There hasn’t been much progress in the “green” department. We’re just painting and cleaning forever, and D has installed the T&G bedroom ceiling.
But, this week, John the electrician has been wiring the studio building, which readers will recall has been formed with Logix insulated concrete forms. There are 3 inches of styrofoam on the outside and on the inside walls.
So, the usual installation methods don’t work. Rather, John has become a styrofoam sculptor, carving out the shapes of the fixtures, affixing the wires somehow, then covering up the work with new styrofoam.
100 amp panel just for the studio
carved styrofoam channel for wire
Single or double wires just sit there. More wires in a channel need to be affixed to wood.
Then a new styrofoam strip packs the cavity to keep the wires out of harm's way (wall finish)
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Can you comment on the massive big beam in the top photo? Also, any advances on the rooftop garden?
-t
The massive beam is required to support the heavy roof with 17″ or so of wet soil on top. I’m saving the rooftop garden structure until all the layers have been completed. Then, I’ll do a photo essay posting.
It’s interesting that neither I nor the engineer could find specs for a rooftop garden. He figured out the weight load, and I did research as best I could for waterproofing/drainage/landscape cloth. But most green roofs are designed to accommodate 3 or 4″ of soil, just enough to grow xeriscape (grasses and drought-resistant ground cover). A kitchen garden on the roof is quite a different story.
I hope to be able to report soon.
Are you going to have raised garden beds with walkways large enough for a gardening stool (thinking ahead a decade or so…) on your roof garden. Easier to reach, cuts out kneeling in later years. Looking forward to that particular photo journal.
Yes, Joy, raised garden beds about 4′ wide with 2′ wide pathways between. No kneeling in our plans!
Good planning. Kneeling is tough – but the getting up again – ha! Takes planning. Never would have thought about this when I was ‘younger’.
No kneeling except to pray for good weather for the garden and that it doesn’t all collapse under, say, a snow load.
Shoveling flat surfaces in your future D.