Early Morning and work continues on wrapping the front posts in hardie. The green areas will eventually be covered in white local limestone.
Compare to two days ago and it is obvious how much work has been completed. These guys are moving fast.
Notice the ceiling is not covered, but will be worked on today.
View down the East side of the house
View down the North or back side of the house. These posts will also be wrapped with Hardie and the ceiling of the porch covered with Hardie.
This is the wall between the Garage and the envelope of the house. I had to insist on putting 1 inch of foam (DOW blue board) to insulate from the heat of the West-facing Garage. We ran out of the Green Wall ZIP so had to order more since I wanted this wall to emulate the outside walls which have ZIP System R-6 which was special ordered with 1-inch of foam attached to the 7/16 OSB which has a special air/water barrier sprayed on it.
View from the West side looking into the Garage
This is a very important measurement of the energy efficiency of the windows. This sticker is for the casement windows that open. The U factor of 0.17 is the overall measurement of insulating including the frame. The lower the better. The SHGC is also an important measurement of how much heat is allowed to pass through the glass from direct sun. Up North, they want the warming from the Sun. Down here in Texas, we don't want the heat but also don't want the windows to be dark..so the Visible Transmittance has to be balanced as well.
This sticker shows better measurements but the difference is this is for the fixed portion of the bank of windows. Again, a trade off that I tried to balance for the times in the "shoulder seasons" when we want to open the windows.
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