Foundation Set

Moving along well for now. Footer drains and backfill this week, followed by stacking the basement walls. Weather permitting, we may pour the basement this week. It was Florida hot this week. The guys would be on site at 0600 and wrapping up around noon. The worst of the heat should be over for now, but that sun is still pretty intense. We'll have a couple of pop-up canopies in there for shade. There was a pretty good video that dropped last week about using a chilled-water air handler and some of the advantages. It's not a great video in terms of camera work or audio, and the HVAC presenter kept talking to the camera, but the information was solid. I was surprised at the small size of the air handler, but the big takeaway was the value of chilled water as a medium for dehumidification. Because the heat pump can control the temperature of the water and the air handler has a speed for dehumidification, it can run for a long time without significantly (undesirably) cooling the house,…