Dial of DAC-ART that are
necessary to keep handy for this type of construction. One
thing is on that list is this thing like a extra long crowbar to
slide under the edge of a block to make slight position
adjustments. An interesting fact is that you never use the
bar to push, but swing around and use it to pull a block
towards you. A 16 pound sledgehammer with a plastic
handle. To bump a block in and out of alignment for
flushness on a wall, this tools bumped against the face of
the block w/ THE HANDLE....you hold on to the heavy head
of the tool. This is just for slight adjustments.
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04/27/2008
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