13 Enclosed Area 13.1. General Description. The space between the house and the garage shall be enclosed, with the roofing continuous from the house to the garage over it. It shall contain, as detailed below, a walkway between the house and garage, an insulated room for the water-storage tank described at 2.4 above, and a storage area between the walkway and the tank room. 13.2 Walkway 13.2.1. Location. The walkway shall run from the house entrance door to the garage door directly facing it. It shall be approximately 6 feet wide north-south. 13.2.2 Construction 13.2.2.1. Foundation. A foundation stem wall suitable to support a studwall and the roofing shall be run between the house and the garage collinear with the north edges of those foundations. Another supporting foundation edge shall run parallel to it with its outer edge just 6 feet south of the outer edge of the north stem wall. The foundation wall heights shall be such that the walkway finish floor shall be on a level with the floors of the house and the garage. The floor shall be constructed with joists and finish floor material identical to that for the raised bathrooms area as described at 6.3.2 above. 13.2.2.2. Walls. Sole plates shall be set just as for the house, as described at 4.2.1 above. The north wall shall be stud wall constructed as for the house, as described at 4.2.2 and 4.2.3 above, and sheathing and siding applied as described at 4.3 above. The siding shall be applied so the pattern is continuous with the house and garage. The south walkway wall may be constructed as an interior partition wall as described at 6.1 above. The inside walls of the walkway, plus the garage and house walls exposed therein, shall be finished with shiplap pine as with the house, but shall be uninsulated and shall thus have no gypsum board applied. 13.2.2.3. Ceiling. The ceiling shall be the same pine nailed directly to the truss members. Edge and corner trim shall be 1"x1" stock as for the house. 13.2.3. Doors. The walkway shall contain a door to the outside in its north wall; that door shall be identical to the garage west exit door described at 12.1.5.2 above. The walkway shall also contain a door in its south wall; that door shall be of the same kind as used inside the house, as described at 6.4 above. The doors shall be situated as shown on the design drawings. 13.3 Tank Room 13.3.1. Location. The water-storage tank shall be located in a room at the south of the enclosed house-garage area. The tank room shall be the full width of that area and shall run 14 feet deep north-south. 13.3.2. Construction. The south wall shall be constructed as if it were a part of the south wall of the living-room area of the house, including the window types, except that the westmost window shall be a casement type opening from the left (as seen from within). The east and west walls of the tank room, being the west wall of the house and the east wall of the garage, shall be finished with the same pine boards as the inside of the house, applied over the plywood sheathing, as described at 4.3.2.2 and 12.1.3 above. The north wall shall be of the same construction as the north wall of the walkway, as described at 13.2.2 above, and shall be insulated and covered with gypsum board and pine boards as with a house wall. An insulated door shall be provided in the north wall; that door shall be identical to the house entry door described at 4.8 above. The floor, excepting the water-tank pad, shall be bricks set in a herringbone pattern in a sufficient depth of sand. 13.3.3. Tank Siting. The tank shall be approximately centered on a pad, as partly described at 2.4.4 above. The pad shall be a square, oriented parallel to the house, with each side 12 inches longer than the diameter of the tank. Its north side shall be 2 feet in from the inner face of the north wall of the tank room; its east edge shall be 2 feet in from the inner face of the east wall. The tank shall be placed with its outlet so located as to be convenient for placing the pump described at 13.2.4 below. 13.3.4. Water Plumbing. The tank outlet shall run to the pump described at 7.1.4 above. That pump shall be so placed as to allow convenient plumbing from the tank outlet to its inlet and from its outlet to a run along the west wall of the house to the entry point described at 2.7.3 above, including placement near the tank and pump of the pressure tank described at 7.1.5 above. 13.3.3 Extra Thermal Storage 13.3.3.1. Type. The sunroom extra thermal mass shall be 2-foot-diameter stopperable 55-gallon drums (which need not be new), metal or plastic, each painted with flat black "barbeque" heat-resistant paint, filled with water and some safe freeze-protection substance, and stoppered. 13.3.3.2. Quantity. There shall be 7 drums. 13.3.3.3. Placement. The drums shall be placed along the south wall, with their south edges approximately 3 inches in therefrom. They shall be spaced approximately equidistant each from the other east-west. 13.4 Storage Area 13.4.1. Location. The storage area shall be that space defined by the south wall of the walkway described at 13.2 above and the north wall of the tank room described at 13.3 above. 13.4.2. Flooring. The storage area shall be floored with bricks set in a herringbone pattern in a sufficient depth of sand, as with the tank room described at 13.3.2 above. 13.4.3. Contents. The storage area may be left empty. =========================================================== {end}