{"id":643,"date":"2015-11-01T13:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T13:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/?p=643"},"modified":"2015-11-02T00:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T00:30:30","slug":"fall-has-arrived-in-carlisle-and-progress-is-continuing-on-my-house-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/2015\/11\/01\/fall-has-arrived-in-carlisle-and-progress-is-continuing-on-my-house-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall has arrived in Carlisle and progress is continuing on my house project"},"content":{"rendered":"

edit at 6pm – added Geothermal details at the bottom of the post<\/em><\/p>\n

I have been doing some work travel and so it is has been a couple of weeks since any post here. \u00a0Fall has arrived in a definite way –\u00a0\u00a0it got very windy last week and\u00a0a\u00a0majority of the trees are now pretty bare as you can see here the maple next to the big white pine at the end of my driveway is still hanging on – but winter is coming!<\/p>\n

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Not much of the fall leaves are still on the trees here in Carlisle<\/p><\/div>\n

Lots and lots of progress at the house construction site – my Dad has been over taking pictures and talking to Paul Hebert and his team, so I have some shots to share from across the last few weeks and some we took yesterday. \u00a0 When my Dad and I were there yesterday, Paul was there with his mechanic working on some of the equipment. \u00a0Apparently we have the electrical inspection(s) complete to the point where NSTAR\/Eversource can connect live power to the house – which is great – assuming we can find them and actually get them to show up.<\/p>\n

We talked about the grade of the carport and workshop floor, the patio entrance ramp and some other things – including the very, very neat air pressure valves he is using as end blockers on the vents for the dryer, the bathroom fans and the kitchen venting. \u00a0He is running hard tin ducting either under the floor or in the ceiling trusses out under the house at the pilings or along the exterior wall by the bedrooms under the roof – all to minimize the number of roof piercings. \u00a0It is a very neat set of solutions.<\/p>\n

Paul also told us that he hopes to have the pad built in the next week or two for the generator and the propane tanks.<\/p>\n

Finally we talked through a lot of stuff about the custom work with the aluminum i-beam for the kitchen island. \u00a0A friend of my Dad’s has agreed to do the welding and machine work for us – we agreed that we would wait and do final measurements from the cabinets themselves.<\/p>\n

Apparently some portion of the design team came by last week from Deck \/ Acorn and they were VERY pleased with what they saw – they had a lot of questions for Paul regarding some of the product and finish details he has been applying to the house – the house is getting more and more interesting to a lot of people!<\/p>\n

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