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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:04:02 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Timothy Haymond reply to: Winter Update on the Greywater Mulch Basin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello, I am working on designing a greywater system in northwestern Montana and am really interested to hear how your system has faired all winter?  Also if there is anything you would do differently in the future for harder winters.  Montana has similar length winters to the northeast but different climate with harsher swings in temperature.  Thanks, Timothy.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:00:47 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Jon reply to: Building a Raised Greywater Mulch Basin for a Tiny Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Superbly informative treatise on a subject very new to me!   Thanks!   I get the whole picture well now.    Especially good photos!]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 02:23:01 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Dad reply to: process.house is now on Instagram!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anybody need a GINORMOUS tarp?  Actually, I suppose we should keep it for the next time our BIG house has to be re-roofed.]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2017 17:59:59 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Dana Seccombe reply to: Problems, problems (Plywood sheathing underway)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like you&#039;re doing a great job making your tiny house square.  

Actually, most houses built on foundations are NOT perfectly square, and it is not at all uncommon for a room to be 1/2&quot; out of square, or more.  All the places I&#039;ve lived in have been disappointingly not square (and in the case of floors, not flat--which can be an issue when you&#039;re later tiling floor with 18&quot; tiles--which have to be leveled with additional concrete or leveling compound).  

Inside most houses this &quot;sloppy construction&quot; is covered up with drywall and drywall tape to close gaps, then glossed over with &quot;texture&quot; to further hide gaffs.  This explains why you never see a builder agonizing over the rectitude of his walls.  They just do a fair job on the foundation, but after that, throw up the construction using, at most, a framing square and a tape.  They do the outside walls first, then fill in with the inner walls.  If the inner walls are off by a little bit, they don&#039;t care.  All they have to do with the outer walls is make sure they are &quot;over&quot; the foundation...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2016 03:33:42 -0400</pubDate>
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		<title>Jon (Dad) reply to: Roof Sheathing &#x00026; House &#x00022;Wrap-up&#x00022;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some great new photos, Mike! 

I would just like to add that applying house wrap is absolutely, unquestionably and totally necessarily a more-than-one-person task - even when you are unrolling the wrap horizontally at the lowest level, where one of you can be standing on the ground while doing the job!    The full roll - I think it was 100 feet long and 5 feet wide - is pretty heavy when you first start, and one of us (I) had to be the roll supporting and unrolling guy; while the other, Michael, monitored the horizontal alignment and tacked in the staples at two-foot intervals. 

It proved helpful to put staples in only along the top edge of the wrap at first - then to come back later and finish stapling at bottom and other levels.  

The wrap material tended to form ripples in places, which we generally smoothed out by adjusting the height of the roll itself as we advanced and applying moderate tension to the unrolled material before stapling it.   Where the wrap material passed over an opening and there was no sheathing directly under its top edge, the wrap seemed to want to &quot;billow&quot; either into or away from the opening - even with some tension applied. We didn&#039;t fret much about this, as that material will be cut away (if the windows ever get here) before long.

The practice we got by covering the lowest five vertical feet of sheathing all around the house with only one of us (the stapling guy, Mike) on a ladder was invaluable when it came to wrapping the next five-foot-high strip just above and overlapping it.  

For that next level, both of us had to be on ladders.  We happen to have a very unwieldy, super heavy and ancient wooden stepladder about 7 or 8 feet tall; and it worked out that I, still the unroller - could rest most of the weight of the heavy roll either directly on the top of the stepladder or use the top to brace my left elbow while supporting the roll against the sheathing with my left hand.  We progressed around the house in about two-foot intervals - moving first my ladder (while Mike stood on his ladder and held the roll temporarily for me) and then following with his ladder after he passed me the roll again in my new position.  We got to be fairly proficient at this repeated routine.  Had I not had the top of the stepladder to rest weight on, the job would have been much more awkward and exhausting.   I never thought I would ever really appreciate that monstrous old stepladder!

-Jon (Dad)]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2016 01:42:18 -0400</pubDate>
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