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My 2011 grow list...what's your opinion...and your list?
Comments (71)I don't post here a lot, but I do on the Canadian forums. I lurk here :-) I don't grow a lot of tomato varieties but I do grow for quality. This year I have one plant, grown form a seed of the original Gordon Graham tomato. He has the world's record largest tomato according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Through good fortune and a friend, I was able to trade for just a few seeds from Gordon Graham's world record tomato. I got one to germinate, so I have one tomato plant that is a direct child of his original! I do grow other tomatoes but I'm really excited about this one! We had a very bad tomato year last year with lots of BER. This year I planted the tomatoes in my good lasagne "wine" garden, dug in lots of old manure, a little lime and one Tums tablet in each hole. The same friend who gave me the seeds above, told me that a Tums will help supply the calcium the tomatoes need to help prevent BER. So I'm trying it. It's easy and cheap, so I figured "Why not?" We'll see how it goes. Needless to say, I baby that plant! In addition to that one, I am also growing our own heritage Portugal beefheart tomatoes (see link to pic below), San Marzano, Manitoba, Ailsa Craig, and Rev Morrow long keeper. Here is a link that might be useful:...See MoreWhat insulation to use?? What is your opinion
Comments (29)Advertisers love to use suggestive terms and "thermal bridging" has become one of them. This is an area of building science where you need to do some homework on your own. Absolutely! However, The link I provided is not advertising. It is a Province of Manitoba site advising consumers/builders on some aspects of its nearly 40-year old R2000 homebuilding standards that have constantly evolved as benchmarks for "healthiness, environmental impact and energy efficiency." .... It seems misleading to use the term "thermal bridge" for wood when it has a thermal resistance 300 times greater than that of metal. .... The term is often applied to light wood framing exterior envelopes in a manner that seems to imply that wood studs have the insulation value of solid metal or no value at all. The term thermal bridging is consistently used byEnergy Star, Building America and leading building scientists, such as Dr. Joseph Lstiburek here where he refers to thermal bridging through wood framing on a cathedral roof reducing the R value approximately 20%. (And that's even with a layer of 1" XPS.) If the example of thermal bridging in the first page is a 20% reduction in the effective R value, that is R16. The range given, I presume, is the result of whole wall evaluations. By contrast, using a recommended method of averaging R values, for the R2000 Manitoba example, I get a value of R12.5 whatever theoretical wall size I slot in. Just adding together materials with various R factors does not yield equal field performance due to such factors as air leakage and convection currents. Indeed, studies show that real world installation of fiberglass batts is often way below ideal. And the ASTM testing, from which "standard" R values are derived, doesn't account for wind and moisture. The site moves on to solutions. As I read it, the examples on the subsequent linked pages are not a substitution of the first page. The example was not a matter of discrediting, but simply illustrating. Subsequent pages give further further examples of alternatives. There's no "advertising," as this is a government information site not that of a private company with commercial interests. Indeed, R2000 Manitoba gives equal or more play to reducing thermal bridging by reducing the amount of conventional wood framing--24" o.c. and other advanced framing techniques. Thermal bridging may not the be all and end all of insulation/sealing considerations. But it is clearly a very important issue that is widely ignored in current Codes that blithley prescribe R Values that are typically implemented in ways that result in effective R Values way below the supposed standard....See MoreYour opinions on this rug and my plans for the DR
Comments (17)I like the Ikat pattern but then I love lots of pattern layered together in a room. That DR (one of my faves too) has 3 radically different patterns standing out in the room & a 4th on the chairs, so if you want that feel go for the pattern. You've already determined that you would like to use a solid grass cloth so that's taking out 1 of 3 bold patterns in the inspiration room. For me #2 is too sedate for the look you're going for. Don't get me wrong, option 2 and solid grass cloth will still look very pretty put just not following the same almost Bohemian Farmhouse feel of Sarah's room. My pick would be the Ikat #3. It's really pretty! This post was edited by TheFoxesPad on Sat, Feb 22, 14 at 21:31...See MoreIs this the way builders build homes now? What’s your opinion?
Comments (26)The "large" production builders to which I referred are not the big national companies, so I should have chosen a different adjective. In our area there are no national or large regional home builders. There are several local tract home companies that do the vast majority of the building in this area which includes the largest city in the state. They have cornered the market on labor as our builder and others like him have been told repeatedly over the past couple of years. I realize now that this may be unusual for other places. In addition to getting quicker response times from trades, these few production builders are favored by the local/regional suppliers for materials. Whether it's concrete for the typical slab foundations here, lumber for framing, roofing shingles or bricks, those builders are prioritized. This is a LCOL area, and only a small percentage of houses exceed $600K. Our builder's stated price range is $500K - $3MM, and our house was at the upper end of that range. We haven't been in our new home very long. I've already found problems, including some egregious ones, with cabinetry, electrical, plumbing, the installation of windows and doors, etc. Over the years we bought three houses from the largest production builder in this area, the most recent as a temporary/part time home while our new house was being built. Those three houses combined cost less than half of our new custom home, yet the finish quality (as in trim carpentry, installation of cabinets and counters, etc.) was better than the work done on this house, albeit the materials weren't the same quality. I realize there's a lot of antipathy toward production builders on this site and some of it is likely justified. However, not every market is the same and not everyone has access to the same quality of architects and builders. Three years ago, I thought we'd lucked out and found a builder who could build our last and best home. At this point, the only things I'm truly pleased with are the lot (>1.25 acres in an area where .25 - .50 acre lots are the norm) on which we tore down the original house, the proximity to grandchildren, and the pool. Sorry for writing a book here. If we'd been able to find an existing house on a lot that worked for us, I think we may have been better off GC-ing a remodel there while living in the temporary house....See Morebarbie08075
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