Fans, Alarms, Stucco, More Paint Decisions, Molding

Had a good meeting with John on a muggy kind of thundery day in St. Pete. I was happy because John, organized as always, presented me with my list of things to do and on what days list. I'm a happy camper when you give me an outline of projects.

so today we started discussing ceiling fans of which there will be 12 (and we only have one old one worth using). So we have the catalog and will plan a date with Stan at Dans FanCity and pick them out. Apparently they make the a/c go a lot further with less energy usage and god knows we want to avoid those astronomical energy bills.

speaking of energy bills. we're doing a number of things to use less energy:

Storm rated windows are also more energy efficient and we have them throughout the new section of the house and in the kitchen (part of the old house)

Extra insulation: soy based foam. We are also insulating the older portion of the house which was only half-assed insulated before.

About 85% of the lighting in the house will now be LED lighting which not only uses less energy but is very, very cool (temperature wise) so you use your a/c less

We're installing new high efficiency heatpumps for a/c/ heating.

we're sealing all the cracks around the old windows in the old part of the hosue

And the fans...all 14 of them...to reduce dependency on the AC units

The rest of the day was playing around more with the 2x2boards of paint... deciding on most rooms but still stumped on a few...back for another round of color boards. Met with a guy about estimates for an alarm system and frontdoor speaker system. and we decided on the size and style of molding (floor and ceiling).

Then we ran and got our obligatory blizzard from Dairy Queen because today is Miracle Treat Day when 50% of the proceeds of all blizzard sales goes to the children's miracle network. We had to do our part.

Here are pics from the house today. As Emil and his guys appear to be tearing apart the old house once again. But not so bad today...just finding a place to put in waterproofing so if the window isn't rotted now it won't be in 40 years. You go Emil.