Last Update: Wednesday- September -06- 2007 @ 8:15pm
The species and heart of this flooring system is Beech wood,
Along with the main flooring field made of Beech, a dual pin
There is also a cubed Black Walnut accent highlighting each
What made this project so unique was that all the embellishments
No different than any other residential row house built during the
Our first calculated obstacle was to construct the means in which
We employed the use of a hydraulic jack, used on locomotive
We had two concerns at this time. 1) the effect and possible damage
We constructed spanning joists, 4 pieces of 2" x 12" planking that
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A Shortcut Is: A proceedure which
is deficient in integrity, and which will
result in an unfavorable consequence.
Shortcuts are often employed by those
who lack precision and or conviction.
honed from the skeletal remains of an old barn once to have
resided in the north western reaches of Pennsylvania.
striping border of Cherry traces the parameter of each room.
of the inverted cherry striped corners.
that you will see in these photos were all adapted to the third
floor of a Provincial Victorian row house located on Pittsburgh's
north shore.
infancy of the steel revolution in Pittsburgh, the flooring on the
second and third floors were nothing more than second grade pine planking.
to raise the interior walls, and roofing above, high enough to remove
then replace the flooring that ran underneath and supported each interior wall.
trains, to lift the roofing system, and attached walls, high
enough to remove the flooring boards which ran underneath.
that the raising of the walls and roof might have on the slate and
terracotta roofing tiles, and 2) the downward force that would be
exerted to the flooring joists, and related ceiling system of the
floor below when attempting to raise the roof.
were banded and bolted together. We opened a portion of each opposing
outer wall so that we could set the spanner joists over the exterior
vertical foundation walls, thus transferring all downward forces to
the exterior shell of the brick structure.
