Concrete for foundation poured, and roof choice for our LEED house in Houston
We had a big week with tremendous progress at the house for the foundation. The beams, which connect the vertical piers that were poured last week, prepared at the end of last week and at the beginning of this week. The last blog entry shows the rebar in the beams. Now you can see the finished product after the concrete pour. Rebar sticks out, ready to receive the base of the house – the sill I guess its called. You an also see the front steps and now this gives a very clear impression of where the ground floor will be. It's nice and high, well out of regular flooding danger. In the center of the house you can see cardboard cylinders with the extension of the piers to the base of the floor. Then on the side, there are segments of the driveway, and an alcove that will house the back steps to the back door into the mudroom and kitchen.
In the meantime we have had the second draw, on which I will report more at the end of the month. It was mainly for deposits for the things needed next – framing materials – and things that will take a while to get made and so need to be ordered ahead – our windows.
We have also made our final choice for the metal roof. You can see the options here at the site of Architectural Building Components (http://www.archmetalroof.com/color-and-substrate.html). We chose the Silver Metallic, having ruled out either of the white options, which while excellent performers were not what we wanted. We did like some of the other colors, but a key goal is to have a good radiant barrier, and the Solar Reflective Index of Silver Metallic (66) was good with a good look too. We were considering copper, but felt that this color would dominate the look of the house. Sandstone we felt was too warehouse like.
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by Oliver Bogler
