Posts Tagged ‘energy efficient homes’

AMC#1 | Master Vanity

These new master bath lavatories came out beautiful. The wall tile is a 24×24 Melange with 1/8″ grout joints between tiles and adjoining materials. Recessed Roebern medicine cabinets give room for storage and provide integrated lighting. The cabinetry is walnut veneer over formaldehyde free cores with 3cm slate counter tops. Drywall is a Level5 gallery

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AMC#1 | Master Bath

The new master bath looking at the tub & shower. The tubĀ  & tub filler are Duravit. If you’re laying in the tub (and I have – with clothes on:-) you have a beautiful view of the Texas sky. The shower & lavatory fixtures are Grohe, the vanity sinks are Duravit. Of course, all plumbing

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AMC#1 | Redwood wall

This wall was quite a challange to build. The wall itself is only 2″ thick and as you can see there’s no stabilization on the front. At first we tried to frame the structure of the wall with 2×4′s flat and 1 steel post at the end, anchored to the floor joist. This was not

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Geothermal HVAC | System installation

A geothermal system installation is actually quite simple. First, the wells get drilled. After they are drilled they need to settle for a while about 1-2 weeks. In our case, we drilled and let them settle for 2 weeks. We drilled a total of 12 wells – all at 250′ depth. Originally we had only

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