With the structure of the house firmly in place it is time to start working “behind the walls”. When you stop to think about it, you regularly see only two surfaces in your home: the inside and the outside. It can be surprising to realize that almost everything that makes a home function is happening [...]
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Now that we have the foundation in place it is time to move on to constructing the exterior walls of Columbia City Green. To do this let’s first step back for just a moment to talk about how it is that we will connect the framing to the foundation.
The most common method is to [...]
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Building a modern, efficient, environmentally aware home starts much like any other; with the foundation. We can all envision a typical foundation wall: Plywood forms are built, rebar is placed within these forms that are then filled with concrete, and then the forms are removed; revealing the walls that will support the tons of building [...]
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As we get underway following the construction of ‘Columbia City Green’; two homes being built in Southeast Seattle it seemed appropriate to start with the way in which we will follow their progress. In real-time we pick up about 4 months away from completion, but so much important stuff has already happened to this point that [...]
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We are looking forward to taking a closer look at this Built Green 4-Star and Energy Star home this next Saturday, January 10th. Our hope for these tours is that by having a chance to see a wide variety of green building materials at ecoHAUS and then seeing them in a home setting it will [...]
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