Central Vac system is installed

Jeff installed the central vacumn system piping a couple of weekends ago.... We'll have a couple of outlets on each floor.......I suppose that means we'll have no excuse for dirty floors.

The wall that is pictured below is the north side wall in the dining room that will have French doors installed shortly. Note the white vac tubing....We have passed the in-wall electrical and hold-down inspection and can now install insulation and go for the shear inspection on the lower floor walls that are the shear walls. Several of you have asked about this shear thing... Let me assure you, it has nothing to do with cutting hair...It's all about resisting the forces of wind and the movement of the earth. Want to know more? You know what to do:

http://www.mcvicker.com/vwall/page001.htm#A1

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Out of the gutter and into the cold..

Although the stucco guys completed their job a couple of weeks ago, some minor cracks developed in 3 areas and they have come back to patch them up..... Having the scaffold up for the stucco guys allowed our gutter guy to hang the final piece.... On Wednesday of this week the guys from Airsmiths installed the air conditioning condenser...If you're wondering if that is the American Standard Allegiance 14 Super Efficiency Condenser, you would be right! It is made in Texas in the same factory that Trane air conditioners are made at. http://www.americanstandardair.com/Products.asp?Section=homeOwners&ProductID=7&CategoryID=16&SuperCategoryID=1

Controlling the weather

We installed a Weathermatic irrigation system controller. It is connected to an on-site weather station that monitors temperature, rainfall, windspeed, and humidity. As the seasons change, it automatically adjusts the station timing, very handy! UPDATE: We had nothing but trouble with this controller and in 2016 we replaced it with a dramatically better one from Rachio. See it here: https://www.rachio.com/ Better yet, the City of Sacramento has a rebate program to replace old controllers with `smart' controllers like the Rachio, check it out here: https://www.cityofsacramento.org/Utilities/Conservation/Rebates/River-Friendly-Landscape-Rebate

We have officially started!

After almost 3 years of planning and designing on paper, today we took the first steps on the site of our new house. We cut down and carted away our fruit cocktail tree (a grafted fruit tree that had branches of nectarine, peach, plum, and apricot), 2 grape vines, a grafted Asian pear tree that had 4 varieties of pear, a grapefruit tree, a lemon tree, and an orange tree. It was sad to see them go, but it was exciting to think of what is to come.

Mike and Jeff's New House

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