Basement bathroom

Bar stools made from wine casks

Decks!

Goodbye foam walls

This weekend we finally finished covering the styrofoam walls in the basement. Probably not exciting to most, but a big step for us. We now just have a little more to do in the loft, and ten the walls are done. Still have ceilings to do in the basement, but we will take our time with those.

Monitoring

One of my projects for the winter has been to build a computer system for monitoring the systems in the cabin. I now have a small Raspberry Pi computer set up with an array of temperature sensors that I built. These record the outdoor temperature, the hot water tank, and the radiant floor temperatures and upload it to the internet to get a better idea of when the system needs to heat. The goal is to eventually be able to control the heating, both to minimize the amount of energy used when we aren't there and to be able to heat the cabin before we arrive, since it takes quite a while to heat up the cabin once we arrive. The data can be viewed online at: https://cosm.com/feeds/96148

I also have another little computer in the works for interfacing with the solar controller so that we can get a better sense of how much energy we can expect to generate in various weather conditions.