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Green Gate Guest House: Solar Sundays Part VIII- getting closer!
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Green Gate Guest House. Life in the Great North and Beyond. Sunday, October 17, 2010. Solar Sundays Part VIII- getting closer! Warning* - this post is a lengthy, detailed description intended primarily for solar geeks. Proceed at your own risk. Stamped plates so decided to buy them instead. These plates are made with an over sized. Normally, the absorber plates are fastened to the plywood backing of the collector framework, sandwiching the copper tubing in between. However, because I wanted a modular...
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Green Gate Guest House: The cargo container gets an addition.
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Green Gate Guest House. Life in the Great North and Beyond. Sunday, August 22, 2010. The cargo container gets an addition. As the barn project nears completion, I won't be able to use it for my workshop much longer- basically, I'm being evicted! So I built a shed off the north side of the cargo container using all the lumber salvaged from our recent deconstruction projects. To keep it qualified as a. The materials yet again. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). AFM Paints and Finishes. Green Gate Guest Ho...
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Green Gate Guest House: March 2011
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Green Gate Guest House. Life in the Great North and Beyond. Friday, March 11, 2011. And burning mental calories on the stairmaster, it seemed the best way to do it was to form the railing in place. So, the riser boards were removed and studs were lag-screwed to the framing to create an appropriate form for the railing path. Then, using every clamp in the arsenal, I glue-laminated maple strips like this:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). We will change for the better or be changed for the worse.". Passive Hous...
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Green Gate Guest House: Heavy treading on the staircase.
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Green Gate Guest House. Life in the Great North and Beyond. Monday, November 01, 2010. Heavy treading on the staircase. Since the stair-building process has become a multi-year saga, let's recap. Starting with the timber-framed opening in 2009, I framed the curving staircase and built a border on the wall side using mostly reclaimed lumber and wainscotting. I milled slabs for the stair treads from some maple logs (these were from overgrown trees removed from the city streets in our nearby town). Recycled...
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Green Gate Guest House: Running on the sun.
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Green Gate Guest House. Life in the Great North and Beyond. Sunday, February 20, 2011. Running on the sun. The mega solar array has been active for over a month now and I am pleased to report that the everything has been working very well. I designed the barn foundation as a. High mass sand bed storage system,. Capable of receiving the heat from the solar collectors during the day, storing it in the concrete slab/underslab sand bed, and slowly releasing the built-up heat to the living space. Normally, hy...
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Green Gate Guest House: April 2011
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Green Gate Guest House. Life in the Great North and Beyond. Friday, April 15, 2011. As I wrap up the big projects in the barn and the vision of a grand opening appears on the horizon, it is time to start advertising more aggressively. We recently launched a new website at www.greengateguesthouse.com. So please check us out. The blog has been incorporated into our new site, so future updates can be found there instead of here. Please link up if you're interested! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Remodel Green:...
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Green Gate Guest House: Solar Sundays- Part IV
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Green Gate Guest House. Life in the Great North and Beyond. Monday, May 24, 2010. Solar Sundays- Part IV. Then I extended the main line to the first two of our four raised bed gardens. The dump loop and each of the raised bed loops have their own shutoff valve so I can direct the heat wherever it is needed. On a steamy day with the temp in the high 80s, I finally charged the system with fluid and flipped the switch- the heat is pumping through the soil and everything seems to be working well so far!
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Green Gate Guest House: Moving on...
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Green Gate Guest House. Life in the Great North and Beyond. Friday, April 15, 2011. As I wrap up the big projects in the barn and the vision of a grand opening appears on the horizon, it is time to start advertising more aggressively. We recently launched a new website at www.greengateguesthouse.com. So please check us out. The blog has been incorporated into our new site, so future updates can be found there instead of here. Please link up if you're interested! It looks like everything is going well.
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Green Gate Guest House: Homegrown furniture.
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Green Gate Guest House. Life in the Great North and Beyond. Thursday, April 01, 2010. I don't yet have the skills to build furniture, but i'm not too bad at timber framing and we still have piles of barn timbers.so I upcycled them into this post-and-beam bed frame. The joints are all mortise and tenon and it is quite solid, but I decided to add metal brackets on the inside corners for good measure- so total project cost was about $5! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). AFM Paints and Finishes. Navy Demon...
