The Seegers Family Edifice Venture is a documentary of a family that is turning an old church camp activities center into their future home. One of their goals is to show practical construction methods that will turn this building into an efficient green dwelling.
Episode 4: We are finding out quickly that things can change for better or worse with the blink of an eye. In this episode we start building the green house, remove 9 trees and Penny visits VIM Recycling, Inc. to see how wood waste is turned into landscape mulch.
Episode 3: After a brief hiatus from the project, we decided to get back into the swing of things with a little destruction. We demoed old drywall, removed old shutters, installed reused windows and began prepping for the greenhouse. Yon won’t believe the deal we found on windows at the Habitat for Humanity Restore of Elkhart County. Penny also visits VIM recycling in Goshen, Indiana to see how drywall can be turned into an agricultural soil amendment.
Episode 2: Drama is a funny thing. Most see it as a negative, others see it as a positive. No matter how you look at it drama is always an emotional roller coaster with it's ups and downs. If your looking for drama watch this episode. There is plenty of it.
Episode 1: The History & Beginning is the first webisode of The Seegers Family Edifice Venture. In this episode you will meet the Seegers family, see us close on the building, learn its history and see the new roof go on. You’ll also get a tour of the building with an explanation of how they plan to renovate it.
Green Light, Red Light, Yellow Light.
Episode 5: To this point in our project it seemed fate was playing a demented game of green light red light with us. Unfortunately it has been more re then green. In this episode the light turned yellow allowing us to proceed slowly at least for a short time.
Episode 6: During the time this episode was being filmed, we started to feel a financial pinch. We hadn’t run out of money set aside for the project but were concerned that if we didn’t reduce our spending we might not have enough money for the larger projects like a heating and cooling system. The lack of funds did not slow us down. We decided to deplete all materials on hand in order to rebuild our cash reserve.
Episode 7: In this episode we make a push towards some major milestones such as tiling, shoring up the building, framing several rooms and installing the main entry and patio doors. When our project receives a jolt, literally, with the electrical line installation, we see major physical changes to the interior of the building!
Episode 8: As the project moved along, we found ourselves repeating the same tasks over and over - framing, cleaning and pulling nails. So instead of showing repetitive action, we will share some of the highlights of our second summer! Plus Penny visits Anco Products Inc. to see how insulation in made.
Episode 9: In the last episode (2008 Summer Highlights) thing began to be repetitive. In this episode it was the exact opposite as we jump around from project to project never fully completing any. On top of everything we were up against a building permit deadline.
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