Poomukham coming up

Poomukham for this special design house is now coming up with Chuttu veranda, another traditional feature of Kerala Architecture.

Pictures show work in progress.Several new features are being added to this less than 3000 sft four bed room attached house with double height living room with view from first floor and added facility of a Home theatre which can also act as family living

Slope roof above living room

Pictures show slope roof above living room after concreting

Slope roof above living room coming up

Work started on slope roof above living room keeping the roof at about17 feet above ground level.Pictures show view from front side and view from north side

Poomukham front view

Picture shows front view of poomukham after fixing decorative thoomanam(drop slab) which will act as divertor of rain water preventing rain water flowing down with more speed through slope roof,to flow inside slope roof thereby water reaching inside of the slope roof.

Other alternative for this decorative thoomanam or drop slab is to provide plane drop slab to be concreted with steel,cement and mortar.This will be costly and will not have decorative design as seen in the picture.With painting and finishing this decorative drop slab will look better and more appealing

Curing of slope roof concrete

Pictures shows curing being done on slope roof for poomukham and verandah with  wet jute bags.These jute bags will be made wet by water pumped frequently

Slope roof concreting

Picture show concrete laying in progress for slope roof for Poomukham and verandah

slope roof for Poomukham and verandah

Pictures show steel reinforcement work completed for slope roof above poomukham and verandah.Precast concrete thoomanam in place of traditional woodden thoomanam is also seen