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Construction Update #3  Well, A lot has been happening since my last post. We have been pushing the interior and exterior work all at once! Interior Updates Drywall Ceilings hung Bathroom mold resistant drywall Window drywall returns with Tearaway strip Primer and Paint Amish Kitchen Cabinets   I should write a whole blog post about the kitchen cabinet experience. Dealing direct with the Amish has been interesting, amazing, frustrating and totally worth it! When we 1st met with them there was no showroom, no photos to see and no limitations on what they could do. All they asked for was the Type of wood (Oak, Maple, Birch, Pine, Cherry, Hickory, Walnut, or anything else we would want), dimensions for the kitchen and the dimension for each cabinet and a photo of the style we wanted and they did the rest. A nearby trim carpenter drove them up to the house and they installed them in 1 day. Once the counter top gets installed they will come back and finish the install (We have an u...

3rd Blower Door Test With all windows and doors installed, all wall penetrations complete and sealed and drywall up it was time for us to do another blower door test. This time we had to design / create a perfectly sealed "blower window" to test the house.  In previous tests the basement windows were not installed, and I could simply install a small piece of rigid foam, foam it in place and tape the duct blaster to the foamboard Now we needed to find a way to test the house, and create the same (or better) seal to the house between the fan and the house: So we cut a piece of leftover ZIP board, and cut a hole in it to seal the duct blaster to it We added a handle, airtight gasket from 475 building supply , and some VELCRO strips to mount the manometer to. We installed a compression weatherstrip around the perimeter to seal nicely to the window frame We removed an operable sash from one of the ZOLA windows. We chose our window wisely. Window small enough our scrap of ZIP would...