With all the work completed, it’s time for more pictures.

View from the street

As you approach along the street, we are the first house you pass in the new area of La Estancia. More houses will be built, but for now, it stands alone.

As you walk past, note that you’re seeing the soffit, not the roof.

The house is complete! It’s been a busy time, a lot to catch up on. Here’s how it looks today:

I’ll be posting more pictures soon. But in this post, let’s dive into the guts of the house.

Final blower door test

The preliminary blower door tests came in at 1.6 ACH and 1.1 ACH, not low enough for certification as passive house (0.6) or low energy building (1.0). The builder found and fixed a significant leak after the second test, so we hoped to get a better result at the final blower door test.

It’s been a year since I last revised the floor plan. With construction almost complete, it’s time to see how it held up to reality.

Let’s start with the outside. This is what the site looked like a year ago.

You can see what our 3D model looked like in the Back on Track post; below is an image where I tried to match angle and date/time to last week’s reality.