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!