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I had a relatively productive morning today, sourcing all the parts and pieces of hardware we need for our radiant heat system. A few months ago, I was picking up some plumbing supplies at Westwater Supply, a local plumbing supply company. While I was there, I noticed that they had a full line of radiant [...]

Radiant Heat Explained …

Some of you may be wondering what all the fuss is about over the radiant heat part of this project. Although we will have a regular gas furnace in this house, propane is expensive, and we’d really like to take advantage of the almost limitless free fuel sources we have … wood and sunlight. Heating [...]

:-)

As Sue has already mentioned, I got blind-sided by the builder Monday. Levi called and told me what they had in mind for the next two weeks, and I suddenly found myself way behind the curve… They’ve decided that ALL of the concrete slab work is going to be done right away now, not just [...]

Saw it coming

I knew as soon as I posted that nothing was going on with the house that we’d get bombarded. Poor Guy… his business has been keeping him very busy lately and we just talked to Levi yesterday who told us they plan on forming the lowest level of the slab by Thursday and pouring [...]

Issue resolved …

The meeting with Levi went well today. He’s been having a hard time trying to come up with a good plan of attack on this project. They would prefer to frame the house and get it dried in before they form and pour the multi-level concrete slab that ’s required for our main [...]

Whole lotta nuthin

No, we haven’t forgotten about our blog, there’s just been nothing to blog about. Nothing has happened with the house this week; nada, zip, zilch, nuttin.
Guy is meeting with Levi this afternoon to discuss what seems to be Levi’s confusion on how exactly to proceed with things. Our slab is very complicated and [...]

Shorter and shorter ….

Over the last few days, it’s become obvious how fast Fall is approaching, and how much shorter the days are getting. I know that as they do, I’m going to be running into darkness when I go up after work to inspect the progress on the house, so this weekend, I installed a floodlamp at [...]

Stunning

There’s not a word I can think of to better describe a day like yesterday. It was one of those absolutely perfect days… crisp bite in the air, big, puffy clouds, crystal clear air, leaves just starting to change color. Even the mosquitoes gave us a break. Just stunning.
I showed up separately from Guy [...]

More plumbing

Guy talked to Uri first thing Monday (Uri called us about a couple things) and they seem to have the copper plumbing issue worked out. Basically Uri said he’s known all along that we’ve wanted copper plumbing and that he “worked it out” with the plumber. We don’t really know what that means [...]

Vanities

As Guy mentioned, we met with the plumber yesterday. Since I was uncertain what exactly the plumber was going to have to offer us, I’ve put off biting the bullet and buying vanities. I thought perhaps the plumber would have those to choose from when we met with him. Since he didn’t, [...]