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Framing Begins on the Miami Home

Bob frames an exotic partition wall made to resemble a banana leaf in a Miami kitchen renovation. He also pours concrete to patch a floor with contractor Ed Weller.
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Framing Begins on the Miami Home

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" All right then well this is the area we're gonna start construction I guess you're clearing birth that's right we've laid out here the basic footprint of the addition. As you can see by the steaks and me and a string. And we were having to move a couple of things we have a plan over here that we're gonna. Movement is the others and these spiky plastic deceit just chopped and carried away -- yeah we're just gonna get rid of that. Can't you -- plant this if you wanted to assure you could you can just cut it and stick it in the ground and it'll grow many years no problem again and what about businesses citrus well this is. Special citrus. It's got -- sentimental value for the owner. Her father. Plan of this group from exceed what kind of -- oranges that it say at this hour warned in the future for cooking and it's used who. Prepare the Christmas -- dinner. The -- Cuban meal in the -- can you believe the thorns on this stuff. It's unbelievably of discouraging -- homes from getting up there to -- the crude I guess so you get it ready to -- and move to another. One other point we get over toward the back okay -- located we also have a couple of other things that we need to move we have the electrical service over here. Which is going to be in the way now. And so this has to be taken off and move to another location. That's right and I was going to suggest. To you Bob works with the owner that we move it that we relocated down the wall here. Were to be closer to the gate and he's here for the meter millions of having the power company -- to shut -- an electrician to -- really here and then. They -- but over -- and then the second thing is the water service which is right down there that also has to be relocated -- both of these are coming from the street they're probably from the street -- and if we locate them closer to the street it's a shorter run the short run and it's it's easier."

" So what do you suppose this line signify though along level with the gable. We usually Bob what happens is that CBS block comes up here. In the main street stops here on this type of home typical detail what they would put plywood gable would this be blocked all the way up or would -- be one of those big try being blind -- to block would stop about twelve inches below didn't that you have a concrete -- mean. And then typically you have plywood which I think it. They have nailed wire yeah and Stucco over that's exactly right and what about up here I mean this is we'll Blanchard of the of the -- that he would also. -- typically this is wood and I think they've done the same thing there they've nailed wire and Stucco up on it well there's only one way to find out. For sure okay. Now this was. Work that looks like it was recently that we get asked the homeowner but I would think that is part of the improvements after the hurricane they decided to cover up the older. I would that was there. Well that would that would be I -- this. -- that would be the case as well because the wire and very good shape yet as Melrose that is at all and you can see back here some. Paperback. Diamond -- and off course and nails here that they use to enable it pretty good application of the of the plaster regularly it's dirty it's pretty decent you know it looks so little questionable to me is right here. I see that looks like some of the think that even though this spacious coming down Bob the fact this whole thing's gonna probably removed. -- probably wind up replacing some of that anywhere around the house yeah I mean if you can't see if you look at it from the face here but. If you look at it from the bottom it's pretty funky the F. And is that some dryer rots if they destroy Iraq it's not a insect damage to looks like restaurant. Well the key is that we can't really open any of this house up until such -- as we've. Framed in the new addition and put in a roof that's right figure out how the two grooves are going to mean."

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