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Framing the exterior wall trusses - part 4 - the forgotten parts.
This is essentially the final part of my series of posts detailing the framing of the exterior wall trusses - there may be a few revisits of specific things in the future. Part 4 is a short post on how...
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Framing the sunroom - part 1.
The first major goal for the spring of 2012 was to frame the attached sunroom on the south wall of the house. There are a number of factors that led me to build the sunroom in the way that I have...
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The cistern - insulation and top access.
Since I still haven't had a chance to draw up the details I promised in "Framing the sunroom - part 1", I thought I'd take a little detour with this post and take another look at the cistern. Since I...
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Framing the sunroom - part 1 revisited.
I finally managed to add some sunroom details to the "details" section the other night so I thought it might be helpful to revisit "Framing the sunroom - part 1" and relate the new sketch to some of my...
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Just a note to say that I am having some issues with Blogger at the moment. After an unsucessful attempt at uploading a new detail, I managed to lose the other detail I uploaded last week...Problem...
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Framing the sunroom - part 1 revisted... again.
In the same vein as my last post, this post is in response to another new detail - at the sunroom [exterior] wall top and bottom plates.There was just a little more I wanted to show regarding one of...
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Framing the sunroom - part 2.
In part 1, I layed out the more important design considerations of the sunroom. Now, in part 2, I'll get on with some of the practical aspects. Back in spring, I was putting a "push on" to get the...
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Framing the sunroom - part 3.
Carrying on from my last post, this post will cover the remainder of the framing details for the sunroom.Looking east over the roof joists towards the leafless trees of the Slate River Valley in May.In...
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So long neoprene.
My last post ended with a photo of some electrical conduit sticking out from a wall. My original plan for air sealing these types of penetrations was going to be to stretch a square of neoprene rubber...
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Touchin' base.
I've been having a real tough time keeping up with my blogging duties lately - sorry about that. The good news is, however, that I have been busy making progress on this project. I had the last three...
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The joy of insulating.
I've decided to take a break from posting on topics in [quasi] chronological order. To that end, I think I'll get into how I've been insulating the exterior walls of this house. Overall, I've been...
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Team Typar!
I mentioned in my last post that one of the "real world" strategic difficulties I've had to deal with is how to go about insulating the wall one portion at a time, sometimes with weeks in between each...
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Windows - finally.
Despite the intensity of the experience, there have been very few times where I actually felt any anxiety about any particular aspect of this project. One of those aspects was not having a roof....
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Resurrecting some fun from the past.
I was doing some cleaning up on my computer and I came across a couple of old blog posts that I had written for another blog I had started years ago. I never really did much of anything with the old...
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"Coolth" storage.
Here in Northwest Ontario, we've had quite a mild fall. About a week or two ago the temperatures started to dip down to something closer to what would normally be expected for this time of year - daily...
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The "holidays"... yeesh.
I'm done promising to follow any kind of regular posting schedule. Unfortunately, since this blog is just a sort of "hobby" for me, there are times when I just can't get enough time in to adhere to a...
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Another new year... 2013.
Just a quick hello to start off 2013 (before I get called to the table for pancakes). I hope everyone enjoyed their New Year's Eve celebrations and that nobody is suffering too much from any...
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Ventilation duct supports.
In an earlier post, I briefly described some ventilation duct supports that I needed to fabricate. I had four supports to make, two for the HRV (one for the intake vent and one for the exhaust vent),...
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Spring is here... sort of.
Spring is here but it has been hard to tell so far. The strength of the sun is making itself felt when it's out, but it hasn't been out much. Despite the weather, I have been outside and busy working...
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Catching up with those chickens.
In my last post (more than three months ago already) I touched on how we had decided to get ourselves some laying hens. I also touched on how I was going to have to scramble to get their coop finished...
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Flashing windows - don't worry, I keep my clothes on.
It was almost a full year ago that I described the installation of some of our windows in an earlier blog post. Well, I guess it's about time I described how I set up the window openings and flashing...
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Soffit work - or, why I've been having to see a chiropractor.
In an earlier post, I briefly discussed some of the work I had begun on the exterior soffit. I will now elaborate on that work "below the fold".A section of completed soffit over the main entry. I did...
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The christmas gift that keeps on giving - an airtight ceiling.
After the first week of December, Northwest Ontario was put in a deep-freeze (check out those daily mean temps). The early arrival of such extreme cold made the completion of the ceiling assembly in...
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It lives!
Howdy, blog-readers. After a protracted hiatus, I have returned to dip my toe once more into the inter-web's murky currents. Much has transpired with this house project over the almost 2.5 (!) years...
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A proper chimney - part 1
I'm choosing the chimney as my starting point for getting back into more detailed construction-related posts since it seems to follow nicely from where I left off with a post about the air-tight...
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