Comments on: Smooth Seams and White Walls

By: Jeremy Bell

Jeremy Bell — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:15:51 +0000

As for the exterior – the materials have been ordered and we’ll be starting on the cladding soon. Hopefully it’ll look a little less WWII ;)

By: Jeremy Bell

Jeremy Bell — Tue, 19 May 2009 00:14:26 +0000

Howdy Y’all – Indeed, the build is moving slower than I’d like… but what can you do? So long as it’s done correctly, I don’t mind a few delays.

As for the clerestory, we’d absolutely do it again. Granted, we haven’t moved into the house yet… so ask me again later. But it’s such an integral part of the design, I couldn’t imagine it not being there. It’s not just about the amount of light, but just the general openness of it all. Sure, there will be heat loss up there, but we’ll have a fan up there that’ll help circulate it (or so I hope). 2 of the windows also open, which will allow us to vent the heat in the summer months.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:21:54 +0000

Gee Marg,

You sound like you’re fun to be around… Building a house takes time.

Great job on the project. Things are coming along nicely.

Dan

By: David Salt

David Salt — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:55:12 +0000

David

What about the outside. It is starting to look a WWII site.

You are making good progress with the start of the painting phase.

We need another video. How about a “walk-through” to show the completion stages.

Keep going

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:32:57 +0000

Ryan,

Wasn’t suggesting something so ludicrous of course. Just the way the light is being let in…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:57:05 +0000

Scott,

Building a box with no windows would also save alot in cost, maintenance and heat loss/gain, but then you would be living in a box with no windows.

By: Marg

Marg — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:43:58 +0000

Honestly. This must be the SLOWEST build ever.
I’ve done something similar and if it had taken this long I would have considered it a failure.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:29:32 +0000

I’ve always been curious if you would you do the celestory again if you could do it all over again.

It seems like it will result in a lot of heat loss in the winter (unless you have super-high R-value windows, which you don’t. What are they R-3 to R-6 or so?) and and cause a lot of heat gain in the summer sticking up there with windows on all four sides. The main feature of it appears to be the windows and the benefit of them is that they let sunlight in, but that could have been done with skylights, which would have been less expensive than all those windows. Also, they would have been easier to install than building that entire celestory and installing all the windows, not to mention way less maintenance to just have one flat roof with skylights in it.