Alaskan's Journal

[Baymule]

And he will have a lovely home, built with lots of love. I've had friends that built their own house and they had a party after they got drywall up. Before the texture and paint went on, they provided pens and had everyone write their favorite Bible verses on the walls. God is in the house!

 

[fuzzi]

And he will have a lovely home, built with lots of love. I've had friends that built their own house and they had a party after they got drywall up. Before the texture and paint went on, they provided pens and had everyone write their favorite Bible verses on the walls. God is in the house!

I love that idea!

 

[SageHill]

WOWZERS!! That's fantastic.

 

[drstratton]

That looks amazing. So excited for him!

 

[murphysranch]

I'm not familiar with plastic baffles and a cold house. Tell us more...

 

[Alaskan]

I'm not familiar with plastic baffles and a cold house. Tell us more...

Your choices with a roof are a cold roof, or a hot roof. With a cold roof you have an air space between the underside of the roof and all of the insulation and the hot house.

With a hot roof, you have house, insulation, and the roof right on the insulation, no air space. The issue with that, is even with great insulation, some of the heat of the house will transfer into the roof. With even a little of the house heat transferring into the roof, you will get snow on the roof that melts, starts to slide off, and then at the edges of the roof, where it is colder, the snow will refreeze creating a dam. The dam can then keep melting snow and water from running off the roof. Then the water tries to work itself into any seams or gaps to rot everything. It also makes icicles that can destroy gutters and such.

With a cold roof you have a gap between the roof and insulation to keep the roof cold, so none of that happens.


In a "standard" house with an attic. You are supposed to have all that insulation in the attic floor, and then vents in the roof edges, and the ends, and maybe a ridge vent.

But... he is building a vaulted roof, so trickier...

 

[Alaskan]

So... the insanity that is my "redo goose coop AFTER winter starts" continues! ( so nice that the kids don't see this as proof that I need to be institutionalized!)

We (as in mostly kid 5, kid 2, though he lives next door keeps spending time going to work, and spending time with his new wife! ) have managed to spread out the fill, decently enough. The coop is back up and larger and taller, NO MORE STOOPING TO ENTER!!! And, kid 5 is now putting the fences back up!

It is getting tricky, the ground has frozen up.

 

[Alaskan]

Eh... all of that clear sky! The temps have gone down to the 20s... clearly winter is here. BUT, he got it almost all finished, coop, and fence and and the fence that goes on top.

I will try to get pictures a bit later.

 

[Jesusfreak101]

Okay that is way to much snow already. I am so glad I talked my husband out of Alaska as a option lol I don't handle the cold well. That is very interesting about the different roof options and kinda explains the whole idea of an attic to began with.

 

[Alaskan]

2 photos of an almost complete coop and pen.. lots of mess still around. Trying to pick it all up before it welds itself to the ground.