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August 14, 2006

Construction Daily

Today the foundation crew removed the aluminum panels from the poured wall. Seems like the concrete set up really fast, since it was just poured on Friday, but in truth the panels could have come off on Saturday no problem. The HGTV crew wanted Shannon and I to be there when the panels came off, so we were happy to oblige as we wanted to see it happen. Then we had a meeting with the heating/air conditioning subcontractor (Dana) and the plumber. Lots of decisions have to be made between these two subs, as their systems are critical to the comfort of the home, but the installations can have many conflicts.

As it turned out, we are going to have to move our washer and dryer stacks out of the mudroom into the storage closet to make room for the gas furnace and main duct work. Another decision we had to make is where to put the plumbing vents (the white tubes you sometimes see sticking out of the ceiling) The issue arose in that there are no enclosed walls in the upper floors in which to conceal the PVC vents, thus we decided to cut channels into the structural insulated panels on the outer wall to insert the vents.

There is still a big issue remaining in figuring out where to put the air conditioning returns for the upper floors, but I have some ideas I'll be working out with Dana and the Hawes team. The main problem is that we don't want exposed duct work in the tasting room, so we're having to hide everything in the catwalk floor. But since air will take the path of least resistance, it makes it impractical to run the duct up one side, as that side would always be hotter/cooler than the other side since the air would mostly come out the registers closer to the main trunk rather than dividing evenly across the whole floor. Good times...

Posted by Stephen at August 14, 2006 11:33 PM