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The unit, start to finish:
(Warning. I may have over documented this one just a bit)
This brings to a close my photo documentary on how you seismically retrofit a hundred year old soft story building in San Francisco. By chance I was walking in Berkeley this week and noticed soft story buildings that had not been retrofitted. While not all buildings here in SF have gone through this process, many have and the process is ongoing. I haven't heard about similar programs in Berkeley and Oakland even though they sit on a fault that is probably the next one to cut loose.
Living room:
South wall
Heater guts.
More heater guts.
Where the heater was.
South wall, shear walled.
Plastered.
Trim returning.
New heater installed.
Complete.
North wall.
Gutted.
Shear walled.
And ceiling patched.
Plastered.
Trim partly restored.
Complete.
Ceiling reinforcing.
Note shiny steel brackets that are everywhere in the walls now.
Patched.
Complete with lights restored.
Bedroom:
East wall being demoed next several.
Detail of sliding glass door (non)support.
Added blocking prior to shear wall.
Shear walled.
Drywalled.
Trim being restored.
Complete.
Closet ceiling opened.
Ceiling restored.
END
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