Tag: ZIPSystem
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Flashing Flashback
Weather reminds us that autumn will inevitably yield to winter. Frost. Flurries. Cooold nights… Probably soon-ish, at least for short intervals. And yet the threat of colder, wetter, even snowier and icier days ahead is 100% less concerning than it was a year ago. We’d only just begun our foray into Rosslyn’s icehouse rehabilitation. And…
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Saturday Siding
Some weekends are for relaxing or fêting friends. Other weekends are for backcountry adventures or polar plunges in currently 35° Lake Champlain. But today was dedicated to cladding — T&G paneling inside the icehouse and clapboard outside the outhouse — with four dedicated members of Rosslyn’s icehouse rehab team swapping R&R for punch list productivity.…
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Elevation Headway
It was a super Saturday for Rosslyn’s icehouse rehab. Several concurrent projects underway, but the most notable progress was the interior east elevation (in the loft) and the exterior west elevation. I’ll try to get out of the way and let the photos do the talking. The photo above is taken from the northwest of…
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Stabilizing Heat & Humidity in Icehouse
I started an update a couple of weeks back that never made it out of the nest. An unfledged fledgling… At issue? Heat and humidity stabilization in the icehouse to properly acclimatize lumber pre-installation. Given a few savvy questions about how we planned to install finish woodwork (flooring, paneling, etc.) in the icehouse — which…
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Icehouse Trim and Clapboard Installation
Today I’m pleased to post a quick update on the icehouse trim and clapboard installation. Temperate conditions are proving a bonus to this exciting progress. In the photo above Matt and Supi are wrapping up with the new trim so that the Benjamin Obdyke Slicker and clapboard can be installed. The unique, vertically-channeled, three-dimensional matrix of Slicker® Classic…
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Icehouse Insulation Installation Complete
Phew. With Rosslyn’s icehouse insulation installation complete we can collectively exhale, confident and warm. Today I’d like to offer huge holiday shoutout to Kevin and Joe from Adirondack Spray Foam for wrapping up 2022 with the winter-proof armor we need to keep the icehouse project going fullbore over the coming months. Bravo! Some progress is…
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All Zipped Up: ZIP System Installation Complete
As it turns out, the snow-blizzard-cum-bomb-cyclone that hepped up meteorologists and newscasters, snarled traffic across the country, and added a decidedly wintery twist to the Christmas holiday for many across the country impacted us two totally opposite ways, one good, the other bad. Ever the optimist, I’ll launch with the glorious news: the icehouse rehabilitation…
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Zipping Up the Icehouse
Nothing like a region-wide winter weather system barreling down on you to accelerate winter-proofing the construction site, right?!?! But racing the arrival of a pre-Christmas blizzard isn’t the only motivation for the sudden transformation from 100+ year old T&G sheathing to green ZIP System insulated panels though. We’ve been working toward this goal for weeks.…
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Icehouse Rehab 8: 1st Floor Insulation Installation and Subfloor
Some progress is pretty. Framing new window aprtures, for example. And some progress is practical. Installing helical piers, for example. Insulation installation is *indisputably* in this second category. And yet, aaahhh… What a relief to have the first phase of insulation complete! The crawlspace beneath the main floor is now isolated from what will become…