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| The north end of the garage of
this DAC-ART Building System modular concrete dry stack block
home. The slab is poured and the temporary stairs from garage
into the entrance hall are in place. |
The placeholders for the windows
and French doors are being built and put into place. This is the
west side of the building, the above ground basement with a bit
of southern facing porch is in this photo. |
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| The DAC-ART hollow concrete blocks
are lowered over the rebar that is coming up out of the
waterside porch slab. Each block has to be shimmed for levelness
and to keep it in alignment with the rows of larger blocks that
make up the main body of the building.
It is quite exciting to see the
column blocks go up. At this point, we are not sure what
material we will be using for the flooring on the upper deck. We
are considering various composite materials. I'd love to
see slate on the living area floors. |
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People usually ask about electric
outlets. You can see here how the men have cut a duplex outlet
opening into the edge of a DAC-ART block. It goes much more
quickly that you might think if you have the proper equipment,
as New Stone Age Builders does.
The blocks you see here are not
yet grouted and the small plastic shim is visible in the seam on
the left. |
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| The air conditioning
compressor will sit on the west of the house on top of this
elevated stand that you see in the left photo. In order to make
the level of the blocks line up visually, it was necessary to
trim a 5 inch piece off the long DAC-ART blocks. New Stone Age Builders
will save those just in case they are needed in some other
area. |
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There is so little wood scrap
when building a DACART house that I was able to get a permit
from the local Fire Dept to burn our wood concrete form scrap
and small pieces of ceiling joists, etc...It was a perfect day
to burn and I had a hot fire and almost no smoke. |
December has been perfect weather
for building. It has been very warm and mostly dry. Some people
say that we do not get fall color here, but what they do not
understand is that it is not Fall Color here, but Winter
Color.
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