Slab – Part 2: Trowel Magic
Liquid rock. It never fails to amaze how wet lumpy stuff can be transformed into a hard-wearing, smooth, and perfectly flat surface. It takes years …
23 Jan
Slab – Part 1: Heat Island
Slab – Part 1: Heat Island
Ground floor slab was just poured. Air temperature was frigid, hovering around 30F with a forecast for low 20′s by nightfall , but that’s OK. …
19 Jan
Meet My Makers
Meet My Makers
Placetailor, three of whom are pictured above, are my makers. With a little help from their subcontracting and consulting friends – their plan is to …
13 Jan
Alibi
Alibi
Alibi, the local architect-artist studio of Harry Lowd and Catie Newell, won the Powahouse Percent For Art Competition that was held last year. The competition …
12 Jan
Raft
Raft
My ground floor slab is a lot like a raft, floating on a sea of insulation. It will be completely isolated from the ambient climate …
23 Dec
Cold Feet
Cold Feet
Here’s Fergie, from Metro, with a chutefull of concrete being formed into my frost wall. This wall rests on an uninsulated footing that sits deep …
19 Dec
Potty
Potty
Up – over the excavator bucket. Carefully, under the electrical wires. Then, gently swung around the fence. Finally coming to rest on the opposite side …
17 Dec
Party
Party
I’ll spare you the joke about my party wall and get straight to the point of this post: Foam. Foam is nice, in moderation. It’s quite …
12 Dec
Diggin
Diggin
Digging’s happening. Slab footprint is emerging. At the edge of the growing hole in the ground, sized for a hybrid superinsulated-slab-on-grade foundation, the worksite office hugs …