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RFClark
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S,
Say goodnight Gracie.
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surabi
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Oh, are you now the self-appointed arbiter of who can post?
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SFandH
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Just wondering what the hourly rate is for a skilled worker - plumber, electrician, carpenter, mason, etc.
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RFClark
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SFandH,
I’ m really not sure. Basically I pay the subs either by the job, weekly, or as with our electrician when he asks for money.
I judge all of them based on results not hours worked. I see many cost plus contractor jobs with lots of people standing around padding the bill.
Thats why building costs are so high.
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RFClark: I am going to be especially interested in learning how much AC condensate you manage to recover during your occupancy this summer. Do you
have a way of actually measuring it? Mine is just going in the non-potable water cistern, so we have no real way of measuring the contribution and
resulting hardness reductions while we aren't in residence, but I estimate its around 15 to 20 gpd at present based on the AC use at present in these
warmer temps. The AC units were left on auto timed mode and look to be running at full capacity during the day, between 6:30 AM and 8 PM. Humidity in
the house has fallen way down as well to around 50%, and interior corrosion has gone to nil.
[Edited on 7-18-2023 by JDCanuck]
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RFClark
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JD,
I can hear the water running in the drain system, but past collecting it in a bucket prior to finishing the drain into the gray water recovery system
I have no way to measure it.
The bucket method indicated 5 - 6 gal per 9 hrs for an 18K btu unit. Our humidity runs 60 - 80% here.
You loose effective cooling btu’s if you condense too much water as a result of high air exchange rates. We have limited air exchange as much as
possible in order to control those losses. As a result we probably produce less water too.
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Interior and exterior progress
Living Rm. still in progress.
South end exterior
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First Hurricane/Sun Shades installed
It’s a sun shade in the up position most of the year and in the down position and unfolded it’s a Hurricane shutter. The air springs do the heavy
lifting. In the down position there are rubber bumpers and heavy latches to keep it from rattling in the wind.
Yes they are steel and these weigh 80KG each. One person can open and close them.
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The shutters look like a good idea. If a typhoon was headed your way, would you ride it out, or leave town?
Figuring out where to go, and if you could get back would be another concern.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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surabi
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While things outside could get damaged in a hurricane, that house, with no tile or palapa roofs, no trees nearby to fall on it, looks pretty
hurricane-proof to me.
When we had a big hurricane predicted where I live (which never actually materialized- it hit land further south), I stayed in my solid concrete
house, which is 2 kilometers from the beach. Getting on the road, "escaping", with hundreds of panicked motorists, seemed like a really bad idea.
Hurricanes and tornados, unlike forest fires and major floods, are quite survivable as long as you have a safe place to hole up. It's the aftermath-
downed powerlines, impassable roads, no telecommunications, etc, that can be really difficult to deal with.
When the hurricane tore through Cabo and Todos Santos some years back, I didn't know if my daughter, who lives in TS, was alive or dead for 6 days.
She was fine, but there was no internet or phone service so she couldn't let me know that.
[Edited on 7-20-2023 by surabi]
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RFClark
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We plan on traveling August and September.
We’re at about 64’ elevation and back 600 - 800’ from the surf. Sea water hasn’t been a problem here yet. We have a couple rooms that are
basically steel boxes that we can ride out a hurricane in but I’d rather not. Containers are rated for very high winds and we have alternate air
intakes inside the garage.
This house is designed for better than Florida hurricane specs (120 mph). I hope we're not here if it blows that hard. 80 mph in San Felipe sand
blasted the paint off the South side of the house next to us. It also blows water through cement block walls. Our La Paz electrical contractor taped
everything here up as though he expected water to flow through the conduit. He probably knows best. No one in the US does that, to my knowledge. The
electronics bay is one of the steel box places with alternate air and all steel doors. All the critical stuff is 4’ off the floor inside the steel
box.
All that said Murphy can always outbid your worst nightmares and in my experience often does to teach us about humility.
[Edited on 7-20-2023 by RFClark]
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Thanks for the feedback! I hope I didn't start an off-topic turn on your journal.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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RFClark
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AK,
No, dealing with potential Hurricanes is a major part of building here. By the way we’ve been running the AC completely off of solar from 7:30 -
18:00. We can run 4T from 11:00 - 16:00 and still have power for normal house stuff.
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Shutters and air springs installed and tested
All shutters installed and tested left large shutter is in the down position.
Clean up and landscaping progress
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Functional. Except for no outdoor shade.
[Edited on 7-22-2023 by SFandH]
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RFClark
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SFandH,
That gray thing on the left side of the deck is a 10X10’ umbrella. It’s closed in the picture.
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RFClark
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Window Treatments are up
10’ X 10’ Umbrella
[Edited on 7-22-2023 by RFClark]
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RFClark
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Final Week of Phase One
We’re wrapping up small details this week and heading North for a few weeks.
When we return we’ll start Phase Two the Casita and pool.
I’ll start a new post for that project,
Thanks again for all the comments and views. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.
 
[Edited on 7-24-2023 by RFClark]
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Casita.....
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I’ll tell Siri, thanks.
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