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Reviewing the Home's Framing

Bob reviews the framing of the home. The frame is solidly built, as several tons of masonry is temporarily stacked on the floor. Bob reviews the home's interior layout. The ceiling is ten feet high on the first floor and nine feet high on the second floor, an important consideration in a hot climate such as South Carolina as a ceiling fan and high windows can be installed. The home's family room features a cathedral ceiling and a recessed area for a media center. Bob then reviews the floor plan for the layout of the kitchen. The home also features a butler's pantry and a kitchen porch.

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Reviewing the Home's Framing

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" I wanted to take a quick tour of the house, let's get an idea of the floor plan."

" Sound good."

" Wow! That's a lot of weight you got on this porch."

" Yeah. We've stacked it up in place here and then mason to move it inside."

" Gee, it's only there temporarily, but that's a probably a couple of tons on this frame."

" This frame is really put together. We got triple header on the outside,"

" Yeah."

" With the ledgers so it's ready to go."

" Yeah. Okay. This is the front door and this is the foyer."

" It's alright, our main entry to the house."

" Yeah. It relates nicely to the living room, and the fireplace and then what's in there?"

" That's our powder room, Bob connected by small connecting hallway."

" Oh. That's nice. It kind of isolates it there. Oh Hi Betsy!"

" Bob."

" How are you?"

" I'm fine. How are you doing?"

" So your partner in contracting, I thought she did inspectional services towards the end of the job, you're here early, right?"

" I usually check on the finish more than the framing."

" Uh hmm."

" But I like to check the jobs as they're going along."

" Uh hmm. For what sort of stuff?"

" Uhmm. We look for cleanliness, kind of big picture safety items."

" Uh hmm."

" Ahm."

" And then taking care of some things like the bathtub for example, which get put into the frame very often get damaged."

" They go in very early on"

" Yeah."

" And they need to be as protected."

" Yeah. So this is the dining room, we're in and I love the ceiling height in here, What are they?"

" 10 foot on the first floor and 9 foot on the second floor."

" Yeah. That's a really important thing in a hot climate like we have here because you can have the ceiling the fan, you can have the big windows, heat rises."

" It makes the big difference."

" Get a breeze here. So the form of dining room and then this is family room, right?"

" This is the family room."

" Now, here we have a cathedral feeling but how will this be finished off?"

" We'll, frame this wall and about flush with this. There's a partition here. We'll frame all the way up and clear the cathedral."

" Okay. So it goes all the way up to top. And then why is this recessed in here?"

" This is the media center."

" So that's cabinet work in here?"

" It will have cabinets built in cabinetry. Kitchens over here will have a peninsula coming off this wall."

" Uhmm. Coming off this corner."

" That's right."

" We've got a little bookcase floor-to-ceiling and then we got a peninsula with the kitchen sink in it."

" Yup."

" And then around the corner from it you've got the stove and the built-in ovens and you can walk back in to the formal dining room, so its good because the kitchen relates to both the formal dining room as well as the family room space."

" Right."

" And then what's down the hall over there, Betsy?"

" The washer, dryer and laundry room."

" So this is the laundry room in there."

" Yeah."

" And then what's in here? Kevin?"

" This is our secondary part of the kitchen Bob it's a whole separate area."

" Its like a butler's pantry. "

" Correct."

" And this opening, kind of allows you to use both spaces."

" And it adjust relates to both areas."

" Okay. You've got another kind of living room and bedroom over there. So in a way, this could be part of an in-law suite."

" That's correct."

" Okay. And then out here you've got?"

" We've got the kitchen porch."

" Yeah the kitchen porch, this is the third porch on this house, which is one of the real nice features."

" All the porches are big."

" Yeah, they're all big, they're all high feeling and of course they'll be finished off in traditional manner, right?"

" That's correct."

" Yeah. So Betsy you'll be coming back through the job as we finish gets a little bit farther along, right?"

" That's right."

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