Thursday, October 29, 2009

October snow and progress report





So we've been doing a lot behind the scenes. Engineering is more or less winding down. We've engaged a local timber framer and s/b doing the barn frame in Nov. and the House 6 weeks later...the latest dwgs are shown. I will start posting progress photos, etc shortly. We got a couple feet of gook on the ground....had to shovel my way to the bathroom for the last two mornings. Probably got 3 inches of water in the storm....

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Decon is complete....now the fun starts






Once we got rolling on the deconstruction, things went pretty well. I think we saved for reuse or repurpose most of the materials that had significant value. Studs, roof sections, red wood siding, flooring, wire, etc etc are all either sorted and stacked in the yard or stuffed into shipping containers....the rest, well, we'd hoped to find an on site waste grinder, but that proved fleeting. No one has attempted to bust through the on site roll off dumpster paradigm. We did haul off the unusable clean lumber for reuse as chip board, or OSB. The painted lumber and other waste went to the dump. The drywall, chimney bricks, and some fill dirt and concrete rubble from BVM went into the parking pit. Which is now a parking area missing the final grade fill and road base. Any metal, like nails, drywall corner metal, duct work, etc. went to the metal recycling bin, the insulation batts and wrap got to a dump, and the blow in fill insulation got saved for use as thermal mass [hot water] storage tank insulation.
Our plan now is to pull permits for the barn and the grading/foundation work. We will have our bids from the timberframe companies this week.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

man camp has inhabitants who are hungry



Man camp has a porch too

ok, me at Man Camp, editing the blog, Bennett took photos for me, of me, yuk!


the kitchen , complete with epiphilum hanging around....gotta build a house for our plant!



The basic plan here is to recycle the entire house, grind up on site what we can't re-use, and save some materials costs as we go. The main roof elements are going to be our barn roof, smaller kitchen element will be a small shed on skids, and the other smaller roof elements become the shed roof on the sides of the barn

man camp has a bathroom, with plastic roof too!
mman

The kitchen roof comes off




Lift off!

the first section lift off shots







back to lift off

Straps on in




Ryan up on the roof making holes for the straps





Jesse w/Boulder Valley Crane arrives on time and ready to lift, as usual.



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