PROJECT : SEALING OFF ABOVE DOORS OF VILLA
STAIRCASE  – for HEAT BLOCKING

This morning started another project -an important one- since it is starting to get cold -IN and OUT- and it has been raining the past three days! It finally stopped
three hours ago but still VERY overcast and threatening again.
At 8am it was 53 degrees /12,2C INSIDE -upstairs Master bedroom with no
heating and    44 degrees/ 7,0C. OUTSIDE.

THE PROJECT is to install my two doors at the bottom of the STEPS going
upstairs to the bedrooom and sealing off above the doors all the way up to
the celing – 116.5  inches or  9.7  feet HIGH !
The two doors are 52 inches WIDE – each 26 inches
91.5 inches TALL
Above the door is a wooden plank -five inches SQUARED -tall – above that
is the area I gotta SEAL off which is 20.5 inches(tall) higher to the ceiling by
52 inches WIDE.  WHY do I have to seal off this section above the doors ???

Answer : On the Main floor I have three Gas injected heaters – one in each
room. When I put on the one in the kitchen and dining -which is a
BIG room to heat – If I do not seal off the said area -the HEAT will
rise UP THE STAIRS !!!!!! Got it ?

Now How am I sealing this said area – 20.5 inches TALL by 52 inches WIDE ?

Basically using red bricks and GLASS SQUARES that are transparent.
These Glass Squares are 7.5 inches SQUARE and
3.0 inches DEEP
I will use twelve of these GLASS SQUARES -
6 Clear Glass
6 Transparent Turquoise
Red bricks :  2 inches thick x 9 inches wide x 4.4 inches.
I will use  twenty five (25) of them
plus one CUT to size -2 ” x 2″ x 3″  !!!

I had to lay out the “territory” before I can start using the special glue between the wood plank and the red bricks. AND the rapid cement on top of the red bricks sealing off further up to the ceiling with Glass Squares and Red Bricks!

I started this project at 9am and it is now 11:30am as I type this “Diary”.
I had to re-arrange the red bricks and Glass thick square  many times to FIT
all these “closures”-
For example I tried laying the glass squares but the seventh one would not fit !
Then I placed 5 red bricks that 9″ x 5 red bricks =  45 inches and the sixth
red brick was two inches too big. That did not work!
Then I placed the red bricks using its 4.4 Inch side using eleven x 4.4 =
48,4 inches -which means I had to CUT to SIZE a red brick – 2″ x 2″ x 3″
PIECE !!!!!  To cut it and shave it down to size and finish off sandpapering
this small red brick TO SIZE tool more than an hour!
Now I an ready to START glueing and cementing !!!!!!!!

Ciao Tommaso !

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