We’ve been slow to start getting our park strips in order, but with summer feeling like its turning into fall, its time to start getting plants in the ground. Read the rest of this entry »
Blower Door Test
This morning, we got our blower door test to find out for real how tight our envelope is. Turns out its pretty good, our infiltration rate is 0.16 air changes per hour. Read the rest of this entry »
Performance
With the hot weather this last week comes ripening tomatillos, tomatoes and peppers… And also brings thoughts of energy efficiency. Now that we have been in the house for four months, I thought it would be interesting to put weather data from this spring into our energy model and see how its predictions compare against actual usage. Read the rest of this entry »
Portland Monthly
We’re thrilled that Harpoon House is featured in in this month’s issue of Portland Monthly, its for sale pretty much everywhere around town and can be read online. Read the rest of this entry »
Herb Beds + Compost
The past several weekends have been spent in the garden creating raised herb beds, (at long last) constructing our compost bin and transforming the hard-packed, sod-covered, weed-choked corners of our yard into Harpoon Gardens. Read the rest of this entry »
Ecoroof Update: Entry
Just a quick update, nodding onions, self heal and yarrow are in full bloom on our entry ecoroof. Read the rest of this entry »
Painting Window Frames
We were able to take advantage of the great weather this weekend to finally paint our window frames and on Monday our contractor had a couple guys come out to paint the windows that require being up on a tall ladder. Read the rest of this entry »
Sedums and Trim
We went up to our upper ecoroof for the first time in two months over the weekend. This roof is entirely sedums in an attempt to make it as low maintenance as possible and they were planted by throwing piles of cuttings around and then waiting to let them root. So now coming back up two months later, we’ve found everything thriving and surprisingly red. Read the rest of this entry »
Street Resurfacing
It’ll be nice when the city stops breaking things in front of our house. Its all in the name of a modern sewer (no more terracotta pipes from the 1890s) which is a pretty needed infrastructure upgrade, I’ve just never gotten used to having the house shake every morning starting at 7:00 while the crew busts up the street surface. Read the rest of this entry »
More Paint
We’re slowly making progress with the various pieces of finish work that need to be completed, and recently we finished off painting our stair risers. Read the rest of this entry »
