!!! MOVING FORWARD !!!

June 22

A- We finally get the OK to bury the plumbing inside the house. We had a few minor fixes to the plumbing to bring it into code, add a 4" vent pipe here, drop to 2" pipe here, add a long-sweep wye for the washing machine, change a tiolet pipe to a longsweep, and thats that.

B- Now we can move forward. We were doing small jobs like some landscaping, we built two raised flower beds/vegetable garden, and a much larger though not as impressive garden elsewhere. We also threw in there a vacation of sorts to Washington DC, New York and an amusement park in Pennsylvania. All this while we waited for the OK.

June 28

A- !!! ELECTRICITY !!! We finally got our main power, 400Amps, hooked up to the house, we have two 200Amp Load Centers (Fuse Panels) to handle the load. One of our load centers is specificaly designed for use with a generator. When the power goes off we switch OFF the Main on the load center which then allows us to switch ON our Generator without any electricity running back up the line potentially injuring an electrical worker. Once we switch off all the fuses we wont need we can start the generator, and leave on whichever appliances (frige, freezer, radient heat system, ect.) we do need by turning on or off the fuse switches; so as not to overload the generator.

The green line is the buried cold water line to the secondary bathroom.

B- Everything not essential to the next step in the process has been removed from the house, some went to the greenhouse, which has plenty of space available, yet gets well over 120 degrees during the day, the rest went up to the shed which is nearly bursting at the seems.

C- Leveled the dirt floor so to have a 4 inch thick slab. used the laser level, shovels and the tractor to get the job done. Some of the in-floor plumbing is still visible above the dirt floor, it will be encased in the concrete though.

June 29

A- We are laying the reflective foil on the floor. This is a highly reflective material on one side, it replaces up to 2 inches of styrofoam, by reflecting the heat from the radient system in the concrete slab back up into the house, and blocking the cold from entering the slab. It is also a radon barrier.

B- We will be placing a layer of 6 mil plastic ontop of the reflective foil inorder to prevent the acids in the concrete from damaging the reflective surface, then ontop of the plastic will go the welded wire remesh, to help bond the concrete, and to zip tie the radiant pipes to it.