The Omaha morning bee., 1925-03-29
Concrete
Floor Big
Feature
Foundation and First Floor
Ready for Inspection;
Questions Cheerful
.ly Answered.
Work Is Being Rushed

Interest in the construction of the
. ideal firesafe home Of The Omaha Bee
going forward rapidly at the site at
716 North F'ifty-sixth street, is at
tracing many visitors. Omaha men
and women who are interested in
building problems because they them.
. selves are planning a future home,
! are asking questions.
. The Omaha Bee, in its own name and
in the name of the various men and
. firms who are cooperating. wishes to
visitors at the site Of the home. You
are invited to come out and inspect
. the new things in construction that
are being undertaken there under the
direction OF Charles w. Rosenberg
1architect, Dave u. Johnson, contrac-
tor
To many Omahans the thought OF
a concrete masonry house is some
what new. From the cellar to the
roof, the walls of this house are to be
built of concrete blocks. The entire
block construction and the various
concrete features of the house are be
ing installed by Harry Roessig. head
of the building department of the Dia.
mond Concrete Products company. He
will be pleased to explain the advant-
ages and technicalities of concrete ma
sonry and the technicalities of 1t.
Post War" Cellar.
That cellar is strictly a postwar
one, very dry. Twelve.inch blocks
carry the. load up to the first floor,
where the concrete engineering com
pany's Meyer steel form concrete floor
has been poured. Concrete floors have
so many things in their favor and to
the mind of anyone but an engineer
are bit complicated, that the best
advice one can give regarding them
is to come out and see this one. 1t
is Just like any other concrete floor
in that the floor rests on concrete
beams, each reinforced with steel.
The floor Is made of Haydite.
That doesn't make it something else
besides a concrete floor. for Haydite
is simply a new gravel mixture OF
melted clay. that's lighter than ordi
nary sand and gravel, more fire re-
sisting. Strange to relate, this Hay
dite concrete floor takes nails just
as IL 1t were wood. There's little
nile OF leftover Haydite out in the
back yard.
Steel Door Frame.
=, Between the cellar proper and the
garage there's heavy channel
steel door frame. made for the house
by the. Gate City Iron works. When
the job gets near completion.
special patented Richards Wilcox
door will be swung in this frame
The. start of fire in the garage will
close this door automatically. and the
door will freeze right into that steel
frame. In addition to giving home
owner a feeling Of comfortable secur-
ity against any blaze that might
arise in a garage, this door and
frame will help pay for itself In
premium reductions from the fire in
surance rating bureau.
Studding has been erected up tf
the second floor. and the rough floor
is all set n. During the coming
week the contractor will continue his
building up to the roof level. Two
by 10 joists are being used on this
second floor. although Johnson de
clared he could have gotten by with
two by eights.
Those who come out to see the
house today and this week will .b'
able to get an idea of how it will
look on completion, for the genera
outline begins to appear against th'
skyline.