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Installing the Bluestone Front Steps
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" Let's talk for a minute with Dave Anderson. Who's got house Balco as the name of the company right past throughout Florida plus New Jersey and you brought us all of the bluestone which we really appreciate if you had to get it cut in time for our final visit here. Yes sir -- is the bluestone made of New York stone or where's it from."
" That come from right along the borderline of video upstate Pennsylvania. Supplier on this is Glenwood stone in Nicholson Pennsylvania. They actually quarry -- New York State and bring it down and they semi fabricate it. At at that plant and then we brought it down actually yesterday and we finished that I. Last night brought it over -- now when they've finished it up what has to be done to it besides cutting it to the right dimension well we cut it the right dimension we have the thermal finish the edges on the top step we got a couple of notches that have to leave it there when you say thermal finish what does that mean. Blame flame domestic ticket porch of propane sports yeah propane and oxygen. And then you wet the piece and the water soaks into the stone. And then you hit it with the court what happens to water expands and actually pops the surface that you get what looks like a natural surface. This is also makes it non slip and it also is used as a quality control element that we can test the quality of the stone under fire and."
" Yet in terms of the actual installation and they're using leverage and using the same systems that were probably used. -- 1830. S in this case with the tight corners that's what has to -- done exactly the original steps. Work big. Bluestone -- yes and if there were two or three survivors but we couldn't reuse them because of dimensions they don't quite meet the code requirements in terms of riser size you have to change."
" The steps and so trying to add one new step. With several old steps is. It doesn't look -- that these will mellow as they weather over say six months time and they'll look like they've been here for fifty years yeah thanks Dave."
" Chris Vila has been helping me out on this project and Chris what was the main source of the delay here on the facade -- we lost about a month basically it's -- install a lot of or order a lot of new brick. And the size that we needed team worked very hard to find okay thank you came from Nebraska special order. We put everything in here and you know we've had to go through landmarks again make right here that everything that's been. Meaning they that we had to go through the process of distressing to break right exactly they didn't wanted to put in new brick that we had actually grind down the brick and then basically stained it had to make it look old after that. They had us put in this brown band of cast stone and it looked like old brownstone and that was done right here right here at Essex works -- Brooklyn oh it's much."
" Be our break time -- grass is our favorite neighbor. Shotgun is the Charlotte -- zones and as you read you've been here in dumbo now for two years vote for almost three years yes. But that's -- you what you guys did is amazing thing that house who. Beautiful I -- I want to come back and a couple of months when the bakery started OK OK that's a deal thanks a lot doesn't sits in his native Canadian thanks a lot. At the top step. -- it's not bad what about the leave the shop front here right this storefront been manufactured. Here in dumbo by Chris -- woodworking. It's mahogany. And what we've got the -- place sort of finish that nice dream. Then there's the windows so these will be the entrance to the shop that the media -- to shop and on the other side we'll have yet -- the residential units. Chris thanks very --"
