Hobbit Home Progress.

It seems to me that this is going to be a moving target for some time.

First, you've just added huge amounts of moisture, and will add more when you do the finish layer on the floor, so consider the electricity to run the dehumidifier " a building expense"!

Secondly, have you done the earth berming on the upper walls on any sides of the house yet? That's going to affect the indoor temperature.

However, you appear to be making a  fairly well sealed house. Have you allowed for some sort of air-to-air heat exchange system, to insure your indoor air quality stays good?

Jay Angler wrote:so consider the electricity to run the dehumidifier " a building expense"!

Yes, but will only run the dehumidifier when absolutely necessary instead of for a heat source.

Jay Angler wrote:
Secondly, have you done the earth berming on the upper walls on any sides of the house yet ?

No, but 8 inches of foam on the walls OVERLAPPED by the 10 inches on the roof.  Earth may add a bit of R value, but not much.

Jay Angler wrote:
Have you allowed for some sort of air-to-air heat exchange system ?

ERV already planned.

Dave Lotte wrote:

Jay Angler wrote:so consider the electricity to run the dehumidifier " a building expense"!

Yes, but will only run the dehumidifier when absolutely necessary instead of for a heat source.

We use ours as a clothes dryer, but we're in a much wetter climate than you are. My sister in Southern Ontario in a 1950's uninsulated house just uses her furnace as her clothes dryer in the winter as she needs the extra moisture, and a clothesline in the summer.

Ecosystem is everything!

Jay Angler wrote: We use ours as a clothes dryer, but we're in a much wetter climate than you are.
Ecosystem is everything!

Plan to have a hanging cloths cupboard vented inline with the bathroom exhaust fan, with a circulating fan at the base...
Built in beside washer and dryer.
Cloths come out of the washer, get hung in the "closet", then turn the timer fan on for 30 min. Shuts of automatically.

I can see my floor !!

72 sand bags tied and stacked.

Now i can finish plate compacting that corner, then go over the entire floor with the compactor one last time, making sure it is within 1/4 inch of level - before installing the utilities.  Water, hydro and sewer.

Its coming along !