Teardown Chronicle
Looking for a lot in a prime waterfront location to build a new home? In St. Petersburg, Florida, and the rest of Tampa Bay you’ll probably have to buy an existing house, tear it down, and then build. Thinking of adding a second story to enlarge a home? Better check the FEMA requirements and the 50% rule. So what’s involved in tearing down one house and building another? Below is a real case scenario, with postings as they happen. For the latest, read from the top down; to start at the beginning, read from the bottom up. Click on any photo to enlarge.
Landscaping is going in
January 5th, 2009 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
If you want to have a home look like it belongs – you need to plant appropriately sized trees and plants. Putting in a 5 gallon tree in front of a three story house and waiting for it to grow would look silly and out of place. Often it’s the landscaping that helps a new home fit into the neighborhood.
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Teardown Chronicle – Day 60 (86) Tyvek wrapped
September 24th, 2008 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
The exterior looks very different now that it’s wrapped in Tyvek! The windows are starting to go in, too.
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Teardown Chronicle – Day 57 (81) – Front Door
September 19th, 2008 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
Now that the exterior and the roof are done, there’s not much difference to see in driving by each evening. Through the windows you can see the interior partitions going up, and here you can see that the front door has been installed on the ground floor.
According to FEMA requirements, a small entry foyer is allowed on the ground level.
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Teardown Chronicle – Day 52 (74)
September 12th, 2008 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
Teardown Chronicle – Day 52 (74)
The roofing has been installed over the roof deck. This is the actual roofing – the tiles that will be installed later are decorative, though they also serve to protect the roofing from the sun and elements.
Remember – you can click on any of these photo to see a larger image.
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Teardown Chronicle – Day 50 (72) – Interior Work
September 10th, 2008 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
The new waterfront home in St Petersburg (you can see the boat when you look through the house) is now starting to have the interior work done. The interior studs have been installed and now you can see the wallboard installed in this portion of the ground level. Although this ground level is not “living space”, a small foyer is allowed to be finished and air conditioned. The remainder of the ground level is garage and storage space.
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Teardown Chronicle – Day 49 (71) – Framing the Interior Partitions
September 9th, 2008 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
You can see through the framed window opening that the studs and framing are being worked on in this new waterfront home in St. Petersburg, Florida. Click on the photo to see an enlarged photo.
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Teardown Chronicle – Day 47 (67) – Projections finished
September 5th, 2008 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
What were just openings in the base structure have now become projections and interesting aspects. This new waterfront home won’t be a big rectangular box!
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Teardown Chronicle – Day 46 (66) Roof decking finished
September 4th, 2008 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
The roof decking is now finished on this new
waterfront home in St. Petersburg
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Teardown Chronicle – Day 45 (65) – More roof decking
September 3rd, 2008 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
Teardown Chronicle – Day 45 (65)
After a long holiday weekend, the house construction goes on. Most of the roof decking is done, now the smaller sections need to be finished.
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Teardown Chronicle – Day 44 (61) Roof decking nearly complete
August 29th, 2008 Categories: Teardown Chronicle
This was a busy week in the Broadwater neighborhood of St Petersburg, Florida. The roof decking on this new home is nearly complete. If you click on the photo a larger one will pop up, and you can see that this is anything but a rectangular block home. The ground level is garages and storage, above that is the main living level with a large balcony overlooking the waterfront, and the top level is a master suite with office/den and a balcony.
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