Brrrrrrrrrr!

Guess we're not going to get much done this week!

I was wanting to get the heat in and turned on before too long, but it turns out that I can't get it turned on until I have the insulation done...  Because we're using Geothermal loops, if we turn the heat on without the insulation in, it will be like heating the outside, and we risk freezing up the ground where we're drawing the heat from, and that would last through the rest of the winter!  And, so I thought we could turn it on and off just to take the chill off when we're working, but because we're using radiant heat in the concrete slab, we can't risk having the water in those loops freezing up, and cracking the slab!

So, we're sort of stuck right now...  We have to finish the plumbing and wiring rough in (A/C ducts are already in), and get it inspected, then we can put up the 1.5" Styrofoam insulation, and THEN we can get the heat turned on...  We can have the geothermal loops installed, and the furnace itself installed, but we just can't have water put into the radiant pipes and turn it on until after we're done with the insulation...

I've worked on insulating the furnace room this week so we can get the drywall up in there, and get the furnace put in.  I'll try to get the plumbing and wiring moving next week when things are a little (stress LITTLE) warmer than they are this week...  The high today was single digits, I'm sure, and the high for tomorrow is supposed to be 3 degrees...  It isn't as cold as a lot of places, but the garage doors are not in yet (on order 2 weeks ago), so the wind is keeping the place really cold...

We may be in a holding pattern for a little while here at least until I can get the garage doors in, and hopefully, we can get some of these things done pretty quickly after that...  We'll just have to be patient for a little bit...

No pictures -- they would all be white right now...  Not to mention my finger would have problems pushing the tiny button!  Can't push it with gloves on, and my fingers barely work without gloves!  Check back in a week or two, and maybe I'll actually have something new...