| We made huge progress today from an electrical standpoint! The electricians came again (despite it being a Sunday) and they finally turned on all the lights in the house.
All fans, appliances, house sytems, and lighting fixtures inside and out were activated for the first time. Our appointment for a Certificate of Occupancy inspection was also moved up to Tuesday of this week, from Wednesday. The temperature on the mountain was 9 degrees F at 8:30am. It had reached a balmy 20 degress F by 5:30pm when we finally headed back to our little rental down in the valley. It was unseasonably cold all day...but beautiful...and once you stepped inside the house it was easy to forget what Mother Nature was doing outside.
Lights literally turn a house into a home. The house suddenly takes on a character it lacked without them. It definitely improved out spirits and made us realize that the end really was now in sight. |
 This is something to consider: see the outlet on the left? Since the new dryer is propane it didn't need a 220 plug. But an electric option was installed upfront to allow for a future conversion to an electric dryer if desired. That's why the plug has a blank right side. COOL, huh? |
 An essential homeowner tool at this stage of construction: it blinks and emits a sound the closer it comes to a hot wire. It becomes especially useful to find an outlet that has been hidden behind drywell. (Drywallers, in their rush, covered up six outlets in our garage and at least one live outlet inside the house.) This little LIVE WIRE gaget helped find those outlets! |
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 This device was especially useful today when the electricians discovered that the countertop installers had covered up a critical outlet. Using this devise, we were able to determine where the plug was behind the cabinet that was already fixed to the wall. We put a piece a tape on the spot so that, in the morning, a carpenter can cut a hole to reveal the outet, which then will be made active on Tuesday morning before the CO inspection. This particular outlet services the kitchen stove top as well as its HOOD, so this was no small mistake on the part of the cabinet installers! |
 The lighting fixtures for under the kitchen cabinets aren't in yet so they were 'capped' for the electrical inspection. See the blank cap over the electrical box? Dr. Ellen was monitoring things carefully so that no harm came to her custom photo tiles in the process. |
 More capped fixtures...they will be finished post-inspection. |
 Stair lights were activated today. They came with white louvered covers but Lesley has painted them black to match other household fixtures. These covers will be installed tomorrow by the finishing carpenters. |
 The artist's garage studio: most vent covers come in standard white so we selected spray paint that matches the color of the walls where these grates are to be installed. This way they blend in to the background better, something to consider! |
 Hmmm, check out the sconce on the stairs! |
 Here is a closeup of a similar style used in all the bathrooms. |
 Lesley adds a first coat of clear poly to a plaque that supports a bathroom light fixture. The carpenters made the plaque just in time for the electrians to install the light, when no painters were around to do the poly job. Our motto is: BE PREPARED! |
 A first coat of stain was put on the stairs today, so Dr. Ellen devised this cobweb of blue painters tape to keep subs from climbing the stairs first thing in the morning. Tommorrow, in fact, only ladders can be used to go between the three floors. |
 Lesley demonstrates the use of scaffolding to get to the third floor. |
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 There, you see? That wasn't so bad...! |
 This is the alternate route. |
 The electricians use the same scaffolding to reach the track lights at the ceiling. Today they checked each track light, in turn, to see if it was viable now that the house is 'hot." Eventually we will get them to go up on the scaffolding again to properly aim the track lights on art work and other things around the house. |
 Locks are now becoming important. Today we set up a master key plan for all soon-to-be-installed door locks and deadbolts. Come prepared to do the same with key tags of your own. It helps greatly! |
 This new faucet at the kitchen sink matches the stainless appliances in the kitchen. |
 Imagine, this is about a third of the trash generated by the electricians during this week's rounds of light fixture installations. Today we finally talked them into tossing it all into the commercial dumpster on the property. Dr. Ellen figures that it probably adds five years to our life span by not having to do this job ourselves...so thanks, guys! Check back tomorrow for another update. Monday promises to be another banner day. |
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