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A Half Project: End of Summer Update

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Documenting my attempt to cut my energy usage in half. Wednesday, September 21, 2011. End of Summer Update. This summer was a very good test of the changes I have made to reduce my energy usage. Although it was hot, it wasn't quite as bad as last year. The degree days show that it was well above average and slightly less than last year. I did make a few changes in addition to the changes I made earlier in the year that were detailed here. The end result of this is some excellent news! A 35 mpg RV Setup.

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Alt. Build Blog: Installing Large Size Sun Room Windows

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, February 10, 2014. Installing Large Size Sun Room Windows. After having built and lived in quite a few passive solar sun rooms over the last 40 years. I have come up with a good way to set the large double glazed glass units. That are commonly used for such rooms. About a year and a half ago we purchased a passive solar heated adobe fixer upper. And to do this we needed to cut out p...

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Alt. Build Blog: Tips On Building Dry Stack Stone Walls #7: More On Steps

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, March 31, 2014. Tips On Building Dry Stack Stone Walls #7: More On Steps. In the last post we looked at a set of steps with three treads:. Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #6: Steps. And this time let's look at a longer set of steps. Please refer to the previous post as some of the important fundamentals for steps. That I included there will not be repeated here. For a stairw...

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Alt. Build Blog: Building A Well House #4: Framing The Hip Roof

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, September 17, 2012. Building A Well House #4: Framing The Hip Roof. This is the 4th post in a series on building a well house,. And I hope you will look at the previous posts. To get up to speed on this project:. Building A Well House #1: Rubble Fill Foundation. Building A Well House #2: Dry Stack Cement Block. Building A Well House #3: More On Dry Stack Cement Block. The very top p...

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Alt. Build Blog: Building An Adobe Wall: #2 Getting Started

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, December 1, 2014. Building An Adobe Wall: #2 Getting Started. After the first post in this series. Where we looked at how to build the stone foundation for our adobe wall. We will now take a look at making the "gringo blocks",. And setting up our mud mixing area for making the adobe mortar that will be used with our bricks. All of the posts to date are:. But of course I have a diffe...

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Alt. Build Blog: Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #2: Getting Stone

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, February 24, 2014. Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #2: Getting Stone. In the previous post we took a look at the need for erosion control in our project area. And the tools that we would use in building our dry stack stone walls. The posts to date in this continuing series are:. Tips On Building Dry Stack Stone Walls #1: Project, Tools. To minimize disruption to the area.

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Alt. Build Blog: Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #6: Steps

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, March 24, 2014. Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #6: Steps. In this post I want to go into how I build stone steps in the landscape. As part of the dry stack stone walls that I have already shown. We will look at how I selected and installed the three steps you see above. For safety one should never attempt building steps, inside or out,. The angle formed by the riser and tre...

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aUTarKy in the UK: 1.2.1 – Tecniche orticole

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121 – Tecniche orticole. In questa pagina raccolgo tecniche orticole particolari non appartenenti all'universo sinergico. 1211 – Manca buona terra? Ecco come realizzare un orto di paglia (Nicola su Terranauta). Http:/ www.terranauta.it/a1102/vita in campagna/come creare un mini orto ce lo spiega tom sawyer.html. 1212 – L'orto “a quadretti”. Http:/ www.ortidipace.org/? 1213 – Orto “lasagna”: una brevissima introduzione di Mauri. 1215 – Orto “lasagna”: Nicola approfondisce la spiegazione. 12110 – Col...