Ruins Of San Juan Parangaricutira Church Revisited

A couple of years ago as we traveled through the Mexican state of Michoacan

 we were advised by fellow travelers to visit the Paricutin Volcano. 

I am glad we did.

(Please note this is a post I originally did 12/30/10 

and I want to highlight some of my older posts that I did in the first year or so of this blog 

that may have been overlooked by current readers, hope you enjoy it.)

Building A Well House #9: Trombe Wall Solar Collector

It was a thrill to finally get to the point in this project 

that I had been most looking forward to 

and that was building the Trombe Wall passive solar heater 

to keep our well house from freezing in the winter.

In the photo above you can see we are pretty solarized with the Trombe wall

 and in the background you can get a glimpse of the attached sunroom on the house

 and the solar batch water heater on the roof, all passive solar use.

To follow along on the well house project:

Building A Well House #1: Rubble Fill Foundation,

 Building A Well House #2: Dry Stack Cement Block,

 Building A Well House #3: More On Dry Stack Cement Block,

Building A Well House #4: Framing The Hip Roof,

Building A Well House #5: Corrugated Metal Roof,

Building A Well House #6: Plumbing And Electrical, 

 Building A Well House #7: Prepping For Stucco,

and Building A Well House #8: Stucco. 

Building A Well House #8: Stucco

Last week we looked at wiring the well house for applying stucco to,

now let's look at the stucco process itself.

The whole series to date is:

Building A Well House #1: Rubble Fill Foundation,

 Building A Well House #2: Dry Stack Cement Block,

 Building A Well House #3: More On Dry Stack Cement Block,

Building A Well House #4: Framing The Hip Roof,

Building A Well House #5: Corrugated Metal Roof,

Building A Well House #6: Plumbing And Electrical, 

and Building A Well House #7: Prepping For Stucco,

so please take a look back to get up to speed on our project,

particularly the last post on the preparation for stucco.

Building A Well House #7: Prepping For Stucco

Once we got the plumbing and electrical hooked up in the well house

 we were ready to finish up the outside

 and the first step was insulating and wiring for the stucco.

This being a cement block building I wanted to try and refine some techniques

 I have been working on for applying stucco over rigid foam insulation.

Here is the complete series to date for those who may want to follow along:

Building A Well House #1: Rubble Fill Foundation,

 Building A Well House #2: Dry Stack Cement Block,

 Building A Well House #3: More On Dry Stack Cement Block,

Building A Well House #4: Framing The Hip Roof,

Building A Well House #5: Corrugated Metal Roof,

Building A Well House #6: Plumbing And Electrical.

Building A Well House #6: Plumbing And Electrical

Once we had the roof done on the well house we wanted to go ahead
and make the switch over from the old well system to the new
before we did the outside finishing of insulation, stucco, and solar Trombe wall.

Here is the whole series to date:
Building A Well House #1: Rubble Fill Foundation,

 Building A Well House #2: Dry Stack Cement Block,

 Building A Well House #3: More On Dry Stack Cement Block,

Building A Well House #4: Framing The Hip Roof,

and Building A Well House #5: Corrugated Metal Roof.

In the photo above you can see the old set up unearthed:

-the well casing at the top of the photo, installed in 1984,

-the 1 1/4" white pvc line that goes from the well to the two houses 

(this is a shared well), 

-and the buried grey pressure tank.

Also note the 3" white pvc line with a cap on it 

at the very bottom of the photo that is the conduit for the new pex 

(polyethelene cross braided water line),

and the 1" electrical conduit that has been left short till we are ready for the final hook up,

both of which run back to the new well house.