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ONE80º Hostel - Alexanderplatz
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These are trusted reviews from guests who have actually stayed here. We hope you find them helpful.
Note: we only give a property a rating once it has received a minimum of 3 reviews.
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- " Near to Alexanderplatz its good location but near the street its crowded "
- 04 Nov 2016 Anonymous Turkey
- " Well located, clean but no kitchen. You have to pay for everything , locker, towel... "
- 24 Sep 2016 Anonymous Serbia
- " very nice rooms with nice interiors. hostel has a fun chill vibe. my friends blanket had blood stains on it and there were boogers on the walls. some dude walked into the womens bathroom right as i was walking out of the shower. downstairs is a nice place to hang especilly at night. they play decent music in the lobby at night so you can drink a beer and chill when u have nothing better to do and there are other people hanging so u dont feel lonely. "
- 10 Aug 2016 Violeta USA
- " Great hostel! If you're looking for a good hostel with a fun atmosphere this hostel will be a good choice. "
- 26 Jul 2016 Marieli Puerto Rico
- " A hostel very close to Alexanderplatz in Berlin! We were not able to close our windows so it was very noisy at night. The showers are without any curtains but when you shower late at night you usually have the bathroom for yourself also early in the morning "
- 06 Jul 2016 Katrin Austria
- " It's my 2nd time staying here. Location is definitely great. My room this time was so messy, since people who stayed there before didn't bring back the bedsheets and just threw them everywhere on the ground. There were left soft drink bottles and a cigarette on the table. Air ventilation in the room was terrible. But I guess it depends on your luck since my first stay here was wonderful. "
- 26 Jun 2016 Anonymous Hong Kong
- " This hostel was not very good, however it was inexpensive and had a good location. The showers were not private--there was just a room of open showers which we thought was extremely weird. Additionally, the rooms were dirty and their lockers required you to buy a lock from them. Additionally, when we asked a staff member for a restaurant recommendation, he said "I'm a vegetarian so I don't really have any recommendations for you." They also don't let you drink your own alcohol in the hostel. "
- 24 May 2016 Anonymous USA
- " Seemed like a good place. Good location, nice enough facilities, fair price. Security was good in that you could only access your own floor because of key swipe system in elevators and stairwells. Only weird thing was that there were no hooks to hang your clothes in the shower room. Accommodations are mixed there so it is necessary to go to the shower room clothed and what to do with your clothes when you get there is an issue. The little ladders to reach the top bunk also hurt your feet. "
- 20 Apr 2016 Anonymous USA


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LONDON – The former royal editor of the News of the World said Wednesday that he repeatedly hacked the voice mails of Prince William, Prince Harry and Kate Middleton in the months before he was arrested for illegal eavesdropping in 2006.
Under cross-examination at Britain's phone hacking trial, Clive Goodman acknowledged he had listened to Middleton's voice mails 155 times, Prince William's 35 times and Prince Harry's nine times.
Goodman was briefly jailed in 2007, along with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, for hacking the phones of royal aides. But Goodman said police and prosecutors never asked him whether he had also targeted members of the royal family.
"I have been as open and honest about hacking as I can be, but nobody has asked me any questions about this before," said Goodman, 56.
Earlier in the trial, the jury was read transcripts of intercepted phone messages between William and Kate from the days when they were courting. She became the Duchess of Cambridge when they married in 2011.
Goodman said Kate was first targeted in late 2005, when she was becoming "a figure of increasing importance around the royal family."
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Goodman and six others — including ex-News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson — are on trial over wrongdoing at Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids. Murdoch shut down the News of the World in 2011 after evidence emerged that its staff had hacked the phones of celebrities, politicians and even a kidnapped 13-year-old girl.
The defendants deny all the charges.
Goodman said Coulson was aware that he and Mulcaire were hacking phones — a claim Coulson denies.
"Glenn Mulcaire was such a valuable resource for the paper I had to tell him (Coulson), so I did," Goodman said.
Goodman returned to the witness box on Wednesday after a two-month break due to ill health. Judge John Saunders told the jury that a medical expert had declared the former journalist fit to continue giving evidence.
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Guidelines for first fiberglass fuse layup (and some other molding questions)...
Hi everyone I have been working on a plug for a plane that I plan on using for AP as a first composite rc project for awhile and I am about ready to put together an order for some epoxy and fiberglass. I am wondering how I can determine the layup I will need for this fuse...it is 36" long and I want to make it as light as possible but still relatively strong. I will try and get a pic up of the plug soon since my description probably isn't very helpful. Are there any guidelines I should follow as to how many layers and what weight fiberglass would work best for this fuse or is it mostly a matter of trial and error to find the right balance between strength and weight? I don't know anything about fiberglass weights/weaves so maybe someone could post a good starting point as far as what fiberglass I should purchase?
For the mold I just plan on brushing a light coat of epoxy over the plug followed by some heavyweight layers of fiberglass and epoxy until it is stiff enough. Thanks Dan |
Last edited by Picoflyer; Dec 19, 2006 at 10:09 AM.
Thanks for the response...I kinda figured it was something that you have to play around with until you get it right...do you think you could post something like an example layup for something lightweight around the length of my fuse just so I can get an idea of what weights/how many layers I am looking at since right now I have no clue what to start with.
I have a few more questions about molding that maybe you guys could answer in this thread as well...I want my mold surface to come out as glossy as possible after removing the plug and I plan on using pva (sprayed on w/ an airbrush) as a mold release after wet sanding and buffing the plug surface...I read somewhere that using pva can make the surface come out not as perfect...will using pva be a problem? If so is there a wax that will allow the mold to release just as well but not interfere with the surface quality? Also...when I mold my fuse I want to use the method where you spray paint inside the mold and then do your layup after...I just dont see how this would work out...wouldnt the paint bead up/not lay down consistently on a buffed and waxed surface like the inside of a mold? Is there some trick to avoiding this that I am missing here? Thanks Dan |
Last edited by Picoflyer; Dec 13, 2006 at 12:14 AM.
The is a hard question because it is really many questions. Read about it before you understand many questions. What is the fuselage area? What kind of strength? Tension strength? Compression strength? With thin structures, and compression load, it fails with buckling far before maximum compression strength.
http://www.djaerotech.com/dj_askjd/d...ons/nylon.html http://www.djaerotech.com/dj_askjd/d...ions/fuse.html http://www.djaerotech.com/dj_askjd/d...ns/kevlar.html http://www.djaerotech.com/dj_askjd/d...arbontalk.html |
There's more:
See three pages of fiberglass from .6 oz. to 18 oz. and thickness from 0.001" to about 0.03". http://www.cstsales.com/fiberglass.html and http://www.cstsales.com/fiberglass_data.html A good efficient layup uses an about equal weight fiberglass and about equal weight of laminating epoxy. So, you calculate the area times the thickness times fiberglass times epoxy weight equals weight of the fuselage shell. The compression strength is very roughly half the tension strength. It is hard find the real compression strength data because it depends on the craftmanship and layup process. If that was very hard to calculate, then the buckling strength depends on shell thickness. |
Last edited by Ollie; Dec 13, 2006 at 02:49 PM.
Some of the experts claim that you can get a good smooth coat of PVA(and yes, definitely use it)by smearing it on with a cloth instead of spraying. I've read that spraying can cause fisheyes and irregularities if droplet size is too big. I've only applied it with a cloth and that works great.
30-70 resin cloth ratio is ambitious and as Ollie says 50-50 is good and probably more realistically achieved at home. The important thing about that ratio is dont fall into the trap of believing that lots of resin is good. |
The problems are looks vs. strength vs. weight. It depends on YOUR values of looks vs. strength vs. weight.
I give up looks (no gel coat and no paint) and high strength and low weight like MY values. Then I make the shell small in minimum cross section and high thickness for an fuselage budget weight compared to the whole aircraft budget weight. I give up volume of the fuselage shell so that has tight equipment mounting. Other people like easy equipment mounting so that they like more fuselage shell volume and give up some strength and higher weight. What are YOUR design values? You can't eat the cake now and keep it for the future too. |
Good info Ollie. MY design values are utilitarian in the sense that weight is bad, strength is good, looks get better with altitude, and low drag is usually esthetically pleasing.
Also, my budget is low so I tend to not throw money at a project and try to only make purchases for materials when I know that is exactly what is needed. I think that is what Pico is trying to do here, avoid buying cloth that might be wrong. Youre links should be a big help to him and others, myself included. |
I would 2 Oz. or 3 Oz. fiberglass. I would two layers first. I would judge the cured skins. Weigh the skins. If they are too thin and too flexible then, I would add one or two new layers (and cured) till I thought enough stiffness and not too much weight. Sneekup on the thickness question and the weight question. Measure and record everything as you learn. |
Last edited by Ollie; Dec 13, 2006 at 05:51 PM.
You wrote: "So, you calculate the area times the thickness times fiberglass times epoxy weight equals weight of the fuselage shell." In order to estimate the finished part weight, the composites technician would need to know the exact area of cloth needed for the layup, and the fabric weight per area, to calculate the weight of glass cloth needed for the finished part. But how do you know what the epoxy weight will be? If you assume a 50:50 ratio of resin to cloth, the resin weight would equal the weight of the glass cloth. The sum of the two would be the total weight not the product. And thickness becomes the number of layers. Right? Again, how do you know what the epoxy weight will be? If you use a heavier weave, the layup may have larger glass fiber voids (between the bundles) that end up filled with epoxy. This isn't 50:50. If you use numerous fine weaves, and minimize the void spaces, this isn't 50:50 either. So, how do you estimate the epoxy weight? Sean BTW. A 30:70 epoxy to glass ratio is impossible. |
30-70? Thanks for the correction. If you dont want weight, then dont use excessive epoxy, that was all I really wanted to say. I'm still shooting for my first complete composite success, but I've learned alot from my failures and each experiment puts me closer. Estimates will get you far.
Here is a good article on bagging a float: http://www.kitplanes.com/magazine/mi...us/164-1.phtml They claim a resin to cloth ratio of 40-60, but how they minimize weight and estimate the amount of epoxy needed is explained. |
Last edited by ElectroStorch; Dec 14, 2006 at 12:59 AM.
I'll demostrate an example of a fuselage skin (shell) with an computed weight. 1. The fuselage length of 36" and streamline with maximum 2" diameter. The area of the fuselage skin area is about 160 square inches. 2. In this design, I assumed 4 layers of 1.5 ounce of square yard fiberglass and a one layer thickness of 0.002". Four layers of fiberglass have a total thickness of 0.008" 3. The fiberglass area is 160 x 4 = 640 square inch area. 4. One square yard area has 12 x 12 x 12 = 1728 square inches. (correction: One square yard area has 36 x 36 = 1296 square inches.) 5. Therefore the weight of the 1.5 oz. fiberglass has 1.5 x 640/1728 = 0.556 oz. (correction: 1.5 x 640/1296 = 0.74 oz.) 6. Just enough epoxy to wet the fiberglass has about 0.556 oz. (correction: 0.74 oz.) 7. Therefore the total weight of the fuselage skin (shell) is about 1.11oz. (correction: 1.48 oz.) Thanks, Sean, for your correction to my brain fart. I assumed the equipment of 1.5oz motor, 4oz. battery, two 0.5 oz servos and 0.5 oz receiver. Misc. bulkheads, wing jointers, etc. and equipment and for the fuselage skins (shell) and for total weight of about 9 to 10 oz. |
Last edited by Ollie; Dec 15, 2006 at 01:36 PM.
Sean said:
"If you use numerous fine weaves, and minimize the void spaces, this isn't 50:50 either." So, with Sean's comment, I could improve the layup using one layer of G1671x, 6.00 oz, 8HS Satin thickness of 0.0060" rather than four layers of 1.5 oz. fiberglass and save ~25% epoxy weight, fiberglass cost by half and labor time. Thanks to Sean! |
I think it's worth mentioning that 50/50 by weight is not even close to the same thing as 50/50 by volume. The 60% fiber, 40% resin you see quoted for industry stuff is for volume. It's the fiber volume fraction.
Using typical density values for glass and epoxy, 50/50 by weight is only only a 30% fiber volume (70% resin by volume). This becomes obvious when you apply a vacuum bag to what you *thought* was a dry layup. Suddenly, the fabric is swimming in resin as the laminate consolidates. I think it would be an interesting exercise to develop some kind of guidelines for small scale, wet layup parts made without vacuum or pressure systems. Not tonight, though. |
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As a child, summer at my maternal grandmother's house meant several things. It meant ever-so-gently, and silently, approaching the pond beside her house and then jumping out spastically so as to watch the colossal toads hiding on the banks splash into the water. It meant digging potatoes right out of the ground, crunching on her homemade bread-and-butter pickles, and picking juicy, giant blueberries from the bushes of her pick-your-own blueberry farm. And it meant sun tea. Without fail, every few days Nanny would toss a handful of Lipton or Luzianne orange pekoe tea bags into a glass gallon jar, fill it up with warm water and sugar, top it off with a screw-top lid, and set her tea to do its brewing thing in the hot southern Virginia sun.
(Peppermint and Bee Balm Sun Tea)
In honor of her efforts at quenching summertime thirst in a low-fi manner (and as a tribute to her in general, as she turns 85-!!!-in late August and is still as spry and sassy as ever!), today's small measure celebrates sun tea and it's companion flavor enhancer, herabl simple syrups. I'm electing to focus specifically on herbal sun teas, as the wealth of seasonal herbs currently on parade in kitchen gardens, balconies, and farmer's markets is staggering and truly deserving of it's own literal moment in the sun, sans caffeine (of course, if you need some fuel, feel free to toss a few bags of black or green tea in with your herbs and spices).
(Pineapple Sage & Fresh Ginger Sun Tea)
Making herbal sun tea couldn't possibly be easier. Depending on what you've got on hand, or what moves you (do you like the refreshing chill of mint? the spice and heat of cardamom? the floral bouquet of lavender?), simply combine a handful of fresh herbs with water and set it out in the sun. I typically use about 1/4 c. of fresh herb per cup. So, for a half gallon of tea (which is 8 cups), use 2 cups of fresh herbs to 8 cups water, or 4 cups fresh herbs to 16 cups water for a full gallon. Place the herbs in first, top off with water (and sweetener, if using), cover with a secure lid, give the contents a good shake, and leave in full sun for 5-8 hours, depending on how intense of a flavor you wish to achieve.
CLICK HERE for the rest of the post and a great simple syrup recipe!
(Simple Rosemary Sun Tea)
A glass container is ideal, as the sun's rays can best penetrate and warm such a vessel. Toss in citrus peel or fresh fruits, if you're so inclined. The following list details a number of edible flowers, herbs, spices, and fruits and vegetables that would be perfect candidates for rendering into sun teas (be sure to avoid use of any plant matter that has been sprayed with a pesticide or herbicide; also, avoid consuming any matter found growing alongside busy roadways, as such plants will have accumulated a number of noxious substances in their roots and tissues):
Herbs for sun tea: Anise hyssop, apple mint, basil, calendula, chamomile, chives, dill, lemon balm (melissa), lemongrass, lemon verbena, marjoram, mint, oregano, parsley, peppermint, rosemary, sage (pineapple sage is fabulous as a sun tea!), spearmint, and thyme (especially lemon).
Flowers for sun tea: Bee balm, borage, carnations, dianthus, fennel fronds, hibiscus, hollyhock, honeysuckle flowers (steer clear of the poisonous berries), jasmine flowers, Johnny-jump-ups, lavender buds, lilac, nasturtiums, pansies, roses, scented geraniums, sunflowers, and violets.
Spices for sun tea: Allspice berries, cardamom pods, whole cloves, crystallized ginger pieces, fennel seeds, juniper berries, star anise, and vanilla bean.
Fruits and vegetables for sun tea: Citrus peel (lemon, limes, grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, tangelos, etc.), cranberries, cucumber slices, fresh berries, melon cubes, and fresh ginger slices.
(Thyme & Lemon Peel Sun Tea)
Incredibly, as I was penning this post today, I got fidgety and took a break, catching up on blog reading. In the process, I came across Willi Galloway's recent post on the same topic! As the west coast editor of Organic Gardening magazine, Willi certainly knows a thing or two (or eight million!) about using fresh herbs. I wrote to tell her that, even though we're blazing through summer on separate coasts, we're clearly on the same herbal wavelength.
Straight-up herbal teas are beyond quenching in and of themselves, but if you'd like a bit of sweetness, feel free to add honey, agave, or a homemade simple syrup to your blend. Herbal and spice simple syrups are phenomenally easy to whip up and pennies cheaper then their prepared, shelf-ready cousins (not to mention considerably richer in flavor, I've found). Generally, for cold beverages, a 1:2 ratio of water to sugar is used, rendering a thicker syrup. If you're intending to use the syrup for a different purpose, however, such as glazing a cake or drizzling over fresh fruit, adjust the ratio to 1:1; otherwise you'll be working with a sturdy syrup that won't fully penetrate whatever it's topping.
Here's how to make an Herbal simple syrup:
The Goods:
-1 part water
-2 parts granulated sugar
-Herbs, spices, or other flavoring agents (such as citrus peel, etc.) of choice*
*The amount of flavoring agent you'll be using depends on how much simple syrup you're making. A good rule of thumb is to use 1 Tbsp. dried or 1/4 c. fresh herb for each cup of water you use.
The Deal:
-Combine water and sugar in a medium-size pot.
-Stirring constantly, bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat.
-Once the sugar is completely dissolved, remove pot from heat.
-Add flavoring agent(s) and stir.
-Allow to cool completely at room temperature.
-Strain off solids and store herbal simple syrup in a lidded container in the refrigerator.
-Use within 2-3 weeks.
What about you? Have any favorite sun tea infusions? Go-to herbal simple syrups? I'd love to hear about them. In the meantime, the sun's shining and my porch railing is begging for a pitcher of sun tea to come rest on it. Happy weekending, and sun tea-imbibing, everyone! –ashley
I love this extraction method…you can taste the sun.
Thanks for this great post. I've been infusing vinegar and vodka recently. This seems like a better every day application (seeing as I'm only hitting the vodka up on the weekends!). I think I am going to try something with fennel fronds. They are so wonderfully fragrant.
Thanks again,
Brandon -
I wouldn't say our West Coast summer has been exactly blazing, but maybe I've been negligent in my sun-tea science projects. Never in a million years would have thought to make sage tea — will try it out this very weekend. Cheers!
I wish I would have known about sun tea earlier this summer. These 100+ degree days in VA have been brutal.
I've been making sun tea all summer from plain old tea (liptons and tazo's green ginger have been my go-to's). I'm excited to branch out and try some of these infusions to put all the herbs I've been growing to good use.
Hooray, btw, for the shout-out to Willi. She is so, so awesome, and so is her blog!!
This is great. Thanks so much. I normally just do ice black tea so i'm very excited to try this. However, a simple question for a novice. How long can you keep this after they have been sitting in the sun for 5-8 hours. Are they to be consumed on the same day or do they last a few?
Peppermint sun tea is my drink of choice. I drink this stuff all day long.
I've also had a delicious basil vodka lemonade that's worth mentioning. It's super easy to make yourself.
mmm…i might have to try this tomorrow. what a great way to refresh after a long day of patio work. Thanks for the post! Will be trying!
didn't know u can make tea this way! very interesting! the jars look so refreshing!
Do you have elderflowers around? This is my Nana'y recipe: 30-40 flower umbels (is this really the right word? my dictionary says so …), 2.5kg of sugar, 3 liters of water, 50g of citric acid (or a corresponding amount of lemon juice) and 3 lemons, sliced. Throw it all into a container, keep cool for 3 days and stir once in a while. Strain, fill in (well cleaned!) plastic bottles (no glass, the syrup tends to ferment just a bit). Makes about 4.5 liters. Measure carefully and add lemon, as it is supersweet. But the amount of sugar acts as a preservative, it keeps for about a year. This is the single most delicious syrup – or beverage in general – I know :-)
PS: I know, elderflower season is well past, but maybe next year :-)
So, it turns out that making tea by letting it sit in the sun has a tendency to attract bacteria. Think about it. A liquid left at room temperature for hours upon hours.
It's really a lot safer (and winter-friendly) if you make your "sun tea" in the refrigerator.
Thanks so much for the link, Ashley! I love the idea of using spices in sun tea. I totally hadn't thought of that. Happy weekend.
Can I ask why it's necessary to use the herbal simple syrup within 3 weeks? Will it go bad?
The middle coast is exactly blazing. It's been so humid that my doors no longer fit in their frames. This tea sounds so good; thanks for the idea.
I, too, drank sun tea that was made on our porch in Virginia while growing up. I love this post, also the shout-out to Willi. Cheers to all things lo-fi and summery.
I love tisanes but had never heard of this method – is it a Southern thing? Thank you for spreading the word!
Question on using chamomile…would you only use the flowers or can you also stick in the greenery?
Wow this looks great. Ill have to give it a go.
Thanks for sharing.
Brilliant. My friend ALWAYS has a pitcher of these waiting for us when we visit during the summer.
We've had a profusion of mint this summer, so I've been enjoying a mint/sugar/water syrup, enhancing my regular sun tea. Delicious.
i'm wondering the same on the simple syrup on the 'use by' date…i've been considering doing a lavender SS but not if i have to use it so quickly so am curious what they are doing in the stores to sell us SS to preserve it a bit longer (is there a natural way…?)
as usual, great post chica!
I love sun tea, my mother & grandmother used to make this, in the hot Arizona sun, we always had a pitcher cooling off in the refrigerator. I'll have to try it with the syrup. Thank you for posting the recipe!
I'm from AZ as well and was raised on sun tea. Love the mint sun tea. Great post!
sorry for the delayed replies everyone! i'm in florida, on vacation with my family, and am only just now getting around to responding.
carolina-once you've left your tea out in the sun, strain off the solids and place the beverage in a container in the fridge. sun teas can then be enjoyed anytime over the next few days, much like iced tea.
amanda and ecogrrl (aimee!)-i've found that anytime longer than 3 weeks and the syrups start to "turn" and ferment a bit. if you worry you won't use that much in that amount of time, just make half, or even one quarter, of the amount called for in the recipe. the syrups available on shelf stores have been preserved, in much the same manner as home canning, to make them impervious to oxygen. you can certainly water bath can your syrups to extend their shelf life, as well. i'd preserve them in half or pint-sized jars for 10 and 15 minutes respectively.
elizabeth-for chamomile, i'd stick with just the flowers buds.
Sun tea promotes bacteria. It's much safer to put the tea in the refrigerator for a few hours or overnight. Easier too!
For what it's worth, I searched for one single recorded case of a person who has died in history from sun tea, among the millions of gallons that people have consumed for decades and decades and decades, and could not find one. I found warnings, but not even a case of someone getting sick.
Personally, I think it is actually far more dangerous to be overly cautious of bacteria, and a great deal of research supports that belief. Children who grow up in homes that are scrubbed free of bacteria have much weaker immune systems:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27brod.htmlOf course, how you want to make your sun tea, with or without, is a personal choice ;)
lovely tribute to your grandmother.
my grandmother is turning 85 as well this year and I have been thinking of doing a 'blog post tribute' to her as well. -
What a great post…and good idea..I have so many herbs growing and wasn't sure what to do with them all! Now its time for sun tea :) Thanks Grace!
Sun tea is amazing and as hot as it is here in Savannah (hello heat index of 120!), this is the perfect time of year to brew it up. I love that you are doing something you remember your grandmother doing in a new way, too. Grandma knows best!
The "iced tea" wars! Ok, not wars, but mini battles. My folks in NJ have been making sun tea for years, though I'm not sure they can tell you why the sun part is important. I make iced tea with cold water, tea bags (of any sort I'm in the mood for) and just put it in the fridge. Then I know some folks who insist you need the hot of boiling water to extract the flavor (is that what the sun does as well?) In any event, I'm going to try these infused herbal ideas. Love them.
I love this idea. I can't wait to try this with the combination of mint and lemon grass.
For anyone interested in making simple syrup without cooking the sugar over the stove, you can use what bar-tenders use: superfine sugar- they dissolve instantly in cold water and is the simple syrup they use for making cocktails.
Grew up in the southwest in the 70s/80s, thus grew up on sun tea. But now we live in the Michigan where it's not so sunny, so we make our tea on the counter or in the fridge. (My current fav is Celestial Seeasonings blueberry herbal tea.) I don't think you actually need the sun's rays or the heat for this to work – it's just steeping. Maybe the heat or direct sunlight speeds it up a bit? But then again, sun tea is not a rushed product.
I came here (from craftzine.com) hoping for some herb combo ideas – I've been getting lots of mint from my CSA but am not all that keen on strictly mint tea so haven't tried it yet. Maybe this week…
Oh, and about simple syrup in the fridge: it can get moldy after awhile. BTDT!
Aww! I was just thinking about sun tea! It reminds me of my childhood when my mom used to make it. Although, my family is from SoCal, so it's not just a southern thing! Either way, I can't wait to try it with herbs =)
Sun Tea! Oh my gosh….my grandma still makes sun tea on a regular basis. She sets it out on her veranda in the morning, with a couple of black tea bags and a handful of mint. No sweet stuff. She's 89 this year. :^)
It's something I've always done too, subsequently. My opinion on the bacteria-factor: I would agree with those that state that a focus on the dangers of bacteria is more dangerous than actual bacteria. Yes, don't leave your potato salad sitting out in the sun all day. There is a reason people don't make Sun Potato Salad! But tea? Really? We are eating bacteria all day long, people! You are eating it right now! Anyhow, I digress….
While on the Tea subject: Anyone tried Moon Tea? It's delightful!
While the energy of Sun Tea is decidedly warm, and comforting while cooling you down….Moon Tea has its own energy properties. Good for ladies. You make it the same way, with handfuls of your favourite herbs, but put your jar out under the light of the full moon. It's cooling in another way; douses anger & makes things more clear. Try it!
My favourite recipe: Handfuls of lemon balm, linden blossoms, and a bit of mint, with a curl of lemon under the moon for one night. Unsweetened of course. *wink*
this is so inspiring- i had a neighbor bring me some chamomile lavender sun tea- i loved the moontea comment by Heidi…..thanks for all the ideas!
i love this idea but i'm confused. are the photographs of sun tea? don't the leaves turn brown?
I am not very wonderful with English but I come up this real leisurely to interpret .
We've been making "tea soda" with a Soda Stream CO2 spritzer thingyjobby. Spritzing the tea directly doesn't work well, so I make the tea strong, knowing I'll cut it by 1/2.) We've enjoyed lemon verbena/stevia, and lemon balm/orange peel/ginger.
*Question for others who might know: has anyone tried freezing sun tea (NOT carbonated!) for use in winter? We have lots of luck with tomatoes, but haven't herbal tea.


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Posted By Nicholas Mosley On Dec 1 2010 @ 2:37 pm In Boise State | No Comments
Here it is, the last ever game playing as a member of the WAC. Unfortunately for Boise State (10-1), they will be leaving with a sour taste in their mouth. Against Nevada last week, Boise States dreams and aspirations were crushed as they fell to the Wolf Pack 34-31 in overtime. In the first half it was all Boise State as they jumped on Nevada leading 24-7 at halftime. But after that it was all Nevada and with a little help from two missed field goals, Nevada was able to pull out the upset. Utah State (4-7) on the other hand has not played in two weeks and in their last game they were not impressive. Against Idaho, the Aggies were only able to muster up 242 total yards in a 28-6 loss.
Boise State doesn't have a lot to play for this weekend as they are out of contention for a BCS bowl game, but knowing coach Petersen as well as the Boise State teams as a whole, they will be playing their hardest. Kellen Moore will look to have another solid outing as he looks to improve his Heisman stock after last weeks defeat. Being that it is that it will be Senior Day this Saturday look for many of the seniors such as Titus Young, and Austin Pettis to get extensive playing time as it will be the last time ever playing in front of a home crowd here in Boise. Utah State has never really presented a challenge to Boise State in the past, but as last weekend can show upsets can happen if you don't bring your A game.
Utah State will look to pull off the improbable upset as they look to try and defeat Boise State at home. This year has not the been the best year for the Aggies but as their week one game against Oklahoma showed, they can compete with the big boys. Utah State will be led by Quarterback Diondre Borel as he will be playing his last game as an Aggie. While Utah State is not eligible to play in a bowl this year, you know they will be playing hard as they try to beat the beast known as Boise State.
Being that it is the last game the Broncos will ever play as a member of the WAC, Boise State will want to go out with a bang. Utah State does not have the physical tools as well as talent to compete with the Broncos and that is why I predict Boise State will win 40-3 sending the seniors off right as well as leaving the WAC with a convincing win.
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Daphne sadly passed away twelve years ago today.
One of her many roles during her long association with our club included her involvement with the Supporter's Club Ladies Section. The following article appeared in the 1951-52 Handbook:
'The Queen's Park Rangers Supporters Club Ladies' Section was formed last November as a result mainly of the efforts of Mrs Ray Sonin, wife of the President of the Supporter's Club. After acting as chairman for some months she unfortunately had to leave London and found it impossible to give the Section the time that it needed, excepting of course in an advisory capacity.
She was able, however, to secure the interest of Miss Philippa Cohen (a niece of the late Philip Cohen who many will remember as a Director for over twenty-five years), who was duly elected Chairman. Miss Cohen has been an active supporter of the club for many years.
(Pictured above are, left to right – back row: Mrs B Elkins, Mrs I Durrant, Mrs Pearce, Miss C O'Connell, Miss McKenzie, Mrs Jones, Mrs Boyle, Miss J Lovett, Miss D Gurrin, Miss E Morris, Miss R Goodchild, Mrs E Reeves.
Seated: Mrs Gorton, Miss D Langton, Mrs Lindsay, Miss P Rowe, Miss P Cohen (Chairman), Miss P Lovett, Mrs D Biggs, Miss G Holtom, Miss J Stevenson).
The aims and objects of the Ladies' Section are set out in a Constitution which has been duly approved by a Committee which at the moment consists of twenty-two enthusiastic members and which meets at regular intervals to discuss various suggestions for helping the main body financially and with personal assistance as and when required.
Since the Ladies' Section inception two successful 'Sales of Work' have been held and these in addition to other activities have raised £92.
The Section is always pleased to welcome any new members and those interested should communicate with the Hon. Secretary, Miss G Holtom, 15 St John's Avenue, Harlesden, NW10.'
God Bless you Daphne.
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Legend…in our thoughts…
Daphne Biggs, a faithfull servant to the club. As a child I remember a number of away trips on various supporters club coaches where Daphne was the coach marshall. Lovely lady.
Great piece Steve.
Yes a True legend that's for sure.
I'll never forget how tolerant she was of all of us lively young kids crowding out that cramped supporters club office underneath the old wooden Ellerslie Rd Stand during the late 1950's….one memory among many.
Good article Steve.
Daphne was an amazing lady and a very good friend. She was truly Mrs QPR. She had a lot to contend with when she lost her husband in early days and also later in life she was mugged twice and also had a bad car accident, but she never felty sorry for herself, but just kept going. Daphne's work at QPR and running the Supporters Club was her life. I hope she will never be forgotten at QPR. She was a lovely lady and a legend.


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Ricki Lake on Getting the "Psycho" Theme: "We were not psyched!" Good one, Ricki. But she is psyched to top that leaderboard again and score the first 10s of the season: "I can't even believe it – and two [10s]. It's crazy. It's kind of a blur," she said.
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Apple has the chops to seriously disrupt the burgeoning smart-TV space, so when there's any indication that an Apple-branded television could actually exist, well, we can't help but get excited.
The latest word comes courtesy of Chinese news site 21cbh.com, which reports that Sharp is supplying the displays for Apple's dedicated TV. The site says that, originally, the television sets were expected in Q4 of this year, but they should arrive in Q3 now instead.
This follows a report in May that Foxconn CEO Terry Gou said that his company was making preparations for the "iTV." Foxconn recently embarked on a joint venture with Sharp Electronics Co.
"We believe the pieces are in place for a launch soon," Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White wrote in a research note. White also said that on a recent trip to Taipei he learned that Apple is planning to incorporate "a special type of motion detection technology on the future full blown Apple TV."
Earlier this year, there were conflicting reports that Apple had begun reaching out to component suppliers for the set. Some analysts Wired spoke with thought it was possible we could see an Apple television before the end of the year, but not likely.
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Algur H. Meadows
Algur Hurtle Meadows, (April 24, 1899 – June 10, 1978) was an oilman, art collector, and benefactor of Southern Methodist University and other institutions.
Meadows was born on April 24, 1899, in Vidalia, Georgia, the third of seven children of John Morgan and Sally Marie Elora (Dailey) Meadows. After receiving his diploma from Vidalia Collegiate Institute in 1915, he studied at Georgia and Alabama Business College and Mercer University, both in Macon, Georgia. Meadows subsequently left Mercer to travel around the South with a friend, during which journey he held a variety of jobs. He first manifested his business acumen in his accounting work for Standard Oil Company in Shreveport, Louisiana, from 1921 to 1929. During this period he earned a law degree from Centenary College and was admitted to the Louisiana state bar, in 1926. On December 11, 1922, he married Virginia Stuart Garrison, with whom he had one son.
In the fall of 1928 Meadows and a friend, Ralph G. Trippett, founded a loan company, the General Finance Company, which became the General American Finance System in 1930. In the summer of 1936 Meadows and Trippett united with J. W. Gilliland, a petroleum expert, to form the General American Oil Company, the headquarters of which were moved from Shreveport to Dallas in 1937. The new company experienced a phenomenal expansion in operations, due to an ingenious method of acquiring oil-producing properties that Meadows developed. The scheme, which Meadows dubbed the "ABC plan," involved three parties in the purchase transaction to minimize tax liability and the use of interest-bearing oil payments to meet a large percentage of the purchase price. Meadows became the president and major stockholder of the General American Oil Company in 1941 and was elected chairman of the board in 1950. By 1959 his company had acquired 2,990 oil wells in fifteen states and Canada and was drilling for oil in Spain.
On business trips to Madrid in the 1950s, Meadows visited the Prado museum, which inspired an interest in Spanish old masters. He began acquiring paintings attributed to artists such as El Greco and Goya. Following the death of his wife in 1961, he donated his collection and a million-dollar endowment to Southern Methodist University in order to establish a museum of Spanish art in her memory. He subsequently donated a collection of contemporary Italian sculpture to SMU in order to found an outdoor sculpture garden in honor of his second wife, Elizabeth Boggs Bartholow, whom he married in 1962. In recognition of Meadows's multiple gifts, exceeding $34 million, the SMU trustees named the university's school of arts in his honor in 1969, Meadows School of the Arts .
In 1964 Meadows, with the encouragement of his second wife, began collecting paintings by French Impressionists and post-Impressionists. Three years later, in a widely publicized discovery, he learned that thirty-eight of the fifty-eight works in his private collection were forgeries and that many of the earlier works in SMU's Meadows Museum collection were falsely attributed. With characteristic generosity, Meadows immediately gave the museum a million dollars to replace the questionable works and began rebuilding his private collection, much of which was donated to the Dallas Museum of Art after his death.
In 1965, Meadows purchased 360 pieces of original artwork from the family of the recently deceased French artist, Jean Despujols. Despujols immigrated to the United States during World War II, and lived in Shreveport, LA until his death. Meadows paid the Despujols family $250,000 for the paintings and promptly donated them to Centenary College. He also gifted $200,000 to the college to remodel the former administration building into an art gallery and later gave an additional $150,000 to be used for museum maintenance. The Meadows Museum of Art opened on Centenary's campus in 1975.[1]
Meadows generously benefitted programs throughout Texas in health, education, visual arts, and social services, under the auspices of the Meadows Foundation, which he and his first wife established in 1948. He was on the board of directors of Republic National Bank of Dallas, a trustee of SMU, and on the board of directors at St. Mark's School, Presbyterian Hospital, Children's Medical Center, Hope Cottage, and the Wadley Research Center. Meadows was a Presbyterian, a Mason, and a member of numerous professional, civic, and social organizations, including the American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petroleum Association, Dallas Petroleum Club, Dallas Art Association, Dallas Citizens Council, and Sigma Nu fraternity. He received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from SMU in 1965 and an honorary doctor of laws degree from Centenary College in 1969. He was killed in an auto accident on June 10, 1978, and was entombed at Hillcrest Mausoleum. His legacy of generosity to the public lives on in the Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College, the Meadows Museum at SMU, now considered to be the finest collection of Spanish art outside of Spain, and through the beneficence of the Meadows Foundation, which by the end of 2013 had donated more than 1 billion to charitable organizations in Texas.
- ^ Lee Morgan, _Centenary College of Louisiana, 1825-2000: The Biography of an American Academy_, 2008, p. 205 & 219
- Current Biography Yearbook, 1960.
- William A. McWhirter, "How Art Swindlers Duped a Virtuous Millionaire," Life, July 7, 1967.
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Update: We didn't get the upgraded panel. Thanks for everyone's advice!
Ted and I need some advice in a hurry: The electrician is about to install our electrical panel, and we need to decide whether to pay an extra $2,350 for a panel that's compatible with a backup generator.
We have no immediate plans to install a backup generator, and we hope the grid stays reliable enough that we wouldn't need one. But if we do want a generator one day, it would be a lot cheaper if our panel is ready for it.
Note that our house is run entirely on electricity. No wood stove, no gas range. Our water comes from a well, which requires a pump, and our sewer hookup requires a pump as well.
The idea of burning propane to power our house gives me the willies, but if there's an extended power failure I'd rather burn propane than abandon ship altogether.
[I should add that the solar panels won't work in the event of a power failure. There's an automatic shutoff if the grid supply goes down, in order to protect line-workers.]
Doing things right
Andrea — January 21, 2012
One of the many things I like about building websites is how easy it is to change things later on. Want to change some wording or add a new photo? Piece of cake! Need to change something complicated like the page layout? That's a bit more work but 100% doable — change a few settings and template files, and you've got a new layout.
Changing a building? Not so easy. You can't just edit the source files and hit "Reload." Nope, changing a building involves crowbars, debris, dumpsters, and a whole lot of work and expense. My sole consolation about building a house from scratch is that it's apparently less painful than trying to remodel, so we're making every effort to do things right the first time around.
This has meant paying constant attention to detail and making sure we're designing for longevity. The idea of doing things right is so deeply ingrained that we don't even ponder the alternative, and so we often forget how unusual it is.
For example, Ted recently shared some photos of our garage on Google+ and received unexpected praise for the generous overhangs:
I designed the garage myself, and when it came to sizing the overhangs I simply asked Eli what he recommended and went with that. It didn't occur to me not to have overhangs, or that sizing them properly was unusual enough to attract praise.
And yet it is. When people with building experience come visit our house, they're astonished by how well-built it is and how little we've compromised. The most recent was Russ, our new rep from the building supply yard. He said he's worked with lots of customers who initially intend to build a super-insulated, passive solar, [insert eco-adjective here] house. But then they see the price for all those green-building features, and they scale it back until they wind up with a house that's only marginally more "green" than a conventional house.
Russ told us what a thrill it is to see a house where this hasn't happened. Quite the opposite — our original target was an almost-passive house, and yet here we are building what is now likely to be a certified passivhaus with solar hot water and a 3.96 kW photovoltaic array. I honestly can't think of a single corner we've cut with regard to the building's performance.
We've certainly trimmed some other corners. Heck, we lopped about 500 square feet from the original floor plan. The bathrooms are small and simple, the bedrooms have ordinary (not walk-in) closets, the kitchen cabinets are stock rather than custom. But we can't bring ourselves to install anything we'll want to rip out and upgrade in a few years. Hence no formica counters, vinyl floors, or any of the other money-saving standbys.
Alas, there is a reason so few people build this way. It's really expensive! I know I've posted about this before, but it's such a big part of our building experience that I can't help repeating myself. Nearly every estimate we receive is like getting the wind knocked out of me — it seems impossible that construction could be this expensive, and yet apparently it is.
One of the hardest parts is how often I feel ashamed or that I've somehow failed. When I started this blog, I really wanted it to describe how we built an almost-passive house for some cute number like $100 or $125 a square foot. But we've sailed past $200 a square foot, and I don't yet know what the final number will be. I'm not looking forward to taking out that mortgage, nor do I relish the possible eventuality of selling the house for less than we put in.
Ted suspects that a lot of our costs are because this is a custom home. Yes, all the eco-bling is adding a lot, but not as much as the general costs of building a distinctive home on a challenging site.
Perhaps this blog will help illustrate the need for production-scale passivhaus construction. Such construction is common in Europe, and it's beginning to take off in North America. Builders of modular homes are getting in on the game as well, and perhaps very soon it will be possible to get a house like ours much more easily and cheaply than we are. I certainly hope so, because I wouldn't wish this process on anyone, and yet I definitely want more people to have this kind of house.
Winter progress
Andrea — January 2, 2012
Due to some prior commitments, Eli pulled his crew from our job for much of November and December, and the pace of our construction slowed down accordingly. Eli already had a busy year lined up when we first called him last spring, but he couldn't resist the lure of building southern Vermont's first (almost) Passive House. He was able to pull it off thanks to a lot of schedule-shuffling, and once we were weathered in it was our turn to be shuffled.
Fortunately, I am such a sporadic blogger that I still have heaps of photos to share. And things are swinging back into high gear, so there should be more rapid and dramatic progress soon.
Let the photos commence! Our solar panels went up in November — 3.96 kW of DC goodness. We're not hooked up yet, but that will happen by the end of this month.
The plumbing work began — I suspect a lot of rough plumbing looks like something drawn by M.C. Escher, but ours is pretty over-the-top:
With Eli's team off in Guilford, we hired a pair of building pros to put up our exterior polyiso (rigid foam) insulation , housewrap, and strapping. We probably won't put up the siding until spring, which means our house will have that classy Typar look for several months. Eli once mused that they ought to sell housewrap printed to look like painted clapboards, but that most Vermonters would then never bother putting up real siding on top of it. I concur.
Anyway, here's the polyiso going up the north wall:
I am pleased to report that Ted's collarbone surgery was a success and that he is recovering nicely. This means that he is back in the DIY saddle, and for the last week we've been busy constructing the two loft spaces.
Ted at the chopsaw:
Before sharing the photos, I should explain the two loft spaces. We haven't built any of the upstairs interior walls yet, because we want to install the ceiling drywall all at once, creating a nice uninterrupted vapor-barrier. But we can't put up drywall until the roof insulation goes in, and it's hard to do any of that with a ceiling that's 25 feet high in spots (above the staircase and the two-story dining area).
Ted and I therefore decided to build the two loft platforms — one is a utility loft over the upstairs office area (it will house the PV inverter and the heat recovery ventilator), and the other is a cozy space we've dubbed the "manatee cave." Ted and I are inordinately fond of manatees (especially dwarf land manatees), and we thought that a manatee cave was much more original than a mere man-cave.
Anyway, here's the upstairs before we started building the lofts:
And here it is afterward:
The manatee cave is on the left, and in the foreground you can see the utility loft. Today we built a temporary platform connecting the two lofts (to facilitate the insulation and drywall work), and tomorrow we plan to build a platform between the utility loft and the west wall, which is where the curved staircase will go (the current staircase is merely temporary).
This last photo won't be very exciting to anyone but a building science geek, but it is very exciting to us. It's the readout from our first blower-door test, taken in December. A blower-door test quickly measures how much a house leaks. If Ted and I want to achieve Passivhaus certification, we need to build an insanely tight house (0.6 air exchanges per hour when pressurized to 50 pascals, roughly equivalent to 0.04 air exchanges per hour in a non-pressurized house).
We had no intention of running a blower-door test this early, because we haven't begun to seal the obvious leaks. The walls and roof are already very tight, but we can still see daylight at the window corners, and the exterior subfloor is completely absent (we need to finish the rough plumbing and electrical work first). But we wanted to insulate the roof so we could put up the ceiling drywall and build the interior walls, so we arranged a preliminary blower-door test to check for leaks around the roof (much harder to fix once the insulation is in). We taped over some of the gaping leak points to prevent them from wrecking the test altogether, but otherwise we haven't done any post-construction sealing.
We weren't expecting a result anywhere near the Passivhaus requirement. So we were quite happily gobsmacked to discover we're very nearly there:
The readout shows that the pressurized house is leaking at 227 CFM, which in our house converts to 0.65 ACH@50Pa. Which means that before we've even insulated or added the ZIP-sheathing subfloor, we are within spitting distance of the rigorous Passivhaus requirement. The test was run by Bill Hulstrunk of National Fiber, and he said that of the thousands of houses he's tested, this was the tightest house he'd ever seen. I am too superstitious to remove the "Almost" from the name of this website, but things are looking good in that department!
Work is now kicking back into high gear — in the near future we hope to get roof insulation, ceiling drywall, rough electrical wiring, and a garage. Our winter has been largely snow-free, a fortunate circumstance I attribute to Ted's and my purchase of a heavy-duty snowblower and season lift tickets at Stratton and Okemo. So I hope to have lots of thrilling new photos soon.
The DIY Thing
Andrea — November 27, 2011
Back in 2009 when this project was born, Ted and I had every intention of building the house ourselves. Ted didn't have a whole lot of building experience and I had none, but Ted thinks like an engineer and was eager for the construction challenge. He works remotely as a computer geek and has a very accommodating employer, so we had a rare opportunity to build a house without sacrificing income.
My main attraction to do-it-yourselfing was to save money. We had a good chunk of starting equity, thanks to an inheritance from my grandfather which survived two prior bouts of home-ownership. I cheerfully believed we could build our house without borrowing money and wind up owning an Almost Passivhaus free and clear.
I should pause and thank my parents, who only occasionally pointed out that things might not go as planned. My mother quoted the Yiddish proverb "Mensch tracht, un Gott lacht" ("Man makes plans, God laughs") a few times, but that was it. If she laughed and rolled her eyes at me, it was only behind my back and with great affection. When it became clear that our equity would not nearly cover the construction costs, they gave us access to the family business's line of credit, freeing us from the constraints of a standard construction loan. We'll repay their commercial lender by taking out a mortgage once the house is complete.
But I digress. The first thing that drove up our costs was the difficulties of our building site. We chose it in haste, partly because Ted wanted to start a three-year meditation retreat at the end of 2010 (in sync with our friends and teachers in a three-year retreat in Arizona). The lot is relatively secluded (good for meditating) but still very close to town. It's also close to Ted's parents, who he hoped would visit during those three quiet years. But it became clear that we couldn't possibly have a livable house in time (we don't have one a year later!). This and other considerations prompted Ted not to do the retreat.
We described our site and its challenges in a post six months ago. It is neither flat enough for a slab foundation, nor is it steep enough for a walk-out basement/garage. (The slope was hard to discern when we bought the property, because it was covered with dense brush.) And the site is riddled with ledge, which makes excavation slow and expensive.
If we had been willing to sacrifice passive-solar performance we could have sited the house more cheaply, but to us that was non-negotiable. In our land-buying haste, we didn't accurately pinpoint which way solar south was. This sounds idiotic, and perhaps it was, but our street is very twisty, and cheap compasses are not at all precise. Furthermore, solar south is 15° west of magnetic south at our latitude, and daylight saving time is the work of the devil.
It's embarrassing to talk about this publicly, since I'm opening myself to derision from the green building digerati. Building science geeks are exceptionally bright and perhaps a little touchy about not being appreciated or understood by the mainstream, which means they're occasionally catty about projects that weren't as well managed as their own. I follow a number of green building Twitter feeds, and my feelings will be hurt if any of them link derisively to my site as an example of What Not To Do. That said, we invite people to link non-derisively to this site as an example of what not to do (as well as what to do). Ted and I feel there's value in sharing our mistakes as well as our achievements.
Anyway, as I was saying, the complexity of our site and foundation dealt one blow to our DIY dreams, and the switch from 2x6 framing to I-joists was another. Our second/current structural engineer prescribed I-joists for better wind resistance and then promptly told us there was no way we'd be able to maneuver them ourselves. Until then, everyone had humored our DIY intentions, but Ben told us flat-out that we needed help and lots of it.
He was right. It took several months for Eli's highly-experienced crew to get our house enclosed and under roof, and the complexity never seems to let up. The current challenge is the exterior window trim. We'll probably share those details later, but they are an oddly costly and complicated 3-D jigsaw puzzle of rigid foam insulation, lumber, and AZEK.
We hoped at least to build the garage ourselves and also do a lot of interior carpentry, but then Ted broke his collarbone, requiring surgery. This was truly the final insult (excepting any future insults). Ted's deep yearning to build his own house and my vain wish to keep our costs down were thoroughly squelched.
It is dishonest to call this a DIY project (something we haven't actively claimed in many months). I have therefore replaced the little lemon-shaped DIY badge on the website's logo with a VT sticker. We may have failed to build this house ourselves, but by golly, it's still in Vermont!
Andrea — October 30, 2011
The last time Ted and I built a house, it was in an energy-efficient subdivision in downtown Tucson, and all we had to do was pick out finishes and fixtures. It seemed like a big task at the time: we had to go to the plumbing, lighting, kitchen, and tile showrooms and make all sorts of decisions, with the help of the design staff of course. The low point was when I found myself studiously comparing toilet seats late night on the internet. (In case you're wondering, here's what I picked.)
In retrospect it was a piece of cake, like coloring within the lines of a coloring book. Picking out a few fixtures for a house that somebody else had designed and was building? No problem! By contrast, I've been actively planning our current house for two years, and only now am I picking out fixtures. After overseeing a foundation and envelope, e-combing North America and Europe for windows, sourcing commercial-depth roof joists, and frantically ordering expanding foam tape and air-sealing gaskets, the task of picking out faucets and tiles is but a frivolous afterthought.
And yet I wish I'd been frivolous enough to start doing this sooner. If only I'd whiled away the hours last winter bookmarking light fixtures and plugging them into my SketchUp models! Because now I'm frantically scouring the web for ideas, and I'm also running around to plumbing and appliance showrooms trying to get quotes in a hurry so my subcontractors can get to work.
My insane level of attention to detail is both a blessing and a curse. It means I have a good eye for design and user interface, and I think carefully about how everything will come together. But it also means I can't just relax and pick things haphazardly, because living with a bad choice will positively drive me nuts. I haphazardly selected our ceramic floor tiles in Tucson, not noticing until after they were installed in every room of the house that they had a rustic-looking dirt pattern baked right in. A friend helpfully pointed out that you wouldn't be able to tell when the floors were dirty, but I replied that you also couldn't tell when they were clean.
Obviously I can't anticipate everything, and I'll have to be philosophical about whatever bad choices we make, but I know a lot of eyes are on this project and I don't want to let down the team.
The biggest challenge is probably the lighting. So many different fixtures and setups to choose! I see why a lot of builders just give up and litter the ceiling with recessed cans, but we are scrupulously following Martin Holladay's Ten Rules of Lighting and avoiding recessed cans like the plague. As Holladay points out, it's better to illuminate the ceiling than the floor. With a white-painted ceiling, the light will bounce off it nicely in a way that mimics the natural world (bright sky, darker ground). Recessed cans, however, cast weird shadows and call undue attention to the floor (including those pre-dirted ceramic tiles).
His slideshow included a great-looking T5 fluorescent luminaire by Delray Lighting:
T5 tubes are have a much smaller diameter than the old schoolroom fluorescents we're all used to: 5/8" as opposed to 1-1/2". They produce an impressive 100 lumens per watt, which means lots of bang for your electricity buck. And this fixture embraces the stark look of the tube, meaning that all the light is illuminating your house and not the inside of a shade.
We'll probably use a lot of T5 fixtures, but we'd also like to use LEDs where we can afford to. One way to do this, ironically, is to buy Edison-style fixtures and then screw in LED bulbs. Today I boldly (foolishly?) ordered some sale-priced pendants that take a standard candelabra bulb, which I can then turn into LED fixtures by installing LED replacement bulbs. I'll let you know how that works out.
I've put Ted in charge of researching LED strip lighting, which we plan to use liberally. For example, we want a "late-night glass of water" switch in the kitchen that will turn on red lights rather than white ones (to keep the sleepy wanderer's pupils from contracting), but I'm concerned that red lights in the kitchen might convey the wrong message.
We're also choosing appliances, which will likely include a relatively inexpensive top-freezer refrigerator, a mid-tier induction cooktop, and some crazy fancy dishwasher (Ted imprinted on an ASKO from Sweden the other day). Indeed, if anything prevents us from reaching net-zero performance, it will probably be our deep love of automatic dishwashing. They make energy-efficient dishwashers in America, but Ted is quite opinionated about dishwasher rack configurations and so far only likes the ASKO. I'll let him win this round, though, because if Ted doesn't like our dishwasher he might feel less inclined to load it (which he is generally quite good about doing.) I confess to being conniving in this one small way.
That is really just the tip of the shopping iceberg, and writing this post has been a nice break from the endless online browsing.
In other news, we got about 18" of snow last night (yes, in October). The roof installation isn't yet complete, but the unfinished parts are tarped and/or tri-flexed and should therefore be unharmed. Ted and I drove up this morning and saw that the solar awning to the south had already shed most of its snow (yay!) and that the north drip-edge was working nicely. We're hoping the snow will melt quickly and that work can resume without delay.
An eventful few weeks
Andrea — October 20, 2011
It's been a busy couple of weeks on our building site, and I've been fearfully remiss about blogging. I will now right that wrong.
After weeks and weeks of downright biblical rain, we had great weather on October 5 and 6 for the crane. It was no ordinary crane -- due to a last-minute switcheroo from the equipment company we wound up with a 165-ton crane, practically the largest in New England. This was a fortunate switcheroo, because our building site is awkwardly shaped and the pre-constructed walls would have been hard to lift and place with an ordinary little crane.
Here's what our site looked like at the beginning of the day:
The north wall is raised:
Behold our lovely 24" framing:
They braced it from behind:
The west wall:
Nothing warms a homeowner's heart like seeing a crew member wield a level.
A woolly bear caterpillar turned up, prompting a conversation with Milt the crane operator about what kind of winter its coloring foretells (answer: no clue).
Speaking of the crane operator, here's the ginormous crane:
The following day they used the crane to place the 24"-deep roof joists, shown here from the second floor.
They also placed the timber-frame awning, which will hold up the solar panels. It was definitely two dramatically productive days!
Eli's crew has been busy on-site ever since then, but the time for Ted's and my DIY phase had arrived. Last weekend Ted used a laser level to start laying out the interior walls (note autumn foliage in the background).
But our DIY plans hit a major obstacle the next day when Ted had a bicycle accident and broke his collarbone :-(
He's scheduled for surgery in a few days, and he'll be unable to swing a hammer for a solid six weeks.
But work continued, culminating yesterday with the arrival of our windows. Eli and I worked all day Tuesday preparing the rough openings with Vycor, flex-wrap, and flashing tape.
Eli overhead Patrik and Tomas from European Architectural Supply say that we had the best-prepared rough openings they'd ever seen. They even took photos, presumably to shame their other clients.
It was a marathon, but the EAS team and Eli's crew managed to fully install the windows and the front door in a single day. The first one (on the north wall) peeks out into some lovely woods:
So at last we have a weathered-in house! No insulation yet, but it's already warmer and more comfortable than our drafty apartment.
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Ordinary houses breathe through leaky joints and poor seals, losing heat and wasting energy. But our house won't leak, so we'll use a heat recovery ventilator (HRV) to admit fresh air and expel stale air, transferring heat from one stream to the other.


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At the Atlanta Pop Festival in 1970, John Sebastian was fond of just wandering around in the crowd during the day, guitar in hand, being the official "greeter," I suppose. He strolled by our little group one day and I asked him if he'd sit down and play us a song. He said, "Sure. What would you like to hear?" I immediately said, "Younger Generation." He did a very good job; I think I might have cried.
This may seem like an outdated, silly little tune these days. But I think it does represent a very clear and concise story about the way many of us feel when we're young and still wondering what it will be like to be a parent.
It was on an album called "Everything Playing" by The Lovin' Spoonful. (Thanks to the dead Napster, I now can hear this song again. Even though no record store in the world has it for sale. Thanks, buddy.)
Why must every generation think their folks are square? And no matter where their heads are, they know mom's ain't there. 'Cause I swore when I was small that I'd remember when I knew what's wrong with them that I was smaller than.
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In it, but not of it. TPM DC
TPMDC Morning Roundup
A Skeptical GOP Is Obama's Top Target
Roll Call reports: "Tuesday night is all about the audience. When President Barack Obama delivers his second State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, he will have a special charge: winning over Republicans still skeptical about whether he is willing to compromise and be an ally in the fight to create jobs, reduce the deficit and get the budget back in the black."
Pitch For Rebuilding Infrastructure Carries Political Challenges
The New York Times reports: "When President Obama uses his State of the Union address on Tuesday to rally America to "outbuild" other nations, he will face an unusual challenge: getting Republicans to embrace public works projects again as the kind of worthy bacon they have traditionally fought to bring home, and not as wasteful pork that should be spurned."
Darrell Issa vs. Elijah Cummings Feud Heats Up
The Washington Post reports: "Congress may be getting ready for a big bipartisan kumbaya moment at tonight's State of the Union address, but don't expect many smiles between Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the House lawmakers chiefly responsible for oversight of federal agencies and top government officials. A meeting Monday between the Issa and Cummings, the respective chairman and ranking member on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, didn't go well. And in a jab meant in part to raise questions about Cummings's leadership, Issa plans to sit tonight with Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.), the committee's former chairman."
Clinton Backs Calderon's Drug Fight On Mexico Trip
Reuters reports: "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered strong support for Mexican President Felipe Calderon's war on narcotics traffickers on Monday even as drug-related violence shows no sign of abating. Making her second visit to Mexico in less than a year, the U.S. secretary of state arrived in the central colonial city of Guanajuato as State Department cables released by WikiLeaks revealed U.S. doubts about Mexican intelligence gathering."
GOP To Push For D.C. Gay Marriage Ban
The Hill reports: "House conservatives say they will pursue legislation that would ban gay marriage in the nation's capital. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), told The Hill that he will push for a vote on the controversial issue in the 112th Congress. The RSC has 175 members."


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Stephanie Telleen chose to remember Mayflower Congregational United Church of Christ in her will when she passed away, leaving her half-million dollar estate to the church. Now the Oklahoma City church will use that estate to remember Telleen for her selflessness and generosity by funding two missions close to her heart.
Mayflower Congregational voted Sunday, March 30, to sell the cottage in which Telleen lived. The Rev. Lori Walke, associate pastor, said that the church will invest a majority of the money from the sale of the home, and will use the investment gains to donate to Mayflower Medical Outreach, a medical mission providing ear, nose and throat care in Nicaragua, and to the 363 Group, a nonprofit that serves meals every other Saturday to the homeless and poor in Oklahoma City.
"She lived a humble and simple lifestyle, and was committed to the things and values that the United Church of Christ promotes," Walke said of Telleen, who died in October. "She took care of other people. She took care of the planet."
Walke added that Telleen expressed interest in finishing Mayflower Congregational's work to complete a columbarium, which is a place for a respectful and public display for urns. The congregation voted to use some money from the sale of the house to finish that project. Telleen's ashes are interred at Mayflower Congregational.
When the columbarium is complete, it will be "a place to honor loved ones, and it can be a peaceful place," Walke said.
Many who knew Telleen, who never married and had no children, offered their thoughts when the church was deciding what to do with the estate.
"We kept hearing the same things [from people on how best to use the estate]," Walke said. "She loved the Mayflower Medical Outreach, and she served at 363 Group every other Saturday by giving money and cooking meals for the homeless."
The gift will also provide Mayflower Medical Outreach and 363 Group more than one lump donation. "The idea is to grow the fund so there's more money to give out. It would be easy to give the money away now… but then it's all gone. Investing it is our way of being responsible."
Telleen's estate is worth about $500,000, including the value of the house. She has four younger brothers who live in Iowa, and when they came to Oklahoma City they saw their sister had a strong connection to her faith community.
In Telleen's final days, "there were always people from the church, two or three at a time, holding vigil with her," Walke said. "It was church at its best."


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