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Skinny Project

Trenton Avenue Arts Fest

May 21, 2010

This Saturday, as in tomorrow, is the Trenton Avenue Arts Fest. It is a great neighborhood event that features artists and crafts people selling a huge variety of interesting stuff. There is also plenty of good food and beer, and the famous Kinetic Sculpture Derby, an event not to be missed. The whole thing kicks [...]

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The Vented Rain Screen via Furring Master

May 14, 2010

It occurred to me that we haven’t really written a good post dedicated to vented rain screen assemblies. A rain screen is basically a gap created in between the sheathing of a house and the exterior cladding. It is considered by most building experts to be the most durable method of building an exterior wall [...]

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Skinny Project Update: Foundations Complete

April 5, 2010

This is just a brief update of the action over at the Skinny Project. If you want more detailed info, you’ll have to follow our new Postgreen Homes Blog. Over there we are giving step by step construction updates complete with pictures, video and occasional witty asides. The foundations are now completely finished at the [...]

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Skinny Project: The Ground is Broken

March 3, 2010

Despite the rainy cold weather we have started digging for the Skinny Project foundations. Hopefully this will set us up to make some real progress over the days of nice weather that Mother Nature has kindly scheduled for us. If all goes well we should have our footers poured by Friday and be ready to [...]

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Moving from SIPs to Double Stud Walls in Skinny

February 25, 2010

In our first few projects at Postgreen, we used EPS SIPs (Structurally Insulated Panels) for our exterior walls and roofs which were very popular with the kids. We have decided to move away from SIPs in the Skinny Project in favor of using Advanced Framing Techniques and a Double Stud Wall design. Many of you [...]

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Skinny Project Groundbreaking is Imminent

February 8, 2010

Everything is in line for the start of the Skinny Project, and assuming we can find some dirt beneath all this snow, we intend to break ground soon.  In fact, we are expecting to start digging foundations early next week. Right now, it looks like a little break in the snow and cold will make [...]

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Skinny Project Sales Update

December 7, 2009

We are nearing the end of our pre-build organizational process (sounds important doesn’t it) and the Skinny Project ground breaking is fast approaching. Everyone over here at Postgreen is very excited about this project and the way in which it incorporates lessons from both the Passive House and LEED experiences. We also have seen some [...]

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The Skinny Project – 3 New Postgreen Homes

October 6, 2009

We realized last week that we hadn’t officially announced the sale of our next project – The Skinny Project – on the blog yet. If you attended our web launch party, you heard about it, but we should officially notify everyone who may have missed out here. The third project takes the best lessons learned [...]

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3 Postgreen Homes Available in the Skinny Project

August 25, 2009

The chance to get a Postgreen Home of your own has come again with this, the official announcement of the Skinny Project. We are building three new homes on E. Susquehanna Ave in East Kensington, just a few doors down from the original 100k Project. They are each designed to our exactingly high standards for [...]

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