Building a new house and shop (1 Viewer)

[knuckle47]

Point the camera towards a wall, play in the background!

 

[1911]

SkyNet attempting to map my office.

The Mrs. bought a robot vacuum cleaner on the Amazon Prime Day sale. I was surprised; it actually did a half-decent job getting the peanut crumbs off of the floor under/around my drafting table.

 

[1911]

Getting a metric sh!t ton of EPS foam, fiberglass netting, Portland cement, and more STO delivered today. The big van with a fork lift on the back could not make it more than half-way down my road to the house, so they’re unloading it on a flat spot (old gas well pad) and I’ll have to bring it down a bit at a time with my tractor and/or trailer.

This will all go on the exterior of the house, with stone and stucco over the top of that. Was originally going to use 2” thick foam, but decided to go with 3-1/2” instead. R value of 14, versus an R value of 8.

 

[Dunbar]

II'd like to see your electricity bill when done. I bet one month of shop AC in the summer is more than a year in the house.

 

[65swb45]

View attachment 3971425Getting a metric sh!t ton of EPS foam, fiberglass netting, Portland cement, and more STO delivered today. The big van with a fork lift on the back could not make it more than half-way down my road to the house, so they’re unloading it on a flat spot (old gas well pad) and I’ll have to bring it down a bit at a time with my tractor and/or trailer.

This will all go on the exterior of the house, with stone and stucco over the top of that. Was originally going to use 2” thick foam, but decided to go with 3-1/2” instead. R value of 14, versus an R value of 8.

It’s still sinking in with me (pardon the pun) how neolithically slow you can change the temperature inside the house because of both the structure and being mostly submerged. And now you’re going to make the rate of change even slower!

 

[1911]

II'd like to see your electricity bill when done. I bet one month of shop AC in the summer is more than a year in the house.

I hope so! Right now, the heat pump runs more often than I would have thought, but its 20 SEER and the electric bill has not been bad, but I’m still expecting improvement after the EIFS.

It’s still sinking in with me (pardon the pun) how neolithically slow you can change the temperature inside the house because of both the structure and being mostly submerged. And now you’re going to make the rate of change even slower!

It takes some getting used to, not fiddling with the thermostat but just to leave it on one setting.

 

[knuckle47]

So you’re keeping it in and keeping it out at the same time?

 

[1911]

So you’re keeping it in and keeping it out at the same time?

That’s the idea. The morning sun soaks heat into the concrete; the foam board insulation should help with that.

 

[1911]

3-1/2” foam board going on. It gets cemented on with the same 50/50 mix of Portland cement and STO primer that I plastered the inside of the domes with. You use a 1/2” notched trowel to make vertical lines, so if any moisture happens to condense or get behind the foam boards in any way, it will just drain out the bottom. That is why the foam boards terminate an inch or two above the footers and ground level.