radiant heat

Happy New Year’s everyone! What better way to kick off 2011 then by painting the first two rooms in our new house! Check it out! With a shiny fresh coat of white primer. I’ll have to give the credit to my father who was up bright and early at 5:30 AM January 1st so Read More

So I had planned to write a very enthusiastic, holy poo-digity is the house ever looking abso-tutely spanktastic, but I started working on a website tonight and got in the darned worst designers block (that’s when you stare at the screen forever trying to come up with Read More

Hey there folks, Not to worry, I haven’t forgotten about you, this blog, or documenting my awesome project. Just had an overwhelming amount of distractions, real-life responsibilities, and overall not so fun stuff to keep me from writing.  What might you say? Let’s Read More

I’m sure the mechanical guys are happy today’s over! The morning started with a few finishing touches to the hydronic heat system and then the water district guy showed up to crank the water main on.  I had to laugh as I listened to Gary and Joe (the mechanical guys) Read More

This will be a bit of a progress/random catchall update to bring you all up to where the project is at today and talk about a very cool thing that I’ve thought about/designed/bought stuff for, but haven’t mentioned in the blog. The boys finished laying the insulation this Read More

Had planned to write a real lengthy update describing the radiant heat system tonight, but I fell asleep during the recorded lecture of my Business Statistics and Analysis class tonight, so there goes the extra hour I had planned to write about the heating.  Can you believe that Read More

One quick picture of the plumbing and I’m out for the night. I’ll explain the heating system thoroughly tomorrow! Read More

I can hardly contain myself at how excited I am to soon have HEAT! The blog updates and pictures have been a little sparse over the past week because it’s been so darn cold, the evening so early, and we so busy with the automation wiring that I haven’t had many good Read More

Sure has been a busy week, trying to keep up with all the tradesmen’s questions and making sure that we’re staying ahead of the builders with our automation wiring. I spent a good part of the weekend with my father running over 2000 feet of audio/automation wiring, and then until Read More

The weather hasn’t really been our friend this week, but what else can you expect up here in Northern Maine!  We have a beautiful summer with scarcely a moment of bad weather and then we start building a house and the farmers start harvesting their potatoes and it’s Read More