Wednesday 20 July 2011

More Framing

It has been a while since the last post but essentially just more framing going on.  Thought I would post now as we started the roof and it seemed like a mini milestone.  I didn't post many of the details that

Monday 11 July 2011

Floor joists completed, rammed earth wall forms up (get ramming)

Rammed Earth form set up.  Need to do 3 and a bit of these walls.  The wall is 3 feet wide total.  18" of rammed earth on the inside, 8" of EPS foam insulation in the middle and 10" of rammed earth on the outside.  Just about everyone that has seen the form so far thinks I am even crazier than when they saw the truss walls.  ~16 cu yards of compacted dirt and should compress approx. 100% therefore will need 32 cu. yards. 

Framing on first floor is now fully completed and sheathing is going on.

Roof trusses nearly complete (are complete at time of this posting, will add more photos tomorrow).  You can see the chase for the 8" ducting I added near the middle of the floor joist (the square without a diagonal brace).   Inside main floor walls are essentially complete.

Top view of open web floor joists.

Tuesday 5 July 2011

More Framing

Again, not continuously updating but will try not to leave anything out.  A lot of pictures below that