This is a chronicle of my efforts to build a "Green" home - one that uses less energy, has better indoor air quality, uses less water, and hopefully someday produces energy. We have used trees taken right from the site, metal roofing from a manufacturer down the street, and a local manufacturer/installer of cellulose insulation, in an effort to keep the materials local, recylced, and Green. So far we are quite pleased, and it is still a work in progress.



Thursday, October 05, 2006


CAULKING

We went crazy with caulking. Before the insulation went in, we caulked all the cracks from the inside - framing around windows, horizontal cracks in exterior sheathing. We stoppered penetrations in the top plates for electrical wires with expanding foam. We caulked the exterior sheathing at all top and bottom plates. We shot insulation into crevices that the cellulose insulators would not be able to get to. Infiltration is one of the largest heat leaks in a house. With the Tyvek house wrap on the outside, the extra layer of foam, and the attention to detail on caulking and weatherstripping, this house should be as tight as a drum. Here is Qhyrrae, hitting a horizaontal joint on an exterior wall.

// posted by Invention1 @ 4:44 AM
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