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The last few weeks have gone very smoothly. It has been fun to see things come together and to really feel like we are on the home stretch. For those of us keeping track we broke ground at […]

Things are moving along nicely…well, mostly. We’ve had a few glitches. One of which was the inability to do an intermediate air test which was really disappointing. The reason for this is our timing was thrown off with the delay of the floors going in. We couldn’t do the insulation downstairs till the EcoSlab had gone [...]

The floors now in! After being set back a couple weeks waiting for the sand and hardcore to be removed, the foaming concrete to go down, the EcoSlab to be installed and the screed to be poured we’re now ready to move forward. I’m really hoping that now we have the floors down everything will be [...]

After Christmas we ran into a glitch with the EcoSlab, and it’s become a little more of a hold up than we first thought. EcoSlab: After taking up the suspended ground floor and levelling out the earth underneath, laying the hardcore and the sand we were ready for the Eco Slab. We tried several times to get [...]

88 LOTHROP ST – Retrofit For the Future Overview: I will be writing the blog for the Lothrop St project. The goal of this blog is to share the experiences and learnings during the low carbon refurbishment of this home. This will include the design, the construction process and decisions made along the way. This first blog will [...]