Some Stucco, more to follow

Paper and chicken wire installed

 

First coat of stucco!

 

Drywall-- Looking like a real house!

Kitchen and dining room

Great room with stairs
 

Looking toward the loft through the kitchen
 

Loft with storage closets 

Looking at the loft from the scaffold over the great room
 

Looking toward the great room.  note: temporary scaffolding on the beams
 

Looking down on the great room from the stairs
 

Master bedroom
 

 

 

Insulation!

We installed baffles to separate the air venting between the soffit and the roof vents.  This separation increases the performance of the insulation by reducing moisture and cold air interaction with the fiberglass.  Our insulator wanted to use cardboard baffles but we decided to install AccuVent instead.  It is a recycled plastic product which was very easy to manipulate and install.  Seems very durable too.

 

 

 

Then roof and ceiling insulation was installed.  R-36 in the rafters and R-55 in the ceiling.

 

Prepared for blown-in fiberglass for the walls.

 Fiberglass is blown in and covered with paper.  The stuff gets everywhere! So make sure you put away everything beforehand. Our crew left quite a bit of slop for us to clean up after, but I think they were pretty thorough on the installation.

Artistic Views

Dylan's awesome photography of the views from the house.

Sealing the Envelope

 Rough electrical passed inspection. Getting ready for insulation. To create a very tight "envelope" around the house, we sealed all the penetrations to the outside to prevent air infiltration. We used spray foam around the windows and doors, exterior electrical boxes, gas line piping, electric supply lines, etc.

 The back of an exterior electric receptacle from the inside of the house.

 

We even caulked the sill plate at the slab floor and foamed around the back of all the electrical boxes on an exterior wall.