5 September 2015

Went for a solo bike ride again, circumnavigating both lakes in the clockwise direction, which meant going down (hit 32 mph coasting) instead of up the long, very steep hill on Hooker Road.  Finished putting up the sauna ceiling insulation: 12″ of Roxul, which will provide R46 worth of thermal resistance.  Then Chree and I spent the rest if the morning and part of the afternoon putting finishing touches on the boards for the sauna ceiling. Started putting up the ceiling boards mid-afternoon and got three installed before the lake became just too enticing.  Finally got the well water test results back from the Vermont Department of Health Laboratory: all values well below normal limits except for high concentrations of iron and manganese (both of which cause water discoloration and staining). The lab said the water’s hardness is 160 mg/L, which translates to 9.4 grains… and any reading over 150 mg/L is considered hard water. Used a bag-o-fire-starter in a slightly different way this evening (slit the bag open after placing it in the fire pit) and, voilá, we had ignition.