{"id":345,"date":"2009-02-25T15:34:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=345"},"modified":"2009-02-25T15:34:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T22:34:51","slug":"construction-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/345","title":{"rendered":"Construction decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve made some decisions on how we&#8217;re proceeding with construction.<\/p>\n<p>A big one is that we are going to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sips.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SIPs<\/a> (structural insulated panels) for the guest house (which we&#8217;re now calling Tumbleweed). You send the manufacturing facility your plans and they crank out these panels. They are very energy efficient, relatively inexpensive, and easy and fast from a construction standpoint. Amazingly, there is a manufacturing facility (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcpanels.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KC Panels<\/a>) for this just a few miles from us. Brad visited and was impressed.<\/p>\n<p>For the main house (no name yet; any ideas?), we&#8217;re going with a combination of adobe and wood frame walls. The adobe will be in places that catch sunlight to add thermal mass. The wood frame walls will be double 2&#215;4 with plaster on the outside, 10&#8243; thickness. The style will be eclectic southwestern, with Moroccan styling. Small and simple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/patio_side2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-346\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"patio_side2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/patio_side2-300x74.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/patio_side2-300x74.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/patio_side2.jpg 1241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hopefully, we&#8217;ll be submitting our plans for permitting very soon. In the meantime, we&#8217;re doing some excavation on the existing slab since everyone involved in it seems to have either vanished or forgotten everything about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve made some decisions on how we&#8217;re proceeding with construction. A big one is that we are going to use SIPs (structural insulated panels) for the guest house (which we&#8217;re now calling Tumbleweed). You send the manufacturing facility your plans and they crank out these panels. They are very energy efficient, relatively inexpensive, and easy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,13,31],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adobe","tag-design","tag-sips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}