New YouTube Video: T-Shaped Quonset Huts?!?!
Quonset Hut Build: Can you build a T-shaped Hut?This question comes up from time to time in our Facebook Group so I decided it would make a good topic for a YouTube video. The short version: I wouldn't rule it out as completely impossible, but let's just say the idea...
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New YouTube Video: Guest House Arches Timelapse
Quonset Hut Guest House: Time Lapse! I love putting together these time lapse videos. The Quonset hut arches look so cool when they just go together fast! We realized later that we didn't really have any photos of the scissor lift except for what we got on video....
Quonset Hut House Build: Quonsetpalooza 3.0
Quonset Hut House Design Evolution 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 grew and evolved, the Workshop and Headquarters Quonset huts were spun off from the...
Panorama of the Quonset Guest House Arches
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...
Quonset Hut House Build: Radiant Heated Floor Slab
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...
Quonset Hut House Build: ICF Base Walls
Setting up the ICF Blocks The ICF walls are a big feature of this house. ICF is a great system but it isn't in wide use yet. Insulated (or insulating) Concrete Form is a system of styrofoam blocks that interlock to create a strong formwork into which rebar is placed...
Quonset House Foundations Poured!
Progress on the Quonset 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. They're pretty well...