the crow bar has landed

the crow bar has landed,

 and it is living down town now!

views of lots of building and some water ...

night view

view of the river

 day view

and the crow that started it all ...

great clients!

great fun!

good job Kristian!

forms for some curved stone steps

 

well, here we are, trying to figure out if we know what we are doing ...

we have the information below ... 

click the pictures to enlarge them ...

 all we had to do is make some sense of it so that the rise 

starts at the desired final grade, the three rises are equal, and

the last step into the house is the same rise as some steps

that are already finalized about 30 feet to the left of these ...

the existing entryway slab slopes 2" from the door out 

which was another complicating computation ...

you may recognize the ceiling from this blog post 

back in february of 2022

and i thought the ceiling was tricky!

 it was, but so were the forms for the curved steps !
 

we started with a cad drawing more or less based on 

measurements from the blueprints and those taken on site .. 

at some point the offset for the stone facing on the risers was 

 changed from 4.5" to 1.5" ('thin stone' facings) and  

new drawings were made.

 

from the new drawings we decided that it would be a good idea

to make some full size masonite patterns showing the 1.75" overhanging

nose of the bluestone treads and the 1.5" offset for the stone facing.

you can see them in the top photo  ..  that gave us the 

inside radiuses for the wacky wood on the curved forms

and the tops and bottoms of the actual form pieces in green above ...  

algebra 201!

 

once the first form was in place and we confirmed the rise and run

with the set up/full size mockup in the first photowe were able 

to make the forms for the second and third pours below 

 

viola!  

base for the riser and bluestone of the first step poured yesterday!

old man project, volume 4 ... a new house ... 2000 ...

 

here we go ...  we closed on the sale of the arlington house in april,

and we had exactly 6 months to get out of  the arlington shop where

the new owners graciously allowed us to work til the house was liveable.

fortunately we were able to get the same builder who built the shop,

in 1997, rob goepel,who had worked as my assistant for a couple months 

in the early 80s ... they did a great job on the shop, and let us work along with them

when they were building the house .. back view ...

dan's hand drawn plans ... i have the rest of the elevations

and floor plans in the slide show.

partial front view ..

 

cornices and cornice returns constructed on the ground before

tipping up the walls ... some skateboarding on the first floor deck ..

about the time of the previous framing photo, we realized 

we were not going to have any money left to have a party when we 

were done, so we had one then to thank everyone involved ...

had some live music and a great potluck.

wish i had better photos of the fun ...

 'came out good' as they say

i hope get some more construction photos together 

for a slideshow before too long

november 1st 2000 ...

rent a uhual, pick up the tools in arlington, move the furniture 

to the lawn in dorset, unload to tools into what used to be the house, 

              load up the furniture and take it to the new house .. piece of cake!        

 

i am starting to get a a house building slide show together ,,,         

this link may take you there ...