" Enough of last has been done here since we were last in the basement."

" A lot has been done. It certainly has. We finished our pour the other night."

" Yeah."

" You can see the results of this right here."

" Right, I see you've got, what we call it, a control joint here?"

" That's a control joint, that's right. And you'll find it at predominantly all the openings"

" Uh huh."

" and that's to prevent cracking and to minimize cracking of the soil."

" It seems, how do you guys cut your control joints?"

" We cut it with a blade, a diamond blade, and we generally cut it into concrete set-up when it's still grain."

" When it's still grain?"

" Yes."

" So you did it that very night?"

" We did it that very night mostly."

" Uh huh. Okay. Boy, you've got enough a lot of guys working down here everyday."

" Yeah, there's a lot of activity, no question about it, we were on a slabs at the very next day. With the tight schedule, we have to do that."

" Yeah, that's a really good coordination. You've got enough a lot of concrete. Did, you did pour how many ice did you put in there?"

" Around 60-40 ice."

" 60-40 ice."

" Yes, [unk]."

" That's a lot in one day."

" Yeah."

" And let me ask you, how did you get this sheen?"

" Well, we use the trial machine on this and we use a curing compound that keeps the chalkiness and the, and the dust that'll keeps it from working its way up through the slab and then seals it in."

" Okay and that's a 4-inch thick slab you pour in?"

" 4-inch thick, that's correct."

" Okay, alright so this continues along right over in here."

" Yes, all base."

" And now I still got a [unk] that comes down here, but now the stairs. This is quite of, quite of drop you've got to the concrete. What's going on there?"

" Now it is, this shows you what the old level was, because of the distance between this and the joints that it made kind of a tight area."

" Right."

" We've lowered the slab in the basement to allow us to work in our mechanical, electrical sprinkler system."

" These really opened the whole place, huh?"

" It opens up the whole place, that's right and we'll extend this bow straight, put a couple of rises on so that we'll meet the finish core."

" This is the area where most of the activity is going on today."

" That's right. While we're doing right now causes framing partitions."

" Right."

" And here in this thing you won't noticed is that this is just to built a [unk] in the four joints."

" Right."

" We're having to double up on our top members, our plates so that we can make the wall flush with the bottom of the joints."

" Right, so you're not able to cut a unicorn studs here, all these studs are made of individual stud?"

" Well, basically we cut out [unk] were not building the wall as low as [unk]"

" That's made of [unk] doing on this whole house."

" Some are part of the necessary part."

" Right."

" It's really a more time-consuming, but we make sure that we get a good fit."

" Right."

" And that wall is tied up against the bottom of the joints."

" Right, so now they're working on the [unk] pictures right now."

" That's right."

" I think someone's got about the exterior walls over here. And this one is, well, if this stud here, this is plum that means this wall here is out by, well that's nice and tight than here at the bottom. You can see up it's a [unk]."

" Yes, that's pretty much is typical of what you'll find throughout here. Of course, the finishes were originally plastic."

" Right."

" And there's a lot of [unk] of plaster there is not in dry wall."

" Right."

" So what we have to do is actually is furr out these walls and we'll be using a furring system at the top and bottom slate. To pull off of the wall which will be the farthest point, we make sure that were plum and it will be screwing up [unk] dry wall to [unk]."

" That's gonna take some time. There's no walls that are gonna be built on the ground if I walk down there?"

" No, no, no. It all will be put together as individual members."

" Everything is got nice and plum [unk]."

" That's right, what we're looking for."

" Where we're standing here I also noticed there's a depression in the floor. Looks like about 3 to 312 inches."

" That's right, let me give you a tour in [unk]."

" That's great and what else we're doing down here."

" Okay."

" So where are we right now?"

" We're standing right here on the new bathrooms."

" Okay."

" And as we worked our way towards this area directly behind us, we can see where they're framing the new closets. It's where we just walked past. And we'll work our way into the electrical closet and into the laundry area."

" Right, okay."

" This is, this is going to be the new storage which will service the kitchen area. This was a kitchen previously. We're obviously refurbishing it with new finishes and new equipment."

" Okay."

" And right over here in this area, the masons are working on the dumbwaiter which will service the first floor dining area. Working our way back here, we have a fresh slab work, the new walk-in cooler. Where we were just standing a few moments ago, the depressed area, that is going to be the reason it's recessed to accommodate the pavers which will give a new influence for the new edition that we're building right here. fact, this window here will be coming out."

" So in the other side of that window there's an addition?"

" That's right. This will be a new opening for that and has to house a new elevator and the reason we're putting a new elevator up there, so that it will be accessible. There wasn't enough room in the mansion, so we had to build an addition pathway which we can balance this house in the other side of the mansion. In addition that was put back in the early 50s."

" Alright, there's an awful a lot going on down here."

" Well, there is, there's a lot going on, it's a tight schedule and the [unk]"

" You've got a lot of [unk] working on it and looks like they're doing a great job. Thanks for the tour, Mike."

" Okay, Thank you."

" Thanks a lot."