Back row Miguel, Roberto, Ever
Front: Edison (the boss), Ivan Sixto, and Jorge.
A great group. Good workers, know their stuff, very versatile.
The insulation we decided to put in our house far exceeds Chilean standards for this area and required this truck with its trailer to haul in the insulation.
I'm hoping that we will be over insulated, but my motive for doing this is based on unpleasant experience of having suffered more from cold in Chile, than I ever suffered in the most severe winter I ever remember in Canada.
The reason -- little or no insulation and poor heating. This practice has been changing in recent years, but I decided to go better than government standards which seem to lack a real appreciation of the practice of good insulation.
Here we see the start of the insulation. We're using low density polypropilene slabs, 100mm thick in the walls and 120mm in the roof. Chilean standards call for 100mm for the roof in this zone, and the standards for walls haven't even been published as of Nov. 2003. All windows in this house will be thermopane.
Note that to put 100mm in the walls I had to use rough 2"x4" wall framing, whereas the normal custom here is using 2"x3". Rough lumber is almost always used for framing here.
in natural brick is half complete in the Living Room area. Eventually this will reach the open-beam ceiling of about 5 meters height. Whew!
