Warren said:Is this the John Mellancamp "pink house", or the house for the singer Pink?
kiteman said:They're setting the hollow cores in the garage this morning.
So are those "core slabs" (deduced from your's and nick's comments) so you can have a garage with a basement underneath? If so, that's sweet.
How's the cost though? Never heard of such a thing.
So are those "core slabs" (deduced from your's and nick's comments) so you can have a garage with a basement underneath? If so, that's sweet.
How's the cost though? Never heard of such a thing.
slowsol said:More commonly referred in a lot of areas as "precast plank". Pricing depends a lot on the area. But as mentioned, increases span without added columns, allows a Type I or II first floor that allows 4 stories of wood framing above, and is typically faster than poured in place floor systems. It does usually require a lightweight either gypcrete or LWC leveling layer over the plank. Sometime the LWC is reinforced to allow longer spans with the plank. A lot of hotels are done this way, and high rise residential buildings.
They're setting the hollow cores in the garage this morning.
pappagor said:were is the wood:clap:[/QUOTE
Funny you should mention that. I was planning on bringing on some more help for this, but not only can I not find ANYBODY, one of my guys leaves with a couple days notice before the job starts. So I start a 6200 footer with me and one other carpenter. It's taken us a week just to get out of the basement and on to floor joists. 150 lf of 12' 2x6 and 2x8 walls for the walkout and 50 lf inside, plus elevator shaft and curved stair wall framing and a lot of beam plate. The builder and HO are concerned because they've got a hell of a lot of bricks to lay before the snow flies. So we're bringing another crew in to frame the main level. I'll just end up doing the lower level including both stairways, and then the pool house, which is a separate bid anyway.
Here's a pic of his "shop" area under the hollow cores. 66x40, including a 12x18 safe room.