 We are pleased to learn that we will be able to hang a nice cypress wood swing from Yard
Envy on the lower porch of the south facing porches toward Little
Lagoon. This will be a lovely place to catch the late afternoon breezes
and watch the sunset. |
Hammocks, bird houses, bird feeders, teak furniture, sundials and more at
www.YardEnvy.com
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| Various things have come up this week. we
had planned to have another concrete back-fill pour this week but today
when the inspector came he asked about engineering on the large beam
across the house where the two parts join. Mike went to the DAC-ART
plant to meet w/ Ted Dial to see if he could get the engineering
paperwork for our inspector. Hope they can come up with some ! |
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| It is interesting to me how the colors
vary on the various cornice parts. I may do a bit of cheating and add
some reddish paint to the narrow red line at the top of the acid stain
colored area on the cornice. |
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Today two hydraulic crane repair fellows
came out to replace a relay and a switch on our crane. We had also
wanted them to do some other things but they could not get a pin to come
loose so we may just finish the job with the crane as is and have the
repairs done before we sell it. |
| Mike has begun to stack the blocks for my
driveway posts. It will probably become necessary to have gates that
lock pretty soon. Ever since the hurricanes, our crime rate has gone
up,up,up. A lot of people moved into the area from other parts for
various reasons. Not nearly enuf left afterwards. I asked Mike to go
ahead and stack them so some of the concrete truck clean-out cement
could go into them and not on the ground. |
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| It is getting close to the time for trusses and
roof. Matt from Swift Supply came out today to take some measurements.
These photos show Dan Z. and Matt measuring the tops of the walls and
the distance between the porch columns. Matt had drawings ready the next
day. He has devised trusses that will give up a bit more ceiling height.
The maple ceiling from Acoustical Ceiling Products (ACP,Inc.) should fit
into the areas nicely with its two foot coffered ceiling grid. |
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The front of one of the blocks that was
sawed out is here in the sand, it look like "another one bites the
dust' as we step over it. A decorative concrete block was suppose
to have gone under the big panel but our team accidentally stacked
regular blocks up one row too high.
Stuff Happens ! |
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| Now the right decorative
blocks are installed under the panels between the windows on each side.
Insertion of the large flat panels will come next. Towards the end of
May we decided to send the man-lift back to the rental company. We were
waiting on getting our inspection from the building dept here in Gulf
Shores. We lost a week while we got an engineer to sign off on the big
beam that goes all the way across the width of the building. Anil Badve,
who has worked on this job and other DAC-ART jobs before came out and
may have to make an additional visit before it is all over. Of course,
we like Anil and would be happy to have him visit anytime when he is not
charging for the visit :o) |
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Last week of May
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| The crane was used to raise
and place the first panel, the one facing north. It is not quite as wide
as the opening, so the plan is to form it up and pour concrete between
the panel and the block walls. This will leave me an area on the
interior that will need to be given some finishing treatment. There are
many options, mosaics, cement tiles, or just finish it off in DAC-ART
looking surface coat. |
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Next came the other two panels. In all
three cases, Mike had them drill a big old hole directly thru the
panel...at fist I gasp...then Mike told me that they had done Jerry
Nasello's panels the same way and once they filled the hole and
resurfaced the fill, that you could not tell that it had been drilled. |
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| All three panels have wood supports to
keep them perfectly plumb for now. Roxy, the doggie of the jobsite, is
usually on the prowl w/ a stick or ball in her teeth, but here she is
napping in the shade.
Summer has come and the days get pretty
hot in mid-day. |
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| Now that most of the blocks and cornices
have been used or moved close, we can mow the grass and hope that with a
bit of fertilizer that the St. Augustine will fill in the bare spots
before the thorny dewberry ( a wild raspberry) or dollar weed
does. |
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