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Reviewing the Footprint of the New Addition
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" Howard what's the overall footprint of the addition this 36 feet deep by 42 point. 42 and five inches so that's all other house now let's get a little geography lesson here what -- face over their spokes are that's the master bedroom. Okay Tom with the bathroom up behind it towards -- so this won't be just a simple little in law suite your building need your mother in law almost a separate private. Apartment well you know she's still very active very fit and that it's nice for her to have a place where she can -- around privacy and also be very Independent -- and so then this big space -- we're and how's this gonna be used this is a great room in this kind of catches all the other activities there's a fireplace going in that corner right. Then living area dining and then we'll have a food preparation area down here against the staircase and then it connects into your own part of our Presley -- next right over directly through it. All right well let's recap some of the technologies that have been used here I mean all these walls look quite not because they're plaster finish that because they're made out of and insulation material of the user insulated concrete form."
" Yes and and and essentially it's that's a combination of the the foam. Which is the which which will hold concrete which -- steel reinforced finance time right. Plus it also supplies and insulation factor to the whole exterior walls. And it makes ago real -- talk about how much concrete was used here we use a total 84 yards of concrete. And the interesting thing is that we've done a standard. Or reinforce. Concrete floor. And poured concrete walls for standard basement we wouldn't 64 yards right so we get the second floor. In concrete we also get the walls. All the way up to the rafters. For another twenty yards for an extra twenty years -- country not to mention the speed and efficiency with which it all happened very cork debt. And then in terms of the other technologies we've got a different type of putting in place here -- it. And we used. A a fabric. To contain the footings versus a standard would it. Construction method would we would have to remove in other words we use this this fabric that we're leave in place and the fabric is waterproof and vapor -- So it actually prevents moisture from coming up through the foundation exactly. So again it's a story that only a new technologies but -- avoiding waste correct debt. His you have an at a dumpster on the job -- we happen ten. If we just believe in being thrifty awesome dude makes a lot of sense this so as far as the waste power all right that's. That's that's the real small waist we keeping the other board sort of throwing so that we can grab them when we need them but those are little pieces and and even those little pieces get -- use -- sharp."
" Well I noticed that you were using them up here now this this is a load bearing law. And this. Two by six while it runs the length so it. Sits on top of the concrete while below us in the and the garages and they'll be another one just like it above that will eventually take the load of the roof. Correct and what are these little short pieces of of left over two by fours two by six is doing up there."
" Goes to squash blocks and they're designed to take the compressive load from the from the roof that goes through the center wall and and keep them. These I joists which are very thin in the center yet from compressing from the heavy load that's right actually -- I Joyce cut offs here. And the fact is that if you look at him -- section. It's you know it's an engineered lumber product that's terrific as a joist is a floor joist gorgeous saying that in compression it needs a little bit now. It does need some extra help with the us concentrated closed right and then you -- your -- have done lots of the framing over here and again you're using mostly two by six right. Opt for these particular us a structural walls reason two by six is also makes it easier to put. Plumbing and electrical and her little bit more deaths to deal with -- and then the floor above us. I mean. When you put up the interior partitions that are load bearing. You have to be very precise about. The heights up right well we're trying to match existing roof upstairs -- because existing house we want to we really want to have the that the -- on the backside to become perfectly -- to one another to match up and attach it the other one so we have to be very precise about where we locate the wall because it supports that -- Plane that joins up. All right so everything is level. Our that this floors look Clinton has gone up there -- the sheathing. "
