Earth Tubes, Insulation, AND Grass on the South Slope

Last week, Danny dug a ditch along the North side of the house.  This was to help us locate the earth tubes that exit from under the house.  We did locate enough of them to start work on extending them out into the woods - underground. Monday, Brad, Chris and Danny started digging, and running pipe to our heat-exchanger.  Unfortunately, we got 22 degree fittings and they want 45 degree fittings, so we have to work around that availability problem. Today Deondre has arrived and is helping Bill put in underground support structure for the posts that will support our deck/balcony.  So here are some pictures of that progress.

The earth tube from the West Annex on the right, from the living room on the left

Chris gluing pipes at heat exchanger entrance

 The inside work - insulation and drywall - is of less priority than the earth tubes at this time, but it has progressed since my last update.  We are working on the first floor walls. We have placed the drywall on the walls in the kitchen and on the walls in one of the bedrooms and some other areas, such as those that have curvature.  The second floor library walls have drywall and some of the bedrooms' walls also.  We are saving the spackling compound and sanding for another day(s). 

Blocking in place in kitchen wall

Insulation in place in main kitchen wall

Drywall in place on kitchen wall

 

The other kitchen wall

And we have grass growing on the South Slope.