Brown Soffits

Quick post... No pictures... sorry...

I obsessed over closet layouts all day, sat there with pencil and paper in hand with no ideas...  I guess the trim guy is going to have to show some imagination...

So, went out to the house to grab a few things, and when I got there the eves were primed and painted...mostly.  They didn't do the facia trim board, but the underside.  Said they needed to do the fascia by hand because of the tile (yes, good idea). 

Anyway, it's weird starting to see things come together.  The guys were proud of their work, which is a great sign, and I always make sure I sincerely thank them for what they do.  I  was only 97 degrees today, but nasty humid.

A note on the humidity, I am sitting here in my regular built small stick house listening to the 3.5 ton A/C unit run, but more importantly, a steady stream of condensate is running into the wash machine box, where it then goes down the drain.  About the rate of a medium size dog taking a piss....sorry to be crude.  It's been doing that non stop for two months... OK, so the energy that I spend to condense that moisture out of the air is WASTED.  And it never stops.  That means this fairly new house, built to normal Texas standards, is leaking air.  If it wasn't leaking air, there would be no condensate after a while.  And this is a pretty well built house by Texas standards...

Meanwhile, at 97 degrees exterior, with the windows CLOSED on the new house (due to painting), I was quite comfortable inside, but if you walked out onto the porch or garage... damn hot!!  I will have to take my fancy non-contact thermometer over there and do some readings...  I think the cooler night time temps coupled with the floor and ICF cooling off due to the lack of radiant gain, is really taking hold...

They had about 1 more day of the texture, and should be done painting tomorrow. 

We are putting on the absolute best quality exterior paint we can find.  I never want to paint that surface again... especially over the roof tiles...  Since it is all made out of concrete board, should last a long long time...

The brown, by the way, matches the windows.  It has a bit of a sheen to it, but they say that dies out very quickly with some weather...  I think it is a satin, which was the lowest sheen we could get. 

I know... pictures..  Maybe next time.