finishing the top

One of the least sexy things about construction are the details around a floor. They also happen to be amongst the most important, especially when that floor is in charge of getting rid of stormwater off of your building, and protecting the building from water penetration, corrosion, and deterioration.

Here is the finished inside of the 3rd floor utility room. Breezeblock has been installed throughout for ventilation.

Exterior of the utility room and bathroom. Here you can see the tar that is being torched down on the rooftop.

These pictures are out of sequence, but here you can see Tacho perfecting the drainage slope of the final concrete. It is on top of a wire mesh, which is on top of a membrane, which is on top of the tar.

Here is the rooftop prior to the pour. The orange tubes are electrical power for the palapa that will be installed later.

Here is the top floor with the tar and membrane installed. The boxed out area on the right is the top of the light tunnel. It is covered for the moment while plumbing and drainage is complete.

Here the pour and concrete finishing is taking place. They have to move pretty quickly, as a tropical storm will be brushing by in a few days.

more tar and paper.

The tar and paper project. This is the entrance to the 3rd floor bathroom.