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Week 19 – Work continues slowly…

Well it’s week 19 and the project and work continues.  This week the contractor finished up the roof  connection from the new house to the Garage/Bunkie. The bathroom, kitchen and laundry room exhaust fans were ducted to the exterior.

The electricians finished up the rough-in including the Coax and Category 7 data cable.  The old electric box in now laying on the rear deck with temporary feeds to the Bunkie and garage sub-panel, the generator box now has the temporary feed and some of the outlets in the new house are active for the contractors.  Electrical inspection is scheduled for Monday and the Dominion Energy will be notified that were ready for our Service upgrade to 400 AMPS. We even installed one telephone box to get the line to the base station of the wireless telephone..

Final walk through of the structure included some additional blocking here and there for the preparation of sheetrock.

The insulation contractor comes on Wednesday.  Were using open cell foam in the 6″ interior walls and roof and closed cell under the floor.

Now that all decisions are made with respect to the rough-in were going to steal some time for a brief visit to Glenn and Kimberly in Easton for our annual 4th of July week get-together.

 

Some new outlets

Today was a beautiful day at the the Cottage.  We decided to pull back one of the old 20 amp lines that ran to the old base board electric heat in the living room.  Pat when under the house while I cut the drywall and drilled the first hole, she then pushed the rerouted line up to the outlet.  We then proceed to daisy chain 4 more outlets.  After completion of all wiring I rewired the 2 phase line to a single phase and reduced the breaker size from 20 amp to 15 amp.  We also replace several of the old non-grounded outlets with new receptacles but still ungrounded.  While Pat was in the crawl space we also rerouted the old line for the baseboard in the kitchen eating area for the dedicated line for the new gas stove.  This line was also changed in the breaker box from 2 phase to a single phase but will remain 20 amp as required by the manufacturer.