by Earl Parson | Apr 15, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
The Loft House is no longer a big empty shell! Our framing crew has been on the scene, and really transformed things. Here’s how it looked before they started. Bare bones ICF walls with the Quonset roof overhead. The Epic Massive Beam The first thing was to...
by Earl Parson | Dec 12, 2018 | Building the Quompound, Loft House, YouTube
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...
by Earl Parson | Dec 10, 2018 | Loft House
Free Quonset Hut House Plans: Quonset Loft House At Clever Moderns, we’re designing a series of simple, modern, Quonset hut houses, the plans for which anyone can download for free, with no strings attached. We’re releasing them into the wild as it were, as a...
by Earl Parson | Nov 1, 2018 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
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...
by Earl Parson | 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...
by Earl Parson | 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...
