We love a good remodel! Part 4 Shell and systems

All dried in!  Now lets start on the "guts" and skin of the house.

Pex piping is used for water lines. Color code makes it easy to know if you are looking at a hot water line or not.  The tankless hot water heater is up in the conditioned attic space centrally located to serve the entire house.

Purple is for graywater :)

This large hole in the middle of the floor goes all the way down to hard native soil. Then we filled it with concrete and it acts as the footing for our 5,000lb masonry fireplace

The entire house is wrapped in 1" of foam to eliminate all thermal bridging

We finished the metal sections first so the stucco will cleanly die into it at the inside corners

We used R-MAX on the areas that we left 2x4 walls to get a little more R-value.

We are doing more and more of the corrugated metal on projects. I love it. Super durable, firewise and maintenance free.

Ready for the stucco brown coat

I love it when a plan comes together

The stucco goes right up to the clad windows.  I like this because the windows act as a trim color.  It is also very water and air tight.