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Yikes – It’s tall! ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOMAN BUILDS HER DREAM HOUSE – PART XIII
Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on October 5, 2011 – 12:02 pm -This post is in honor of the letter “Y” and part of Jenny Matlock’s Alphabet Thursday. For more “Y” posts, please click here http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/
This is the framework for the back of the house that looks out over the canyon. It will be all glass so this frame had to be constructed off site and then trucked in. Wowsa!
This will be the view out of the windows on the main floor in the great room
ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOMAN BUILDS HER DREAM HOUSE – XII
Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on September 28, 2011 – 12:01 pm -This post is in honor of the letter “X” and part of Jenny Matlock’s Alphabet Thursday. For more takes on the letter “x”, please click here http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/
So I hope you are ready for an update on the house, because here it is! I know that I am falling behind on my story (bad blogger), but I have been distracted with travel, food and wine! While I was running around the country, eating and drinking, progress was being made on the house. The next step was putting the forms in place so the concrete walls of the basement could be poured. Here’s what they looked like before they were put up…
and this is what it looked like after they were all up!
Onward and upward!!!
To be continued….
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Written by Rocky Mountain Woman on August 17, 2011 – 12:02 pm -This post is in honor of the letter “R” and part of Jenny Matlock’s Alphabet Thursday. For more rocking “r” posts, please click here http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/
Ahh, summer in the mountains…
I saw a plaque in a gift shop in Park City that said, “If you’re lucky enough to live in the mountains, you’re lucky enough.”
I felt that way during the summer of the build. The weather was spectacular, warm days, cool breezy mountain nights. My horses were back up on the property and seemed content to just hang out and smell the sage brush with me. The trailer was cramped, but not uncomfortable. It had air conditioning, but I rarely turned it on, the mountain breezes kept it cool inside.
Work was progressing on the house. There were lots of decisions to be made, one of which was what type of heating system to install. I opted for radiant heat because it’s more efficient than forced hot air heat and more comfortable. It’s more expensive to install, but since I didn’t need air conditioning (so didn’t need to install vents) and the house was too far out in the boonies to have natural gas and so had to be heated with propane (which is expensive), efficiency became more important than the extra cost.
So, the next step was to install the tubes that carry the hot water in the floors for the heating. First a grid was constructed.
Then a layer of concrete poured and the orange tubing that was to hold the hot water to heat the floors was laid in a winding pattern on the floor. There were about a dozen different zones so I could adjust the heat in different parts of the house to different temperatures.
after the piping was all laid, a thin layer of concrete was poured over the entire floor.
I hadn’t heard from Dick in weeks. I typically left for work before he got there and he was gone by the time I got home, so we didn’t have any interaction at all (yippee!) I just quietly went about my life. I fell into a routine of working, taking care of the horses, driving to Park City for showers (at the gym), food and laundry. Life was good.
To be continued…
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