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day 7
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Snap-N-Loc Roof panels from Structall Building Systems arrived on site. The panels are 4'- 0" wide by 24'- 4" long and span the full length of the building roof, and reach out 6'- 0" to cover the cantilevered wooden deck...
day 8
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Roof panels are all lifted to the top of the building, the final fir beams are set, which meant the setting of a wood column that will be between two 8'x 8' aluminum sliding glass doors, and all walls are...
some back story
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The lightBOX project currently under construction is a portion of a larger project that includes a 1000s.f. two story addition to a "builder" bungalow from the 40's located North of downtown Austin, Tx. We are building the carport/studio portion of...
the addition
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The lightBOX addition to the house is a considerably more complex affair, but shares the design DNA of the studio carport addition. When complete they should have a nice dialogue within the backyard, which at the very core, was the...
architecture is hard...
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and maybe a bit dangerous. At least the construction part is. Chalk up 1 nail though the finger (a nailgun mishap) and a finger chewed on by the tablesaw to the current lightBOX project. Thankfully neither accident was serious, all...
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We were beginning the framing work necessary to make the roof panels shed water when the table saw incident occurred. After a week off for some finger tip healing it was right back onto that horse. The day of the...
Ride that horse
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Picking up where you leave off after nicking a finger on a table saw is a bit of a sketchy proposition, but the work has to get done, and the only way to do that is to get right back...
windows are in
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After much head scrathcing and heavy lifting, the fixed clerestory windows are installed along with their head and sill flashings. The box gutter has also been installed along the north edge of the flat roof. 1/2" pressure treated plywood strips...
Sliding doors finally arrive
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Sometimes in construction annoying things happen. Like when your glass install company orders the sliding glass doors to the same exact frame size as the rough opening dimensions that you specifically gave them. The whole idea of a rough opening...
siding goes up
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Once the siding actually arrived and the roofer got consecutive days free to do the work, things happened quickly. Seeing that it is a pretty small building it isn't surprising to see most of the panels go up in two...
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