Friday, July 31, 2009

Dayton "Dirt' July 31, 2009

Work is finished on our site preparation for our new building that will rise high on a hill when approaching the nursery traveling south on Cleveland-Massillon Rd.

The “barn” with a gambrel roof will be used for a meeting area for seminars, or a wide variety of gardening types and for flower shows such as those for roses, german iris, dahlias and such.

I’m really excited as the building will be heated with an in-floor heating system with hot water being pumped from a boiler with a series of tubes under the floor.

Many aspects of the building will be “green” with an R-60 insulation in the ceiling, R-25 in the walls and a special “E” glass that will keep out cold in winter and heat in summer better than ordinary glass.

A wrap around porch will have a green roof in which multiple varieties of Sedum will grow on the roof reducing runoff and absorbing the hot rays of the sun.

Another “eco-friendly” aspect of the new building is that I plan to use LED lights instead of fluorescent or incandescent as LED lights are up to 90% more efficient than incandescent. I don’t know for sure if LED lighting will become a reality this year as the technology is not yet quite there.

The runoff from the huge roof area will drain back to our irrigation lake so there will be no additional runoff to Van Hyning Run to contribute to flooding during heavy rains.

Even though our new building has all the modern construction and conveniences, it will appear to be in a style reminiscent of large dairy barns of 150 years ago and more as I wanted it to fit in with the home that was built about 1870.

Construction will start in the next 30 days and we hope to move in by Christmas.

Come by later and take a look.

Tom

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