It has been a busy couple weeks and to cover all the progress we will have to give you an update in a couple forms. First, check out the video walk through to see our current state of construction. It doesn’t provide much in the way of details, but at least you can see what’s happening.
Now here are some more detailed pictures to sate the appetites of our more inquisitive readers:
The above picture shows our ERV (Energy Recovery Ventilator) installed in the closet above the washer and dryer. It is ducted through the roof and pulls stale air from the second floor in exchange for fresh air delivered to the first.
This image shows our hard core siding guys working in the snow to get the Hardie panels up. You can also see the beautiful bright yellow of the Home Slicker product we use to create our rainscreen.
This last photo shows the project from the angle of one of our more popular renderings. It has brought the team great joy to stand across the street from this angle and proclaim, “It looks like the rendering!”
As always, more images can be found on our Flickr page.
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there is a certain Sanford & Son vibe to the funky theme song, and I’m digging it.
oh, and I forgot to say: That one picture looks just like the rendering!
Kicking ass and taking names as usual. Keep it up guys. Looking forward to the opening.
Its about damn time!
Glad to see the update. Also the plywood floors and wall (from the twitpics) are looking great. Keep it up!
What was the reasoning for using stucco on the rear of the house and Hardie siding everywhere else?
Thanks for the comments guys. It has been a long time and it is nice to see the final product taking shape as intended. Next week, we should have some good images of the floors, kitchen walls and solar thermal, which were the main things focused on this week.
tlynch – This was the architects choice to reduce budget. While the Hardie siding is a relatively cheap material, the install is very expensive. We never could have afforded to wrap the entire homes in stucco. We wanted to get a bit of Hardie on the back of 100K, but just didn’t have the budget… Stucco will most likely be the material of choice for the rear facade of every one of our homes.