Pull through garage...very nice.
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Thread: Florida house build
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03-21-2014, 04:36 PM #21Senior Member
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03-21-2014, 04:56 PM #22Senior Member
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Looks like you've got the first floor high enough for the flood plain and possible storm surge, god forbid, we're looking at taking our Formula back to LOTO and getting a performance CC (32'-36') for down here, that's the type of boat that works for us for down here, easy to take in the shallows, easy to beach and easy to clean, that's what I'm looking for, more beer drinking time.
The build is looking nice.
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03-21-2014, 05:15 PM #23Senior Member
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Holy Smokes! How many sf will the house be?
Originally Posted by Kenny D
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03-21-2014, 05:56 PM #24Senior Member
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So when you you build it like this (first floor above the storm surge) do you just take everything out of the garage and let it fill-up during and eventually drain later?? Originally Posted by 314joey
.......hard to imagine for a west coast guy like me but makes sense if I got it right???
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03-21-2014, 05:59 PM #25Senior Member
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You usually don't have enough time to move things out, but the thought is only a few things get water logged. Originally Posted by Paul65K
So when you you build it like this (first floor above the storm surge) do you just take everything out of the garage and let it fill-up during and eventually drain later??.......hard to imagine for a west coast guy like me but makes sense if I got it right???
Grandparents old house in the keys was built like that, only the car, boat and tools stayed in the garage. Everything else was up 1 floor and safe.
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03-21-2014, 06:13 PM #26Senior Member
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It's actually a really good idea, especially on the river. Our condo complex is built with the garages only on the first floor. When the Colorado river flooded in the mid 1980's the water reached a couple inches with in the garages. The joke was that the condos were sinking when the water was just really high. Needles got hit really bad.
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03-22-2014, 09:15 AM #27Member
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The house is 3280 sf and the garage is 2040 sf
Originally Posted by niceguyeddie
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03-22-2014, 09:29 AM #28Member
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The views from the 3rd level bedroom balcony.
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03-22-2014, 09:30 AM #29Senior Member
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Wow that's a beautiful home! Congrats!
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03-22-2014, 09:45 AM #30Already miss the 310/562
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Ive been watching some of the rebuilds on the east coast where the houses are sitting on TALL piers and the first floor walls are framed/built to blow right out in the event of a surge like NJ / NY was hit with... Originally Posted by Kenny D
I keep looking at LOW LOW LOW areas like Seal Beach/LB/Naples/Belmot shores/SanPedro-port and wonder what happens when the big surge happens in SoCal... :(
Nice project there sir...
Last edited by 2manymustangs; 03-22-2014 at 10:28 AM.
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