I know I have been slack about updating the website this last month!! Curt has been super super busy editing a show that needs to be out the door right away, so since we have the roof on the house needed to take back burner for a while! We still managed to make headway the past few weeks and this is what we got done, we covered over our water and electrical pipes coming up to the house since they needed to be buried 18 inches before it gets cold out! We will be building a wooden walkway from the driveway up to the door covering where the pipes are buried.. We also had to get all the soffitts and final cob bits done before we pulled down the scaffolding that ran through the window frames. Today was the day to install the windows.. We ordered our windows from out east from a company called Accurate Dorwin, they manufacture incredibly energy efficient windows designed specifically for green building and passive solar homes.
I can’t tell you how happy I am to have the windows up!!
You can see along the front where we have kept one window out and framed right down to the ground, this was for ease of getting the materials into the house, once the cob floor is done that will be cobbed and framed for the window to go in. That window sits right in front of my kitchen sink ![]()
We have a reclaimed cedar door for one of our exterior doors and are still on the search for one more. Once those are in we are considered at “lock up” stage..
Next up is cob floor.. we will be laying the rigid insulation which the hydronic tubes will pin to, then our 4 inch cob floor will go in, so so exciting!!
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Our rough plumbing has gone in under the floor and we had our inspection and it passed. So we are good to go with laying insulation and hydronic tubes then our earthen floor!
Our greywater has been plumbed separate from the blackwater (toilet). We have the kitchen sink, shower, bathroom, vanity and washing machine plumbed through the greywater system. It runs out of the building separately and then has a 3 way diverter valve that makes it possible to run the greywater either into the septic field or into a separate greywater system for subsurface irrigation etc. Here are some pictures ![]()