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| The basement floor that is designed to keep out water in the event of a hurricane, is now holding water from all the recent rain we have had. We have had to use the small sump pump running for a long time to empty the area. It has been one good test of the water-tightness of our grout and blocks tho. Instead of the water being outside trying to enter, we have watched to see if any of it tried to exit thru the blocks. You can see the top of a white plastic bucket sticking out of the slab where the sump pump is located, the slab has a recessed area just for such a purpose. | |
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| Our Link Belt 22 ton crane is working our great....whoever builds a DAC-ART house next needs to get in line to buy it from us at the end of this job. On the right, the extra sand we had on hand has been pushed into the garage area where we will have to bring in additional fill and pour a slab on top. The lot slopes up as it approaches the street, so the slab needs to be plenty high so rain water doesn't tend to run back into it. Our weather has been changing lately from summer to fall. This has meant lots of cool days tons of rain, and some days where they are both dark clouds out over the Gulf and sun out at the same time. | |
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| Our faithful Osprey shows up to perch in his favorite dead tree 'look-out' over Little Lagoon. | The long west wall of the above ground basement. We will get great sun in the windows on the west side on the upper floors. The basement, of course, has no windows, since the whole idea is to keep out the occasional flood waters. |
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| You can see plenty of the cuts made into my blocks to make open corners where the back-fill mix and rebar can run through to form a strong, unified system. New Stone Age Builders has several saws that make quick work of sawing concrete. They have made some patterns from plywood to mark the blocks perfectly and they do very neat cuts. | |
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| Standing up close to the driveway entrance in October, just enjoying this fine crane !. The photo on the right shows the garage area and the recess is where the stairs will go from garage up into the entrance hall area. | |
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| The area between the two structures will most likely become a sort of courtyard area when the project is finished. Since fig vine grows outside in this climate, I can grow it up the stark basement walls to soften the look. | |
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| Notice the dark clouds in the sky. Lately we have had a TON of rain and the temp is a lot cooler. We have about 18 inches of water in the basement area right now. Isn't it a wonderful thing that when building with DAC-ART you do not have to concern yourself with protecting the product from the elements. We just remove the water and go back to work. | Some blocks get cut in odd shapes. I came
over at night and took this photo with a flash. From other angles the
top surface looked like it was floating in thin air.
If we were not using blocks that were poured for a different house that did not get built, we would have minimum cutting to do. |
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