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James Rowley – Hammond Forever House
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Turning a beloved heritage house into the low energy home of our dreams. Maple Ridge, BC. James lives in Maple Ridge BC with his beautiful wife, Leanne Koehn, and their two beautiful young children in their beautiful house. He studied Science and English Literature at the University of British Columbia where he met Leanne. He also studied acting for a while at Studio 58 in Vancouver. He works as a teacher of English to new immigrants and, sometimes, as a stage actor and film and TV puppeteer. That is the...
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Climate Change – Hammond Forever House
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Turning a beloved heritage house into the low energy home of our dreams. Maple Ridge, BC. Working with the Government. Does Donald Trump’s victory mean the end of Climate Action in the United States? Does it mean the end of the Paris Accord? Does it really mean that half of the American people think that Climate Change is a hoax? Some of them, maybe…. I suspect they are mostly sick of having it pushed in their faces as if its their individual problem to solve. Leanne and I can relate. The truth is that t...
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Super Thick Wall – Hammond Forever House
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Turning a beloved heritage house into the low energy home of our dreams. Maple Ridge, BC. Working with the Government. I haven’t made a time-lapse movie in a while. I made this one on Thursday afternoon working in the basement. It’s important because I can finally show you what is going into those walls. In this first video you can see me struggle to get the top-plate in above the 2X4 stud wall I built and then start insulating behind it. I framed the interior wall on May 10th. Here is a play-by-play:.
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Construction – Hammond Forever House
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Turning a beloved heritage house into the low energy home of our dreams. Maple Ridge, BC. Time-lapse Bathroom Floor Radiant Heating pipes. When I finally have time to clear Leanne’s computer enough to download all the photos and videos I’ve been taking for the last six months, half of the posts are going to be gratitude posts. While we wait for that day to arrive, here is a short time-lapse video that I took on my iPhone. The next step was to cover the pipes with sand mixed with cement and then tile it.
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Insulation Sketch – Hammond Forever House
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Turning a beloved heritage house into the low energy home of our dreams. Maple Ridge, BC. Working with the Government. Ever since the spray foam was…installed? Is that the word? Anyway, ever since then, we have been working flat out roughing in electrical, building interior walls, building the basement stairs, putting a skin on the outside of the house and on and on. A Heath-loss calculation is not something I can do, so I asked Richard from Meadowridge Plumbing to get one done. I think that these calcul...
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Goodbye sneaky cupboard – Hammond Forever House
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Turning a beloved heritage house into the low energy home of our dreams. Maple Ridge, BC. On the landing of the stairs heading to and from the kids bedrooms on the top floor is a vent. It looks like this. Air vent on the landing. It used to be connected the forced air furnace and it would blow warm air up the staircase. I suppose because there was no cold air return and the air already up there had no easy way to get down, the heat never seemed to reach the bedrooms. Could it be a storage hatch? With the...
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Electric Love – Hammond Forever House
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Turning a beloved heritage house into the low energy home of our dreams. Maple Ridge, BC. Working with the Government. When I met Leanne at UBC in 1996, I didn’t know I would end up marrying her and having two amazing kids with her. And I could never have dreamed that she would be so good at wiring a house! Before: Leanne shows you her Dad’s sketch of what connections need to be made in them there switch boxes. There is no way we could afford to pay Jim to do all this stuff. Posted by James Rowley. Notif...
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DSC04347 – Hammond Forever House
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Turning a beloved heritage house into the low energy home of our dreams. Maple Ridge, BC. Posted by James Rowley. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You may use these. A href= title= abbr title= acronym title= b blockquote cite= cite code del datetime= em i q cite= s strike strong. Notify me of new posts by email. About James and Leanne and HFH. The Good Life - the Green Life. A film about what it means to live a good, green life at the climate crossroads. Light House Sustainable Building Centre.
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DSC04348 – Hammond Forever House
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Turning a beloved heritage house into the low energy home of our dreams. Maple Ridge, BC. Posted by James Rowley. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You may use these. A href= title= abbr title= acronym title= b blockquote cite= cite code del datetime= em i q cite= s strike strong. Notify me of new posts by email. About James and Leanne and HFH. The Good Life - the Green Life. A film about what it means to live a good, green life at the climate crossroads. Light House Sustainable Building Centre.
