Heat Tube and Other Stuff

Fun week. When we arrived on Monday we found our cupola enjoying a warm overcast day. This came off of one of the older buildings at Macalester College. My wife saw a deal on a morning TV show about it and said that she thought it’d look good on our house. I and architects agreed. We’re excited that we were able to get it. Many thanks to Bob (The Builder)™ for checking it out for us and pronouncing it sound enough to work. Our architects Jeff & TJ had designed a bell cupola for over our garage and when we went to look at this one it was within inches of being the same size. Can’t wait to see it on our roof.

They’d had to cut out the concrete here for the steel beam that supports the porch fireplace and now it’s all patched. This will soon get some waterproofing.

Windows!

Concrete folks leveled out the basement and installed rigid foam insulation. Hopefully they’ll be able to pour the basement slab next week.

Justin and Kevin planning their attack for building the lower part of the main stairway. I was sorry to see that my goat ramp was gone and would not be a permanent part of our house.

Kind of looks like an abandoned building with all of the weeds.

Different trusses had to be made for a couple of places.

Yes, the windows! They’ve also furred out the wall to create a shade pocket above the windows. Note the reinforcing in the ceiling above. This is one well-built house. 

A nice bikeway – a key bit of why we purchased where we did. Here we are just getting back from having ridden to dinner which is in the village about 1.7 miles behind us. My wife is riding her Workcycles Gr8, her favorite bike.

Select Mechanical installing the tubing for the in-floor hydronic heat in the basement. A warm floor makes a big difference during cold Minnesota winters. These guys were pretty meticulous in making sure everything was as it should be.