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December 1, 2009
One well insulated slab on it’s way, and we’re onto the second row of logs
Graeme is on to the second row of logs in his yard in Geraldine, and Mark is getting closer to pouring the slab concrete. It will be a very well insulated slab with 75mm of extruded polystyrene insulation (XPS) under the slab, and 30mm of XPS both inside and outside the block foundations. Also visible are some of the foundation “thickenings” that will contain bolt-down points for the hurricane rods through the log walls. The big blue coil is a future-proofing option of putting in water-circulating heating pipes through the slab so that in the future, we could choose to connect a heat-pump to the pipes for heating the house via the slab.
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Posted by conor at December 1, 2009 11:28 AM