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2 rows cinderblock foundation - total width 2ft. |
Filled with sand in between - ready for the grout pour. |
Notice the rebar spikes coming out of the foundation to stab the first course of bails on and then some. |
"Silent Floor" cross joists. |
Four piers for the center beam. |
Bird's-eye view of laminated "5x12" center beam. |
A fun day of lifting 5-gal. buckets of cement ...
clean & jerk! |
Walls up, window bucks in, header poured and truss plate in. Like building with big "Legos." |
Trusses up with the help of the Snowflake crane. |
Jim. |
And now to the fun part of sheathing & roofing. |
I love the view of the bales in this shot. |
A layer of R-30 and a layer of R-38 stacked insulation in ceiling. |
The R-factor in the walls is 52 to 54 depending on the density of the bale. |
Front of house. |
I like this shot also. |
1 ft. shelves inside every window; 10 in. sills on the outside. |
Spraying gunnite (thanks for the help Bart). Spraying concrete at 100psi, penetrating the bales about 1-1/2 in. ... another tough day. |
Nice shell. |
Our little cave above ground. |
Lotta finish work to do yet. |
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Partial frame and drywall. Bhavani and I did the entire ceiling alone. She is one tough little cookie! |
Tape, texture with random skip trowel, primer and then paint. |
Kitchen on the right, bedrooms on the left & right, master bed & bath at the end.
Standing in living room with pantry & laundry behind right. |
Nice hand dug ditch for the propane lines ... |
... Through a little bit of rock! |
Held pressure for days. |
House entry for gas. |
We will have hot water ... and not from the top of the stove! |
5000 gal. water holding tank. The well pump puts out 18 gpm. |
450 watt wind generator and 8000 watt gas generator backup. |
1000 watts in solar panels and the 450 watt wind generator. |
Solar panels on sun tracker. |
Had to hire a drilling rig to come in and do the holes for wind and solar posts.
They had to be put into solid rock! |
The control panel for the solar system with a 4500 watt inverter, a C40 charge controller,
main breaker, generator bypass box and circuit breakers. |
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Twenty 12 volt batteries wired as a 24 volt system. |
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