by Earl | Nov 1, 2018 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
Design Evolution of our Loft House Way back when we started dreaming up what would become the Quompound, it all started with an idea about a Quonset Hut House. As the designs and plans for the house grew and evolved, the Workshop and Headquarters Quonset huts were...
by Earl | Oct 31, 2018 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
We have arches! I’ll post a full write up on the amazing long weekend we spent with friends helping us build the Quonset hut arches for the guest house – it was a blast and we have really perfected our Quonset-hut-building technique. (Given that this is our third...
by Earl | Oct 12, 2018 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
Prep for the Slab Once the ICF walls were up (see this post for details), it was time to pour the floor slab. With ICF walls, the walls are often set on top of the slab, but since we are installing radiant floor heating, we wanted the extra insulation of the ICF walls...
by Earl | Sep 14, 2018 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
What is ICF? Insulated (or insulating) Concrete Form is a system of styrofoam blocks that interlock (not unlike LEGO) to create a permanent formwork, into which rebar is placed and then concrete is poured. A properly constructed ICF building far outperforms other...
by Earl | Aug 25, 2018 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
Progress on the Quonset Loft House: This week they came out and poured our concrete foundations for the house. “They” in this case is an outfit out of Phoenix called ICF Specialists. It’s a family business run by two brothers, Rod & Gary Fetters....
