Preparing for a connector between domes.
There must have been a rock pit or cesspool where I dug the pit for a sunken hot tub.The pit is all blocked up. Stolen storm drain cistern blocks made the curved part.Sewer and plumbing conduit in position, as viewed from the top of the large shop dome.The slab area was excavated and graded with sand by hand.Styrofoam and stub-ups in place. Planning had to be very precise.There’s a step down under the future storage tank and wood boiler to provide a thicker slab.Slab poured and power troweled.Framed up to the second floor deck as viewed from the top of the storage trailer.Looking down from the roof of the shop dome at the second floor deck.Winter is upon us as the second floor walls go up.Second floor wall and roof framing.A hip roof design is used to better blend into the domes.
The first floor end is left open for insertion of the boiler and storage tank later.Progress as viewed from out in front, Tyvek on the exterior walls and tar paper on the roof.
1987
I was finishing this Q-2 at the same time as house construction.
Now preparing the airplane for transport to its owner in CT.A back yard Fall view.Our boiler water storage tank being delivered by Gary Taylor with his pulp truck in
September 1987. Tank and boiler were built by Cheryl’s cousin, Kerry Hebert,
in exchange for the rent of Cheryl’s mobile home.Storage tank gliding into place on pipe rollers to sit on 4” of Styrofoam.I used Web Fox’s trailer to retrieve the wood boiler.David Merry’s son, Larry, unloaded the boiler with his pulp truck.All closed in.Assembling and laying loose flooring panels on top of the rubber roof membrane
installed by Arthur Goodwin, while moonlighting from C O Beck.Second floor deck complete.Shut in.
1988
The upstairs bedroom all sheetrocked and painted; just interior doors to be hung.Left over space above the boiler room makes a walk-in closet.Looking out bedroom French doors to the second story deck.An air exchanger is installed in the blind space between the bath room and shop dome.A new tub/shower unit is built into the second floor full bathroom.The first floor was second in priority.Filling and sanding of drywall joints in progress.Built-in bookshelf/cabinets were assembled flat on the floor, then stood up.First floor becoming livable by the end of 1989.Side yard to the southeast from the shop window.The southern exposure from next door neighbor, Dudley’s, back yard.
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