Posted: October 30th, 2009 | Author: vmezhvinsky | Filed under: Framing | Tags: chronicle, construction, development, Framing, home, house, media room, Noe Valley, project, Project Noe, real estate, renovation, San Francisco, wall |
The picture on the right shows the upper staircase that leads up from the main level to the bedrooms. From the first picture below you can see the media room starting to take shape. Some of the pictures show the original portion of the house, which the city required to be integrated with the new structure. New wood was added to provide additional support for the existing wood framing. Read more »
Posted: October 13th, 2009 | Author: vmezhvinsky | Filed under: Framing | Tags: chronicle, construction, development, Framing, garage, home, house, May, project, Project Noe, renovation, San Francisco, wall |
The following pictures show the project about halfway through framing. A majority of the wooden joists are in at this point and the house is already starting to take shape. From the rear of the building, two levels are visible, but due to the varied grade, the home actually spans 4 levels from the street. Since the height limit of structures typically follow the grade it is built on, we could have constructed 2 additional levels at the rear of the house. Ultimately the decision was made to keep the size of the home at a little over 4,000 sq ft. Read more »
Posted: August 10th, 2009 | Author: vmezhvinsky | Filed under: Walls and Foundation | Tags: cement, concrete, construction, development, floor sill, footings, foundation, garage, home, house, media room, shotcrete, underpin, underpinning, wall |
The picture on the right shows the 12 foot tall walls of the future media room and one of the 2′ x 4′s used to help support our wall against the neighbor’s house. Picture 1 and 2 below show the supports for the one foot thick suspended concrete slab on the garage level. Picture 3 is a view towards the street that shows the side of the neighbor’s house and our wall. In order to build a foundation that had adequate bearing capacity, we needed to underpin the neighbor’s foundation by 20 feet. Underpinning extends the foundation support to depths that provide greater bearing capacity and prevent foundation settling. Read more »
Posted: July 6th, 2009 | Author: vmezhvinsky | Filed under: Walls and Foundation | Tags: cement, chronicle, concrete, construction, development, Excavation, foundation, home, house, media room, Noe Valley, project, Project Noe, real estate, reinforced concrete, renovation, San Francisco, wall |
The nearly 14 feet tall portion of the foundation shown here is what will be the media room on the second floor. The concrete walls are well suited for sound insulation, making this space ideal for a home theater. Read more »
Posted: June 16th, 2009 | Author: vmezhvinsky | Filed under: Walls and Foundation | Tags: cement, chronicle, concrete, construction, development, foundation, home, house, Noe Valley, project, Project Noe, real estate, rebar, reinforced concrete, renovation, San Francisco, shotcrete, wall |
The pictures below show the foundation about three-fourths of the way complete. The crew is pictured using the shotcrete method to construct one of the walls of what will be the media room, which is located above the garage level. Requiring nearly 30 cement trucks carrying 9 yards of concrete each to complete, the new foundation is nearly ready for the framing of the house to begin. Read more »
Posted: June 12th, 2009 | Author: vmezhvinsky | Filed under: Walls and Foundation | Tags: cement, chronicle, development, home, Noe Valley, project, Project Noe, renovation, San Francisco, wall |
By the end of April, the foundation for the Project Noe house is already halfway complete. The shotcrete method was used to construct the retaining walls for both sides of the house; the completed walls are shown in the following pictures Read more »
