After we moved into our remodeling project–from May, 2014–with some distractions–to December 2015.
- Sill caulking
- Rafter caulking
- Roxul installed
- Roxul Remains
- Taco 009 Stainless Pump Installed
- Laing E3 Pump
- Taco Bronze Cartridge Circulator Pump 1 40 HP New | eBay
- Kids’ New House–Wallpaper removal
- Master bath tear out
- New tub main bath
- New floor main bath
- Interior paint
- Tempe House Fix Up–New fans and fixtures
- Stoop repaired and painted
- Garage floor epoxied
- Refinished front door
- New front patio
- Cleaning and staging
- New entry patio
- RV at campground
- Lake scene
- RV across water
- Mom in Chicago
- Master bath redo with grout paint
- Garage entry trim
- Installed baseboards
- New water pump and pressure tank
- Tried to repair awning
- Grandson’s food list
- Resting at a playground
- Getting started
- Watching movies
- Indiana!
- Another visit to Grandma Grand
- Columbine at Golden Gate Canyon State Park
- View from hike
- The dress
- Table decor
- Flowing arches
- Flower arrangements
- Fascinators and carry sign for grandkids
- Dramatic sticks for hall
- Favors
- The bouquets
- Rehearsal
- The ceremony
- Paebaek Ceremony
- The beach
- S’mores
- Hanging out
- Friends’ garden
- Chickens!
- Washer Dryer Install
- Washer hookups
- Dryer Hookup
- Electrical box and washer hookup
- Cinch ring connections for washer kit
- Dryer access door
- Dryer igniter
- Air inlet and kitchen drain
- Living Room furniture
- Living room with stove
- Kitchen view
- From dining area
- Bar table
- Cabinets
- Sustainability Fair Presentation
- Poster at Fair
- Presentation Entry
- Mom doing the dishes
- Task List
- Rerouted vent pipes
- Vents through Utility Room Wall
- Concentric vent from sidewall
- New external air vent and old chimney.
- Hole from removing chimney pipe
- Plywood patch cut and sealed
- Chimney with 45º angle
- Shorter chimney cap
- New Chimney
- Air vent connected inside
- Joins to cold water pipe chase
- Flexible vent pipe under boiler piping
- Flexible vent from cold water chase to wood boiler
- Radon Fan Install
- Radon Fan Closeup
- Wiring for Radon Fan
- New Fridge
- Freezer Box with Ice Maker
- Refrigerator Box
- Rear ventilation grill and ice maker line.
- Compressor
- Sizing Info
- Maytag Refrigerator Energy Guide
- Whirlpool Refrigerator Energy Guide
- Energy Star W8RXEGMW
- Non Energy Star W8RXNGMW
- SPT Dishwasher Energy Guide
- SPT 18″ Dishwasher
- Dishwasher Pex Hookup
- Dishwasher drain hookup
- GE Advantium Oven
- Advantium Oven Interior
- Clean Dishwasher Load
- Old gas pipes
- Old line to boiler
- Old hanging pipes
- Gas Trenching
- Gas Trench at House
- New Gas Entry
- Old Gas Piping
- Gas Pipes Removed
- Washer/Dryer Moved
- Cut Existing Pipe
- Add ABS Tee
- Fernco to switch to PVC
- Across Closet
- Around under Beam
- To Floor Pipe
- Pipe Connection
- Rocky Mountain National Park Trail
- Jenn Air Gas Cooktop
- Rear view of cooktop
- Downdraft vent
- New gas line from old
- Queen sized bed
- Bed with loft over
- Bedroom “kitchen”
- Kitchen table in bedroom
- Dorm fridge in closet
- Dibble Fireplace Boiler Piping-10
- Boilers plumbing-diagram
- Dibble Fireplace Boiler Piping-1
- Cut to Fit
- Cathedral Ceiling
- Flat Ceiling
- Thermal Bridging
- Outside walls with polyiso
- Dibble Fireplace Boiler Piping-14
- Spectra Stove Certification
- Spectra Stove Certification p.2
- PCA Approved Spectra Stove
- Spectra Certification Data Table
- CE Certitication Buderus-lublin
- Water boiler table
- Wood Boiler Hookup
- Stove to Water Heater
- Cold Water Connection
- Storage Tank Loop
- Cold Side Leak
- Hot side leak
- Boards under the house
- Bits of insulation and wire
- More boards and insulation
- Piles of short boards
- Insulation scraps
- Mess in the corner
- Main beam with rocky ground
- Vinyl over cleared out dirt
- Taped around plumbing
- Clean vinyl covers dirt
- Second piece of vinyl
- Spreading out the vinyl
- Vinyl in the narrow “hallway” area
- Under Stairs
- Back Door
- Taped around posts
- Transition to hallway
- Back Wall
- Outside vent
- New vent cover
- Dewalt Cordless Caulk Gun
- Boiler Piping Plan
- Open System Header Tank
- Overflow Tank for Boiler
- Boiler System holds Air
- Tool Storage
- Double Scaffolding for Demo
- Double Scaffolding for Bird Hole Fix
- Single Scaffolding
- Installed taped and caulked edges
- Ready for Second Row
- First Application Uneven
- Siga Twinet Tape on Ceiling
- Siga Majpel Membrane
- Drips from roof corner leak
- Leak at roof corner
- Chimney Leak
- Rainfall
- Goodbye Skid Steer
- Slab area in the mud
- Skidsteer in Rain
- Muddy
- Hexagonal Rubber Tire
- First load of rubber tiles
- Spring List
- Greenhouse
- Solar hot water panels
- Glycol solar hot water system
- Glacier Bay Victorian toilet
- Gazebo for spa
- Spa subpanel and outlet
- Electricians
- New box
- Piper trucks
- Old box
- Xcel truck
- Truck with Spa on Trailer
- Spa on Trailer
- Trailer rear
- Tilt Trailer
- Rio Exercise Spa
- First Meyer Swim Spa circa 1968
- APT9 Exercise Spa Diagram
- Rio Swim Spa A-9
- Smooth Star Doors
- Southern Installation
- Living Room Windows
- Successful Crew
- We Can Do It
- North Bedroom Reframe
- New Doors
- Mud Room Door Reframe
- Wrapped Window Opening
- Dining Room Window
- Middle French Door
- Mismatched lockset plate on right
- Bolt head too large
- Paint cracking
- Peeling paint
- Door hinge routing
- Warped door?
- iConf Logo
- Ellen Dibble Matrix Barcode
- Open Studio 2009
- Peter Ellis
- Variable Tinting
- Translucent glazing
- Automatic Shading
- Full Session
- Windows in Garage
- Unloading
- Performance Sticker
- Window Load
- Alpen Truck
- LED and Incadescent Bulbs
- Piece of Gasket used on Glazing
- Solar Glass from Trombe Wall
- Selective surface membrane
- Dibble Res with Stone Facing
- Glazing Removed
- Unvented Trombe Wall
- Vented Trombe Wall
- RV at the lakeside camp site.
- Playing at Carter Lake
- Trombe wall
- Removed top part of walls
- Leaning retaining walls
- Feit R20
- HERS Index as MPG
- Typical LEED HERS Rating
- CRI Color Chart
- Phillips Slimstyle
- Great Eagle BR20
- Insteon
- TCP Elite
- GE Reveal BR30
- Feit G25 CRI
- LED bulbs
- Types of Track
- Track Lights
- H-J-L Tracks
- Compatible track adapters
- Architrak
- Architrak Head
- HERS Expectations
- HERS Index-Energy Star
- Floorplan cropped A-3
- Floor plan revision 3-11-15
- Floor Plan A-3
- Plot Drawing A-1
- RecoupAerator Duct Option
- RecoupAerator Install
- Ultimate air fan performance curve
- Typical Fan Curve
- Duct Layout
- Exterior Flir Photo
- Uninsulated foundation wall on east side of Master bedroom.
- Cold eakage under the door
- Radiant floor–just below design temp for zero degrees
- Flir One Son #2
- Flir One Son #1
- Chaco Canyon Pueblos
- RV in New Mexico Desert
- Carlsbad Cavern
- Pagosa Hot Springs
- Window Air Infiltration Rates
- Alpen Color Choices
- Alpen Frame Insulation
- Alpen Window Corner
- Alpen Fiberglass Casement
- Milgard Wood Clad Casement
- Moisture between panes
- Cracked window film
- Window damage
- Dibble Floorplan With Electrical Core
- Future Platform
- Beam to North Wall
- Kitchen Beam on Laminated Beam
- Beam to South Wall
- Kitchen Beam on Concrete Wall
- Taco Pump Relay and Swtich
- Switched Receptacle
- Combo Switch Outlet
- Ventilation Vents
- Ceiling Fan
- Solar Shade
- LEDs
- LED track and Japanese Lanterns
- Kitchen to Living Area Chandelier
- Tekmar Control
- Meter Label
- Superstore Indirect Water Heater
- Monitoring Equipment
- Slanted Pipes
- Electric Boiler
- Expansion Tank
- Water Meters
- Two Sunny Boy Inverters
- DC Control Panel
- Battery Bank Used for Backup
- Data Collection
- Fireplace Boiler Logic Diagram
- Grunflos Clip On Aquastat
- Taco Mixing Valve Wiring
- Taco 501-4 Switching Relay Alt 24 V
- Honeywell Zone Valve Wiring to Taco Relay
- Aquastat Function
- Simple Aquastat Wiring
- Honeywell Valve Diagram
- Plate Mount Transformer
- Transformer Wiring
- Laing Pump and Aquastat on Storage Tank
- FP Boiler Storage Wiring
- FP Boiler Wiring
- FP Boiler pump and Taco Iseries Mixing Valve
- FP Boiler Zone Valve and Aquastat
- Honeywell 8043 Zone Valve
- Honeywell 6006 Aquastat
- Dibble Fireplace Boiler Piping-15 Revised
- Original Boiler Zone Control Wiring–the end switch is wired to the secondary pump
- Revised Boiler Wiring for Pumps
- Revised Zone Control Wiring
- Zone Control with Mod-Con pump control
- Original Pump Wiring
- Original wiring diagram
- Trombe Wall Inside Detail
- Trombe Wall Outside Detail
- Capped Nails
- Master Bedroom Ceiling
- Solar Hall Ceiling
- Kitchen and Living Room Ceiling
- Family Room Ceiling
- Dining Area and Entry Ceiling
- Pipe is fully wrapped with barrier
- Patch caulked and taped
- Spray foam gap under stairs
- Difficult corner
- Radiator Pipe insulated to floor
- Pipes insulated to closet slab entry
- Insulated Pipes
- Concrete Arch
- Greenhouse
- Sun Frost Compressors
- Lighting
- Living Room
- Tall library ladder
- Tall library
- Lovins Floorplan
- Dibble Res_Electric Plan_Rev-11_14 w_core
- Spa Sconces $100 Craigslist Ad
- Stained Glass Wall Sconces
- Crawlspace Radon Vent Pipe
- Ratcheting Holder
- Completed Door Landing
- Coaxial Coil Sizing
- Mini Spilt Indoor Air Unit Structure
- Refrigeration Explanation
- Chiller Barrel
- Barrel Chiller for Aquarium Setup
- Mini Split System Frigidaire
- Hole bored under concrete obstruction
- Twelve inch depth
- Spa Electrical Trench
- Letter – James Hardie Siding – Recycled and Regional Content – Arvada, CO – 2015-08-21
- Cement Board Siding Stucco Finish
- Siding torn off patio doors
- Top edge of patio doors
- Installed and taped SIGA exterior house wrap
- Installed new foil faced polyiso
- Removed siding and insulated
- Sparkling clean spa
- Rollers for spa cover
- Concrete piece at least 6″ thick
- Concrete blocking trench
- Equipment side needs final design
- Hardware cloth installed
- Spray foam between polyiso
- Larger open area not completed
- Smaller open area not completed
- Patio dark and light stone
- Layers of Spa Insulation
- 4 year old’s view of the road
- At Chimney Rock Pueblo
- Fossilized Redwood tree trunks
- St. Luis State Park Basketball
- Painted Wall at Black Canyon
- Deluge at Curecanti NRA
- Road trip!
- Great Sand Dunes
- Reflectix and Hardware Cloth
- Space behind the reflectix for Roxul
- Roxul stuffing
- Pipe Insulation
- Reflectix Lining
- Rocky Mountains
- Big Thompson River
- Tundra walk on Ute Trail
- Spa still needs to be positioned
- Tilt trailer did its job
- Spa about at edge of slab
- Rope tied to spa
- Rope tied to tree
- Free Sand
- Need More Flagstone
- Flagstone Fitting
- Flagstone Hotel
- Sand on weed block
- Temporary bathroom
- New drain
- Awkward drain hookup
- Toilet installed behind Polyiso walls
- Cutting the drain pipe
- Filled and finished sill edge
- Friendly toad checking out the new edge
- Rebar to hold bottom of edge
- Homemade foam cutting tool
- Cut short edge
- First Piece Installed
- Foam Insulation under Doors
- Fiberglass Edges
- Broomed surface
- Floated surface
- Filling wheelbarrow from truck
- Bull Float
- More Leveling
- Leveling to form
- Concrete in wheelbarrow
- Re-installed garage light
- Re-installed porch light
- Foam insulation around box
- New wall electric box with one new wire
- New switch
- Bad wire was removed
- Bad wire at left other wires go to the switch below.
- Full Coverage
- Six inch overlap
- Fabric Install
- Wiring to the garage switch box
- Patio area from inside
- Patio area with reburied wires for the lights and three outlets.
- Third outlet with broken connecting wire pulled out.
- Ben Franklin
- Rock Delivery
- Newly rebuilt valves
- Old Valve Body with Indents
- Indents to position the plate
- Bolting on the Plate
- Valve Conversion Kit
- Old Valve Head
- Valve Set on Manual
- Rebuild Kits
- Temperature Sensor Add On
- Inside Weather Station Display
- Aculink Website Display
- Aculink Bridge Instructions
- Five in One Weather Station
- Weather Station on House Top
- Mother’s Day Snow
- Almost 3 inches of rain
- Colorado May Rainfall Totals 2015
- Alpen Door Warranty Exclusion
- Peeling paint on lower brickmold
- Peeling paint on upper brickmold
- Peeling paint on jamb
- Oversize door bolt
- Scraped strike plate
- Front Door View
- First Door Installers
- 1/2 HP Penguin Chiller
- Penguin Chiller Logo
- Radiant Floor with Toes
- Thermostat Wiring
- Chiller temp continues to go down
- Chiller water temp at shut off
- Finished Piping
- Heat Exchanger Piping
- Brazed plate heat exchanger
- Arctica 1/2 HP Controller
- Chiller Model DA-500B
- Chiler Front
- Chiller Label
- Arctica Chiller and Controller
- Novan Information
- Novan System Tank
- Novan Optimizer
- Novan Collectors
- System on Truck
- Existing garage light
- New light at front door
- New light
- New porch light
- Old porch light
- Rock Bin Heat Storage
- Double Decker Scaffolding
- Blue Lagoon
- Hall of Mirrors
- Boat Company
- Seine at Night
- Marais Old City Wall
- Famous painting
- Louvre art upon art
- Marly Restaurant
- Jim Morrison
- Moliere
- Cemetery in the Fall
- Bastille Monument
- San Chappell
- Flag through Arc d’Triumph
- Ceremony at Arc d’Triumph
- Victor Hugo Chinese Fireplace
- Monet
- Musee d’Orangerie
- Degas
- D’Orsay Clock
- Reconstruction Marie Antoinette’s Cell
- Moulin de la Galette
- Unicorn Tapestry
- Notre Dame
- Caulk in corner
- Repurposed pallet boards
- Tape Detail around piping
- Ceiling Layers Taped
- Mid ceiling tape hangs down
- Help with the membrane
- Matching bath faucet
- Freestanding faucet with new handle
- Tub in Master Bath
- Craigslist Tub
- Cow Girl Statue
- Moved to Spencer House
- Headboard Construction
- Log Headboard
- Log Bed with Dave and Lewis
- Arm chair at dining table
- Chair and table
- Bad TCO
- Thermal Cut Off fuse disconnected
- Relay Board Fuse
- Remove thermal fuse on damper
- Remove thermal fuse on damper
- Temp on Topside Control
- Wiring diagram
- Pressure Switch
- No power coming out
- Power going IN
- Model Information
- New board without wires
- Old Contactor being removed
- New Contactor
- Acura Megatrol Wiring Diagram
- Megatrol Internal Wiring
- Megatrol Spa Pack
- Water truck
- Spa Fill
- New Home
- In the RV
- Our Indiana House
- New siding
- Garage in Spencer
- Door Keys
- Ceiling Covered with Polyiso
- Used Polyiso
- Roxul Insulation in Walls
- Painting the screw covers
- Removing the glass from the old door
- Closer view of sealing
- Patio Doors Sealed
- Front Door Sealed
- Master Bedroom Door Sealed
- Back Door Sealed
- New Polyiso
- Polyiso not in line with door
- Crooked Door
- Mortar removed from 2×6 plate
- Left side interior, Right side behind slag block wall
- Beams that hold up roof
- Structural post in trombe wall
- Rear side of the interior block wall
- Chopin
- Paint Detail
- Repainted Door Trim
- Reorganized Garage
- Mom’s Extra Stuff
- Replaced Tool Wall
- Cabinets Moved
- Attic Wall Leak
- Back Door
- Upper window missing insulation
- Existing Bedroom Corner–not much can be done here
- Crawl Space Vent Area
- Stove pipe
- Utility room back wall
- Ceiling and side wall–no leaks!
- Master Bedroom Wall missing some insulation
- Master Bedroom Corner
- Upper Window and wiring space to garage
- Front Door at Floor
- Icelandic Horses
- Icelandic Sheep
- Gulfoss Falls
- Hot spring in Floudir
- Small Town Monument
- HardiePanel-Siding-Details-Wood-Framing-with-Wood-Furring-Strips-Wall-and-Soffit-for-Vented-Rainscreen
- Corovent Drainage Plane
- Xcluder Mesh
- Waterway Rainscreen
- Waterway Rainscreen with membrane
- Rolls of Waterway Rainscreen
- Rainscreen Installed
- Lower flashing and fiberglass edge
- Upper flashing
- Game time
- Turkey
- Greenhouse with stalls
- Greenhouse Connection
- Greenhouse Detail
- Upstate New York Sunset
- Table Two
- Girls
- Secondary System Circulator Wiring
- Always On Priority Wiring
- Duraspin Deck Screws
- Senco 3″ Screw Gun
- Navajo beige Hardie Stucco Panel
- First Panel
- PacTool Shears
- Front Door Siding
- Disconnected Blower Wiring
- Loosening the bolts
- Tightening Bolts
- Calcified Heat Exchanger
- Original Master Closet Interior
- Original Master Bedroom Closet
- Dibble Floorplan 11-14-12
- Dibble Floorplan Update 12-11-15
- Dibble Floorplan 12-04-15
- Outdoor Spigot in Bath
- What is the problem?
- Forgot about hot and cold?
- There is a solution.
- When the faucet turns on, both hot and cold come out at a pre-set proportion.
- A mixing “box” (valve) under the sink.
- Spigot’s copper extension pipe covered in rope.
- Final two spigots in bathroom.
- Moen Mixing Valve