Radiant floor tiubing going down

The HVAC guys are laying the radiant tubes in the lower level. It looks like we are getting close to finishing soon, and hopefully we will have the slab poured sometime this week.

Here is the inspector checking out the tubes. The 12" on center underneath the stairs














Tubes in Hailes room and the bathroom. It's coming along with just a little bit left.














This is the master bedroom...














The little remaining portion... Rec room and laundry room..

Installing the Insulation for radiant heat

The work continues... Today we spent lots of energy getting the floor ready for the radiant tubing. We changed the order of installation a bit to make things work... We have lots of plumbing pipes in the ground so we have to move things around.. The foam is going down first and even though that would have been good for vapor barrier, because of county requirements for Radon mitigation, we will put a VP on top.














The first foam pieces going in... See the sand we used to provide a level surface for the foam so that it does not break up.














Mess of pumping pipes... This is the kids bath room with Haile's room.














About 1/2 way done ..














Rob is trying to keep the area's clean to make sure we dont damage the foam too much.

Windows windows... more windows...

The installation continues with most of the fixed windows and slider doors installed. The upstairs is complete except for the two corner windows... and the lower lever is also near completion. We are going to place the foam to be able to get the radiant heat tubing down next week.

The front with most of the windows... The flashing is not completed but you get a good sense of how the house is going to look.
















Another view of the front, including the garage and above the garage which is the kitchen windows...














The back with the main floor slides in place... I love the 8 foot height of the doors, but they are definitely heavy..














The south side of the house with the bedroom and bath windows in place.

Windows going in...

So finally we have our windows getting installed....

There are a couple of errors and we definitely have to talk about flashing properly, but overall I am happy with the windows and now even less worried with how to finish the inside.

First window going in....














Here is the look of the new front door and facade..














A close up of the windows... I think the color looks good...














This is from the back....














I loved the sunset...

Plumbing Rough In Pics...

The plumbing roughin is nearly complete today... I wanted to show it all done but snow tomorrow...















This is the main sewer line, picking up the master in the back as well as the rest of the lower floor.














This is a shot from where the master will be.














This is the wall where the main equipment room and the Media room will be..














So here is where we goofed up and not installed rigid foam on the outside of the walls especially below ground... I am really thinking of getting sosmeone to dig around the foundation to allow us to put 2 inches of foam...

Progress is slow

Well no new pictures to post right now... The house is getting its basics with plumbers currently working on the ground level rough in... We will need to worry about the next steps, which is insulating the floor and the walls, getting the radiant in place and then pouring the slabs...

Stay tuned...