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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 -- to get an idea -- the floor flat -- got. -- that's a lot of what you got on the porch -- we've we've stacked it up and placed in and the mason the movement and he had only -- temporarily but that's from a couple of tons on this aren't. Spring really put -- the -- on the inside and ledgers that was really felt -- OK so this is the trust nor mrs. before it. Our army and into the house and it relates nicely to the living room in the fireplace and then. What's in there that's our powder room Bob connected by smoke and -- Well that's nice it kind of isolates it there and the Ohio Betsy. How are you. So your partner in contracting I thought she did inspection services towards the end of the job your here earlier."

" They usually check on the finish more than the framing. -- but I like to check the jobs that there is there going often for what sort of stuff. And we look for cleanliness. Kind of big picture safety items --"

" And that taking care of some things like the bathtubs for example which get put into the frame and very often get damaged them go in very early on and they need to be protected yes."

" So this is the dining room -- and I love the ceiling heights and it would -- ten conference one night yeah that's really important thing in hot climate like we have here. As you can have a ceiling fan you can have big windows heat rises it makes a big if you've reached that. So the formal dining room and then this is. Family room right. The family room. Now. Here we have a cathedral ceiling but how will this be finished off. We'll frame this wall above -- of this stuff petition here we'll frame all the way up and creative people okay Phil goes all the way up to the top. And then why is this recessed in here since the media center. So we'll have cabinet work in here -- have cabinets built in cabinetry. "

" Kitchen's over here we'll have a peninsula coming up this wall."

" Coming off this corner that's right we've got a little bookcase floor to ceiling in and we got a peninsula with the kitchen sink in yet. And then around the corner from it you've got the stove. And the built in ovens and walked back into the formal dining so it's -- is the kitchen relates to both the formal dining room as well as the family room space and then what's what's down all of their bets. Me washer dryer liner and so this is a laundry room in there. And you've been what's in here Kevin this. This desire a secondary part of the kitchen with. -- the whole separate area it's like a butler's pantry correct and this opening kind of allows you to be and be used both bases it it just relates to both both areas. And you've got another kind of living room and bedroom what was -- in -- way this could be part of an in law suite that's correct OK. And then out here you've got they got they kitchen porch. Yeah the kitchen porch this is the third porch on this house which is one of the real nice features. All the parts of thick yeah they're all being there all high ceilinged and of course. They'll be finished off in traditional manner right that's correct now so Betsy unit you'll be coming back through the job as the finish its. A little bit farther along right answer it."

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