" There are over seventy houses under construction here at -- 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 nineteenth century with Corning courses -- the Stucco along the corners these beautiful decorative. Stars that were originally made out of cast iron and were intended to hold brick structures together well now they're just a decorative element and of course the typical porches the double storied porches with the white columns and the paneled ceilings and the fans and the beautiful -- balusters. This is a one of the of the prettiest houses here Diana at this point and it's a house that. Tries to really honor the historic traditions of some of this architecture but if you look over my left shoulder some of the houses down this lane which is known as prescient 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 the break and then the pink Stucco. With a pediment -- the double porches and the columns all these elements which together with. Other things like the beautiful tin roofs -- of the metal -- really give you the flavor of the old south and the flavor of this community. This is so Wall Street -- locking down and here we've got some of the first houses that were built in -- which really gives 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 can kind of talk one -- to the other -- helped to create that feeling of neighborhood and of course you have just enough space still operas and nice breeze circulation through here and these houses all benefit from the view of east lake which is one of two lakes here in the neighborhood. And of course this one has been built with the typical palm trees around it so that's got the feeling of being in the battery practically if you look behind me across the lake you conceded there's about a half dozen houses under construction but right now let's go find ours. This spectacular tree is a live oak. You know in most areas when a developer comes in to put in a new community they scrape the whole 2300 acres so that there's nothing in the way of putting in the infrastructure the roads the sewers everything else. Here -- on one of the 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 want to place your house but if you're lucky enough to have a tree like that order like this one over here. In sights either on your land or or clothes still -- It's very important to try to preserve it you can see how these trees really give that the neighborhood a sense of history of having been here for awhile but let's go find Kevin common RG state. Kevin's a transplanted new Englander who built houses on Nantucket for many years. Hey this is coming along beautifully yep couldn't see again likewise now we just look at the beginning of the sheathing on this part of the frame last week at this point. We've got a house arrest a startled look like something went on vertical yeah. So -- the oriented strand board is being used both for the exterior sheathing of the entire house and also for the -- shaving is followed its Techshield it is it's actually -- tonight."

" We're talking about that earlier and that's what we've got over here right that's correct it's -- a foil applied to one side live a bunch of micro processed holes. All law applied in there right what we're gonna learn all about a little bit later in the show beautiful right now let's let's take a closer look at the lay out of the house does. You've got a lot of progress here -- this is -- part last we were just looking at that concrete blocks here and along those footing of the house. This is that this is the first coat about precut Stucco system because I scratched cut. The -- been applied in we'll come along to put a finish coat and then a color coat on call to scratch coat because after you probably not then as it's setting up you come -- scratch it. And that's what's going to provide the bite her in the final cut SPD's that's the that's the idea at least. Well let's climb up here on the porch now looking up there it seems like all the roof systems here -- stick built. While they are at -- time when it comes to these porches Bob we -- economy. By hand. Yeah without -- being structured. There's going to be a vaulted -- we really wanted to be and yes you are going to see some of this it'll all be faulted -- all that volume base -- the thing that's important. Yet -- in this particular plan I think it works better than having a flat ceiling the proportions of the porch are enormous about nine feet in depth. 48 feet -- and we go back sixteen feet on the two wings that's so nice there got entrances into the house on this side and the other side that's of the enters the colonel. -- this is the main entrance for the house okay. And these three that are just sets of French doors that. Lead into the living room correct four foot by eight foot French doors now OSB is not something that you're really and uses decking on a porch like this right we put these down to. We're -- up to do the roof system we'll pull this 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 in the and they are not really the key to tying the structure together the -- in the rough. There's -- metal strap that goes inside the column right yes -- as a strap that goes from the ties together from the header down below up to the header up above. And that. That is taut and it keeps the uplift from happening and the column itself as the load bearing well let's take a look around back. And this is an an additional supports the back of the -- threat -- threat comes off of the dining room -- Is this the last of the structural work to be done the next to last we've got the roof framing in the ground."