Just One Post
You see that temporary board kiddywompus just under the dining room. Well, we talked about that sumbitch for a good half-hour this morning in our weekly meeting with Mike and Marvin.
Early on in the design process, we contemplated using steel for a cantilevered open edge on the northeast corner of the house. It would’ve looked super cool, and that would’ve been echoed with an open edge on the second floor balcony. Then budget got in the way.
The load on a 4’ overhang with a second story is incredibly pincing on the soil’s nasal passages, so we thought we’d let her breathe. Since it’s a load bearing point, Marvin wanted to use green-treated lumber. I get it, but it’s ugly. Mike accounted for most of it and had wrapped the post, except for the most visible part peeking out throught the 3/4” spaces between the cedar screen.
It’ll be wrapped and we’ll push the screen out a half-inch past the concrete wall to mask the rough, irregular edge and the massive chunk taken out of the corner of the protruding foot. The changes are now transferred to the framers’ drawings. Awesome.
