Thought I would share some of the picture of my most recent project. Many of your posts have been helpful in keeping focus after 14 months. This is a project we are building out on the water is Sarasota. Clients are great, design is interesting. But teaching each sub how to build an a-typical design has been a chore.
I will have more pictures, it is difficult to get far enough away from the house get good photo’s.
Upgrading the footings and columns that support a girder beam is an opportunity to level out the floor above.
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Oake
You need to resize your pics, a little big for dial uppers. I dont have dial up but others will not be able to wait out the load up time.
I worked on a house similar - in that there was a lot of concrete, even some of the finish areas in the house, built in benches and so on - its not my cup of tea but done with good taste I appreciate the look.
Yours looks like a cool place.
Post mo pictures but size em down to about 100kb or less.
Doug
In image 230 it looks like I-joists on the right butting up to floor trusses on the left - any issues with differential expansion/contraction at the interface?
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They are both ceiling joists. It tough to tell but the joists on right are four feet higher than those on left. The different visual is the deeper iso insulation. We don't use a lot of I-joist down here. Most floor systems are engineered trusses.
I'll resize the photo's soon
Edited 2/17/2007 11:51 am ET by oake226
The design is interesting and it does look like a commercial building.
It also looks like it would be a good windstorm design, except for the abundance of glass.
Are you using windstorm rated glass, special and emergency protection or both?
Here in TX on the coast, we must use windstorm rated glass (4 times the cost of regular windows) or have emergency windstorm opening coverage accounted for, built-in with coverage products onsite at the issuance of the OC.
If windstorm rated glass is not installed, we have the option of running bolts from inside through the frame at perimeter of openings. Plywood, bolts and large washers must be onsite at final inspection and before occupancy.
Windstorm rated impact glass is suppose to repel a 2 x 4 at 105 mph, without breakage or deformation of the frame.
Yes, it's all impact 130mph glass. REALLY costly, but worth it. The glass is all commercial storefront frames and custom sliders.
Still working on resizing
The project is certainly a feather in your cap related to your portfolio.
I am impressed.
Thank you. It's been a challenge. First house I've had to install baseboard and doors before sheet rock. No casing on doors at all. Ironic how a simple clean look is more complicated to build than the norm.
These images should be properly resized.