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Mary and Jerry Nasello's Gulf Coast DAC-ART waterfront house construction 2006-2008
Nasello Home Site Prep	Pilings	Foundation	1st Course	Slab Prep	Slab	2nd Course	3rd Course	4th Course	5th Course	Page 11
First Floor	7th Course	Porch#1	8th-9th row blocks	Weathershield	10,11,12th	Second Floor	16th Row blocks	17,18,19th row	19,20th row	Page 22
Cornice	Fireplace	Roof-1	Roof-2	Roof-3	Cornice-2	Arches	Garage Doors	Porch Arches	Roof Decking	Page 33
Tile Roof								Newspaper Castle Article	Magazine Coverage  DacArt in the News	FloorTile

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Upper Story Italian Flattened Arch Blocks

This huge crane is here to place the heavy Italian style flattened arch blocks. Early May 2007

Started out we knew that we had to put in five 16,000 pound arches on the porch for the top floor. We also knew that due to the size and weight of the crane we needed that we wouldn't be able to position the crane in the ideal location which would be the southern side of the house. If we located it there, it , no doubt, would have gotten stuck in the wetlands because the crane needed to move the 16,000 lb.  arches was a 90 ton crane with a 110 ft boom. Therefore we positioned the crane on the eastern side of the house where we had already poured sand with a crushed limestone 4" surface. We knew we would have to reach over the entire porch which is 26 ft long and 45' high in order to drop the arch on the western side of the porch. This monstrous size crane was a bargain at $2,800 a day. We actually shopped around and one crane co wanted $3,600 a day. Ours came from Mobile. The reason the arch weighed so much is because they were solid DAC-ART concrete reinforced with extra thick rebar.

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