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 | 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....
