Hello again everyone,
You can see in the attached photos that the block mason is busy laying up the concrete blocks. In one of the photos you will see how we addressed the round wall of the Foyer. Instead of using a precast concrete lintel block beam above the front doors, the block mason used narrow lintel blocks and supported them with a temporary frame wall until the concrete was poured inside of them. Of course, the lintel blocks also had steel rebar inside for additional support.
You can see in the other photo that there is one room where are no concrete blocks. This is the Breakfast Nook area that looks onto the Covered Porch. There are no concrete blocks because this whole area is going to receive aquarium glass (a.k.a.-butted glass) to the floor. Because it is aquarium glass with the glass panels actually touching each other in the corners, there are no structural columns or posts in the corner to support the weight of a roof or floor above. Therefore, all of the weight is transferred out onto the beams on the Covered Porch.
Please stay tuned for my next posting which will show the carpenters in action framing up the house.
Thanks,
Jeff
You can see in the attached photos that the block mason is busy laying up the concrete blocks. In one of the photos you will see how we addressed the round wall of the Foyer. Instead of using a precast concrete lintel block beam above the front doors, the block mason used narrow lintel blocks and supported them with a temporary frame wall until the concrete was poured inside of them. Of course, the lintel blocks also had steel rebar inside for additional support.
You can see in the other photo that there is one room where are no concrete blocks. This is the Breakfast Nook area that looks onto the Covered Porch. There are no concrete blocks because this whole area is going to receive aquarium glass (a.k.a.-butted glass) to the floor. Because it is aquarium glass with the glass panels actually touching each other in the corners, there are no structural columns or posts in the corner to support the weight of a roof or floor above. Therefore, all of the weight is transferred out onto the beams on the Covered Porch.
Please stay tuned for my next posting which will show the carpenters in action framing up the house.
Thanks,
Jeff
