Posted by ppeery on January 11th, 2011 in General, Geobarns Updates, Green Building, Nature/Environment
Yesterday we completed all the framing up to the upper beam….and after I left the crew spent the afternoon cleaning up the site for the Christmas Holiday and the increasing flow of prospective clients being shown the venue…. Seeing it come together over this five/six time frame has been an emotional experience–to say the least. [...]
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Posted by ppeery on January 11th, 2011 in General, Green Building, Nature/Environment
Bundoran Farm as been identified on Google Maps as a Low Impact Development Project by Rain Dog Designs. It joins other projects in Central and Western Virginia that demonstrate sustainable building practices protecting the downstream Chesapeake Bay estuary. Also included in this list is the Lewis Residence at Bundoran Farm that was designed by Sunbiosis [...]
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Posted by ppeery on December 23rd, 2010 in General
Today most of the guys worked on completing the upper beam over the kitchen section–which at 30×40 is about an eighth of the size of the main venue foot print. I remember building a number of 30×40′s and thinking they were good size barn–what I refer to as medium size. Working on this colossus has [...]
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Posted by ppeery on December 23rd, 2010 in General
It started snowing just as the crew got here…and snowed harder and harder until everything was covered, slick, cold and gorgeous. Some of the crew decided to leave mid morning given that this is VA and woefully unequipped for snow removal–but a few of us maniacs decided to keep on keeping on and were able [...]
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Posted by ppeery on December 23rd, 2010 in Education and Inspiration, General
Today was a busy day with cold but good weather. We divided into two crews with one setting the girders, interior posts and buttresses in the kitchen section–and the other crew working to put the upper beam onto the recently installed post saddles for the rest of the main venue–proud to say we almost finished [...]
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Posted by ppeery on December 14th, 2010 in General, Geobarns Updates
I walked into my camper to compose this email and it was 37 in here before I got the heat going–it has never been this cold or windy since we started. The wind chill is about zero–with the temperature about 20 and the wind about 40 mph–my hands were so cold I had trouble moving [...]
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Posted by ppeery on December 14th, 2010 in Education and Inspiration, General, Geobarns Updates
We were able to see the building take on more of its final shape today with the remaining high buttresses installed as well as most of the wall framing on the tasting room side where we now have the massive wall/foundation in place. I left at midday knowing the crew was in very capable hands [...]
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Posted by ppeery on December 14th, 2010 in General, Geobarns Updates
Today we somehow managed to make more mistakes that we have cumulatively since we started which was no easy task..:-[ A few guys were late, I was highly distracted, and we were starting a whole new phase on the other end of the building which is now poured and ready for us to rock and [...]
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Posted by ppeery on December 14th, 2010 in General, Geobarns Updates, Project Updates
Today was a great day–even though it was actually colder than yesterday…the difference being we were more prepared for it and caught less off guard that we are actually working in winter cold. The guys were great–Matt and Thom diagonally framed all day, Ben and Curt cut rafters all day long after we ascertained how to lay them out [...]
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Posted by ppeery on December 13th, 2010 in Education and Inspiration, General, Nature/Environment
Here are few quick snapshots of the Bundoran Farm landscape sent to us by Dorothy Tompkins that were taken from the front of her home over weekend. With dramatic views like this, who needs anything else
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