One block at a time!

Those who have been watching the house build, both near and far are amazed at the quick progress. True to form I wish it would go a little faster. My job today was to go over the window order one last time, triple checking every buck, measuring and remeasuring as we would push the go button on the window producion at Innotech. Any miss calculations get real expensive from this point. Everything checked out with a couple of mnor exceptions. These were noted and I signed off on the windows.

Harold's crew were busy all day, stacking up LOGIX blocks and laying in rebar. They are on the top course now save for the two high gables in the cener of the house. They put up a long board over the big central window to indicate just how high the top of the center roof would be. It looks way up there!

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By tomorrow's end they should be starting to tidy things up in readiness for the next major concrete pour. Trusses begin to arrive in the middle of next week. It is getting very exciting!

-grampa dan

Flying the windows into the house

Today was an exciting day. My friend John Wishlow arrived with his crane truck to fly the big windows into place. They were large pieces measuring a litle more than thirteen feet in diameter. One would be on the front of the house in the living room, the other directly across from iti n the dining room.

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First up was the dining room window with the french door opening.

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Once the first was secured in place we fetched the second for the front of the house.

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The windows were in place in short order, then it was time to begin assembling LOGIX block once more. By the end the the day the walls were almost to the top. More pictures will follow tomorrow...

-grampa dan

Last of the window bucks

Today we built the last of the window bucks for the new house. Harold's contracting crew was busy placing most of the ones we built previously as well and laying down course after course of LOGIX ICF blocks into place. It is really starting to look like a house now at last.

I thrhought I'd show a couple of closeups today to show just how these window bucks were made and fit into the wall. The window shapes were routed slightly oversiaze. Then these shapes served as forms to build layers of treated plywood, glued and screwed, layer after layer to form the bucks. These were set into the foam wall forms. Concrete will be poured into the ICF blocks locking the bucks into place. The windows will be mounted flush to the inside of the wall. This means the windows will be deeply insiet into the walls on the outside leaving us plenty of creative options for theme work.

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Tomorrow the crane truck arrives to set the last two big window bucks in place. They were just too heavy to handle with man power alone.

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Stay tuned for more pics as they go in...

-dan