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RFClark
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JD,
We live here now so we’re here most of the time. You’re welcome to stop by any day.
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RFClark
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The Scaffolding is gone!
The exterior is down to paint and a little trim and shutters.
 
This is where we started last fall.
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RFClark
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Finished teak hand rail
This is the first piece finished. The deck hand rail is the same teak rail. In total we made about 90’ of 2” X 4” hand rail from African teak.
Mostly 17’ lengths.
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Beautiful handrail.
What a neat thread, thanks for taking the time to share. Congratulations, your home looks beautiful
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RFClark
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W,
We were lucky.
There’s a tropical wood lumber yard in Cabo that had 10” - 12” X 2” by 17’ African teak planks. We bought 4 and cut 3 down to 4”+ widths
to make the hand rail.
We built a 8’ fence for the table saw which made doing the cutting easer.
I’ve got a router, 13” planer and a cutoff saw. The table saw is about to start on its 3rd carbide saw blade. The teak is very hard.and each
length takes 6 or 7 full length cuts to form
By the time I finished I could do a 17’ length in about 3+ hrs.
They turned out OK. I routed the 1/2” radius on the 2 edges and put the first coat of teak oil on this one today. I still have another 70’ to do
along the deck rail.
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Wow! There's just something so satisfying about letting a truly beautiful piece of wood reveal itself. I've been messing with some ironwood and it
blows my mind how beautiful it is once it's oiled and finished. No stain..just clear mineral oil & clear coat....just comes alive!
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RFClark
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👍👍👍
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RFClark
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Our project a year ago yesterday!
Time passes quickly. We’re down to the last few weeks inside upstairs. The last 6 solar panels were installed yesterday. Pictures later today.
Next we repaint the left side set with epoxy paint to match the new ones. Then the walkway and we’re done on the roof.
For those of you interested in solar power. The 6 new 540W panels generated 900W at 7:20 this morning under a low cloud cover.
[Edited on 5-12-2023 by RFClark]
[Edited on 5-12-2023 by RFClark]
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There is something extremely satisfying when you install systems that not only provide reliable power that gives you enhanced off grid self reliance
and reduced future expenses, but in addition significantly reduces our carbon footprint at the same time. Our number one reason for building here in
Baja was the extremely reliable and high gain solar availability. Congratulations on a job well done!
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RFClark
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Yes that part of the system is done and one of the best parts is that I can remind people (four hoofed herbivores especially) how small our carbon
footprint is compared to our “betters”! Not having to deal with CFE is good too! Over 5KW by 9:15 this morning. We’re charging the car,
batteries and running the expresso machine at the same time.
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RFClark
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The major building part of our project is almost done
We are doing exterior paint and trim. All of the interior walls are plastered and most have a first coat of paint. Electrical has 2-3 weeks to go.
Keep watching, I’ll post pictures of the interior as soon as it’s cleaned up.
For those interested it took about 3 months to turn the 2 - 40’ containers into 800 sq ft of living space.
The top of the gray water storage tank (400 gal) was pored today. The hot tub will probably live there.
The gray water is distributed to the landscaping via a system of 3/4” PVC risers
We have Bamboo planted across the front of our lot. I like it better than palm trees and it captures about 35% more carbon. It also grows fast on
about the same amount of (gray) water.
This will be a large percentage of our ground cover. It grows fast too. We’ll plant it in the area in front of the house after the walkway is poured
next week.
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We use Bamboo up here for privacy, but we made sure it was the "clumping" type as we didn't want it to take over the whole area and planted it in
large livestock water tanks to further restrain it. The Iceplant ground cover in Baja proved to be exceptionally hardy and low water use both for it
and it also retains moisture for the trees and Bougainvillea that it surrounds in very sandy soil. A lot of colour obtained from what 2 months ago was
a tiny patch now rapidly expanded.
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"For those interested it took about 3 months to turn the 2 - 40’ containers into 800 sq ft of living space."
You started this thread back in Sept. How is that 3 months?
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RFClark
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S,
Sorry to be unclear. The 3 months (aprox) is the time it took to insulate, install durock, plaster and paint the 2nd floor containers. From sitting
there to current was about 6 months.
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RFClark
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Sidewalks in progress
Several people were interested in our gray water recycling system. If you follow the fence line from the valve up you can see the riser in each basin.
The valve sends the gray water to this part of the yard. The plan is to grow the Mexican version of Bermuda Grass between the fence and the walkway.
We received some free with one of the bamboo plants and we have a few square feet already that we are transplanting to new locations. It multiplies
like the brooms in the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
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Gray Water system finished & Sidwalks in
Gray water pump and 90 micron filter located atop the 400 G gray water storage tank.
Each section has a valve to control the water flow.
The white risers are the gray or fresh watering system
Front sidewalk finished
 
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Very impressive RFClark. I see you have installed a lot of separate isolators and unions for maintenance as well. 90 Micron seems a bit coarse if you
have plans for a micro watering system in future. We are presently looking at the "Jumbo" filter body from Rotoplas and hoping to get it down to about
5 microns as our 1/4 inch discharges tend to plug frequently, especially on grey water.
We also ran two parallel water supply lines, one for grey water and one for well water as we wanted to avoid any cross contamination, and this proved
cheaper than backflow preventer systems long term. Grey water pumps on demand when we are there, well water when we are gone is run through a timer.
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RFClark
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Watering system
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The Stairwell and Stairs are Complete!
The first thing we did was cut the access way to the 2nd floor. That was over a year ago. Today we finished installing the stairs. Surprise, it all
worked out.
We turned the lights on the 2nd floor on last night for the 1st time.
Big week for getting things finished! More to come.
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RFClark
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Finished with concrete!
After a year since we received our Obra. We’re down to a little exterior paint, drains, interior doors and flooring on the 2nd floor.
Electrical is finished
3 of the 4 AC are installed and work
All 3 bathrooms are finished
The 2nd floor coffee bar is finished
Interior pictures after we do the floors over the next few days.
To all of you who have followed us, Thanks for the encouragement and suggestions.
 
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