Fall 99 tips
Report #22: Part V
December 31, 1999
Mary Ann Green (email: [email protected]) gets a lot of
email about construction, plus on-site visits too.
Andes Caribbean and Wilson Brass
Alejandro Wilson of Chile runs the
Puerto Rico office of
Andes Caribbean. He dropped in recently. They make custom louvered wooden
windows and doors, plus Wilson Brass, another
Chile company that makes excellent hinges and door hardware.
He supplies
1x4 cedar T&G at 5.85 and his prices for doors are as follows:
- $35 Operable Louvered doors 35sq ft 1 ¾
- $30 sq ft raised panel
- $25 sq ft fix louvered
- raised panel 30 per sq foot
PO Box 193108
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919
787-723-7020
[email protected]
Thanks for Picture of Drawer Knobs
David Park (email: [email protected]) writes
Thank you very much for putting the fish knob on your site. We have had 4
orders so far.
I hope you did not have any damage to your new home during the recent storm.
Trying to convince my wife for a return trip to Cap Juluca.
Thanks again
David Park
An Email Exchange With Lots of Sources
Wow thanks for the reply. I started the web site to share information I really appreciate your response. Do you mind if I post it on my web page?
You mentioned HydroTherm paint but didn't seem sure this was the product
you originally heard mentioned. Maybe SuperTherm is the radiant insulating
paint you heard about? Take a look at www.intercoat.com for more information.
The intercoat's products sound too good to be true! I wrote them but so far I haven't gotten a response.
I asked about it on the alt.coatings.paint newsgroup recently and somebody
was familiar with it. He seemed to think that its appearance isn't so
great and it needs to be significantly thicker than 7 mil dry film
thickness to work well.
Are you referring to Supertherm or HydroTherm needs to be thicker?
My experience is that the HydroTherm does need to be thicker. I got a different product that was a "filler" called Aritech or something like that from our consolidator in FL it went on like paint but thicker. It worked better at covering the seams over the plywood.
We are in the planning stages for a custom house in San Diego, California,
and are looking for alternative building materials that are more durable
and efficient than the usual wood frame construction used around here. We
are thinking about using the Insteel 3D panels for the roof and using
Omniblock or IMSI mortarless block for the walls. (Both blocks are the
same product, just sold under different names.) If you're curious, there
is more information on these products at http://www.omniblock.com and
http://www.imsi-ltd.com.
Seems like a good idea to me, as long as you can tie/bond the roof and walls together.
I'm really interested in the radiant barrier films you mentioned. Looking
around the net, I found lots of articles on them. It seems like there is a
need to have airspace around the film for it to work well, so I'm not sure
if we can use it in the walls if we use Omniblock. One idea is "radiant
barrier chips" discussed on http://www.savenrg.com which we might be able to use
to fill cells in the Omniblock. I think the open cells in the block are
about 2", so maybe a loose fill would still leave enough airspace to be
effective. Very clever!
On one of the sites they mentioned using radiant barrier underneath their
flooring glued to the concrete slab floor.
(http://www.u-b-kool.com/TeasLtr.htm) But wouldn't that not work very well
without airspace? Or does it still reflect some of the heat but just not
as much?
Mike Ketchner my source of information about radiant barrier says that it will still work without the airspace but you cut the effectiveness by 30-40% as I recall. The stuff is so cheap at .11 cents a sq ft and so easy to install that i say go for it whenever you think it might even be a little useful.
Some other neat products you might want to check out:
http://www.solarattic.com - uses heat in your attic to heat your swimming pool or home
http://www.oikos.com/gfx/index.html - recovers heat from used hot water and
puts it back into the incoming cold water
http://www.lifebreath.com/ - heat recovery ventilators and turbulent
airflow precipitation filters
Well Craig I have been responding to your email since i got it. Every time I went to finish it I got caught up in the web sites you recommended.
Did you do any more research on solarattic site using the heat of your attic to heat your pool sounds good you wonder why you don't hear about it more. Something about the site seemed strange to me.
Thanks again
Mary Ann
I came across your page while researching information for a class project.
I am a senior at Southern College, Orlando Florida, in Interior Design.
I just wanted to tell you I thought the plan was great and to thank you for
sharing
it with us on the net.
Good luck!!
Ruth Creery
Thanks Ruth--nice of you to tell me
mary ann
Oh I bet you could tell me--I've heard about a new foam for outdoor pillows that lets the water through. you use it with Sunbrella cloth. Do you know in FL where I could purchase some of this foam? And/ Or Where I could have pillows made using the foam?
Hi!
I called the upholster, Kevin Van Hulse that I work with and he says it is
called "Easy dry /Quick Dry"....it comes in sheets 55 inches by 83 inches,
and in 1-5 inch thickness'. And it is sold only to the trade. He wouldn't
even give ME the company name. He said it is not very comfortable for sitting
on for long stretches.
We use Sunbrella extensively here in Melbourne, being on the ocean.
We could get a price and have it shipped to you, and or we can do pillows for
you.
Kevin's work is impecable. I also have a lady that does just pillows
reasonably and her work also is beautiful.
I hope this helps
Let me know.
Ruth Creery
Home phone: 1 407 259 8140
Ps......at the end of the month I am opening my own business!!
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Mary Ann Green