Drywall, day 1

Our guys showed up at 7am this morning. This is what the craftroom looked like:

Even Titan was happy to see them!

Then this sh** got serious...

This is part of the aftermath of Day 1.

Amanda and I were an awesome clean-up team. Two good-sized loads of scrap put in the truck and the floors swept of debris for tomorrow.  Way to work like girls! 

Uh oh

The heat is not keeping up right now, when we need it for drying and comfort while we work in this cold weather. Input manifolds are down to about 60. And oddly the diesel heater I have stopped working. So I'm messing with stuff. I closed half the floors and turned down the speed of the circ give water more time in the heat exchanger. Not sure if this is sound, so I'll call Stilly River tomorrow to run it by him. As an ironic twist, the hot water generator has our storage tanks at over 120 degrees. If we only had a shower out here I'd be in heaven. I'm thinking about why not to hook that to the floor system to give it a boost. Will report back with findings, time to get to work!

Drywall delivered!

It's here! It's here!! IT'S HERE!!!

It's super cold, but at least it's not raining.

Drywall is in the house, Baby!!

And they leave with an empty truck and trailer. :-)

Installers here tomorrow. Making me very, very happy!!!

Panic

I really need to address my procrastination problem. Later. Now I scramble to be ready. Sandi and the girls too. 

Setting the bathtub should have been easy. My recommendation is to buy your tub before you do the rough in. I have to move both the drain and the controls. Freakin amatures...

Moving on....

I'm satisfied for now with the heat system. 

The heat pump is chugging away non stop and the photo is the earth loop leaving at about 28 degrees to be re-warmed by Mother Earth. I turned the buffer tank stat down to 90and we are still running fans constantly to evacuate much moisture from the drying cement. 

Drywall gets stocked on Tuesday and I still have a must-do list to complete before the walls close forever. I wonder what I am forgetting...

Heating Saga Continues

I'm being slightly impatient and turned the buffer tank stat up just a pinch. I don't have a gauge on it so don't know the actual temp there. I'd like to know. The manifold is at 70 entering and leaving at 60, this the nearest to the heat pump. If you were observant and knew of such things, which I obviously wasn't, you'd notice in the photo above that I used galvanized steel with copper/brass. A big no-no due to electrolytic corrosion. Something to kill some spare time, sometime soon!  Oh yea, the floor temp above is now 57-61. The temps are striped which should blend as temps stabilize and more so with floor coverings. 

Ok, time to take the kids to the trampoline place, then work through the night getting "forgotten" wiring in the walls before Wednesday!

Hydronic Heating On Line

Follow on from my last post, I got a surprise the next morning after turning the temperature setting up. The manifold temp had dropped to about 40!  So the heat pump doesn't just run at the set point, it incrementally boosts the water by a few degrees while the floor is sucking the heat out as quickly as it's fed. By today, Friday morning, the floor had come up to around 55-57 with manifold temp of 60. This evening early it was at 61 and 65. I decided to shut off the upstairs loops and turned the pump to high which soon brought the manifold up to 70 and the floor is mid 60's. it's almost comfy in here but a test will be next week when the cold snap may hit us. We still don't have attic or crawl space insulation which will make a big difference.