Foundation Set
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Moving along well for now. Footer drains and backfill this week, followed by stacking the basement walls. Weather permitting, we may pour the basement this week.
It was Florida hot this week. The guys would be on site at 0600 and wrapping up around noon. The worst of the heat should be over for now, but that sun is still pretty intense. We'll have a couple of pop-up canopies in there for shade.
There was a pretty good video that dropped last week about using a chilled-water air handler and some of the advantages. It's not a great video in terms of camera work or audio, and the HVAC presenter kept talking to the camera, but the information was solid. I was surprised at the small size of the air handler, but the big takeaway was the value of chilled water as a medium for dehumidification.
Because the heat pump can control the temperature of the water and the air handler has a speed for dehumidification, it can run for a long time without significantly (undesirably) cooling the house, and achieve a great deal of dehumidification, without dumping sensible heat into the house as a result. (You're dumping it outdoors at the condenser.)
I wondered if we might be able to get away from a whole-home dehumidifier entirely, but I suspect that winter may pose some challenges with the heat pump running in heating mode.
We've got another timber frame builder set up for the deck and porch, and they should be able to deliver by this fall. We're meeting with them on Tuesday and hopefully we'll get a reasonable quote soon after.
We're hanging fire on the floor joist info, specifically the size of the duct bay. It's the busiest part of the building season in New York, so communications can get jammed up. I need to get that information to Energy Vanguard so they can design the ductwork.
Mitzi's cabinet guy noticed a discrepancy in the plans, fortunately, so we'll have to move a stub-wall at the entryway over about six inches. That's why subs do shop drawings. It's frustrating because we paid the architect additional money over his quoted price because he supposedly had to correct some dimensions. But he did resolve some other issues, so I guess it evens out.
And the beat goes on...
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