ROOFS ON 22 BUILDINGS COMPLETED

ABOVE IS 9640 ESTUARY WAY GETTING SOME NEW SHEATHING

ALL OF OUR BUILDINGS THAT WERE NOT RED OR YELLOW TAGGED HAVE BEEN RE-ROOFED. 40 YEAR-ALGAE RESISTANT CERTAINTEED SHINGLES WERE USED OVER 30# ASPHALT IMPREGNATED UNDERLAYMENT. ROOF SHEATHING WAS REPLACED AS NEEDED AND NEW FLASHING WAS INSTALLED. OFF-RIDGE METAL VENTS,MEETING MIAMI/DADE CODE AND TESTED TO 150 MPH, WERE USED INSTEAD OF RIDGE VENTS WHICH WERE BADLY DAMAGED IN LAST YEARS HURRICANES. THE ROOFS ON THE REMAINING SIX BUILDINGS WILL BE DONE AFTER THE GABLE END WORK IS COMPLETED.


ABOVE IS GABLE END OF 5700 MARINA DRIVE AFTER INSTALLING BALLOON WALL STRUCTURE,PLYWOOD SHEATHING AND TYVEX MOISTURE BARRIER HOUSE WRAP. THIS IS BEING DONE TO ALL OF THE UNITS THAT HAD THEIR GABLE ENDS BLOWN OUT IN THE HURRICANES.







THE PHOTO TO THE LEFT SHOWS THE BALLOON WALL STUDS FASTENED TO THE FLOOR PLATE OF THE SECOND FLOOR WITH HURRICANE STRAPS. ALSO THE PLYWOOD SHEATHING WHICH IS FASTENED TO THE BALLOON WALL STUDS CAN BE OBSERVED. THIS WILL STIFFEN AND STRENGTHEN THE GABLE END.


THIS PHOTO SHOWS THE DIAGONAL CROSS BRACING TIEING IN THE GABLE END TO THE TRUSSES IN THE ATTIC AREA. THE PLYWOOD SHEATHING APPLIED AROUND THE BATHROOMS IS ALSO SEEN.


THIS PICTURE SHOWS THE STUDS OF THE BALLOON WALL FRAME WHICH GO FROM THE FLOOR BASE PLATE TO THE UPPER PLATE ALONG THE RIDGE LINE AS UNINTERRUPTED STUDS RATHER THAN TWO STUDS MEETING AT AN INTERMEDIATE PLATE 8' FROM THE FLOOR AS WITH THE ORIGINAL DESIGN. THIS MAKES FOR A STRONGER GABLE END STRUCTURE.



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