building the new, bigger and better Shabbos House Student Center
| Sukkah Deck Foundation |
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| Foundation footings for the Sukkah Deck which extends from back of the main room until just over the recharge basin concrete wall. | ||
| Sukkah Deck Pillars |
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| Then the concrete pillars were poured, and brackets put onto the house to support the decking cross-beams. | ||
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| Digging the trench for electric utilities, internet and phone cables. | Covering the trench after the cables were buried within. | |
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| The meter box. | Finishing the concrete underneath the overhang. Air-conditioning units will be situated on a portion of it. | |
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| To maximize energy efficiency, the house is zoned in 5 sections. The family area upstairs is on its own system for heating and cooling, the main room is heated and cooled through both floor and ceiling systems, and the rest of the first floor is on a separate system. The basement is naturally cool, and will be heated by radiant heat. | ||
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| The staircases have been put in, and now there's regular access to all three floors of the building. | Looking down into the main room from the family area. The big boxes on the floor are vinyl siding. | |
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| For the first time, the Rubin kids were all able to go upstairs and check out their future rooms. Here they stand in the hallway, outside one of the three kids bedrooms. | ||
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| The four-window bay in the front of the house in the library room. The window on the far right is part of the stairway area, which won't be visible from the library room once the sheetrock goes in. | ||
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| There's a lot of room in the basement, too, which will remain mostly unfinished for now. | ||
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| At the very end of March 2009 they started the vinyl siding installation. The pink foam sheets are an additional layer of external insulation. There are two color tones to the earth-tone siding. The building is mostly in wheat-color, with all protruding bays and overhangs in Sierra-color. The front porch area and all steel and wood columns will be in brick. | ||
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| The overhang and this back portion of the house are in Sierra-color. The treated lumber in the picture foreground is for the Sukkah deck to be constructed where the bobcat tractor is now sitting. | ||
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| The bobcat is coming back to the front of the house along the southern side, to get more earth to pack in underneath the Sukkah deck area after the concrete pillars have been poured. | ||
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| Pink foam exterior insulation (in addition to batt insulation within) before the vinyl siding goes on top. This door enters close to the kitchen and pantry areas from the driveway. | Recessed Lighting installed inside roof of front porch (view from southern side). | |