At Home In The Woods

[brin]

Obed, You may have already considered this but when we built our house with a daylight basement we found very quickly that we needed a dehumidifier...We bought an LG dehumidifier and have had no problems since but without it we were starting to see small specs of mold on sheetrock and wood after a month or so...and we have a garage door , people door and window down there but still had the problem since it is not served by the Heat Pump.

 

[bdeboer]

In addition, my wife asked the building commisisoner if we had to have garage doors installed for the OC and he said yes. I can't see why garage doors have to be installed. What if we didn't want garage doors at all? So what? How is that a safety issue or anything else that matters? We just found out that our 10 foot wide garage door will have to be ordered; it's not in stock locally so we may have a delay getting the OC because of it.

Obed

If you have a deadbolt type lock on the entry door from the gararge to the house, ask if that is sufficient.

 

[Obed]

Obed,

Where we live in NW Georgia we have a lot of sediment in our water. For several years we used a sediment filter with pretty large cartridges. I finally got tired of changing them and we had a self back flushing sediment filter in. It is maintenance free and it does a great job. It basically uses a water softener tank and head but instead of the resin beads it has several layers of decreasing size aggregate in it. It back flushes about 80 to 100 gallons every 4th day. If you go that route I suggest you do not flush it through the septic.

Russ

Russ,
That sounds interesting. Can you give me a MFG and model of your filter equipment?
Thanks for the idea,
Obed

 

[Obed]

Obed, You may have already considered this but when we built our house with a daylight basement we found very quickly that we needed a dehumidifier...We bought an LG dehumidifier and have had no problems since but without it we were starting to see small specs of mold on sheetrock and wood after a month or so...and we have a garage door , people door and window down there but still had the problem since it is not served by the Heat Pump.

Bob,
Yes, we have plans for a dehumidifier. We have an electrical outlet and a floor drain at the spot where the dehumidifier will go. We just haven't gotten around to buying one. There seems to be lots of choices and we don't really know what we should get.

Obed

 

[uzi9mm]

nice job....looks great.

 

[Obed]

Today the H&A guy came and did some work. He raised the pipe that runs through the wall and will connect to the gas meter for about $150. That was much better than the 6 hours he muttered earlier.

Here's the newly raised gas pipe in the wall.

We now have plenty of room to raise the grade.

 

[Obed]

Here's my slop sink in the basement. The countertop, faucet, and sink were free. The countertop people had some used countertops and sinks sitting around from remodeling jobs they had done.

I wish we had better planned the drain for this sink. Unfortunately this sink drains to the septic tank. We put 3 floor drains in the basement for the basement laundry, H&A system drain, water heater drain, and dehumidifier drain. The floor drains do not drain to the septic but instead drain down the hill behind the house. I really wish my slop sink drained to the floor drains and not the septic. I could imagine cleaning stuff in that sink that I don't want to end up in the septic tank.

I might end up running a drain pipe above the concrete and out the exterior wall shown in the picture and run a drain pipe down the hill specifically for this sink. I'll have to get the wife to ok this though because the pipe would exit the house above ground and be visible from the outside (i.e. ugly). That wouldn't bother me; this end of the house would not be visible to most visitors.

 

[Obed]

Here's a late change the wife made. If you look up in ceiling trusses, you can see the duct for the range hood that vents to the outside. Originally, it was planned that the vertical portion of the duct that runs from the range vent to the ceiling trusses would pass through the cabinets over the range hood. Well, the wife decided she wanted to reclaim for kitchen storage use the cabinet space above the range hood. So instead of running through the cabinets, the vertical portion of the duct will run through this newly framed duct space in the garage. This picture shows the same area from the kitchen side of the wall.

The drywall guy finished covering the kitchen hood ductwork that runs up to the ceiling in the garage area.

 

[Obed]

Painting work continued today. All the doors have been taken off the hinges and will be painted while they are not hung in the door frames. All the edges of the doors must be painted in order not void the manufacturer's warrantee. I assume that leaving any of the edges unpainted could all moisture inside the door that could lead to warping.

Here are the doors after they were painted.

 

[Obed]

Countertops