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While the top of the house is
still open, we used the crane to lift some of the magnesium oxide board up
and place it on the floor of the upper story. We will be using this board
for wall board and ceilings, and floor underlayment. It is a Sheetrock
replacement. MagnumBoard is an
imported product that is basically waterproof, mold proof and a
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NFL Building Materials delivered some lumber
and I managed to run out there in the nick of time to stop him from
turning around on my grass. I have GOT to get a lot more signs and
barriers up out there to stop huge trucks from destroying the grass we
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Juan and Jose have been up on tall ladders grouting the frieze row of
blocks in preparation for the next concrete back-fill pour. They put
down blue masking tape before applying the tuck-pointed grout to help
keep it off of the concrete acid stain designs. |
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Just as a storm (that never happened for us)
was threatening, we received a load of cypress boards from Sun World of Fairhope, Alabama. They
are for our window sill framing where the flange of the metal clad wood
windows attaches and sits in the window opening. They are nice beefy
planks. With the wind blowing and the sky a dark grey, everyone pitched in
to get the boards unloaded. As usual, in the end, the rain went
around our little corner of the world.
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came and cut the cypress to fit the bottom of the window openings and
our Hydroseal folks came and applied the specialized product to the
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Some of our window
openings lacked too much fill to use hand mixed concrete fill
so they did not get the HydroStop treatment yet. You don't want any open
voids in your walls in this land of high humidity. You could end up with
musty smells in the house, I am told. |
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This (to left) is the main doorway which
will get French doors.
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these bow front blocks under the panels. It would have been best if we
had received correct length bow front blocks w/ finished ends on the bow
part. As it is, we are having to cut slivers of the bow part, at an
angle to attach to our ends. |
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Mike made a jig to facilitate the cutting of
these
necessary slivers at a miter cut angle.
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These threaded rods are to go on the top row
of blocks. The rods will be embedded into the concrete back fill. The
cornice blocks will be lowered over the rods and washers and nuts will
give extra security to the stabilization of the heavy concrete cornice.
The wooden forms give extra strength to the edges of the blocks during
the pumper truck concrete back fill process. |
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Our cement floor tiles, Villa Lagoon Tile , are in
transit from Port of Miami. We have our rented container here in which
to store them. We can keep other materials in this nice container too.
They are great if a tropical storm is threatening. Construction sites
are particularly venerable in high winds as there are usually a lot of
building materials lying around. Having a container can make all the
difference. |
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We had a new puppy dog on the job Friday.
He is sporting a blue tattoo between his eyes.
Shawn, owner of puppy dog.
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So now we are waiting on an inspection, the
back-fill pour and the delivery of the Villa Lagoon Tile. |
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