Master bedroom on the 3rd floor.
Master suite porch.
Les gettin busy on the front stairs.
Kellee Payton putting a little TLC on the front stairs.
Darin floats out the porch deck coating.
Billy installs trex decking on the back porch. The Cammo tool he’s using allows him to set the screws at an angle so they don’t show on the surface but you can still remove them in case you have to replace a deck piece.
Chris and Robbert trowl the stucco finish coat onto the front CMU columns.
Exterior trim coming together. Silva making sure everything is straight, level, and plumb.
Wellington and Manny install the front porch crown.
The 2014 building code requires homes to test at minimum 5 air changes/hour @ 50 pascals of vacuum. Unfortunately for current home buyers, the implementation of that requirement was pushed back to 2016. We tested at 1.34 ACH50 at framing, 4 times tighter than required! Acorn Fine Homes is one of the very few builders that conduct air leakage tests on their homes. No other builders test at the framing stage that I am aware of. We test at framing to verify an air tight thermal envelope. Testing at the end is like locking the barn door after an undermined number of animals have already left.
Victor installs copper flashing around the columns.
resistant and air tight thermal envelope. Note that all seams are
taped for maximum air sealing. We also use pressure treated plywood on
the walls where the decks abut the building to best resist future
potential moisture damage in that area.
The ground floor garage is designed to allow storm surge flood waters to
flow through opposing garage doors to minimize damage. This
is called a flood-through design which allows flood waters to pass
through instead of
knocking down blowout walls. This will result in far less damage than
having to
repair blow out walls on a typical piling home after a storm surge.
Ground floor garage walls are all concrete masonry units filled with concrete to minimize flood damage.
JP, making sure things are done right.
The ground floor garage is designed to allow storm surge flood waters to flow through opposing garage doors to minimize damage. This
is called a flood-through design which allows flood waters to pass through instead of
knocking down blowout walls. This will result in far less damage than having to
repair blow out walls on a typical piling home after a storm surge.