About A House - Behind The Walls

There's been a flurry of activities for the past 6 to 8 weeks to run the plumbing, various other pipes, electrical, smart wirings, etc. It is now done and passed all inspections. Here's a few pictures of the spaghetti of wires, pipes, ducts, housings and stuff that are behind the walls.

Timeline of this phase:

• Mid May: start of heating system and earthquake enforcements
• Early June: smart wirings for phone, cable, internet, alarm, etc.
• Mid June: start of electrical and sprinkler system
• Early to Mid July: plumbing work and water tests
• 3rd week of July: all inspections passed ready for insulation

Prior to insulation, we took a video of what's behind every wall and Arthur took over 90 pictures in case we ever need to access behind the dry wall.

About A House - Arthur's Open House

Arthur the builder hosted an open house for a couple of days to promote the energy efficiencies aspects of the house. A follow on article appeared in BC Homes site.

Prior to the public open, there was a host of special guests that attended a short series of speeches. The speakers include representatives from City of Vancouver, NRC R2000 standard, CMHC and the Net Zero House Coalition.

Arthur did a significant amount of prep for the open, there were signage explaining each feature, vendor tables and opportunity for vendor representatives to explain their ware.

This comparison chart is the most interesting to us as it calculates the energy guide of the house. According to Arthur, this house exceeds the 2012 R2000 standard and achieves the planned 2014 standard.

How was the turn out for the open? There was quite a number of walk in guests, most came because of the Courier, the local community paper, picked up the story.

Here's a picture of our awesome team at the open: left to right, Dan of all trade, Harry the buyer, Winston the carpenter and Arthur.

About A House - The Frame Is A Note Pad

I really don't recall using the lumber as a notepad at the previous renovation. Perhaps it's because we were not as involved as we are in this project. Maybe Dan the foreman likes to illustrate during discussion and diagram his explanations. He always has a stash of felt pens, crayons, pens and pencils on him.  All around the posts and beams of the house are full of doodles.

Though I would take a few photos as it will be closed up shortly and not to be seem again until someone opens up the walls in the distance future.