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 | Jul 26, 2020 | Loft House
About the Quonset Loft House The Quonset Loft House is a 1,000 square foot, one bedroom/one bath home with an open plan. The bedroom loft overlooks the open living space below, with the kitchen tucked under the loft. You can read more about this design in this...
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 | Jul 15, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
Carried along by the momentum the Loft House gained from the interior and end wall framing, it was exciting to follow up with the window installation. There isn’t a ton of Quonset-specific technical knowledge to impart here; the windows were installed in a...
by Earl | Jun 15, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Loft House, Tutorials
Here’s a quick rundown of how we did the final bracing at the top of the arched header, at the big window wall. If you are new to the blog, this is the third in a series on the framing of our house; you can read part 1 on interior framing here and part 2 on the...
by Earl | May 2, 2019 | Building the Quompound, Loft House
It’s one thing to draw something up, even something that takes a lot of thought, and hand it over to a General Contractor to build; it’s quite another to design something complicated and intricate and have to figure out every single part of it because...
