You WHAT??

I'm at work. I get a text message from my dear, loving, adorable and (typically) capable wife - "the stapler is broken! I stapled a(nother) tube!" . I'm headed home, Hun, I'll take care of it!

COLD

As long as we keep moving the cold in here is tolerable. But stand still and the electric blanket calls. Under the house is a balmy 40 or so, so that's where I am tonight. 

These are floor loops we just pulled in to one of four manifolds. 

Set and trimmed. 

Connectors. Thanks Mike for loaning your ProPEX tool. 

Manifolds installed and mounted. Turns out I did not need the clamps to hold the tubing and had to remove them. I still have to connect the supply lines and I'll do the actuators later. 

Two more manifolds to do, plus a pump and piping. Lots to do this weekend so we can get a final cover inspection on Monday and be ready to pour gypcrete Tuesday. 

Tubing right along...

Living room, kitchen and nook tubing done. The girls even wielded the stapler for a while!  We're getting there...

Feeling RADIANT tonight!

Ahhhh... Radiant tubing done upstairs. Obviously not done by professionals, but should still keep us warm.

Insulation - Batting

Garage Ceiling

Garage Again

Girls' Bathroom

Living Room Ceiling

Craft Room

Craft Bathroom

Living Room Ceiling

Craftroom Exterior door

Insulation, Spray-in layer

This is the living room wall(s) after 2" of spray-in foam before it got covered up with the batting. Hopefully, 'they' are right about the added value of the spray-in in addition to the batts. 

We getting into some hot water around here!

It feels SO good to be back on it, hot n heavy.  We have been signed off on electrical, plumbing and framing is "ok to insulate" with a couple of minor gusseting things to do.

The air-sealing has been completed, and we are scheduled this week to get a coating of spray-foam insulation followed by the batt insulation for the walls.  Insulation is being done by Premier Spray Foam and Superior Insulation who are also customers of Olympic Security.

 A huge part of our home is the heating system.  Using a geothermal heat pump we will heat the lightweight concrete floors as well as heating our water to accommodate the needs of these four shower-loving family members.

This system is built by Mike Saylor, of Stilly River Mechanical.  I can't link to him because for some reason he doesn't have a web or facebook presence.  The open box on the left is a 5-ton water-to-water heat pump. The larger white tank is an 80-gallon buffer tank for the floor heating. It also has a pre-heat coil inside for the incoming water. That warmed water then goes through the middle tank (50 gals) and is b rought up to usable temperature via a "de-superheater" coil in the heat pump which pulls additional heat from the system. It is then stored/delivered through the right tank, also 50 gallons, which if needed will bump the temp up with propane gas.  Sounds complex, simple engineering but circles of pipe and pumps but the end result will be a warm home and a theoretically unlimited supply of hot water.

 

OK, back at it. Cleaning and clearing the house for insulation and drywall!  Woo hoo!!!