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Chronicles of the Design & Construction of Two Waterfront Hurricane Proof Dry Stack Modular Green Custom Homes
1. Villa Lagoon, Wilder Italian Style Home
2. Nasello Italian Style Home

Mary and Jerry Nasello's Gulf Coast DAC-ART Waterfront House Construction: 2006-2009
Site Prep	Pilings	Foundation	1st Course	Slab Prep	Slab	2nd Course	3rd Course	4th Course	5th Course	Page 11
6th Course	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
Product Discussion Pages
Partners	DacArt in the News	Buy a Finished DAC-ART Home	Tankless Water Heaters	Magnesium Oxide Boards-MgO	Concrete Bldg. Systems and History	Hurricane Windows & Doors	Custom Garage Doors	Composite Decking	House Numbers	Concrete Floor Tile and Reproduction

Sixth course of blocks and boom pump concrete truck.

Laying out the boards which will support the I-beams that are our floor joists. These board's will be mounted  to the DAC-ART wall w/ a vapor barrier and will continue all the way around the perimeter of the garage.

As the height increases, it becomes necessary to have a concrete delivery truck with a very tall boom pump.

The lift handles are supposed to be set so that they guide the next block down into place. Sometimes it works out and sometimes not. If the handles are not installed properly at the factory, we will have alignment problems when the blocks are stacked. If this happens, we have to either cut off the handles, or beat them down with a sledgehammer and hope that we don't damage the blocks in the process.

This is a good example of seeing the hollows in the blocks that allows the back-fill concrete that is poured into them after they are stacked to flow both side to side and up and down. The blue stuff is sheet foam insulation that is there to help insulate the blocks. At this point we are not sure what the R Value of our walls will be, but plan to do a bit of research and math and add some comments on that later.

Photos by Jerry Nasello

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