" -There are over 70 houses under construction here at I'On, but I thought we'd start off today by looking at some of the ones that have already been completed. Behind me is a beautiful example of low country architecture at its finest with lots of really elegant detailing. It's a pink Stucco house in the tradition of the early 19th century with coin courses fit into the Stucco along the corners. These beautiful decorative stars that were originally made out of cast iron and were intended to hold bricks structures together. Well, now, they're just a decorative element and of course the typical porches, the double-story porches with the white columns and the paneled ceilings and fans, and beautiful little balusters. This is one of the prettiest houses here in I'On at this point, and it's a house that tries to really honor the historic traditions of some of these architecture, but if you look over my left shoulder, some of the houses down this lane, which is known as Pleasant Street are also very good examples of what we consider the best of Charleston architecture, low country architecture. The three in a row down there are the brick and then the pink stucco with the pediments, and the double porches, and the columns. All these elements, which together with other things like the beautiful 10 roofs are the metal roofs, really gave you the flavor of the old South and the flavor of this community. This is Solo street that we're walking down and here we've got some of the first houses that there were build in I'On, which really give you an idea of the proximity between the houses because these are all tight urban lots and by having the houses close enough together that you kind of talk from 1 porch to the other. You help to create that feeling of neighborhood and of course you have just enough space to allow for some nice breeze circulation through here, and these houses are all benefited from the view of Eastlake, which is one of 2 lakes here in the neighborhood and of course this one has been built with the typical palm trees around it. So that you've got the feeling of being in the battery practically, if you look behind me across the lake, you can see that there are about half dozen houses under construction, but right now, let's go find ours. This spectacular tree is alive oak, you know, in most areas when a developer comes in to put in a new community, they scrape the whole 200 or 300 acres so that there's nothing in the way of putting in the infrastructure, the roads, the sewers everything else. Here at I'On, one of things that I've been admiring is the fact that they've left everything in place. You buy the lot, you do selective clearing. You get rid of the scrub that might be in the way of where you wanna place your house, but if you're lucky enough to have a tree like that one or like this one over here, in sites, either on your land or close to it. It's very important to try to preserve it. You can see how these trees really give the neighborhood a sense of history of having been for a while. But let's go find Kevin Kalman our GC. Kevin is a transplanted New Englander who built houses on Nantucket for many years. Hey, this is coming along beautifully Kevin."

" -Good to see you again Bob."

" -Yeah, likewise. Now, we were just look at the beginning of the sheathing on this part of the frame last week and at this point we've got a house in place."

" -It's starting to look like something. We're going on vertical."

" -Yeah. So the oriented strand board is being used both for exterior sheathing of the entire house and also for the roof sheath."

" -The roof sheathing is plywood and it's TechShield."

" -It is the TechShield. That's right. We're talking about that earlier and that's what we've got over here, right?"

" -That's correct. It has got a foil applied to one side with a bunch of micro-processed holes, all applied in there."

" -Right. What we're gonna learn all about it a little bit later in the show."

" -Beautiful."

" -Right now, let's take a closer look at the layout of the house because you've got a lot of progress here. I mean, this is all parge, last we were just looking at that concrete blocks here and along the footing of the house."

" -This is the first coat of our 3-coat Stucco system."

" -Uh huh."

" -This is a scratch coat, so it has been applied and we'll come along to put a finish coat and then a color coat on."

" -It's called the scratch coat because after you trowel it on, then has its setting up, you come by and you scratch it, and that's what's going to provide the bite for final coat."

" -That's the adhesion."

" -That's the idea at least. Well, let's climb up here on the porch. Now looking up there, it seems like all the roofs systems here are stick built."

" -Well they are, when it comes to these porches, Bob, we like to cut them by hand with all those beam structure, and this is gonna be a vaulted roof. We really wanted to be hand cut."

" -Yeah, so you are gonna see some of these?"

" -It'll all be vaulted. We'll end up with all that volume space."

" -Yeah."

" -I think that's important."

" -Yeah. Now, in this particular plan, I think it works better than a having a flat ceiling. Now, the proportions of the porch are enormous."

" -About 9 feet in depth, 48 feet in length, and we go back 16 feet on the 2 wings."

" -That's so nice. So we got entrances into the house on this side and the other side."

" -This is the entrance of the kernel."

" -Yes."

" -This is the main entrance to the house."

" -Okay. And these 3 then are just sets of French doors that lead into the living room."

" -Correct, 12 foot x 8 foot French doors."

" -Now, OSB is not something that you're really gonna use as decking on a porch like this, right?"

" -We put this down to work off up to the roof system. We'll pull these all up and use it on the garage walls."

" -Then, these posts here represent where the actual columns will be placed?"

" -That's correct. All of the columns will be basically in the same location as the supports that you see now."

" -Uh huh. And they are not really the key to tying the structure together, the deck and roof. There's a metal strap that goes inside the column, right?"

" -Yes. We used a strap that goes from the, it ties together from the header down below up to the header up above and that is taut and it keeps the uplift from happening and the column itself is the load bearing."

" -Well, let's take a look around back. And this is an additional porch at the back of the house, right?"

" -That's right. It comes off of the dining room here Bob."

" -Is this the last of the structural work to be done?"

" -Next to last. We've got the roof framing in the garage."

" -Okay."