by Earl | Oct 13, 2021 | Building the Quompound, Nature
Learning about the land It’s interesting to me to look back over the process we’ve gone through over the past five years or so. We fell in love with this raw 10-acre parcel and bought it. That was the beginning of a process of discovery – of...
by Earl | Jul 30, 2021 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
It’s been a long time coming: we are finally underway with exterior cladding over the ICF walls of the Loft House at the Quompound! After what seemed like an endless debate of stucco vs Hardie Panel vs other types of cement board siding, vs many different types...
by Earl | Apr 27, 2021 | Building the Quompound, Q20 Storage Shed
We now have our fourth hut at the Quompound! Waaay back in the spring of 2019, we got it into our heads that we needed a storage shed. Our Workshop Hut had become fairly crowded with us storing construction materials and such, and we had bought a little golf cart...
by Earl | Nov 8, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Insulation, Loft House
I wanted to post this separately from the HQ hut, because the Loft House is a little bit of a different animal in some ways, versus the Headquarters Hut. For the writeup of the HQ Hut insulation, with pictures, see this post. The Loft House is finally insulated! Read...
by Earl | Nov 5, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Headquarters Hut, Insulation
After all the framing prep we had done, there were just a few things left to do to get the Headquarters Hut ready to insulate. Final Prep for Insulation One thing we almost forgot to do was take down the lights! I got a last minute picture before we started this...
by Earl | Oct 19, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Tutorials
About the Quonset Project Start-up Guide I’m more excited than ever about the Quonset Project Start-up Guide! I’ve been compiling it over the past few months, but really it’s been something I’ve wanted to do ever since we started building our...
