Insulation and Vapour Barrier Inspection Passed with Flying Colours

Insulation and vapour barrier - all done.
Inspected by Chris, the building inspector.

Meanwhile in the garden.

Daffodils galore

Flowers on Rosemary bush

Sleeping bumble bee

Judy contemplating garden design.

She is a digger. Digging rocks out from the soil.

Ready for transport down the hill.

Great for filling potholes in the driveway.

An on-going project.

The rocks will soon be rolled flat into the softer ground.

Winter is Slowly Coming to an End

Still a construction site, but we are making steady progress

The mini daffodils are out

Full size dafs are everywhere now.
This old rock wall was built - not by the Romans - but by Urs
in the early years, the 1990's.

A female Anna's Hummingbird

A tiny tree frog. It is about the size of half my thumb.

We also hear them calling vigorously in the forest.

Progress with insulation and vapour barrier. Kitchen

Bookshelf bumpout

Window bench bumpout

Desk bumpout

Bed bumpout

Details around a door:
Yellow - low expanding spray foam to insulate the gap between door and framing
Blue - Blue skin foil around door opening to keep out moisture
Black - Accoustic sealant to seal vapour barrier to wood
Clear Foil: 6 mil vapour barrier to keep moisture from getting into walls from the inside
Red: Duck tape to seal overlapping parts of vapour barrier

Life in a Cloud Forest

After many days of tedious work, the insulation and vapour
barrier in the ceiling and walls of the crawl space have been
substantially completed.

It has been raining cats and dogs.

All the moss is the freshest green imaginable.

Our moss garden in the fog-shrouded forest.

The inukshuk and Buddha don't mind the rain.

The house in the fog.

The arbutus tree behind the house.

A giant arbutus farther down along our driveway.

Next to our driveway.

Moss, moss, moss on the north side of the hill.

Almost everything is covered by moss.

This arbutus tree is just outside our house.

The colours glow with intensity in the rain.

The on-going cycle of old bark peeling and
fresh bark appearing.

When not helping with insulation, Judy is working at landscaping.

Getting Ready for the Electrical Inspection

Old electricians never die - they just get re-wired.
Wiring the main electrical panel.

From this.....

.....to this.

Whites and ground wires done.

Coded as per wiring diagrams.

Most wires are coming in from the
crawl space below the panel.

In the crawl space below the panel.

Inside a junction box.

All wires connected in the junction box.

A hummingbird found a handy perch.

Winter at our Construction Site

The ground is frozen solid. The water barrels at the cabin are frozen.
The hoar frost seems to be growing day by day.
We keep warm enough and continue working in the house
at interior finishing tasks.