Lots of good stuff happened this week

Tuesday morning National Grid showed up to turn our power on, what a great day. After the last few weeks listening to the generator running it was nice to have have peace and quite. Well not exactly quite, with the compressor, saws and nail guns all day long but still much better than listening to the generator.

Some of the other things that happened this week.

I picked up the first 4 of our solar windows, man are they heavy. These windows have 4 layers of glass, with a 1" thick layer of clear gel encapsulated between 2 of them. Each of these 2'x6' windows weighs about 250 pounds, it's a good thing I have a one ton truck. These windows capture and store the suns energy within the gel layer and then radiates it into the house at night. They also have an exterior solar shade that retracts up into the head of the window that shuts the suns energy off when it's not needed. If you have the chance come by and see them for your self at the tour next weekend.
   
 We finished the last couple of wall panels on Monday and the rest of the week prepping for and installing the roof panels. Installed our triple 16" x 48' LVL ridge beam and got more than half the roof panels installed. only one week left until the Green building open house tour, next weekend and still a lot of work to do.

Tom Pittsley
tom.pittsley@nextsteplivinginc.com