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In February of 2006, I found 14 acres to build an off-grid home on, and only 30 minutes west of the Loveland/Fort Collins area. * Please hit the REFRESH button on your computer for updates to this site to take effect. Thanks! (Mar 2009)
I AM THE FIRST PERSON IN LARIMER COUNTY TO HAVE OBTAINED A HEIGHT VARIENCE FOR A WIND TURBINE TOWER! (good story!)
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| Timeline of my progress: 2/23/06 - closed on the property. (home equity loan from the house here in town) 3/10/06 - have the drawing into the engineer. go for a site survey sometime this next week. 3/15/06 - a buddy of mine Doug, brought up his bobcat and we put in the drive. now we can actually get "onto" the property. 4/26/06 - SUBMITTED THE PLANS FOR A PERMIT TODAY. 5/08/06 - PERMIT IS READY TO PICK UP. (see UPDATES) 5/17/06 - excavator comes to dig out for the house. 5/23/06 - variance meeting for the turbine tower height. it gets APPROVED! 5/26/06 - closed on a CONSTRUCTION LOAN. (see UPDATES) 6/06/06 - septic system stuff shows up today and Hersh gets here to start the well. (see PHOTO PAGE) 6/09/06 - picked up turbine/tower permit today. (waiting for the tower parts to show up) 6/15/06 - picked up the REVISED permit today. (made a few changes to the structure of the house, before picking up the permit back in May) 6/19/06 - start forms for the footings, took about 4 days w/ help from Jesus & Lupe. (fri 23rd, inspection of forms-APPROVED!) 6/24/06 - poured footings. (see PHOTO PAGE) 7/10/06 - start constructing the ARXX WALLS icf forms. ("icf"-insulated concrete form) (see PHOTO PAGE) 7/31/06 - poured the icf forms w/about 44yrd of concrete! (see PHOTO PAGE) 8/04/06 - lumber pack arrives. |
(photo taken FEB 11th 2007) NOW THE COOL STUFF! Finally, I was able to fly out Craig Faw and Nate Curtis, from AFFORDABLE-SOLAR down in Albuquerque New Mexico, to help fire up the solar and wind power equipment. Took about 3 days to get things dialed in. (photo left to right: Nate, Craig, Kraig & ME!)
9/06/06 - trusses are delivered. 9/08/06 - Rich w/ CANYON CRANE arrives to swing trusses up onto the walls. (see UPDATES PAGE) 9/29/06 - started erecting the tower for the wind turbine. (see PHOTO PAGE) 10/04/06 - found a plumber to plumb the house. 10/16/06 - poured garage floor. (see PHOTO PAGE #2) 10/22/06 - started roofing the house. (see PHOTO PAGE) 11/04/06 - had a friend help wire the house. (AC) 12/11/06 - hired out "insulating" the house. 12/16/06 - stucco crew starts. 12/20/06 - BLIZZARD 2006! get hammered with 3ft of snow up at the property! (see PHOTO PAGE #2) PLUS... get hit with 3 more snows in the next 3 weekends! 12/28/06 - sheetrock delivered to gate. too much snow to have it del to the house, hauled it up in 5 trips w/ Andrew's truck/trailer. 12/31/06 - hire a few guys to help hang 4x12 shts of drywall. 1/03/07 - propane tank delivered (filled Jan 11th, wallmount heaters installed on the 15th to keep the house warm for drywall tape/mud) 1/23/07 - hired a crew to tape & mud the drywall. i plan to texture the walls myself using a skip-trowel method. 2/01/07 - start hauling up material to tile 1000+ sqft. 2/09/07 - Steve (aka Uncle Steve) starts the tile. 2/10/07 - WIND & SOLAR Install! flew Craig & Nate out from New Mexico to help fire up the solar/wind equipment. hanging out with theze two dudes for four days was like Comedy Central! 2/26/07 - WHISPER 100 wind turbine installed and charging battery bank. 5/04/07 - PASSED FINAL ELECTRICAL INSPECTION!! 6/4/07 - FINAL INSPECTION of the house. I'VE MOVED IN!! (sold my place in Fort Collins & closed on it May 25th 2007) |
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I'll be powering the house with a Hybrid-system consisting of wind and solar... 100%. (CLICK PHOTO above to learn more on how this system works) |
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