by Earl | Aug 2, 2018 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
The crew came out yesterday and excavated for our Quonset Loft House footings. We’ve finally officially broken ground! Of course I had to fly the drone around and get some aerial shots. It took over halfway into the year to get to the point of starting our...
by Earl | Jan 20, 2018 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut, Tutorials
Who doesn’t want LED lighting in their Quonset hut house project? The benefits of LED lighting are many: It is small, so it’s easy to tuck out of the way or fit into a small space. It is amazingly energy efficient, using only a fraction of the power of...
by Earl | Dec 22, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut, Workshop Hut
The other week we made our last trip over to the property for the year. What a year it was! But I can’t wax poetic on 2017 just yet. I need to update y’all on our latest progress, and save all the “year in review” stuff for a future post. This...
by Earl | Nov 26, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut, Workshop Hut
We had another great trip to the property last week. This was a Friday to Wednesday trip, returning the day before Thanksgiving. We got a ton done (we’re really in a groove now when we go over to the property, which is awesome) and we saw the pinkest sunset...
by Earl | Nov 10, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut
We’re back from another productive, though short, visit to the property. No major setbacks, no big delays, no smashed windows. Our first little Quonset hut house is coming along! The primary goal for this trip was to get the last three trapezoid windows...
by Earl | Oct 25, 2017 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut
We had a great mid-October construction trip to the Quompound, complete with our friends Leigh and Brian stopping by in their Airstream trailer. If there’s anything that rivals a Quonset hut for curvaceous sheet metal grooviness, it could only be an Airstream....
