re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

8F here at the moment, forecast to drop to -1 with a windchill of -10.
Plumbing in house is awful (house is pre-Civil War with a very scarey shallow crawlspace and plumbing was haphazardly installed sometime in the 1960s).

I want my new house finished before next winter!!!

You’re building the earth-sheltered design, no?