Making Progress

Now that the roof is done productivity inside the house is not dependent on the weather so we had 3 different crews all working at the same time this week: plumbers beginning to add valves to the pipes, framers working to isolate the attic for insulation, and the HVAC/geothermal crew doing all of the geothermal plumbing and HVAC venting.

The little closet off the garage is plumbing central:


Up in the attic is where most of the action is for the HVAC:




We got a dryer vent, vent for the stove hood (not pictured) and lots of vents coming out of the roof now for all of the plumbing:



The framers put up some foam walls in the attic to isolate the attic areas above the patios from those above the rest of the house. Next week we are getting insulating foam blown up in the attic against the rafters/roof instead of on the attic floor. This means the whole attic will be insulated and does not need to be vented! The framers also quickly framed in the small bathroom for the shop.




Lots of other activity from other people as well: we got our patio and screen porch doors installed, a couple more windows put in, and the city installed the power pole that will be used to draw power to the property.





The pile left over from our last burn day, still slightly smoldering but now much smaller!


Next week, even more activity as the weather should be pretty nice:
- power transformer installed by the city (yay no more generator fuel bills!)
- foam blown into attic
- well digging
- more plumbing

Hopefully we'll get some good pics of all the activity!

Nice Weather Weekend

Since not a lot had been going on at the house, and we had a beautiful weekend with record-breaking temperatures, I'll post a couple of pics or the nice weekend.

Saturday was a rare Winter day with no clouds and no wind. This means it's an ideal day to burn some of the trees and wood debris left over from clearing the land for building. Particularly at my neighbor's where a lot of trees were removed and put in big piles between our properties. Living with a firefighter provides an opportunity to quickly call in for a burn permit and safely light up some piles of wood!





With so much dirt surrounding the piles, no grass and no wind, it was just a matter of watching everything burn and drinking lots of water!

Sunday was the record-breaking temp day so we went to the zoo! Lots of animals were out playing in the sunshine, and all of the big cats, gorillas, and especially bears were all out playing. We got some pics of the grizzlies, giraffes, and a curious ostrich.





And of course the pic we always take of Vivi on the komodo dragon (and carousel when it's running).