Here is the drill the crew knows so well.
Buckets of sand, gravel, cement and water, mix, pour and repeat.
Several guys run wheel barrows while one guy spreads and smooths the pour. Before long I have a new cement pad under the front deck.
The image above is a stitched together living room panorama. In the foreground is a mis-stitched temporary roof support column. The dormer window faces east towards the bay. The door way below the dormer leads to the front deck. I'm very interested to experience the sunrise and sunset interplay of light through the east and west dormer windows in the completed home.
The image above faces the west. The bedroom walls are to the left. To the right are the bathroom walls and washer closet. The minimalist L shaped kitchen will go against the bathroom wall and below the window opening. The meager kitchen reflects my lack of cooking skills and cooking interest. I envision a future island to enhance the kitchen counter and storage space, but that might only come to pass in the unlikely event that someone who cooks would live with me.
I miss one day of house building for a day of boating and rum debauchery to return to a completed screened deck and deck roof framing.
A fresh "plaster" coat dries on the boat slip walls.
Sheathing is applied to the roof structure, I like where the visual effects are headed!
Insulation is installed on the sheathing, this is followed by battens and later by a sheet metal roof. The insulation is about 3/16" thick. The inner core is a soft foam sandwiched between aluminumized heat reflective surfaces. It is said to be very effective and is a product of Costa Rica, one of the "greenest" countries around.
This alternate view gives a better idea of dormer arrangement and the roof structure. A future roof structure will cover the full width back deck.
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