Who's been playing with the rainstick again? You're grounded!

Two blog posts in such a short time frame! What is this madness?! You can pretty much tell which days I get leave the drugs behind and rejoin the real world (if ever so briefly). These are the days I get to immerse myself in blogging fun. Gosh, that probably sounds really boring to everyone but me. 


Anyway, Noel picked a good day to work because this was truly a day for ducks. I met Indy down at the house site after he's spent a week recovering from the flu and food poisoning. Sounds miserable, doesn't it? Anyway, he's probably ten pounds lighter and good as new. He and I walked through the house and addressed a few issues such as lowering the ceiling in Noel's shower from 9' to 7', where to place the radiant flooring in the master bathroom (and whether to use radiant line with liquid concrete or a radiant floor mat), and insulation options for the house among other things. The insulation is an interesting issue. Indy has always used blown cellulose insulation; however, he has just acquired a foam machine (you know, for sprayed foam insulation) and wants to use our house as a guinea pig. Typically, foam is double the price of cellulose; however, Indy has proposed that if we let him play with this spray foam machine in our house he will price it very close to the price of cellulose. Foam in the walls yields and R-factor of 30 versus cellulose with an R-factor of 19. Huge difference! A combination of foam insulation, 2x6 walls, and the geothermal system would yield a minimal energy bill.


Fiber cement siding is beginning to appear on our garage, and we couldn't be happier. It looks great! I gave Indy three exterior color swatches for the house and discussed framing around the exterior windows. Seriously, would you really contemplate framing around exterior windows on any other day. It's kind of like planning a wedding. So many details, it can get ridiculous really. 

Our house is getting some clothes!

Our fiber cement siding is CertainTeed Weatherboard with a wood grain detail. It looks awesome! And it's green!!

Watson Metals out of Manchester showed up Monday to cut and form our roof. Evidently, the company appears on-site with a long roll of metal and a machine that forms and cuts the sheets to fit the house. So we have some metal that will one day be our roof, but we also have some crappy weather that isn't conducive to roofing a house. Rain, rain, go away...and don't come back as snow either, please.

A close-up of our heavy metal roof. Rock on!

And more of our roof.

The plumbing rough-in is complete. Many thanks to our plumber, David from Cloudy Suds (yes, that is the name of his business and is a parody on the last names of the two owners). Also, many thanks to Stroops out of Tullahoma for getting our upstairs geothermal heating/cooling unit installed today.

Our parting shot...many thanks, Daddy, for being so bored that you swept up all the construction debris in our house. Your retirement benefits everybody. Are you sure you want to go back to work?